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Book of Mormon, Connected: Every Verse, Every Conference Talk, and the Sketch Notes That Help You See It

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Alma 32:28 open in Book of Mormon, Connected: the seed verse highlighted beside a panel with 39 talks, a 2000 to 2026 timeline, speakers and sketch-note talk cards

Open Alma 32 and tap verse 28, "we will compare the word unto a seed." A panel slides open. It shows 39 General Conference talks that cite that verse, a timeline of when they were given, the speakers who return to it most, the scriptures it is usually quoted alongside, and a hand-drawn sketch note for each talk. One verse, and a quarter century of prophets and apostles teaching from it, on one screen.

That is Book of Mormon, Connected, a free study tool from Weak Things. It puts all 239 chapters of the Book of Mormon side by side with General Conference. Every verse that a conference talk has cited lights up, and every talk opens into a one-page visual summary.

Scripture indexes have been around for decades, and some of them are excellent (we point to the best ones below). What makes this one different is the combination. As far as we know, Book of Mormon, Connected is the only chapter-by-chapter Book of Mormon reader that pairs each verse's General Conference connections with a one-page sketch note for every connected talk. It was built with visual learners in mind: people who understand a chapter better when they can see its shape, and who remember a talk better when they have seen it drawn.

This article is a long tour. We'll walk through what the data shows about the whole Book of Mormon, then go deep on three chapters people love: Alma 32, 2 Nephi 2 and 1 Nephi 3:7. Along the way you'll see screenshots of each view, the sketch notes that fit each verse best, and ideas for using it in personal study, family study, seminary and Sunday School. At the end you'll find our methods, our limits, and the other researchers whose work made this kind of project possible.

The Book of Mormon, connected hub page on Weak Things with jump-to-book buttons and chapter cards showing connected verses and talk counts
The Book of Mormon, connected hub. Jump to any book, then open any of the 239 chapters. Each card shows how many verses are connected and how many talks cite the chapter.

The short version

  • 239 chapters and 6,604 verses, each linked to the General Conference talks that cite it.
  • 3,300 verses (50%) are connected to at least one talk. The other 3,304 are what we call quiet verses, and they are some of the most interesting places to study.
  • Talks from April 2000 through October 2026, plus scripture references from our sketch notes of selected apostles' talks from 1971 to 1999.
  • Three ways to study each chapter: Read & connect, Explore the data, and Teach & sketch.
  • A sketch note for nearly every talk, so you can see the message before you read it.
  • Free. No account is needed to read, explore, save verses or print a study sheet.

Why connect the Book of Mormon to General Conference?

Latter-day Saints read the Book of Mormon as "the keystone of our religion," and General Conference as the place where living prophets and apostles teach from it. But those two things usually live in different places. You read a chapter in one app and listen to conference in another, and the connections between them stay in your head, if they get made at all.

When you put them together, three things happen.

You see which verses the Lord's servants keep returning to. Some verses are cited in more than 100 talks. Knowing that doesn't make them more true than their neighbors, but it does tell you where the Church's teachers have found the most help for the questions people actually bring to conference.

You see how a verse has been taught. Alma 32:27 is about faith as an experiment. Some speakers use it to talk about prayer, some about testimony, some about doubt. Seeing 45 talks lined up shows you the range of ways one verse can bless people.

You see what you have been missing. Half of the Book of Mormon has never been quoted in the conference talks we counted. Those quiet verses are not unimportant. They are just unexplored, and that makes them perfect for personal study.

The whole book at a glance

Before we zoom into individual chapters, here is what the data says about the Book of Mormon as a whole.

The Book of Mormon is the most-cited volume in conference

Across 1,947 General Conference talks from April 2000 to October 2026, we recorded 50,685 scripture links. The Book of Mormon accounts for 17,407 of them, or 34.3%, more than any other volume of scripture. The New Testament follows with 14,432, then the Doctrine and Covenants with 11,431, the Old Testament with 4,646 and the Pearl of Great Price with 2,656.

That is remarkable when you consider size. The Book of Mormon has 6,604 verses, about 16% of the roughly 42,000 verses in the standard works. It gets about a third of the conference links.

Volume Verses Conference scripture links Links per verse
Book of Mormon 6,604 17,407 2.6
New Testament 7,957 14,432 1.8
Doctrine and Covenants 3,654 11,431 3.1
Old Testament 23,145 4,646 0.2
Pearl of Great Price 635 2,656 4.2

The Pearl of Great Price and the Doctrine and Covenants are the most densely cited per verse, largely because a few verses (Moses 1:39, for example) are quoted so often. The Book of Mormon is the volume speakers draw from most broadly.

And its share is growing

The Book of Mormon's share of conference scripture links rose from 32% in the 2000s to 34% in the 2010s to 37% in the 2020s. The share of talks that cite at least one Book of Mormon verse rose even faster, from 79% to 86% to 92%. In other words, it is now rare for a conference talk not to draw on the Book of Mormon. Book of Mormon-citing talks average about 11 Book of Mormon links each.

Chart: the Book of Mormon share of conference scripture links rose from 32 percent in the 2000s to 37 percent in the 2020s, and talks citing it rose from 79 to 92 percent
The Book of Mormon's share of General Conference scripture links has grown each decade since 2000, and more than nine in ten talks in the 2020s cite it.

The most-connected chapters and verses

These chapters are cited by the most distinct talks:

Chapter Talks What it is about
Moroni 10 276 Moroni's promise and "come unto Christ"
Moroni 7 265 Faith, hope and charity, the pure love of Christ
2 Nephi 2 261 Agency, opposition, the Fall and joy
2 Nephi 31 229 The doctrine of Christ
Alma 5 198 "Have ye experienced this mighty change?"
Mosiah 18 182 Baptism at the Waters of Mormon
Mosiah 3 180 King Benjamin, the natural man and the Atonement

And these single verses are cited by the most talks:

Verse Talks
Mosiah 18:9 122 "Mourn with those that mourn"
2 Nephi 31:20 116 "Press forward with a steadfastness in Christ"
Alma 7:12 112 "That he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people"
Mosiah 3:19 110 "The natural man is an enemy to God"
Moroni 10:32 108 "Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him"

Notice the pattern. Every one of the top five verses is about how a person comes to Christ, is changed by Him, or helps others come to Him.

The Savior's own visit

Of the 1,589 talks that cite the Book of Mormon, 529 cite 3 Nephi 11–28, the chapters that describe the resurrected Savior's ministry among the Nephites. That is one in three Book of Mormon-citing talks reaching for the chapters where Jesus Christ teaches in person.

Where the book is quiet

Half the verses of the Book of Mormon are connected, but that half is not spread evenly.

Chart: verses with conference connections by book; 3,300 of 6,604 Book of Mormon verses are connected, from 81 percent of Enos to 22 percent of Words of Mormon
Share of verses in each book that are cited in at least one conference talk. Enos and Moroni are almost fully connected. Helaman and Words of Mormon are mostly quiet.
  • Enos (81%) and Moroni (80%) are almost entirely connected. They are short, personal and full of doctrine people quote.
  • 1 Nephi (67%) is high too. Many members know its stories well.
  • Helaman (30%) and Words of Mormon (22%) are the quietest.
  • 21 chapters have no connected talks at all. Most are Isaiah chapters in 2 Nephi (7, 14, 17, 20, 23, 24) and war chapters in Alma (16, 44, 51, 52, 54, 55, 59), along with Mosiah 20, Helaman 1, 2 and 9, 3 Nephi 3, and Ether 11, 14 and 15.
  • 17 chapters are fully connected, with every verse cited at least once. 2 Nephi 2 is one of them.

Quiet doesn't mean unimportant. Mormon chose to include the war chapters for a reason, and his "and thus we see" comments throughout Alma and Helaman show what he wanted us to learn from them. A quiet chapter is an open invitation: you may be the one who finds what it has to say to our day.

Three ways to study any chapter

Every chapter page has three modes. You can switch between them at any time.

Read & connect shows the chapter text with a heat strip across the top. Each bar is one verse, and taller, darker bars are verses cited in more talks. Tap a verse to open its panel: talks that cite it, its top speakers, the scriptures it travels with, sketch notes, a link to its verse data page, and buttons to save the verse, save a talk, or copy a link.

Explore the data zooms out to the whole chapter: talks per conference over time, top speakers and topics, talks by decade, passages that are cited together, the scriptures the chapter is most often cited alongside, the quiet verses, and a gallery of sketch notes.

Teach & sketch turns the chapter into a lesson: a five-step study trail through its passage units, discussion questions, a sketch prompt, a simple workspace for notes, and a one-click printable study sheet.

Now let's see what that looks like with three chapters.

Alma 32: Plant the word

Alma 32, Plant the word: 39 of 43 verses connected, 133 talks and 379 verse-to-talk connections, with a heat strip peaking at verses 27 and 28
Alma 32, "Plant the word." 39 of 43 verses are connected to 133 talks, with 379 verse-to-talk connections. The heat strip peaks at verses 27 and 28.

"Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief ... it will begin to swell within your breasts." (Alma 32:28)

Alma 32 is Alma's sermon to the poor among the Zoramites, people who had been cast out of their own synagogues. He teaches them that faith is not a perfect knowledge, and then he gives them an experiment: plant the word like a seed, and watch what it does.

What the data shows

  • 133 distinct talks cite Alma 32, with 379 verse-to-talk connections. 39 of its 43 verses are connected.
  • Verse 27 is the most-cited verse in the chapter, with 45 talks. "Awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe."
  • Verse 28 follows with 39 talks, and verse 21 ("faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things") has 16.
  • The peak came in October 2022, when seven talks cited Alma 32.
  • Top speakers for the chapter: Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf (13 talks), President Henry B. Eyring (7), Elder David A. Bednar (6) and President Boyd K. Packer (6).
  • Top topics: Faith (46 talks), Testimony (41) and the Holy Ghost (28).
  • Alma 32 travels with Mosiah 3:19 (14 talks) and 2 Nephi 32:3 (12). Verse 27 in particular is often cited with Moroni 10:5 and John 7:17, "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine."

That last point is worth stopping on. Conference speakers pair Alma's experiment with the Savior's own promise in John 7:17. The data is pointing at a doctrine: you come to know by doing.

Alma 32:28 open in Book of Mormon, Connected: the seed verse highlighted beside a panel with 39 talks, a 2000 to 2026 timeline, speakers and sketch-note talk cards
Tap Alma 32:28 and the connection panel opens with its talks, a 2000–2026 timeline, top speakers and sketch-note cards.

The passage units

The chapter page divides Alma 32 into four movements, which makes it easier to teach:

  1. Humbled and ready (verses 1–16): the poor are cast out, and Alma says their affliction has made them ready to hear.
  2. Faith is not perfect knowledge (verses 17–25): faith is hoping for things not seen, which are true.
  3. The experiment (verses 26–36): plant the seed and watch it swell, sprout and grow.
  4. Nourish the tree (verses 37–43): keep nourishing it "with great diligence, and with patience," and it becomes "a tree springing up unto everlasting life."

The sketch notes that fit it best

Two sketch notes capture Alma 32 especially well.

"Of Seeds and Soils," by President James E. Faust (October 1999). He draws on the Savior's parable of the sower alongside Alma 32:28, and the sketch note shows it clearly: the wayside, the stony places, the thorns and the good ground, with a seed sprouting in the good soil. Read it next to verse 28 and the question becomes personal: what kind of soil am I giving the word?

"Nourish the Roots, and the Branches Will Grow," by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf (October 2024). Its sketch note shows a tree and a watering can. It is a perfect match for verses 37–43, where Alma moves from planting the seed to the long, patient work of nourishing it.

Two hand-drawn sketch notes for Alma 32: James E. Faust, Of Seeds and Soils, and Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Nourish the Roots, and the Branches Will Grow, with a tree and watering can
Two sketch notes for Alma 32: "Of Seeds and Soils" by James E. Faust and "Nourish the Roots, and the Branches Will Grow" by Dieter F. Uchtdorf.
Sketch note for James E. Faust, Of Seeds and Soils, October 1999, opened over Alma 32, showing wayside, stony, thorns and good ground with a sprouting seed
Open any sketch note full size without leaving the chapter. Here, "Of Seeds and Soils" opens over Alma 32.

Explore the data

Switch to Explore the data and Alma 32 becomes a picture. The timeline shows that the chapter has been taught in nearly every conference since 2000. The speakers chart shows how strongly Elder Uchtdorf is associated with it, and the topics chart shows how often it is used to teach faith and testimony together.

Explore the data for Alma 32: talks per conference from 2000 to 2026 with an October 2022 peak, top speakers led by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, and topics led by faith and testimony
Explore the data for Alma 32: talks per conference with an October 2022 peak, top speakers led by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, and top topics.

Scroll down and you'll find passages cited together (such as Alma 32:37–41 as a block), the scriptures that travel with Alma 32, and its four quiet verses: 4, 5, 24 and 25. Verses 24 and 25 are good ones to try. Right in the middle of his sermon on faith, Alma stops to speak to people who are "afflicted and cast out," and says he does not mean "that ye all of you have been compelled to humble yourselves." Why did he pause there, just before the experiment begins?

Alma 32 data cards: talks by decade, passages cited together such as Alma 32:37-41, scripture it travels with such as Mosiah 3:19, and four quiet verses
Talks by decade, passages cited together, the scriptures Alma 32 travels with, and its quiet verses.

The sketch-note gallery shows the talks that connect to the most verses in the chapter. It is a fast way to choose one talk to study in depth.

Gallery of twelve sketch notes for the talks that connect to the most verses in Alma 32, led by Henry B. Eyring, The Faith to Ask and Then to Act
The sketch-note gallery for Alma 32, sorted by how many of the chapter's verses each talk connects to.

Teach & sketch

In Teach & sketch, the chapter becomes a ready-made lesson. A five-step study trail walks through the four passage units, discussion questions help a class talk about them, and a sketch prompt invites learners to draw their own seed-to-tree diagram. Print the study sheet and you have a handout.

Teach and sketch mode for Alma 32 with a five-step study trail, discussion questions, a seed-to-tree sketch prompt and a printable study sheet
Teach & sketch mode: a study trail, discussion questions, a sketch prompt and a printable study sheet for Alma 32.

It works on a phone, too. The panel becomes a bottom sheet, so a seminary student can follow along in class.

Phone view of Alma 32:28 in Book of Mormon, Connected with the connection panel open as a bottom sheet
Alma 32:28 on a phone, with the connection panel open as a bottom sheet.

What it means

The data says Alma 32:27 is the verse conference speakers reach for most in this chapter. Spiritually, that makes sense. It doesn't ask for perfect faith. It asks for a desire to believe. Many people come to General Conference needing exactly that permission: start where you are, plant the seed, and see.

2 Nephi 2: Free to choose

2 Nephi 2, Free to choose: all 30 of 30 verses connected to 261 general conference talks, with passage units for opposition, the Fall and joy, and agency
2 Nephi 2, "Free to choose." Every one of its 30 verses is connected, to 261 talks in all.

"Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy." (2 Nephi 2:25)

Lehi's blessing to his son Jacob is one of the most important doctrinal chapters in all of scripture. In 30 verses it teaches about redemption through the Messiah, opposition in all things, the Fall of Adam and Eve, agency, and the purpose of life.

What the data shows

  • All 30 of 30 verses are connected. It is one of only 17 fully connected chapters.
  • 261 distinct talks cite it, with 542 verse-to-talk connections. Only Moroni 10 and Moroni 7 are cited by more talks.
  • Verse 25 leads with 69 talks (57 of them cite the verse exactly). President Russell M. Nelson cites it most (9 talks), followed by Elder Uchtdorf (6) and President Dallin H. Oaks (5).
  • Verse 27 ("free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men") has 60 talks. Verse 11 ("there is an opposition in all things") has 40, and verse 26 has 32.
  • 2 Nephi 2:25 travels with Moses 1:39 (9 talks) and Alma 42:8 (6). The pairing tells a story: God's work is our eternal life, and the "great plan of happiness" is how He accomplishes it.

The passage units

  1. Affliction consecrated (verses 1–4): Lehi tells Jacob that God "shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain."
  2. Redemption (verses 5–10): redemption comes "in and through the Holy Messiah."
  3. Opposition in all things (verses 11–16): without opposition there could be no righteousness, no happiness, and no agency.
  4. The Fall and joy (verses 17–25): the Fall of Adam and Eve made mortal life, families and joy possible.
  5. Free to choose (verses 26–30): we are "free to choose liberty and eternal life."
2 Nephi 2:25, Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy, with 69 connected talks and Russell M. Nelson as the speaker who returns to it most
2 Nephi 2:25 with 69 connected talks. President Russell M. Nelson is the speaker who returns to it most.

The sketch notes that fit it best

For this chapter we chose three sketch notes, because opposition and joy are easier to understand side by side.

  • "Opposition in All Things," by President Dallin H. Oaks (April 2016). Its sketch note sets sweet against bitter, the exact contrast Lehi uses in verse 15.
  • "Opposition in All Things," by Elder Mathias Held (April 2024). It cites 2 Nephi 2:11, and its sketch note draws a coin with joy on one side and sorrow on the other. You can't have one face of the coin without the other.
  • "Joy and Spiritual Survival," by President Russell M. Nelson (October 2016). It cites 2 Nephi 2:25 and teaches that the joy we feel "has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives." It is also one of the two most-cited conference talks since 2000, quoted by 36 later talks.
Three hand-drawn sketch notes for 2 Nephi 2: Dallin H. Oaks, Opposition in All Things; Mathias Held, Opposition in All Things with a joy and sorrow coin; Russell M. Nelson, Joy and Spiritual Survival
Three sketch notes for 2 Nephi 2: "Opposition in All Things" by Dallin H. Oaks, "Opposition in All Things" by Mathias Held, and "Joy and Spiritual Survival" by Russell M. Nelson.

What it means

The two most-cited verses in 2 Nephi 2 are about joy (verse 25) and choice (verse 27). Opposition (verse 11) comes third. That order is a small sermon of its own. Conference speakers acknowledge that life is hard, but they spend most of their words on why we are here (to have joy) and what we can do about it (choose Christ). If you are going through a hard season, 2 Nephi 2:2 is worth finding in the heat strip, too: God "shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain."

1 Nephi 3:7: I will go and do

1 Nephi 3, I will go and do: 27 of 31 verses connected, 66 talks, with a verse heat strip where verse 7 towers over the chapter at 47 talks
1 Nephi 3, "I will go and do." 27 of 31 verses are connected to 66 talks, and verse 7 towers over the rest of the chapter.

"I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." (1 Nephi 3:7)

Few verses are memorized by more Latter-day Saint children than this one. The data shows how much conference speakers love it, too.

What the data shows

  • 1 Nephi 3 has 66 connected talks, and 47 of them cite verse 7 (46 cite it exactly). No other verse in the chapter comes close.
  • President Henry B. Eyring and President Thomas S. Monson cite it most, in seven talks each.
  • It travels with Doctrine and Covenants 1:38 ("whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same") and Ether 12:27 ("I give unto men weakness that they may be humble"). Put together, those three verses make a lesson on their own: God commands, God speaks through His servants, and God makes weak things strong.
  • On its Conference by the Numbers verse page, 1 Nephi 3:7 has 40 footnoted talks since 2000. It ranks No. 68 of 4,315 frequently cited verses across all scripture. It was cited 16 times in the 2000s, 12 in the 2010s and 12 so far in the 2020s. Elder Angel Abrea cited it first in April 2000, and Chad H Webb cited it most recently in October 2025.
Book of Mormon, Connected reader for 1 Nephi 3 with verse 7 highlighted and the connection panel showing 47 talks, top speakers Henry B. Eyring and Thomas S. Monson, and sketch-note cards
1 Nephi 3:7 in Read & connect mode. The panel lists 47 talks, with Henry B. Eyring and Thomas S. Monson as its top speakers.
Conference by the Numbers verse page for 1 Nephi 3:7 showing 40 footnoted talks since 2000, rank No. 68 of 4,315 verses, and a conference-by-conference bar chart
The 1 Nephi 3:7 verse page on Conference by the Numbers, with its rank, decade counts and a conference-by-conference chart.

Why two different numbers? The chapter page counts 47 talks and the verse page counts 40. They measure slightly different things. The verse page counts talks whose footnotes cite the verse, from April 2000 through April 2026. The chapter page also counts references in the talk text, passage ranges, the October 2026 conference, and the scripture lists from our sketch notes of earlier apostles' talks. Neither number is wrong. They answer slightly different questions, and we show both so you can see how each was counted.

The sketch notes that fit it best

"I Will Go and Do the Things Which the Lord Hath Commanded," by Elder L. Tom Perry (October 1973). The talk is titled with the verse itself. Its sketch note shows a lamplighter alongside Nephi and the plates, with the words "Go, Do, Light the World." Open it straight from the verse, and the verse becomes a picture you will remember.

Sketch note for L. Tom Perry, I Will Go and Do the Things Which the Lord Hath Commanded, October 1973, opened from 1 Nephi 3:7, with a lamplighter and Go, Do, Light the World
L. Tom Perry's 1973 talk, titled after 1 Nephi 3:7, opened as a sketch note from the verse.

"Trust in God, Then Go and Do," by President Henry B. Eyring (October 2010) and "Obedience Brings Blessings," by President Thomas S. Monson (April 2013). Together they show both halves of Nephi's answer: trust that the Lord will prepare a way, and then go.

Two hand-drawn Weak Things sketch notes that cite 1 Nephi 3:7: Henry B. Eyring, Trust in God, Then Go and Do, and Thomas S. Monson, Obedience Brings Blessings
Two sketch notes that cite 1 Nephi 3:7: "Trust in God, Then Go and Do" by Henry B. Eyring and "Obedience Brings Blessings" by Thomas S. Monson.

What it means

Read the rest of 1 Nephi 3 in the heat strip and you'll notice something. The verses after verse 7 describe two failed attempts to get the plates. Laban takes their property and nearly kills them. Nephi's "I will go and do" is not followed by quick success. It is followed by failure, and then by faith that keeps going. The quieter verses in the chapter tell that part of the story, and they are worth reading alongside the famous one.

Why sketch notes help visual learners

Every talk in Book of Mormon, Connected links to a sketch note: a one-page hand-drawn summary of the talk's main ideas. There is good research behind the idea that drawing helps people remember.

Psychologists Myra Fernandes, Jeffrey Wammes and Melissa Meade reviewed a series of experiments in which people remembered words they had drawn better than words they had written out, a "reliable and replicable" effect they report in Current Directions in Psychological Science. The effect held up across ages, including in older adults. It fits dual coding theory, developed by Allan Paivio, which proposes that information stored both as words and as images is easier to recall than information stored one way.

You don't have to be an artist for this to work. The sketch prompt in Teach & sketch mode asks learners to draw their own version of a chapter's main idea, which is where the memory benefit is strongest. Looking at someone else's sketch note helps you see the structure of a talk. Drawing your own helps you keep it.

Ways to use it

For personal study

Pick a chapter from your reading. Look at the heat strip before you read. Then read the whole chapter, and stop at the tallest bar to open a sketch note. Afterward, pick one quiet verse and ask what it might teach.

For Come, Follow Me

The Book of Mormon returns to Come, Follow Me for Home and Church in 2028. Every week's reading can be opened in Book of Mormon, Connected to find the conference talks that cite it. Until then, it pairs well with our Come, Follow Me 2027 resources.

For families

Turn the heat strip into a game. Before you tap, have everyone guess which verse in the chapter is cited most. Then open its sketch note and talk about the picture before you read the talk.

For Sunday School, seminary and institute teachers

Use Teach & sketch. The study trail gives you a lesson outline, the discussion questions give you a starting point, and the printable study sheet gives class members something to take home. Project a sketch note while you read the verse aloud.

For youth and speakers preparing talks

Open a verse and look at its speakers and topics. You'll see how apostles have applied it, and you can follow the link to the full talk to quote it accurately.

For researchers and the curious

Look at the passages cited together and the scriptures each chapter travels with. They show how conference speakers combine scripture, which is a kind of map of how Latter-day Saint doctrine fits together.

How it was built

  • Book of Mormon text: the public-domain Project Gutenberg eBook #17. Chapter pages link to the official text on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
  • Conference links: every General Conference talk from April 2000 through October 2026, read from the official talk text and footnotes on ChurchofJesusChrist.org. Each talk links back to the original.
  • Earlier talks: scripture references from our sketch notes of selected apostles' talks from 1971 to 1999, such as Elder Perry's 1973 talk and President Faust's 1999 talk.
  • Counting: counts are distinct talks, not mentions. A talk that cites a verse three times counts once. "Exact" means the talk cites that verse specifically. "Passage" means it cites a range that includes the verse.
  • References in the text and in footnotes both count. In our data, 57% of Book of Mormon links (9,842 of 17,407) come from references in the talk text, and 43% (7,565) come from footnotes. Counting only footnotes would miss many of the verses speakers actually read aloud.
  • Topics come from the main topic tags we assign to each talk. Reasonable people could tag some talks differently.
  • The newest talks: sketch notes for the October 2026 conference are still being drawn, so those talks may show a blank thumbnail for a short time.

What the numbers can't tell you

Frequency is not a measure of doctrinal importance. A verse cited in one talk may be exactly the verse you need this week. A quiet verse may have changed someone's life in a sacrament meeting that no one counted. These numbers show what has been taught from the conference pulpit and how often. They do not measure truth, testimony or worth.

Book of Mormon, Connected is an independent project by Weak Things, a small family business. It is not an official resource of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Standing on the shoulders of others

Book of Mormon, Connected would not exist without decades of careful work by other people who have treated scripture as something worth counting, charting and cross-referencing. If you enjoy this tool, you'll enjoy theirs.

  • The BYU Scripture Citation Index. Created by Richard C. Galbraith and Stephen W. Liddle, the Scripture Citation Index lets you look up any verse and find the General Conference talks that cite it, going back to 1942, along with the Journal of Discourses and the Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith. BYU Magazine covered its launch, and the Deseret News told the story of Galbraith's 50 years of work on it. If you want the full historical record of who cited a verse, this is the place to go. Book of Mormon, Connected focuses on a different job: reading a whole chapter visually, with sketch notes.
  • The Corpus of LDS General Conference Talks. BYU linguist Mark Davies built a searchable corpus of more than 10,000 conference talks and 24 million words going back to 1850, reported by the Deseret News and BYU Magazine. It is a wonderful tool for tracing how words and phrases change over time.
  • Charting the Book of Mormon. John W. Welch and J. Gregory Welch's Charting the Book of Mormon, published by BYU Studies, contains 176 charts on the book's people, chronology, doctrines and literary structures. It is one of the earliest and best visual guides to the Book of Mormon. BYU Studies also offers free Come, Follow Me resources for the Book of Mormon.
  • Chiasmus. John W. Welch's discovery of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon in 1967, recounted in the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, showed how much structure can be found when you look at the shape of a text.
  • The Book of Mormon Critical Text Project. Royal Skousen's decades-long Critical Text Project studies the original and printer's manuscripts to recover the earliest text of the Book of Mormon.
  • The Book of Mormon Onomasticon. The BYU Onomasticon catalogs the names in the Book of Mormon and their possible meanings.
  • Voices in the Book of Mormon. BYU's Religious Studies Center has published research on the distinct voices and writing styles of the book's different speakers.
  • ScripturePlus. Book of Mormon Central's ScripturePlus app layers commentary, art and media onto the scripture text.
  • Bible cross-reference visualizations. Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild's famous visualization of 63,779 Bible cross-references and OpenBible.info's roughly 340,000 crowd-voted cross-references show how beautiful scripture connections can be when you draw them.

Our own Scripture Web is in that tradition. It draws every chapter of scripture as a dot and connects the chapters conference speakers cite together.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Book of Mormon, Connected?

It is a free, interactive Book of Mormon reader that shows, for every verse, which General Conference talks cite it, along with a sketch note for each talk, data charts for each chapter, and printable teaching tools.

Is it free?

Yes. Reading, exploring the data, saving verses and printing study sheets are all free. No account is needed.

Which conference talks are included?

Every General Conference talk from April 2000 through October 2026, plus scripture references from sketch notes of selected apostles' talks from 1971 to 1999.

What is the most-cited Book of Mormon chapter in General Conference?

Moroni 10, cited by 276 talks, followed by Moroni 7 (265) and 2 Nephi 2 (261).

What is the most-cited Book of Mormon verse in General Conference?

In Book of Mormon, Connected, it is Mosiah 18:9, "mourn with those that mourn," cited by 122 talks. It is followed by 2 Nephi 31:20 (116) and Alma 7:12 (112).

How much of the Book of Mormon has been cited in conference?

3,300 of its 6,604 verses, or 50%, are cited by at least one talk in our data. 21 chapters have not been cited at all.

How is this different from the BYU Scripture Citation Index?

The Scripture Citation Index is a comprehensive citation lookup going back to 1942, and we recommend it. Book of Mormon, Connected is built for reading and visual study: a heat strip for every chapter, data views, sketch notes for each talk, and teaching tools. The two work well together.

Why do the numbers sometimes differ between pages?

Different pages count slightly different things. Conference by the Numbers verse pages count footnote citations from April 2000 to April 2026. Book of Mormon, Connected chapter pages also count references in the talk text, passage ranges, the newest conference and earlier apostles' talks from our sketch notes.

Is this an official Church resource?

No. It is an independent project by Weak Things. It links to official talks and scriptures on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

Can I use the screenshots or link to the tool?

Yes. Teachers, bloggers and researchers are welcome to link to any chapter, verse or sketch note page. Every chapter page has a Copy link button.

A book that keeps connecting

The more we counted, the more we noticed that the data keeps pointing to the same place. The most-cited verses are about coming to Christ. A third of Book of Mormon-citing talks reach for the chapters where He teaches in person. The chapter about opposition is cited most for its verses about joy. And a sermon to people who had been cast out is cited most for its invitation to begin with a desire to believe.

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