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Does anyone else absolutely despise it when a stake president or mission president challenges everyone to read the scripture in a certain amount of time? Twice in my mission Word was sent out that “we were going to read the whole Book of Mormon together!” I then had to drop where I was in my Book of Mormon studies, and often times other things too, and spend the next 3 months plowing through the Book of Mormon. Well my Stake President extended the same challenge to the stake for preparation for stake conference and so here I am again, going from studying a chapter or two from the Book of Mormon, Chapter from OT, and a chunk of “Temple and the Cosmos” to trying to plow through the Book of Mormon to be ready for Stake Conference. Today I decided to quit so I could go back and start spending more time in chapters and not worry about reading the right amount of pages each day. What are your thoughts of scripture challenges? Most of me hates them but part of me is saying “your leaders are inspired and receive revelation for everyone including you” ... that part of me makes me grumpy. I’m also going to talk to my bishop and ask what he thinks (I imagine he will just laugh for me bringing up such a trivial thing xD ).