How to study the scriptures like a missionary

Here are five things missionaries do that can heighten the impact of your scripture study.
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“We’re not searching to uncover some ‘true self’—we are deliberately and consciously aspiring to a self,” says Latter-day Saint scholar Terryl Givens.
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