Why is it important to read the Book of Mormon before trying to gain a testimony of its divinity?

Thomas R. Valletta

President Boyd K. Packer testified: “After you have read the Book of Mormon, you become qualified to inquire of the Lord, in the way that He prescribes. … You will be eligible, on the conditions He has established, to receive that personal revelation” (“Things of My Soul,” 61).

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