Structure your personal scripture study by following a 15-minute, day-by-day plan. Each day's assignment includes the required scripture passages from the Come, Follow Me curriculum, as well as suggestions for additional resources to bring context and understanding to your study. For the best experience, use our Reading Plan in the free ScripturePlus app! You can track your progress and have access to the best resources.

Monday

• Commentary: Section 29 Context
• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 29:1-8
• Commentary: Doctrine and Covenants 29:1–8
• Quote: “The Lord has long spoken of the necessary preparations for His Second Coming. To Enoch, He declared, ‘Righteousness will I send down out of heaven; and truth will I send forth out of the earth, … and righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth.’ The prophet Daniel prophesied that in the latter days the gospel would roll forth unto the ends of the earth as a ‘stone [that is] cut out of [a] mountain without hands.’ Nephi spoke of the latter-day Church as being few in number but spread upon all the face of the earth. The Lord declared in this dispensation, ‘Ye are called to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect.’ My young brethren, your mission is a great opportunity and responsibility, important to this promised gathering and linked to your eternal destiny.”
  - Neil L. Anderson, "Preparing the World for the Second Coming," April 2011 General Conference
• KnoWhy: Where Did Joseph Smith Get His Ideas about the Physical and Spiritual Gathering of Israel?
• Additional Study
  • KnoWhy: Why Did Jesus Christ Compare Himself to a Hen?

Tuesday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 29:9-13
• Commentary: Doctrine and Covenants 29:9–13
• KnoWhy: What Did the Early Saints Learn about the Second Coming from the Book of Mormon?
• Quote: “I bear testimony that our risen Lord and Redeemer will return to earth a second time in his resurrected, immortal body of flesh and bones, and in celestial glory and power. When he came the first time he was misunderstood, condemned, and ridiculed and was a man acquainted with much grief. (Isa. 53:3) When he came the first time, he atoned for the sins of the world. But when he comes the second time he will come as a triumphant King of kings and a glorious Lord of lords. (Rev. 17:14) He will stand in judgment of sinners who have not repented. He will come as the Almighty God to cleanse the earth and to inaugurate his glorious millennial reign. (A of F 1:10) The Lord Jesus and the resurrected Saints will reign upon the earth during the thousand years of millennium. (D&C 29:11) Satan will be tied and will have no power to tempt any man. (D&C 43:31) Then after the end of the thousand years, Satan will be loosed again for a little season, and then will come the end of the earth. Satan and his forces will be banished forever and ever. Every person will be resurrected and stand before God to be judged. Our Lord, Jesus Christ, will be crowned with the crown of his glory to reign forever and ever. (D&C 76:108) Those that have endured until the end and have achieved eternal life will abide with him and Heavenly Father forever and ever in the celestial kingdom.”
  - George P. Lee, “‘Behold My Beloved Son, in Whom I Am Well Pleased’”, October 1982 General Conference

Wednesday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 29:14-21
• Commentary: Doctrine and Covenants 29:14–21
• Quote: “Many years ago, I took the Scouts on a campout in the desert. The boys slept by a large fire they had made, and like every good Scout leader, I slept in the back of my truck. In the morning when I sat up and looked at the campsite, I saw one Scout, whom I will call Paul, who looked particularly rough around the edges. I asked how he had slept, and he replied, ‘Not very well.’ When I asked why, he said, ‘I was cold; the fire went out.’ I answered, ‘Well, fires do that. Wasn’t your sleeping bag warm enough?’ No answer. Then one of the other Scouts loudly volunteered, ‘He didn’t use his sleeping bag.’ I asked in disbelief, ‘Why not, Paul?’ Silence—then finally the sheepish reply: ‘Well, I thought if I didn’t unroll my sleeping bag, I wouldn’t have to roll it up again.’ True story: he froze for hours because he was trying to save five minutes of work. We may think, ‘How foolish! Who would ever do that?’ Well, we do it all the time in much more dangerous ways. We are, in effect, refusing to unroll our spiritual sleeping bags when we don’t take the time to sincerely pray, study, and earnestly live the gospel each day; not only will the fire go out, but we will be unprotected and grow spiritually cold. When we are complacent with our covenants, we are complicit with the consequences. The Lord has counseled us ‘to beware concerning yourselves, to give diligent heed to the words of eternal life.’ And He further declared, ‘My blood shall not cleanse them if they hear me not.’”
  - Gary B. Sabin, "Stand Up Inside and Be All In," April 2017 General Conference

Thursday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 29:22-28
• Commentary: Doctrine and Covenants 29:22–28
• Quote: “Who was Adam that he was privileged to begin the human race here on earth? Had he been some very special personage in the premortal world? Indeed, Adam was very special and very important. Before coming into mortality, he was known as Michael. The Prophet Joseph Smith clearly identifies both Adam and Michael as one and the same person, an angel, the chief angel, or archangel, of heaven, the special servant of God and Christ. When Michael came into mortality he was known as Adam, the first man, but he was still his own self. Although he was given another name, that of Adam, he did not change his identity. After his mortal death he resumed his position as an angel in the heavens, once again serving as the chief angel, or archangel, and took again his former name of Michael. In his capacity as archangel, Adam, or Michael, will yet perform a mighty mission in the coming years, both before and after the Millennium. This is startling, but the scriptures declare it. One important assignment that awaits him is to be the angel to sound the trumpet heralding the resurrection of the dead. The scripture reads, ‘Behold, verily I say unto you, before the earth shall pass away, Michael, mine archangel, shall sound his trump, and then shall all the dead awake, for their graves shall be opened, and they shall come forth.’ What a marvelous calling for Adam, or Michael. But note that even in this assignment, which is yet future, he still will be an angel—the archangel, but an angel nevertheless. Section 107 of the Doctrine and Covenants, dated March 28, 1835, identifies him as an angel as of that date—little more than a hundred years ago—and calls him ‘Michael, the prince, the archangel.’”
  - Mark E. Petersen, "Adam, the Archangel," October 1980 General Conference

Friday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 29:29-35
• Commentary: Doctrine and Covenants 29:29–35
• Quote: “Every commandment of God is spiritual in nature. There are no carnal commandments. We have learned this from modern revelation. While the commandments have effect upon the body and temporal things they are all in essence spiritual. The Word of Wisdom is spiritual. It is true that it enjoins the use of deleterious substances and makes provision for the health of the body. But the largest measure of good derived from its observance is in increased faith and the development of more spiritual power and wisdom. Likewise, the most regrettable and damaging effects of its infractions are spiritual, also. Injury to the body may be comparatively trivial to the damage to the soul in the destruction of faith and the retardation of spiritual growth. So I say, every commandment involves a spiritual growth. So I say, every commandment involves a spiritual principle.”
  - Stephen L. Richards, "Keep the Commandments," April 1949 General Conference
• Quote: “The two great commandments—to love God and our neighbor—are a joining of the temporal and the spiritual. It is important to note that these two commandments are called ‘great’ because every other commandment hangs upon them. In other words, our personal, family, and Church priorities must begin here. All other goals and actions should spring from the fountain of these two great commandments—from our love for God and for our neighbor. Like two sides of a coin, the temporal and spiritual are inseparable. The Giver of all life has proclaimed, ‘All things unto me are spiritual, and not at any time have I given unto you a law which was temporal.’ This means to me that ‘spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.’ Unfortunately, there are those who overlook the temporal because they consider it less important. They treasure the spiritual while minimizing the temporal. While it is important to have our thoughts inclined toward heaven, we miss the essence of our religion if our hands are not also inclined toward our fellowman.”
  - Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Providing in the Lord's Way," October 2011 General Conference

Saturday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 29:36-42
• Commentary: Doctrine and Covenants 29:36–39
• Quote: “Significantly, the temptation to sin is not the only kind of opposition in mortality. Father Lehi taught that if the Fall had not taken place, Adam and Eve ‘would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery.’ Without the experience of opposition in mortality, ‘all things must needs be a compound in one,’ in which there would be no happiness or misery. Therefore, Father Lehi continued, after God had created all things, ‘to bring about his eternal purposes in the end of man, … it must needs be that there was an opposition; even the forbidden fruit in opposition to the tree of life; the one being sweet and the other bitter.’ His teaching on this part of the plan of salvation concludes with these words: ‘Behold, all things have been done in the wisdom of him who knoweth all things. Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.’ Opposition in the form of difficult circumstances we face in mortality is also part of the plan that furthers our growth in mortality.”
  - Dallin H. Oaks, "Opposition in All Things," April 2016 General Conference
• KnoWhy: Why Did Lehi Teach that the Fall was Necessary?
• Additional Study
  • KnoWhy: Why did Jesus Say that Some Well-Intentioned People Will Be Told to Depart?
  • KnoWhy: Why did Lehi "Suppose" the Existence of Satan?

Sunday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 29:43-50
• Commentary: Doctrine and Covenants 29:40–45
• Commentary: Doctrine and Covenants 29:46–50
• Quote: “In the few moments allotted to me, I should like to talk about two items, and I do not wish to be misunderstood, but I want to be as clear as I know how to be. These have to do with the use of things in the home which touch that child’s character. You heard it said the other day that Satan has no power over a child until eight years of age. I believe that to be true, but I wish to remind you all, and myself, too, that Satan may have no power to tempt a child before eight years of age, but some of his emissaries go all out to condition a child so that when he becomes eight he will not be conscious that sinning is very bad. Exposing children, small children particularly, to the constant barrage of situations which can affect their outlook on the matters on which they must make decisions is a subtle way to bring them into evil later. I suspect, it is no different with large children. Nowadays the home is one place where the child meets this test.”
  - S. Dilworth Young, "Joys of Childhood," April 1955 General Conference