I have a confession to make. Come Follow Me has always been hard. I don’t like it. I’ve never liked it. I’ve missed years of yore with studying prophets and 3 hour church and all the stuff that seems to have been an easy tradition shift for most. I’ve harbored guilt for these feelings and often felt like if I would just get on board, I’d gain a testimony of the program; but every year comes and goes and I don’t implement any kind of come follow me manuals into our lives. We’ll pick it up occasionally but since I haven’t really planted the seed into my own life, it never really grows for my family. And then a wise friend was talking about what she did for her family and an idea spurred. She said that she’s always struggled to make habits stick until she realized that it’s easier to piggyback habits instead of create from scratch. She said her family struggled with reading scriptures until she piggybacked the habit with bedtime prayers, something that they’d been able to keep consistent for a long time. She says you don’t have to master a gospel foundation from day one, just take a baby step every day. Find some goal that doesn’t feel lofty. When she said they only read 1 verse a day, I thought, “I think maybe we could handle 1 verse a day at bedtime.” And then I came home and looked at the book and realized it’ll be pretty easy to find 1 verse for each sub-category. So I went through the book and picked 6 verses for each lesson, based on what is already marked in my scriptures and what is highlighted in the manual. I only picked 6 because I still want to follow with our own Family Home Evening lesson schedule. Also, I’m an all-or-nothing type. If I make the list now, I’ll stick with it. If I wing it, I will drop the habit. So It’s all done now, while I’m thinking about it. (The scriptures in parentheses are because I know myself. If I miss a day, this is the verse I’ll skip).
So if you’re stuck on Come Follow Me, feel free to use my pre-selected scripture list of 1 verse a day:
- Jan 8-14
- 1 Nephi 5:21
- 1 Nephi 2:16
- 1 Nephi 3:7
- 1 Nephi 4:1
- 1 Nephi 4:6
- (1 Nephi 5:22)
- Jan 15-21
- 1 Nephi 7:21
- 1 Nephi 8:11-12
- (1 Nephi 8:30-31)
- 1 Nephi 9:6
- 1 Nephi 10:4-5
- (1 Nephi 10:18-19)
- Jan 22-28
- 1 Nephi 11:20-22
- 1 Nephi 14:7
- 1 Nephi 13:37
- (1 Nephi 14:14)
- 1 Nephi 15:11
- 1 Nephi 15:25
- Jan 29-Feb 4
- 1 Nephi 17:13
- 1 Nephi 16:29
- 1 Nephi 17:3
- 1 Nephi 17:13
- 1 Nephi 19:23
- (1 Nephi 20:10)
- Feb 5-11
- 2 Nephi 2:26-27
- (2 Nephi 1:15)
- 2 Nephi 1:23
- 2 Nephi 2:7
- 2 Nephi 2:11
- 2 Nephi 2:14
- Feb 12-18
- 2 Nephi 4:19-20
- 2 Nephi 3:13
- 2 Nephi 4:34-35
- 2 Nephi 5:27
- 2 Nephi 2:10-11
- (2 Nephi 5:15-17)
- Feb 19-25
- (2 Nephi 7:7)
- 2 Nephi 9:10
- 2 Nephi 9:23
- 2 Nephi 9:28-29
- 2 Nephi 9:39
- 2 Nephi 10:23
- Feb 26-March 3
More to come… if I don’t get sidetracked…