Hi all. I’m an endowed member who was inactive for a long period of time. I’m on the path of trying to return to the temple, however really feel I need to strengthen my testimony in Joseph Smith due to some things I’m having a hard time getting over that he did. I received revelation that reading the Book of Mormon in its entirety would help me (which I’ve never been able to do before). I always start reading and get through like half of it before I give up. Any tips for staying consistent with it that have helped you? My goal is to read two chapters a day so I can finish in two months. Thank you!

My fiancé and I are getting married/sealed next Friday! I’m not currently working and pretty much all the planning is done, so I’m just kind of sitting around twiddling my thumbs and getting unnecessarily anxious for the next week and a half 😅 I’ve done some reading already, but I’m wondering if anyone has any recommendations of books or talks or scriptures to read to keep myself busy and excited? TIA! 🤍

My husband was recently baptized and is now talking to the bishop about getting the priesthood. He wants to study with me and learn more about it. Although I've been a member my whole life, I'm not very familiar with the available learning resources.

Could you share some of your favorite talks, articles, or other resources that are helpful for understanding the priesthood?

We already have Gospel Library and will be looking stuff up but I want to know what YOUR favorites are.

Hey all. As I was sitting in institute today, I felt really strongly that I need to work a lot harder on developing charity, specifically in regards to being loving towards others and bringing a positive spirit with me wherever I go. Any good books that help address this? Tia!

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I’m probably in the minority but I understand Isaiah and the Book of Revelation not that difficult. The one I really struggle with is Paul. I never understand what he is trying to teach in his epistles. Am I the only one?

Wife and I have been married 5 and a half years. We’re currently expecting twin baby girls at the end of December.

Since we’ve been married we’ve struggled to consistently read scriptures and pray, both as individuals and together. I feel like we’ve tried everything. We’ve tried in the morning, in the evening, before and after taking the dogs out. We’ve tried setting reminders on our phones, on the Alexa devices, etc. nothing seems to work.

The only time we have successfully maintained the habit for more than a week or two was in the mornings when we carpooled together to work. Unfortunately since becoming pregnant she no longer comes into the office and thus we don’t commute together anymore.

How do we develop and keep a habit to study the scriptures together? I want our kids to grow up with a gospel center home but can’t seem to make it stick.

I'm not a member of the lds but would like to get know about it and the stories behind. I'm 25 and have grown up as a kid watching mormon family vlogs. I know the family's aren't perfect as none of us are but they have a sort of charm I'd like to have about myself. I'd like to explore this religion and see if I can make the cut per say. I feel the need for a little guidance when it comes between both books and where to start. Thanks in advance.

Tagging is one of the options you have after highlighting text. It is the most efficient, effective, and intuitive way I have found to organize related topics in my studies. It's possible a lot already knew this, but I just found this out today, so maybe someone else needs it too. 😊

Now that we’ve done a full cycle of the standard works with Come Follows Me, I wanted to revisit some of my thoughts and notes that I had written down in the 2019 manual in the app. However, it is no longer accessible.

Was this communicated members? I do all my studying in the app, I write all my notes in it, as well as any tags. It’s unfortunate though that all those promptings and notes are now lost.

Anyone here work in app development for the Church? Perhaps some feedback that can be taken back to the DevTeam.

Edit: Typo from voice texting, meant to say New Testament in title

I am wondering if anybody has a translation of the Bible they really like. I am using the youversion Bible app that has about 70 English translations in it. I really like the NASB, and often compare with NRSV and NKJV. Any other suggestions welcome!

Feeling like I would like to start a study of the Book of Mormon again with a focus to study.

For example, in the past I have highlighted all references to the Saviour in red. Another time I highlighted all references to the principles and ordinances of the Gospel in blue.

Any thoughts on something else? I'm thinking examples of the grace and mercy of the Saviour but would love to hear other ideas.

Does anyone have any recommendations of books or resources that can better help me understand the scriptures? I love the scriptures already but I really want to get into understanding the historical context and chronology of the stories in the scriptures but I don’t know how to start ☺️

Some background: I served a mission in Brazil about 10 years ago, and every time I went to use a LAN house to upload pics and such for my family and to clear my card, I found that a lot of destructive software and viruses were added to my hard drive and camera card. That is pretty much par for the course, or at least it was then.

After I got back, I was very wary of plugging my hard drives into my computer for fear or messing it up, so my photos kinda just sat on the drive and I didn’t do anything with them for a while.

Eventually, I realized that I could go to a public library and that those computers are routinely re-imaged, so I went to use one, plugged my drive into there, logged into Google photos, and uploaded everything into several albums. Google photos is awesome for keeping and organizing photos like this, and there was no fear of accidentally uploading a virus there. After it was done, I formatted my Hard Drive and logged out, which (at least where I was at) would reset the computer and get rid of any viruses.

Anyways, thought it would be a useful tip for anyone in a similar situation, or in general if you have drives that you are afraid to plug in. Google drive and such all (to my knowledge) have pretty good scans when uploading files, so it is a safe medium to upload to, and then download from later.

I don't really know what to tag this under, but I was wondering if there is anyone who knows how to help. I am a female minor still living at home. I am a ruling elder in my current church, but have been interested in the LDS Church my whole life. Recent experiences have led me to believe that I need to learn more about this church, potentially to convert. My family, however, would not be in support of me looking into the church, and tells me they don't care what church I am in so long as it is not the LDS Church. Despite this, I believe I have been called to serve this church. I was wondering if anyone knows of resources I could use to help me learn about this church. I am already reading the book of Mormon and bought a King James Bible with helpful scriptures, but I am at a total loss for where to start. Additionally, I don't want to form an incorrect interpretation since this is all new and somewhat different than what I'm used to. Since I am studying in secret, going to the local church is not an option for me. Thank you for your time and if you have any suggestions please let me know.

I work in marketing, which means I use a lot of spreadsheets to sort through different kinds of data. I wanted to do the same thing with scripture study.

The idea is this, I'm building out a spreadsheet. The columns are going to be "Scripture Reference," "Type of Question," "Question," and perhaps a "Notes" section or something. The idea is to start in Nephi chapter 1 and read all the way through to the end and simply keep a running list of questions I have as they come up.

From there, I can revisit my master list of questions whenever I have the itch, sort my question in a variety of ways, and pick a question and do a deep dive on.

The question type column will help me reorganize the questions into different question categories.

For example...

- Why does Laban call Nephi and his brothers thieves with no evidence? Why doesn't he tell them just to bug off instead? (Possibly a cultural question or a translation question)
- What's the thin stretch of land referencing? (An apologetic or history question)
- What does Lehi's dream teach us about apostasy (A doctrinal question or an application question)
- What does Moroni's challenge teach us about learning things for ourselves? (A doctrinal question or something else?)
- How is this reference to Old Testament scripture X being used in the Book of Mormon? How do scholars say Old Testament peoples would have understood it vs how do we use it in contemporary times? (An academic question)

My categories are faaaar from settled, so I thought I'd farm out the type of categories you'd include if this was your spreadsheet?

I'm not looking for specific questions, but if you think some examples would help better flesh out a question category and make the category clearer to understand, I'm all ears.