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!

D&C 135-136

Joseph Smith’s legacy

What did Joseph Smith do for me? I’ve focused a lot this year on growing my testimony of this prophet. And I’ve been really impressed

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D&C 129-132

85-year-old Joseph

“I was once praying very earnestly to know the time of the coming of the Son of Man, when I heard a voice repeat the

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D&C 125-128

God will not be surprised

Young Women’s Camp was all planned and ready to go. It was stake camp, so we had helped the girls create their banners, make gifts,

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D&C 124

Our privilege is for Jesus

What would Joseph Smith’s life have been like if he hadn’t been the one called to be the prophet of the restoration? He probably would

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D&C 121-123

Joseph didn’t seem very blessed

Joseph’s physical circumstances were brutal. Cramped conditions. In a jail. Terrible food. Poor lighting. Freezing cold. Isn’t it tempting to consider our outside circumstances as

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D&C 76

He lives!

I thought I would spend this week thinking a lot about heaven, the three kingdoms, and what life will be like in the future. But

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D&C 71-75

Pausing the good things

My FAVORITE story from this week’s reading is the one that we catch glimpses of in Sections 71 and 73. Joseph and Sidney Rigdon were

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D&C 64-66

Forgiveness.

“Nobody’s perfect!” — we all say that, but what it really translates to is: “We all sin.” All of us. Me. You. The last person

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D&C 46-48

I would rather not do it

This is one of my FAVORITE little church history stories. Oliver Cowdery was called on his mission to the native tribes west of Missouri, and

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