Fear of work shouldn't be a factor...

I don't know if most of you readers know, but I am a preschool teacher.
I absolutely love my job. It's rather demanding some days but mostly, its a breeze. Yes, we do have a structure as far as what our kids learn and we do have to keep coming up with new things to teach, but most of the time I sit and play with them. I also have the opportunity to spend a few hours with our toddlers. For a good 90% of the time that I am with them they are sleeping, which is nice because I basically get to do what ever I want to do (well, get away with it...sort of..) as long as I am there for the kids the moment they need me. I decided that instead of playing Angry Birds on my phone, or browsing Pinterest, I should actually do something useful with my time. I decided to read the scriptures. I mean, I have two hours to kill, I might as well spend it reading!

...ya, that didn't work out so well. I'll be honest, I have never read the Bible completely through. Well, correction, basically I haven't read it at all. I've maybe finished the first chapter of Genesis. I know, I fail... so I'm making it a goal to read through the whole thing. So anyway, I had my mini-Book of Mormon (and I mean that literally. Deseret Book sells pocket sized BoM's for I think... $2?) and I began reading 1 Nephi. I read the first few verses and then decided to switch to the Bible. So I put my BoM away and pulled up the scriptures on my phone. While I read the first two verses, I immediately felt the Spirit. But.... I looked up, and my co-worker was there. Technically, I'm not supposed to do anything but supervise the kids because I don't get a break. Also, we're strictly advised to not be reading any religious books at work. But I thought that since I was reading the scriptures on my phone, it wouldn't be a problem, but I couldn't help but feel like I was doing something wrong... I knew I was breaking one of my rules for work... but at the same time, I felt conflicted because they were the Lord's words that I was reading. How can that be wrong? I was so afraid of losing my job if I got caught, that I put all my scriptures away and just sat there and waiting till one of the babies woke up.

Now that its been a few days and I've had a chance to think about it, I really don't think that I should have let the fear of getting in trouble at work stop me from reading something that I know in my heart to be true. I should be standing up for what I believe in, not hiding in fear of the world... But even though I know I should be 'standing as a witness of God, at all times, and in all things, and in all places,' So why was I too scared to keep reading?