Day 1
Daughters
in the
Kingdom –
Come Unto
Christ
Day 4
Scriptural thought for the day: Moroni
10:32
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
50:29-30
Thought for the day: “Followers of
Christ pattern their lives after the Savior
to walk in the light. Two characteristics
can help us recognize to what extent we
follow Him. First, followers of Christ
are loving people. Second, followers of
Christ make and keep covenants.”
- Elder Walter F. Gonzales
Thought for the day: “Faith is a gift of
God; it is the fruitage of righteous
living. It does not come to us by our
command but is the result of doing the
will of our Heavenly Father.”
- George A. Smith
Mark and Ponder: 1 Nephi 3:7
Day 5
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
121:45-46
Thought for the day: “When we
Thought for the day: “As you guard
your virtue and purity, you will be
given strength. As you keep the
covenants you have made, the Holy
Ghost will guide you and guard you.
You will be surrounded by heavenly
hosts of angels.”
- Elaine S. Dalton YW Gen Pres.
Scripture Study: 1 Nephi 19 – 2
Mark and Ponder: 2 Nephi 2:11
Scripture Study: 1 Nephi 11-15
Mark and Ponder: 1 Nephi 15:34
Day 3
Scriptural thought for the day: Matthew
4:3-4
Thought for the day: “Regardless of your
particular circumstances, as you become
more and more familiar with the truths of
the scriptures, you will be more and more
effective in keeping the second great
commandment, to love your neighbor as
yourself. Become scholars of the
scriptures—not to put others down, but to
lift them up!” - Spencer W. Kimball
Scripture Study: 1 Nephi 1-10
Scriptural thought for the day: Matthew
21:21
qualify ourselves by our worthiness,
when we strive with faith nothing
wavering to fulfill the duties
appointed to us, when we seek the
inspiration of the Almighty in the
performance of our responsibilities,
we can achieve the miraculous.”
-Thomas S. Monson
Day 2
Scripture Study: 2 Nephi 2-6
Do you have a current temple
recommend? Even un-endowed
members can carry a limited use
recommend.
Day 6
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
11:12-14
Thought for the day: “I stress the deep
need each woman has to study the
scriptures. We want our homes to be
blessed with sister scriptorians—
whether you are single or married,
young or old, widowed or living in a
family. … After all, who has any
greater need to ‘treasure up’ the truths
of the gospel (on which they may call in
their moments of need) than do women
and mothers who do so much nurturing
and teaching?”- Spencer W. Kimball
Scripture Study: 1 Nephi 16-18
Mark and Ponder: 1 Nephi 19:23
Day 7
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
76:9-10
Thought for the day: “The ability to
qualify for, receive, and act on
personal revelation is the single most
important skill that can be acquired in
this life.”
- Julie E. Beck, 15th General RS
President
Scripture Study: 2 Nephi 12-21
Mark and Ponder: 2 Nephi 2:25
Scripture Study: 2 Nephi 7-11
Mark and Ponder: 2 Nephi 2:27
Mark and Ponder: 2 Nephi 9:28-29
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10
Day 11
Scriptural thought for the day: 1 John
5:3
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
39:20-23
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
82:10
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
18:18-19
Thought for the day: “Obedience allows
God’s blessings to flow without
constraint. He will bless His obedient
children with freedom from bondage
and misery. And He will bless them
with more light.”
- Elder Russell M. Nelson
Thought for the day: “Every sister in
this Church who has made covenants
with the Lord has a divine mandate to
help save souls, to lead the women of
the world, to strengthen the homes of
Zion, and to build the kingdom of
God.”
- Elder M. Russell Ballard
Thought for the day: “Remember that
we do not run alone in this great race of
life; we are entitled to the help of the
Lord.”
- Thomas S. Monson
Thought for the day: “In any and every
age of the world when God has called
or commanded a man or a people to
perform a certain work, they through
determination and perseverance, and
faith in him, have been enabled to
accomplish it.”
-Wilford Woodruff
Scripture Study: Jacob 1-5
Scripture Study: Jacob 6-Omni
Mark and Ponder: 2 Nephi 31:13
Mark and Ponder: 2 Nephi 31:20
Scripture Study: Words of Mormon –
Mosiah 3
Mark and Ponder: 2 Nephi 32:8-9
Scripture Study: 2 Nephi 22-33
Mark and Ponder: 2 Nephi 28:8-9
Challenge!
Go the extra mile this week in
your church assignments. Find
out how the people you visit
teach are doing, and discover
what you can do to make their
lives easier. Find a way to
magnify your other callings that
you hadn’t considered before.
Day 12
Day 13
Day 14
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
75:3,5
Scriptural thought for the day: John 6:
35
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
84:88
Thought for the day: “The happiness of
a man (or woman) does not consist in
the absence but in the mastery of his
passions.”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Thought for the day: “How you deal
with life’s trials is part of the
development of your faith. Strength
comes when you remember that you
have a divine nature, and inheritance of
infinite worth.”
-Elder Russell M. Nelson
Thought for the day: “God’s angels are
ever on call to help us…What a
promise! When we are faithful, He and
His angels will help us.”
- Elder Russell M. Nelson
Scripture Study: Mosiah 4-9
Scripture Study: Mosiah 10-15
Scripture Study: Mosiah 16-22
Mark and Ponder: Jacob 2:18-19
Mark and Ponder: Mosiah 2:17
Mark and Ponder: Mosiah 3:19
Day 15
Scriptural thought for the day:
2 Nephi 26:23
Thought for the day: “Don’t be limited in
your views with regard to your neighbors’
virtues. … You must enlarge your souls
toward others if you’d do like Jesus. … As
you increase in innocence and virtue, as you
increase in goodness, let your hearts
expand—let them be enlarged towards
others—you must be longsuffering and bear
with the faults and errors of mankind. How
precious are the souls of men!”- Joseph
Smith
Challenge!
Day 16
Day 17
Study from the topical guide and
other reference materials all you
can on the subject of CHARITY.
Use the Book of Mormon,
Doctrine and Covenants and the
Pearl of Great Price as primary
references. Find ways to be
more charitable to those in your
life.
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C 59:
9-11
Scriptural thought for the day: Ether
12:27
Thought for the day: “I believe it is far
more important to live for our faith than
to die for our faith.”
- Mark E. Petersen
Thought for the day: “This is what we
desire to instill into the hearts of the
sisters—to be useful in their sphere and not
be discouraged because of difficulties in the
way, but trust in God and look to Him, and
His marvelous blessings, I will promise you,
will be poured out upon you.”
-Lorenzo Snow
Scripture Study: Alma 1-5
Scripture Study: Mosiah 23-29
Mark and Ponder: Mosiah 4:27
Day 18
Mark and Ponder: Mosiah 4:30
Day 19
Day 20
Scripture Study: Alma 6-10
Mark and Ponder: Alma 4:10
Day 21
Scriptural thought for the day: Romans
1:16
Scriptural thought for the day:
Acts 5:32
Scriptural thought for the day: D&C
112:34
Scriptural thought for the day:
3 Nephi 12:19-20
Thought for the day: “You will be a
light to the world as you share your
testimony with others… Through the
combined faith and testimony of His
daughters, God will touch the lives of
millions in His kingdom and across the
world with His light.”
-Pres. Henry B. Eyring
Thought for the day: “Nothing is so
much calculated to lead people to
forsake sin as to take them by the hand
and watch over them with tenderness.
When persons manifest the least
kindness and love to me, O what power
it has over my mind, while the opposite
course has a tendency to harrow up all
the harsh feelings and depress the
human mind.” – Joseph Smith
Thought for the day: “The average
Thought for the day: “Each time you
choose to try to live more like the
Savior, you will have your testimony
strengthened. You will come in time to
know for yourself that He is the light of
the world.”
- Pres. Henry B. Eyring
Scripture Study: Alma 11-14
Mark and Ponder: Alma 5:14
Scripture Study: Alma 15-19
Mark and Ponder: Alma 5:46
woman today, I believe, would do well to
appraise her interests, evaluate the activities
in which she is engaged, and then take steps
to simplify her life, putting things of first
importance first, placing emphasis where
the rewards will be greatest and most
enduring, and ridding herself of the less
rewarding activities.” -Belle S. Spafford, 9th Relief
Society general president:
Scripture Study: Alma 20-24
Mark and Ponder: Alma 11:40
Scripture Study: Alma 25-29
Mark and Ponder: Alma 11:43
Day 22
Day 23
Day 24
Day 25
Scriptural thought for the day:
D&C 15:6
Scriptural thought for the day: Hebrews
11:1
Scriptural thought for the day: James
5:16
Scriptural thought for the day:
D&C 64:33
Thought for the day: “We must
Thought for the day: “Faith is a gift of
God and comes to each and all of us
who serve God and supplicate Him for
the guidance of His Spirit. By doing
our duty, faith increases until it
becomes perfect knowledge."
-Heber J. Grant
Thought for the day: “Satan wants us to
be miserable as he is. And he knows
that we can only have that true
happiness if we are washed clean
through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
by deep and continuing repentance.”
- Henry B. Eyring
Thought for the day: “It is so likewise
with evil things. Small acts of
dishonesty, small acts of an immoral
nature, small outbursts of anger can
grow into great and terrible things.”
- Gordon B. Hinckley
cherish one another, watch over
one another, comfort one another
and gain instruction that we may
all sit down in heaven together.”
- Joseph Smith’s mother, Lucy
Mack Smith
Scripture Study: Alma 30-36
Mark and Ponder: Alma 30:60
Day 26
Scriptural thought for the day:
James 1:5-6
Thought for the day: “There is danger
in neglecting prayer. There is danger to
our testimony in only casual study and
reading of the scriptures. They are
necessary nutrients for our testimony.”
-Pres. Henry B. Eyring
Scripture Study: Alma 51-54
Mark and Ponder: Alma 37:35-37
Scripture Study: Alma 42-44
Scripture Study: Alma 37-41
Scripture Study: Alma 42-44
Mark and Ponder: Alma 34:32-34
Mark and Ponder: Alma 32:21
Challenge!
Study from the topical guide and
other reference materials all you
can on the subject of FAITH.
Use the Book of Mormon,
Doctrine and Covenants and the
Pearl of Great Price as primary
references. Ponder your own
faith in light of what you’ve
discovered and seek to make it
stronger.
Mark and Ponder: Alma 37:6-7
Day 27
Scriptural thought for the day:
2 Nephi 28: 21-22
Day 28
Scriptural thought for the day:
Matthew 23:25-26
Thought for the day: “Who are we
going to believe in our search for
happiness and well-being? Will it be
Satan, the author of all lies and deceit,
whose single objective is to destroy us?
Or are we going to believe a loving
Heavenly Father, who is the source of
all truth and happiness, whose sole
objective is rewarding us with His
eternal love and joy?” -Richard C.
Edgley
Thought for the day: “You are chosen
to be faithful women of God in our day,
to stand above pettiness, gossip,
selfishness, lewdness, and all other
forms of ungodliness. Recognize your
divine birthright as daughters of our
Heavenly Father.” -Howard W. Hunter
Scripture Study: Alma 55-58
Mark and Ponder: Alma 41:10-11
Mark and Ponder: Alma 60:23
Scripture Study: Alma 59-63
Day 29
Scriptural thought for the day: Matthew
7:24-27
Day 30
Scriptural thought for the day:
Mosiah 24:15-16
Day 31
Scriptural thought for the day:
Luke 24:39-40, 46 -48
Thought for the day: “The Savior is not
a silent observer. He Himself knows
personally and infinitely the pain we
face.”
– Elder Kent F. Richards
Day 32
Scriptural thought for the day:
Matthew 5:25
Thought for the day: “If our house is
built upon a rock with the brick and
mortar of good works, it will withstand
the storms and perils of life and
preserve us for an eternal inheritance
hereafter. If it is built upon the sands of
evil with the rusty nails and rotting
timber of carnal things, it will be
destroyed.”
- Bruce R. McConkie
Thought for the day: “No pain that we
suffer, no trial that we experience is
wasted. It ministers to our education, to
the development of such qualities as
patience, faith, fortitude, and
humility… It is through sorrow an d
suffering, toil and tribulation, that we
gain the education that we come here to
acquire.” – Elder Orson F. Whitney
Scripture Study: Helaman 1-9
Scripture Study: Helaman 10-14
Scripture Study: Helaman 15 –
3 Nephi 4
Scripture Study: 3 Nephi 5-10
Mark and Ponder: Helaman 5:12
Mark and Ponder: Helaman 10:4-5
Mark and Ponder: 3 Nephi 11:14-15
Mark and Ponder: 3 Nephi 11:29
Day 34
Thought for the day: “We like to be
appreciated but if we do not get all the
appreciation which we think is our due,
what matters? We know the Lord has
laid high responsibilities upon us, and
there is not a wish or desire that the
Lord has implanted in our hearts in
righteousness but will be realized...”
- Eliza Snow
Challenge!
Day 33
Day 35
Next Fast Sunday strive to fast
and pray for the spiritual strength
to change something in your life
or character that is separating
you from Christ. Pray for a
change of heart and the ability to
repent and forsake whatever sin
or weakness might be plaguing
you.
Scriptural thought for the day: Matthew
5:48
Scriptural thought for the day: Alma
7:11
Scriptural thought for the day:
2 Corinthians 7:9-10
Thought for the day: “We may not
achieve our ideals in a day, but like
stars, they serve to guide us on our
way.”
Thought for the day: “Our women are
not incredible because they have
managed to avoid the difficulties of
life..They are incredible because of the
way they face the trials of life…They
remain remarkably strong and
immovable and true to the faith.”
–Elder Quentin L. Cook
Thought for the day: “The gospel plan
is the plan by which men are brought to
a fullness of joy. This is the first
concept I wish to stress: The gospel
principles are the steps and guidelines
that will help us find true happiness and
joy.”
- Ezra Taft Benson
Scripture Study: 3 Nephi 11-16
Scripture Study: 3 Nephi 17-21
Mark and Ponder: 3 Nephi 12:48
Mark and Ponder: 3 Nephi 27:8
Scripture Study: 3 Nephi 22-29
Mark and Ponder: Mormon 2:13-14
Day 36
Day 37
Day 38
Scriptural thought for the day:
D&C 12:8 -9
Scriptural thought for the day:
D&C 101:38
Scriptural thought for the day:
3 Nephi 27:21
Thought for the day: “You wonderful
Thought for the day: “Jesus will not be
found by crusades of men. Jesus will
not be found in councils of debate. The
formula for finding Jesus has always
been and ever will be the same—the
earnest and sincere prayer of a humble
and pure heart.”
- Thomas S. Monson
Thought for the day: “Let us have
Scripture Study: Mormon 9 – Ether 3
Scripture Study: Ether 4-10
Mark and Ponder: Ether 12:41
Mark and Ponder: Moroni 7:16-17
sisters render compassionate service to
others for reasons that supersede desires for
personal benefits. In this you emulate the
Savior, who, though a king, did not seek
position, nor was He concerned about
whether others noticed Him. His thoughts
were always tuned to help others. He knew
that greatness had little to do with outward
signs of prosperity or position.”
-Pres Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Scripture Study: 4 Nephi – Mormon 8
Mark and Ponder: Ether 12:27
Day 39
compassion upon each other, and let
the strong tenderly nurse the weak
into strength, and let those who can
see guide the blind until they can see
the way for themselves.” -Brigham
Young
Day 40
Final Challenge!
Scriptural thought for the day:
2 Samuel 22:2-4
Scriptural thought for the day: Matthew
7:7-8
Thought for the day: “I will go forward.
I will smile at the rage of the tempest,
and ride fearlessly and triumphantly
across the boisterous ocean of
circumstance … and the ‘testimony of
Jesus’ will light up a lamp that will
guide my vision through the portals of
immortality.”
- Eliza R Snow
Thought for the day: “It is not by
marvelous manifestations unto us that
we shall be established in the truth, but
it is by humility and faithful obedience
to the commandments and laws of
God.”
– Joseph F. Smith
Has your study of the Savior and
His words and teachings helped
you to come closer to Christ?
Ponder His love for you, and His
role in your life. As you do,
remember all that He has done
for you to make it possible for
you to return and be with Him
and our Father in Heaven for
eternity.
Scripture Study: Ether 11-15
Scripture Study: Moroni 1-10
Mark and Ponder: Moroni 8:9-12
Mark and Ponder: Moroni 10:4-5
Challenge!
Study from the topical guide and
other reference materials all you
can on the subject of CHANGE.
Use the Book of Mormon,
Doctrine and Covenants and the
Pearl of Great Price as primary
references. Have you received
the “mighty change” in your
heart since you have been
answering the invitation to
“Come Unto Christ” by studying
His words and teachings?
We hope that this 40 day study
guide will aid in your personal
scripture study as you seek to
come closer to your Savior. As
you read and ponder each
scripture, it may help you to
write down a few thoughts in a
journal.
Merry Christmas – 2011
Brussels 2 Relief Society