Getting Started!

Hello all!

I have decided that I want to read the entire LDS standard works this calendar year.  I know what you all are thinking, "Boy, that's a huge task!" Yes.. it is. Whenever I tell people this, they look at me like I'm crazy or that all I want to do is read scriptures all day.  While I love the scriptures, I don't want to read them all day.  However, I did the math (cause I'm good at that) and I calculated that I only need to read 4.3 chapters a day to read the entire Standard Works in 365 days (and this year is a leap year, so technically I have 366 days, but I'll give myself a day break maybe).

My plan is to read 5 chapters a day when I am reading the Old and New Testaments. This hopefully will give me a head start for when I get to Doctrine and Covenants and The Book of Mormon. Some of those chapters can get a little long.  Then I only have to read 4 of those chapters.  My schedule will look like this:  I will begin with the Bible, then go onto the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price.  I would like to finish the year with reading The Book of Mormon. I know it's a bit out of the typical order, but I really wanted to end with The Book of Mormon.

My hope in having this blog, is to record the thoughts, feelings, impressions, and knowledge that I gain along this journey.  I know that most of this will be for my own benefit, and not necessarily meant for others.  After all, this is my own personal journey and I am going to be learning things that are needed in my life with the things that I am going through.  I hope, though, that some things that I may say will also touch others and help them to learn too.

This is going to be a long journey and I don't know if I will post everyday, but more when I feel the prompting that I need to.  Unfortunately, I am already behind in my reading (opps!) and I hope to catch up in the next few days.  This is going to be fun to try to make this goal happen, but I think even if I don't finish by the end of the year, I will have done more than I ever have before.  And that, after all, is where success comes from. Being better than I was last year.

So come along with me!

P.S. My grammar is atrocious, so please forgive me if I make these mistakes.  I am a science person, not English.. haha