“My experience has been that a testimony does not burst upon us suddenly. Rather, it grows … .
“Do not be disappointed if you have read and reread and yet have not received a powerful witness. You may be somewhat like the disciples spoken of in the Book of Mormon who were filled with the power of God in great glory ‘and they knew it not’ (3 Nephi 9:20)” (Packer, “Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ—Plain and Precious Things,” 8).