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Show 176 scripture on the board, so I dared confess to him: "I prayed. After I had worked, sometimes most of the night, and it was clear as mud to me, I prayed for help. In the morning everything would fall into place. I had a burning sensation when I knew it was right. " I had not read, up till then, and a long time after, the description of Oliver Cowdery trying to translate the Book of Mormon, failing, and the explanation that was given him in the Doctrine and Covenants. When I did the description fitted my experience exactly. Next Monday morning M. W. handed our test papers back. He passed out all the papers except mine, which he took back to the front of the room with him. "There is one person in this class who started three weeks late in the third term, " he began, and all eyes turned to me. I could only look down as he recounted, word for word, his conversation with me on the dance floor. "This person not only did her half of the test, but that of the other half of the room. She received an A plus for a perfect paper, " he finished, handing the paper to me. "The plus is for neatness. " I finished Algebra second only to Aileen Christensen of Elsinore, who had started the first of the year and kept up her grades all year. When I visited South Sevier later I was a celebrity. "You're the girl who finished algebra in a term and a half, " said students and teachers who couldn't recall my name. |
