31 Condemn me not because of mine aimperfection, neither my father, because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him; but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been.
32 And now, behold, we have written this record according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called among us theareformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us, according to our manner of speech.
33 And if our plates had been asufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no bimperfection in our record.
34 But the Lord knoweth the things which we have written, and also that none other people knoweth our language; and because that none other people knoweth our language, therefore he hath prepared ameans for the interpretation thereof.
- I love this little story about Moroni and his insecurity of writing in the reformed Egyptian. At the time, this was one of his "imperfections" per se, but it's funny to me that the Lord made everything work out in the end through His translator, Joseph Smith. It was almost as if he had no imperfection. He did what the Lord asked and the Lord prepared a way for us in these Latter Days to understand the Book of Mormon. Sometimes in life it seems like we are far from doing the perfect thing. I think we all need a little reminder at times that if we are doing what the Lord asks (though it may not seem like things are perfect) and do our best, he'll make up the rest and everything will work out! :)
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