Brett and I started reading the scriptures together in March of 2008. Almost a year before we agreed we were dating exclusively. More than a year and a half before we got married. We’d trade off whose place we were at on Sunday evenings and read several pages.
In 2008 we read the New Testament. We had some pretty crazy tangential discussions during those evenings and started our ever increasing number of inside jokes related to the scriptures very early on (Matthew 25 actually).
In 2009 we read the Doctrine & Covenants on Sundays and after we got married we threw the Pearl of Great Price into the mix to fill out the rest of the days of the week.
In 2010 we set out to read the entire Old Testament. And we almost did. We took a little weekend trip in February and left our reading chart at home and some time that weekend we skipped a page but we were never quite sure which page. So that year we read the entire Old Testament minus one page in Leviticus. That was also when we started noticing all the “good” Biblical names in Chronicles that nobody ever thinks of for their babies when they say they want a good Biblical name. So we picked out a handful, like Iddo, to use for our future children pre-conception, in utero, and as screen names after birth.
It took us till 2011 to finally get around to reading The Book of Mormon. That year we read the New Testament on Sundays and the Book of Mormon the rest of the week. We read it again in 2012.
Last year we decided to tackle the Old Testament again, but this time we were going to spread it out over 2 years, doing it all in one year was a lot of Old Testament. We read the Doctrine and Covenants on Sundays last year and the Old Testament the rest of the week. We continued reading the Old Testament this year.
Friday we finished the Old Testament cover-to-cover, not missing any pages. We started reading it 5.5 months before Iddo was born and she’s just over 17 months old now. That Old Testament is a LONG book. We’re going to finish out the year with The Pearl of Great Price again.
Not counting that mysterious page in Leviticus, by the end of this year we will have read all of the standard works twice together. It’s made for some great discussions and a lot of laughs too.
I am an educator and PhD. I quilt, belly dance, run, read, and try to grow things. I am a Mormon. I am infertile. I am a daughter, sister, aunt, grand-daughter, friend, wife, and mom.
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Dad and I read together all of the standard works on our mission. I have read them all once before (cover to cover) and I prefer to study the Old Testament rather than read it cover to cover. You are right — there are a lot of laughs in the OT.
That is wonderful!
It has been wonderful blogging November. Thank you, thank you
I’d have to think about it, but the 911 call from Job’s servant is still very close to my favorite moment. :brett:
We started reading the Book of Mormon together while we were dating and noted any time it said love and family. We finished the Doctrine and Covenants this same week this was posted and started on the Old Testament.