Accepting the Assignment

A few weeks ago I listened to President Nelson’s devotional to young adults.  I was cleaning the kitchen and felt uplifted and then continued on.  Last week I stumbled across a blog post on lds.org from President Nelson discussing what he learned from studying the Saviors life in the scriptures.  That’s when a vague recollection about an assignment surfaced.  A highly specific assignment actually.

“I challenged those watching to increase their testimony of the Savior by taking time each week to:

• Study everything Jesus said and did as recorded in the Old Testament.
• Study His laws as recorded in the New Testament.
• Study His doctrine as recorded in the Book of Mormon.
• Study His words as recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants.”

I spent a few days debating whether now was a good time to undertake such a task.  It isn’t, not really.  But it boils down to obedience, hope, and trust. And having a plan.  I felt really overwhelmed until I saw President Nelson’s picture of his print out of the Topical Guide.  I thought that was a brilliant idea.

Yesterday morning I copied all of the topical guide references onto a google doc to print it out.  83 pages later and I realized I’d have to spend a bit of time formatting the list.  Here is the final copy of the topical guide references for anyone that wants to print it out (32 pages, I printed double sided).  I took out all the “see also” references as almost all of them are included.  The one’s that were left out were clearly tangental, but I figured I could turn to the actual topical guide and look it up if I wanted to study it further.

After my initial study last night and this morning I am feeling so grateful for this assignment. I hope you’ll join me (or let me join you!) and share what you are learning along the way too.

Jesus Christ Topical Guide Print Out