My brother started this group on Facebook. Here’s what he wants to do:

 

I have decided that I want to read the entire Standard Works before my one year anniversary of being baptized! I was baptized June 27th, 2009 and have until June 27th, 2010 to accomplish this. I spent today working out a reading schedule that not only fits, but leaves 2 weeks to spare just in case… It should be easy as I worked it out to only 10 pages a day, the only trouble will be motivation, which is why this group came about.

I invite and encourage you to accept this challenge as well, reading the Standard Works in 8 months! We can post insights and questions as we go along and also support each other in accomplishing this great feat. We will all grow together and strengthen each other in the process.

"I say that we need to teach our people to find their answers in the scriptures…But the unfortunate thing is that so many of us are not reading the scriptures. We do not know what is in them, and therefore we speculate about things we ought to have found in the scriptures themselves. I think that therein is one of our biggest dangers of today." (President Harold B. Lee)

"No member of this church can stand approved in the presence of God who has not seriously and carefully read the Book of Mormon." (President Ezra Taft Benson)

"I know the Book of Mormon is true. You just have to read it." (President Gordon B. Hinckley)