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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.
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.
Before we zoom into individual chapters, here is what the data says about the Book of Mormon as a whole.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Half the verses of the Book of Mormon are connected, but that half is not spread evenly.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
The chapter page divides Alma 32 into four movements, which makes it easier to teach:
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
It works on a phone, too. The panel becomes a bottom sheet, so a seminary student can follow along in class.
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.
"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.
For this chapter we chose three sketch notes, because opposition and joy are easier to understand side by side.
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."
"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.
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.
"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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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Every General Conference talk from April 2000 through October 2026, plus scripture references from sketch notes of selected apostles' talks from 1971 to 1999.
Moroni 10, cited by 276 talks, followed by Moroni 7 (265) and 2 Nephi 2 (261).
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).
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.
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.
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.
No. It is an independent project by Weak Things. It links to official talks and scriptures on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
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.
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.
Open a chapter, plant a seed, and see where it leads.
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