I went to a great devotional at seminary last Thursday morning. The speaker was Scott Horsley, who is one of the regular seminary teachers in our stake. I want to find out sometime if he is related to us. One of the things he shared with us was this: when he was in dental school as a young father, and very busy, he decided to improve his life by memorizing something every day. He was Elders Quorum president, his wife was Young Women president, and they had four children. Studies did not come easily for him, yet he wanted to do well at school so that he could go into a specialty. For all of these reasons his time was at a premium to him. At this point in his life, as he made it a practice to memorize something every day, he also found that his studies became easier for him. In fact, it became easier for him to organize himself and his time so that everything could fit into his schedule as needed. He has kept this practice going ever since then, with great benefit.
So I decided to do the same. I started that very day with the first scripture mastery scripture from the New Testament (since that is what we are studying in seminary this year). It's now been six days and so far I have learned one scripture a day. And I intend to keep it going!
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Impressive. Now its been 8 more days, have you still been memorizing. Its funny because I was just thinking the other day how in the Muslim religion, they memorize the Koran. I thought maybe I could memorize the Book of Mormon. That will have to be sometime in the future.
I'm still memorizing! It's great! I don't think I'll get the whole book memorized any time soon, but some every day is good for me!
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