How I know the Book of Mormon is true

This is a testimony I wrote for the Hermana Peterson who is going home.

How I know the Book of Mormon is true:

I know it is true just how anyone else knows. I’ve read the book, I’ve prayed, and I've lived its principles. And it hasn’t let me down yet.

As one of my converts once said and I also repeat, "How can I deny the word of my Creator and Father?" Who am I to cast a shade of doubt on a manuscript that I have seen change the lives of friends, strangers, and family? I have seen the principles of this book put into action and I've seen those principles help achieve things that seemed impossible to achieve. Indeed I would call such achievements miracles.

The Book of Mormon restores hope, calms anxiety, breaks down pride, and establishes faith. Reading its words whether alone or in a group, allows peace to enter into the heart and mind. Why? Why does it have the effect that it does? I think the Book of Mormon has this effect because it teaches us about something so innate and so much a part of who we are that it cuts through the layers of superficiality and humanly crafted philosophies to the simple core of truth; things as they really are and as they will be.

I have felt the soft warm presence of what we call the Holy Ghost testify to me so many times that the Book of Mormon is true. This belief has become engraved on my heart. Indeed, so deeply have its words and testimonies touched my life that to deny them, or ignore them, would be to deny a part of my very self.