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The idea for Repentance is a Gift came to me one Saturday while I was attending a baptism. It hit me that in preparing our children for baptism, we focus on baptism and the Holy Ghost, and sometimes just glossed over faith and repentance, which are the first two principles of the gospel. There are beautiful books centered around baptism and the Holy Ghost, but where were the books about faith and repentance?

As a child, I had come to associate repentance with guilt, shame, and mistakes, but as I have grown in the gospel I have begun to understand repentance is really just to change and learn, and what a blessing it is to be able to change for the better! I wanted this book to show children that repentance is not a negative thing to be scared of, but a beautiful gift.  As I wrote this manuscript I dived into studying the scriptures, bible dictionary, True to the Faith, and many talks. The result is a book filled with a series of metaphors that demonstrate the beauty and blessing that repentance is as well as a list of scripture references to uphold each metaphor.