I’ve been working on a template for the Book of Mormon chapter study sheets and I may have come up with something that will work a lot better.

1 Nephi Chapter 1 and 1 Nephi Chapter 2 are now available on the download page. These are excel documents. Before the document for 1 Nephi Chapter 1 was too large for printing. I’ve now made it so that each of the available chapters is about 50+ pages. A person who prints these on double-sided pages shouldn’t find these too much to work with. The idea is simply to make it easy for a person to examine how each word is used in a chapter, in its verse context.

When I’ve shown these study sheets to friends, some have asked why they would want to study prepositions, conjunctions or articles. I can fully understand why someone would not want to study the use of the word “the” or “that” (or many other words) in a given chapter. However, I didn’t want to try to be the arbitrator of what Book of Mormon words are important or unimportant. Some patterns that occur could be dependent on seemingly mundane throwaway words that we typically take for granted.

Besides, if it is too annoying, it is easy for a person to delete a given word out of the document.

I hope someone will find these helpful. I’ll try to take less time to get the 1 Nephi Chapter 3 study sheets ready. It’s a very slow process but I’m patient when it comes to this sort of thing.

I’m willing to listen to any suggestions or responses people might have.

NOTE: I’m told someone who knows PERL (or LISP or Python) could write a few lines of computer script that would auto-generate this kind of thing, if it’s given the text. That would be great! I’ll be fishing around to see who might do it for me.