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 and 2 Peter

D&C 138 and 1 Peter

Did you know 1 Peter inspired D&C 138?! In 1918, Joseph F. Smith read this verse and started to ponder: “By which also he went

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October 2023

Your personalized epistle

Imagine a current apostle (pick any one!) coming to live with you for one week. ⁣ Really. He wouldn’t do anything special. He’d just observe.

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Isaiah 58-66

Not silent about Jesus

I have a feeling we grossly underestimate how difficult it is to be a prophet. While I don’t have any insider information for what it

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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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August 2021

The unique story of Section 87

It’s the end of 1832. Joseph is reading newspaper reports every day about South Carolina’s new drama. The federal government had established new tariffs (taxes),

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D&C 71-75

Nothing else for now!

Why didn’t the Lord tell Joseph Smith to move everyone to Utah right after organizing the church? Why didn’t He give Joseph a flow chart

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