Now that we're reading what do we do? #6

Now that we have the reading/studying down, what else can we do with all this new Gospel knowledge? We just can’t walk away from our notes, that’s where all the knowledge is still sitting. We read it but did we learn it? I know that as for myself  10 minutes after I’ve read it I’m starting to forget it. So I started to think, how can I remember what I’m reading?

What I started to do was journal. If I was reading I was taking notes and journaling. So it became a three part process. Read, highlight notes and write it in my church journal. So at this point I’m seeing that new found knowledge 3 times. It’s called repetition. Once I started to journal I found that life became more organized and less stressful. It’s not as hard as you may think, once you've done it for a few days you’ll get much faster. On an average day I can study 5 chapters of scripture plus take notes and journal in about 1 to 1.5 hours, depending on the length of the 5 chapters. There are chapters that take 2 minutes then there are chapters that take 22 minutes. But from what I have found the average time of a chapter is 5 to 7 minutes. When you use the audio player that is provided with Gospel Library, each chapter has a time stamp that tells you how long that audio track will take. So before you start reading/studying you can look at the time stamps and figure out these 5 chapters will take me 37 minutes to read and with my note taking and journaling I should be done in about an hour.

Now you're on a roll. You're reading, you're studying and now you're progressing in the Gospel.

My next blog post I'll talk a little more about journaling and how that can help with your gospel studies and what you're learning in church classes, ward, stake and general conference.