Study Snippets

Ready for quick, simple and powerful spiritual thoughts from this week’s Come Follow Me reading? Check out my Study Snippets here, starting from most recently published. If you are looking for ideas for quick spiritual thoughts, or easy lesson starters, this is your place! This list is automatically updated as new Snippets are added, so check back for new thoughts each day!

1 Nephi 11-15

Sticky note stumbling blocks

I once taught a lesson about scripture study to some youth. I gave each student a sticky note and asked: “What is your ‘stumbling block’

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1 Nephi 11-15

Asking and pondering

I was done only having spiritual experiences at big events in my life. A few years ago, I consciously decided that I was ready to

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1 Nephi 11-15

Jesus is the interpretation 

I’m going to take a guess that Nephi wasn’t expecting what he was shown. Nephi asked the Spirit for an interpretation of his father’s dream.

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1 Nephi 6-10

Not Knowing 

I thought I had the full-time teaching job in the bag. ⁣ I had been the long-term sub for 6 weeks, and all the other

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1 Nephi 6-10

Wandering on darkness 

I feel like we always forget this part of Lehi’s dream: Lehi started by traveling through darkness for several hours.⁠ Several hours of darkness. Can

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1 Nephi 1-5

Sariah complains 

We only get a few accounts of husbands and wives interacting within the scriptures.⁣ But I am so grateful for the few glimpses we get

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1 Nephi 1-5

Married way too young

“They said they knew after only one week they were going to marry each other!” Isn’t it CRAZY sometimes to think about how people in

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1 Nephi 1-5

Not just tenacious

Nephi wasn’t just a “tenacious go-getter.” His older brother Laman had tried and failed to get the brass plates from Laban. So Laman and Lemuel

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