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

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 46:1-5
• Commentary: D&C 46: Historical Context
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:1–6
• Quote: "Is this spirit of collective rejoicing in Christ what you find? Is this what you bring? Maybe you think this doesn’t have much to do with you, or perhaps you are simply used to how things have always been done. But we can all contribute, no matter our age or our calling, to making our sacrament meetings the joy-filled, Christ-focused, welcoming hour they can be, alive with a spirit of joyful reverence."
  - Patrick Kearon, "Welcome to the Church of Joy" October 2024 general conference

Tuesday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 46:6-12
• Commentary: Section 46: Context
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:7–9
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:10–12
• Quote: “The Lord has not left us alone in our quest to return to Him. Listen to His warning words alerting us to the dangers ahead: ‘Take … heed, watch and pray.’, ‘Beware lest ye … be deceived.’, . ‘Be watchful and careful.’, ‘Beware lest ye also … fall from your own stedfastness.’ No one of us is immune from the influences of the world. The Lord’s counsel keeps us on guard.You will remember Jesus’s experience in Capernaum as disciples who had followed the Savior would not accept that He was the Son of God. The scripture reads, ‘From that time many of his disciples … walked no more with him.’ Jesus then turned to the Twelve and asked, ‘Will ye also go away?’”
  - Neil L. Anderson, "Never Leave Him," October 2010 General Conference
• Quote: “Spiritual gifts are promised not only to those who love God and keep all of His commandments but also, gratefully, to those of us who ‘[seek] so to do.’ Strength is given to those who keep seeking and trying.”
  - Randall K. Bennet, "Your Next Step," October 2015 General Conference
• Quote: “You may think you don’t have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before—colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter. What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you. Don’t let the voice of critics paralyze you—whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside. If you still feel incapable of creating, start small. Try to see how many smiles you can create, write a letter of appreciation, learn a new skill, identify a space and beautify it.”
  - Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Happiness, Your Heritage," October 2008 General Conference
• Quote: “One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable. From [D&C] we have this truth: ‘For all have not every gift given unto them; for there are many gifts, and to every man is given a gift by the Spirit of God. To some is given one, and to some is given another, that all may be profited thereby.’”
  - Marvin J. Ashton, "There Are Many Gifts," October 1987 General Conference

Wednesday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 46:13-20
• Commentary: Gifts of the Spirit
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:13
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:16
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:19–20
• Quote: “Spiritual gifts come by the power of the Holy Ghost, that all the faithful may be benefited. One of these gifts is ‘to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that he was crucified for the sins of the world’. Those who receive that gift have the duty to testify of it. We know this because immediately after describing the gift of knowing that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Lord says: ‘To others it is given to believe on their words, that they also might have eternal life if they continue faithful’. Those who have the gift to know must give their witness so that those who have the gift to believe on their words can enjoy the benefit of that gift.”
  - Dallin H. Oaks, "Witnesses of Christ," October 1990 General Conference
• Quote: “We all need a personal testimony of truth. As our faith develops, we necessarily rely on the words and faith of others, like our parents, teachers, or priesthood leaders. But if we are solely dependent on one particular priesthood leader or teacher for our personal testimony of the truth instead of getting that testimony through the personal line, we will be forever vulnerable to disillusionment by the action of that person. When it comes to a mature knowledge or testimony of the truth, we should not be dependent on a mortal mediator between us and our Heavenly Father.”
  - Dallin H. Oaks, "Two Lines of Communication," October 2010 General Conference
• Additional Study
  • Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:17–18
  • Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:15
  • Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:14

Thursday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 46:21-26
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:21
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:22
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:23
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:24–26
• Quote: “So how do we come to know our gifts? We can reference our patriarchal blessing, ask those who know us best, and personally identify what we are naturally good at and enjoy. Most important, we can ask God. He knows our gifts, since He gave them to us. As we discover our gifts, we have a responsibility to develop them. Even Jesus Christ ‘received not of the fulness at first, but [developed] from grace to grace.’”
  - John C. Pingree Jr., "I Have a Work for Thee," October 2017 General Conference.

Friday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 46:27-33
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:27
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 46:28–33
• Quote: “First, I mention the gift of discernment embodying the power to discriminate, which has been spoken of in our hearing before particularly as between right and wrong. I believe that this gift when highly developed arises largely out of an acute sensitivity to impressions—spiritual impressions, if you will—to read under the surface as it were, to detect hidden evil, and more importantly to find the good that may be concealed. The highest type of discernment is that which perceives in others and uncovers for them their better natures, the good inherent within them. It’s the gift every missionary needs when he takes the gospel to the people of the world. He must make an appraisal of every personality whom he meets. He must be able to discern the hidden spark that may be lighted for truth. The gift of discernment will save him from mistakes and embarrassment, and it will never fail to inspire confidence in the one who is rightly appraised. The gift of discernment is essential to the leadership of the Church. I never ordain a bishop or set apart a president of a stake without invoking upon him this divine blessing, that he may read the lives and hearts of his people and call forth the best within them. The gift and power of discernment in this world of contention between the forces of good and the power of evil is essential equipment for every son and daughter of God. There could be no such mass dissensions as endanger the security of the world, if its populations possessed this great gift in larger degree. People are generally so gullible one is sometimes led to wonder whether the great Lincoln was right, after all, in the conclusion of his memorable statement, ‘You can’t fool all the people all the time.’ One does feel at times, however, a sense of pity and sympathy for some of the peoples of the world whose education, information, and exposure to higher ideals and exalted concepts have been so arbitrarily and ruthlessly restricted. There is a class of people now grown sizable in the world who should possess this great gift in large degree. They know how the gift is attained. They have been educated in its spiritual foundations. They have been blessed with the counsels which foster it. They know how to order their lives to procure it. You know who they are, my brethren and sisters. Every member in the restored Church of Christ could have this gift if he willed to do so. He could not be deceived with the sophistries of the world. He could not be led astray by pseudo-prophets and subversive cults. Even the inexperienced would recognize false teachings, in a measure at least. With this gift they would be able to detect something of the disloyal, rebellious, and sinister influences which not infrequently prompt those who seemingly take pride in the destruction of youthful faith and loyalties. Discerning parents will do well to guard their children against such influences and such personalities and teachings before irreparable damage is done. The true gift of discernment is often premonitory. A sense of danger should be heeded to be of value. We give thanks for a set of providential circumstances which avert an accident. We ought to be grateful every day of our lives for this sense which keeps alive a conscience which constantly alerts us to the dangers inherent in wrongdoers and sin.”
  - Stephen L. Richards, "Gifts of the Gospel," April 1950 General Conference
• Quote: “Young men and older men, please take special note of what I will say now. As we exercise the undoubted power of the priesthood of God and as we treasure His promise that He will hear and answer the prayer of faith, we must always remember that faith and the healing power of the priesthood cannot produce a result contrary to the will of Him whose priesthood it is. This principle is taught in the revelation directing that the elders of the Church shall lay their hands upon the sick. The Lord’s promise is that ‘he that hath faith in me to be healed, and is not appointed unto death, shall be healed’. Similarly, in another modern revelation the Lord declares that when one ‘asketh according to the will of God … it is done even as he asketh’. From all of this we learn that even the servants of the Lord, exercising His divine power in a circumstance where there is sufficient faith to be healed, cannot give a priesthood blessing that will cause a person to be healed if that healing is not the will of the Lord.”
  - Dallin H. Oaks, "Healing the Sick," April 2010 General Conference
• Additional Study
  • KnoWhy: Why Are Saints Invited to Live the Law of Consecration?

Saturday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 47:1-4
• Commentary: The Church Historian
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 47:1–4
• Commentary: D&C 47: Historical Context
• Commentary: Section 47: Context

Sunday

• Scripture: Doctrine and Covenants 48:1-6
• Commentary: Property in Kirtland
• Commentary: Section 48: Context
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 48:1–3
• Commentary: Commentary on D&C 48:4–6
• Commentary: D&C 48: Historical Context