Hey guys. Welcome to the Scripture Study Project, a fresh and faithful study of the scriptures

that will renew your excitement for your own

personal study and help you passionately teach what you're learning to others. I'm Zach and I'm here

with my gorgeous wife, Krista. In this episode, we are studying First Nephi chapter 1,

How to Overcome Destruction.

We are excited for these first couple of episodes of our podcast and are excited to be with you.

So we're going to start off this episode with our study tip, and that study tip is to read the scriptures. That sounds pretty basic, right? But I think that reading the

scriptures gets a bad rap. So often we're taught to study and study and study, which is great.

There's a place for that, but I believe so strongly that there is so much value to reading and understanding the story.

I have felt that personally that when I have understood the story, particularly for me that

happened with the Book of Mormon, where reading through and understanding the characters

has changed the way that I look at the scriptures in the Book of Mormon.

When we talked about this,

it made me think of going hiking with my family. We would go on these big family backpack trips.

And I was always impressed. My dad and his brothers would pull out these big topographical maps.

And they would take a look at the terrain, map out where we were going,

where we were going to make camp, where the passes were, where the inclines were, where the lakes

were. And I thought that's probably the way that we could approach scripture study.

Sometimes it's difficult to go fishing in a lake deep in the mountains unless you know how to get there. I think the same thing applies to our scripture study. Sometimes it's difficult to go fishing in a lake deep in the mountains unless you know how to

get there. I think the same thing applies to our scripture study. Sometimes some of the best and deepest

insights only come once you know the terrain, once you know the characters, and honestly once you

love the story. So that's our tip for today, and we're going to practice it in 1st Nephi chapter 1.

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