Can someone help me pass the tree story challenge?

Question

I am close to finishing this challenge. The only problem I am running into is number 3 on the pseudo tests, which is presenting the story. Everything is working fine in the IDE. I think it has something to do with null values being passed when prompted in the promptForWord method. I have added a catch to let the user know they cannot enter null values, but it is still not working. If anyone can help me in anyway I will appreciate it.

com/teamtreehouse/Main.java

package com.teamtreehouse;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    // write your code here
        System.out.printf("Please enter a story and put double underscores before and after the words " +
                "you want replaced.%n");
        BufferedReader storyInput = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String story = "";
        try {
            story = storyInput.readLine();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("There was a problem prompting for words");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        Template tmpl = new Template(story);
        Prompter prompt = new Prompter();
        prompt.run(tmpl);
    }
}

com/teamtreehouse/Prompter.java

package com.teamtreehouse;

        import java.io.*;
        import java.nio.file.Files;
        import java.nio.file.Path;
        import java.nio.file.Paths;
        import java.util.ArrayList;
        import java.util.HashSet;
        import java.util.List;
        import java.util.Set;


public class Prompter {
    private BufferedReader mReader;
    private Set<String> mCensoredWords;

    public Prompter() {
        mReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        loadCensoredWords();
    }

    private void loadCensoredWords() {
        mCensoredWords = new HashSet<String>();
        Path file = Paths.get("resources", "censored_words.txt");
        List<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();
        try {
            words = Files.readAllLines(file);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Couldn't load censored words");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        mCensoredWords.addAll(words);
    }

    public void run(Template tmpl) {
        List<String> results = new ArrayList<String>();
        try {
            results = promptForWords(tmpl);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("There was a problem prompting for words");
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(0);
        }
        System.out.println(tmpl.render(results));
    }

    /**
     * Prompts user for each of the blanks
     *
     * @param tmpl The compiled template
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public List<String> promptForWords(Template tmpl) throws IOException {
        List<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (String phrase : tmpl.getPlaceHolders()) {
            String word = promptForWord(phrase);
            words.add(word);
        }
        return words;
    }


    /**
     * Prompts the user for the answer to the fill in the blank.  Value is guaranteed to be not in the censored words list.
     *
     * @param phrase The word that the user should be prompted.  eg: adjective, proper noun, name
     * @return What the user responded
     */
    public String promptForWord(String phrase) {
        String word = "";
        do {
            System.out.printf("Please enter a(n) %s%n", phrase);
            mReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
            try { word = mReader.readLine();
                if (word == null) {
                    throw new IOException();
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.out.println("Entering null values is not allowed.");
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            if (mCensoredWords.contains(word)) {
                System.out.printf("The word %s is censored, please enter a valid %s%n%n", word, phrase);
            }
        } while (mCensoredWords.contains(word));
        return word;
    }
}

pseudo-tests.md

#  This is essentially what I am testing 
1.  The user is prompted for a new string template (the one with the double underscores in it).

  a. The prompter class has a new method that prompts for the story template, and that method is called.

2.  The user is then prompted for each word that has been double underscored.

   a. The answer is checked to see if it is contained in the censored words.
      User is continually prompted until they enter a valid word

3.  The user is presented with the completed story

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Can someone help me pass the tree story challenge?

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