In my search for a more meaningful method of scripture study, I came across the following study guide a mother had developed for her eleven-year-old child:
http://www.bookofmormonstudyguide.com/
I looked over it and loved the idea of using a study guide for my children to use to go through the Book of Mormon before they turn twelve. I liked a lot of these questions, but wanted to add quite a bit to it and personalize it a bit. Plus, this gave me new direction to go through the scriptures myself! So for now, my scripture study goals are to go through the Book of Mormon and develop a study guide for Tori as I go. I'll use this study guide as a rough draft of sorts, but I plan to add to it. I spent today developing week one, and enjoyed it so much that I completely lost myself in it and didn't stop until the kids came home and I realized I'd been studying the scriptures for a couple of hours! Love it.
Here's my study guide for week one:
Book of Mormon Study Guide, Week One: Introductory Material
Feel free to copy this for personal use only and change it up any way you want. I found out today that just personalizing the questions without even getting to the answers is a great way to study! :)
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Really? Another Blog?
Recently, I was looking for a fresh approach for scripture study, and came across this woman's blog and scripture journals:
Click here to see my dream scripture journals!
Seriously, this woman is amazing. There's a ton of wonderful things on her blog. And she just single-handedly gave me a huge inferiority complex because I will never make anything that artistic, comprehensive, and lovely! But it's not about comparing ourselves to others, right? It's about doing our best and getting into the scriptures every day. That's the goal. Someday I may venture into a more complex scripture journal, but for now, it's about baby steps.
So I decided that I can do my own version of a scripture journal and I really like the idea of a blog because it's easy to turn into a book when I want to and I like typing better than writing. I may eventually decide to do a paper journal as well, but for now I decided to start this blog. I plan to use it like Nephi used his small plates. As a place to record impressions, personal revelations, blessings, favorite scriptures, quotes, conference talks, or anything else that strikes a spiritual chord. The desire to do this came from the following quote from Elder Neal A. Maxwell:
Click here to see my dream scripture journals!
Seriously, this woman is amazing. There's a ton of wonderful things on her blog. And she just single-handedly gave me a huge inferiority complex because I will never make anything that artistic, comprehensive, and lovely! But it's not about comparing ourselves to others, right? It's about doing our best and getting into the scriptures every day. That's the goal. Someday I may venture into a more complex scripture journal, but for now, it's about baby steps.
So I decided that I can do my own version of a scripture journal and I really like the idea of a blog because it's easy to turn into a book when I want to and I like typing better than writing. I may eventually decide to do a paper journal as well, but for now I decided to start this blog. I plan to use it like Nephi used his small plates. As a place to record impressions, personal revelations, blessings, favorite scriptures, quotes, conference talks, or anything else that strikes a spiritual chord. The desire to do this came from the following quote from Elder Neal A. Maxwell:
As with my family blog, who knows how often it will get updated, but at least I have a place to record things. It's a start!“The prompting that goes unresponded to may not be repeated. Writing down what we have been prompted with is vital. A special thought can be lost later in the day through the rough and tumble of life. God should not, and may not, choose to repeat the prompting if we assign what is given such a low priority as to put it aside.”
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