Chiquita on Mormonism

So long story short I'm looking into Mormonism. I'd like to say I'm baptist, although I don't currently attend a baptist church. I went to a baptist church with my grandmother my entire childhood, and I also went to a (different) baptist church with some people I babysat for during middle school and the first two years of high school. I'm not going to lie, I don't really understand the whole baptist thing. Its not that I don't understand Christianity, that I have at least a decent understanding of. Its the whole baptist, Methodist, Lutheran thing that I don't understand. But anyways, my friend Mikayla recently converted to Mormonism, and I find it rather interesting, so she gave me The Book of Mormon, (who's actually a person, I didn't know that!) and I'm supposed to be going to church with her sometime. Its not necessarily that I want to be Mormon, its just that I am curious, so I'm going to find out more. We went on a small road trip to Des Moines, so I learned a little bit on the way there. She happened to have The Book of Mormon in her car, and she has another, so she gave it to me. I read the introduction and the testimonies of the eleven people who saw the plates (I know... if you're not Mormon, you might be lost... sorry...) as well as the testimony of Joseph Smith (a Mormon prophet). I read the first two chapters of the first book. That's as far as I got tonight (I had some knitting to get to), but tomorrow I hope I can make time to read more. Oh holy crap!!! I just thought of something! I could potentially pull a research paper topic out of this! (Mr. Ayers, there may be hope for me yet!) I'll keep y'all updated about this whole Mormon exploration thing. And if you'd like to explore as well, this might help.