Paisley: Hey everybody, I am coming to under the name of
Paisley imperfect. It's not my real name, I'm just going to be
totally honest and upfront, it's not my real name. I use my real
name for I have some, I have a couple of things published under
my real name for the company that I work for, and I don't
want to cross those two right now. So I'm just keeping this
one for me. And we're going to use the name Paisley imperfect.
Because one of the way that one of my daughter says Paisley is
the cutest thing ever. And one of the ways that my or the way
that my one of my other daughter says the word perfect, is
perfect. she pronounces every single letter perfectly. I am
far from perfect, not anywhere close. So we're going with
Paisley imperfect. I'm trying. It's not gonna happen in this
life. But I'm trying on that note, and trying to become a
little bit more like my savior every day. I thought that it
would be fun for I thought it would be fun to study my
Scriptures with other people, and maybe start something new.
Here's the thing, though. There are a lot of a lot of podcasts
and a lot of YouTube videos out there that are following the
Come follow me curriculum. I don't really want to do that. I
want to focus on conference talks. And maybe I'm sure that
we'll find connections between the Come follow me curriculum
and General Conference, I'm sure that we will, because the themes
are eternal, and universal. But rather than following the Come
follow me curriculum, I want to follow the I want to look at
things topically instead. So we'll spend a month a topic. In
June, for example, we're going to talk about, Be still and know
that I am God, we're going to start with elder Bednarz talk
from this last April's conference called Be still and
know that I am God, we're going to start there. But throughout
the month of June, we're going to talk about being still and
what that means. I love to I would love to hear from all of
you. So let me know what b still means to you. But for make a
plan Monday, for make a plan Monday, we want to look at all
of it kind of a holistic view, right? We're going to look at
come follow me. And we're going to make a plan for the week.
Now, the church has already made the plan for us. So really, I
mean, there, you can go to Etsy or you can go to Pinterest, and
you can download. You can download a study plan, and
hundreds of different formats. Everybody has their own format,
their own way of studying the Scriptures. And however you do
it is great. It's perfect for you, this has to be for you. For
me, I've tried those things. I've tried printing out the
study plan and writing all the things that I just, I just can't
do it. There are too many things going on, life is too busy. For
me to be able to do that. If it works for you, please keep doing
it. I'm not going to ask you to change, make a plan Monday is
about making the plan and sharing the plan. It's a little
bit of holding ourselves accountable to the plan, right.
Hopefully, we'll be able to do a check in on Wednesdays, the chat
the Wednesday check in, we'll probably just be like a quick
Instagram post, maybe Facebook post, just to check in and see
where we're at on our plan. Maybe share a little bit of
insight, something that worked or something that didn't. I'm
going to share my plan with you today. And I'm going to show you
how to create a study plan in the Gospel Library app in case
you haven't figured that out yet. So I have I'm showing my
screen, I'm showing my iPad screen right now. And this is
the gospel Library app on the home hub on the homescreen. So
in the bottom left hand corner, you see that little home icon, I
just tap that and this is where I'm at yours will probably look
a little different by default. This, I can't remember what they
call it. But this general conference, the little blue
thing right there that says put you on the Lord Jesus Christ. By
default that's usually at the top. And the study plans are a
little bit further down. But for me, I wanted my study plan at
the top so that when I opened the app, it was like, Oh, yes,
that's what I'm supposed to do. I need to I need to do my Come
follow me study for today. So that's why that one is at the
top. If you tap those three dots in the top right corner, you can
edit your home screen so you can move whatever you want to the
top. There are right now down at the bottom. I have the quote of
the day and the verse of the day down at the Bottom, if you want,
you can push those to the top, I left him at the bottom because I
also have the widgets on my phone. So that I can see the
quote of the day and the scripture of the day, right
there in the front of my phone. But for right now, this is what
this is what my front page looks like. I have two study plans, I
created both of them at the same time, January 1, we're at the
beginning of June. And I'm only 38% of the way through the Book
of Mormon using the Come follow me so 38% 50% of the way through
the year, a little behind it would seem. But I'm kind of
caught up. And it's the first time I've ever been caught up.
In the interest of full disclosure, I tried this last
year, it did not work for me. I don't know if it's just the
difference between the Book of Mormon and the New Testament. Or
if maybe I'm a little bit more committed this year than I was
last year. But look at my plan of salvation study plan is a 0%.
And I created that at the same time that I created the Book of
Mormon one. So it is what it is, I am not perfect. I am not
asking you to be perfect. I'm not asking you to change your
plan. I'm showing you another option that might work. In case
nothing else has nothing else up until this point has worked for
me. So right here, they have pre created study plans, you can
create your own custom one, or they have some they've already
created for us. If you scroll over a little bit, look, there's
the plan of salvation one that I started, if you're a seminary
kid, or you have seminary kids, there's your book of mormon
seminary reading one over there, all the all the way over there
on the right. I just started this one right here, this very
first one book of mormon using come follow me. If you tap on
that, it brings up this screen, and you can just start your
plan. You start your plant and it comes up with all of the
check boxes for you. And we're gonna just start right here on
June 3 through ninth, because that's where we're at this week,
right? June 3 through ninth. They were steadfast and
immovable. And it looks like this week we're studying mosaic
29 through Alma four. And if I count those little circles,
there are six circles that need to be checked off this week. I
like checking boxes. If you don't like checking boxes, don't
worry about it. You don't have to. I like checking boxes. And
that's how I know I'm 38% of the way through so far. For this
one, if there are six boxes, and today's Monday, that means I've
got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I
have six days of reading to do before I get to church on
Sunday. And that's my goal. To have all of it read. Before
church starts on Sunday. I said read. I didn't say studied. I
didn't say memorized. My goal is to have it all read by church on
Sunday. So there are six days. So for me six, I got six nights,
I got six checkboxes, I am set, I'm good to go. I will do one of
those each night, that might not work for you. And that is
totally fine. If that doesn't work for you take a look inside
the Come follow me book. And check these check out these
topics, ideas for learning at home and at church right I can
be a positive influence on my community in my community. Maybe
Mosiah 29:26. Maybe that's all you've got time for on Monday.
That's totally fine. Just do mosaic 2926, right there in the
middle of that paragraph. And then just think about what it
how it encourages you to be a positive influence within your
community. Look at Alma, chapter 2:1-7 through seven, you can do
it topically like this, the word of God can help me recognize
false doctrine.
Maybe that's the one that you need to focus on for the week. I
don't know it's going to be different for everybody.
When you're done, you can just check off the box. And that
feels good, right? We're gonna look at Mosiah 25. Mosiah 25 is
only 24 verses. Also check this out at the very bottom, you can
check the box right there if you want to. So instead of going
back to the other screen, you can just check it when you get
to the end of the chapter. But also if you scroll up to the
top, look at that little blue circle that pops up in the
bottom right corner. You can listen to it. If you tap on
that. Now if you're on Wi Fi, it will use the pre recorded the
pre recorded voice and there's like two or three different
voices that you can choose from for the pre recorded voice. If
you're not on Wi Fi, it will still do text to speech but it
sounds like a computer's reading it to you. You can even check to
see how long it's going to take. So if you just tap right
underneath of you tap in the white space between where it
says Mosiah 25 And it's got that 10 Second back Up icon over on
the right, if you just tap in that white space somewhere, it
will bring this screen up and it will show you that this is five
minutes and 13 seconds. Are you going to be in the car for five
minutes and 13 seconds this week? Any day doesn't matter
which day for me Mosiah 25 happens to be my Tuesday
reading. So Mosiah 25. Let's see Tuesday. Between when I dropped
the girls off at school, and I get home, it takes me about five
minutes. I can listen to this between when I dropped my girls
off and when I get home, five minutes. But let's be real for
just a second because sometimes it takes you a minute to figure
out how to get it set up. Right. So maybe it's six minutes
instead of five minutes. I think I still think I got six minutes
between the time I dropped my girls off and the time I get
home. So I could listen to this in the car. After drop off. If
we go back and we look at Mosiah 26. How long is Mosiah 26? Was
it 26 is 39 versus five minutes and 13 seconds. Oh, that's
Mosiah 25. Hold on. Oh, there is some this is one thing about the
app that kind of drives me a little crazy. Scroll back up to
the top, it still says Mosiah 25 at the bottom. But if you go
back to the top and you hit that little blue button again, it
will switch it to Mosiah 26. Mosiah 26 is seven minutes and
40 seconds. It's a little bit longer, a couple of minutes
longer. Maybe you don't have seven minutes on Wednesday.
That's fine. So I have this friend who likes to tell me that
I can't boil the ocean. And she's right. I can't boil the
ocean. But there's also the analogy of eating an elephant,
right? How do you eat an elephant, one bite at a time.
And sometimes when we get these Come follow me curriculums, it
feels like we got to train eat an elephant, we got to get all
of this stuff done. We're going to eat this elephant one bite at
a time. And if you can only get one verse out of one chapter
every day, that's your bite. And that's fine. Not everybody can
eat a whole chapter every day. It's okay. I'm not here to I'm
not here to judge. I'm here to just help. Maybe give an idea,
or two or three, we'll see how it goes. But that's my plan. And
I was looking at the wrong one the whole time I was looking at
May 27 Through June 2. If I go down here to the one that's
actually June 3 Through June 9, there's my six there my six
circles right, June and Mosiah 29. By look at Mosiah 29. Hit
the blue button again, pull that up, it's 12 minutes, that's a
little bit longer. That's not a five minute car ride. So let's
see Mosiah 29, that's probably going to be on a Tuesday. My
girls have gymnastics on Tuesday for an hour. So I could probably
do 12 minutes during that hour, listening to my scriptures. And
then when you're all done, and you come back here, you just hit
the little button. And that shows that you're done with
Mosiah 29. And then when you go back to your home screen, we are
1% Done 1%. That's a lot further than you were five minutes ago.
I'm just saying. We are just going to take this one little
bite at a time. But we're going to do it together. So you've
seen now what my plan looks like. Here's my real plan. And I
am I'm recording this a little bit early. But if I look at June
3 through ninth This is what my plan looks like. I'm not writing
down that I'm doing Mosiah 29 on a Monday or Tuesday. I'm not
writing down that Alma one is on Wednesday. I'm not writing that
stuff down. When I get to it, I will get to it. June 3 through
ninth they were steadfast and immovable. Today is Monday, I
will probably do that tonight. I'll probably listen to it.
After I put my kids to bed. And while I'm doing the dishes, I
will probably listen to you they were steadfast and immovable.
Also, I'm gonna be real with you on that. Listening to the Come
follow me book is not as good as listening to your scriptures.
The voices are a little weird, and they read every tiny little
thing, which gets a little frustrating because it means
that everything that's in parentheses, they read that too.
So they stop in the middle of a sentence to tell you where the
Scripture came from. I wish that they would just like footnote it
instead of cite it in place just for the ease of listening. But
you know what it is what it is? Maybe someday. We're still we
are still learning and still growing. Right as a church as an
organization. As a people in general we are still learning
and we're still growing. We're just Trying to be the best that
we can be every day. Okay, that's my plan. What is your
plan look like? Show me in the comments. Send me a link. Just
tell me. Tell me you don't have a plan. That's fine. I don't
have a plan. I just wanted to listen. That's fine too. Little
bit more on another day. We're gonna like I said, we're gonna
start with elder Bednarz. Be still and know that I am God.
Talk from the most recent General Conference that just
happened in April. We're gonna start with that next. Thanks so
much, you guys.