Make detailed notes on the character and ministry of Jesus Christ from the Bible and Book of Mormon, and work on imitating every one

I’m about halfway through McConkie’s harmonized New Testament, and I have 62 items on my list of notes.

Of course the long-term implementation of this will be hard, but I didn’t think the notes themselves would be so difficult.

The problem is that “notes” entail me putting things in my own words. I’d just copy the verses that relate to my goal, but some verses might have two or three actions and personality traits in them, so I need to explain them to myself in the notes.

But then it becomes subjective. How do I know that the things I’m seeing are really there, and not just me reading my own desires into the text? The point of this project is for me to change, to conform to the ideal role model. Taking subconsciously narcissistic notes only makes that backfire.

I need to be careful, and study the explanations of far wiser disciples than myself as I do this…

Started working on this, taking notes as I read a little of McConkie’s harmonized arrangement of the gospels in Doctrinal New Testament Commentary vol. 1 each morning. So far, so good.

I realize, though, that since I made “work on imitating every one” part of the goal, I’ll never be able to check this off…