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We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe dives into Ezekiel to explore the role of prophetic watchmen, the gathering of Israel, and why simply hearing God's word isn't enough. We need to internalize it and act on it! In this episode, you'll learn: 📖 How Ezekiel's prophecy of the sticks of Judah and Joseph connects the Bible and Book of Mormon and why studying both matters 📣 Why the Lord calls prophets to be watchmen and how their warnings can protect us from spiritual dangers ❤️ What President Oaks taught about diminishing faith in Jesus Christ and how keeping commandments, honoring covenants, and attending the temple can strengthen us 🍯 Why Ezekiel was commanded to "eat" God's word and what that teaches us about making scripture and prophetic counsel part of who we are The Lord hasn't left us to navigate life's challenges without direction. He's given us scriptures, covenants, and living prophets who love us enough to sound the alarm. But a warning only helps if we choose to listen. Go & Do Challenge Head the warnings of the watchmanActIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! SURPRISE!! Welcome to a new bonus series. Well, if you all like it, it will be! Please let us know if you are fans of this new idea!  If you have ever opened a gospel lesson and wondered, "Where do I even start?" This is for you! In this bonus episode of Go & Do, Candis opens her study journal to share how she prepares to teach from For the Strength of Youth. Starting with “Truth Will Make You Free,” she walks through simple ways to slow down, ask questions, connect scriptures, and discover truths worth discussing. Whether you’re a youth preparing to lead a discussion, a parent, or a Young Women or Young Men leader, these ideas can help you deepen your own understanding and invite others to come to know Jesus Christ. In this episode: Start with personal study before planning what to teach.Restate scriptures in your own words to check your understanding.Explore key words and questions that lead to deeper discovery.Connect teachings in the guide with truths in the scriptures.Build a discussion around three actions: seek learning, live with integrity, and bravely stand.Study along: For the Strength of Youth: “Truth Will Make You Free” John 8:32; Doctrine and Covenants 93:24; 2 Corinthians 13:8; John 17:17; Ether 3:12; 2 Nephi 2:27; John 15:14; John 14:15 Your invitation this week: Choose one phrase “seek learning,” “live with integrity,” or “bravely stand” and dig deeper. Look up related scriptures, write what you learn in your own words, and consider what you could ask to help others discover those truths, too. If you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe connects Jeremiah's ancient prophecies with the incredible work of the Restoration happening today. From the warnings of prophetic watchmen to the promises of a changed heart, Jeremiah reminds us that following Jesus Christ isn't just about keeping commandments it's about becoming someone who wants to keep them. In this episode, you'll learn: 📖 How Jeremiah's story connects with Lehi, the brass plates, and the Book of Mormon and why his prophecies still matter today 📣 Why prophets are called watchmen and how their General Conference messages can help us recognize warnings and invitations meant specifically for us ❤️ What it means to have God's law written on our hearts—and how moving from "I have to" to "I want to" can transform our relationship with Jesus Christ God doesn't just want His commandments written in scripture. He wants them written so deeply on our hearts that they become part of who we are. And when we fall short? His promise of forgiveness reminds us that we can always turn back to Him. Go and Do Challenge Get a spiritual tattoo of what the watchman said to you?Pick 1 talk, read it, love it, live itIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! 200 EPISODES, BABY! 🎉🥳 This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe celebrates 200 episodes and dives into the book of Jeremiah to explore foreordination, agency, and the incredible potential God sees in each of us. Because being chosen for something great doesn't mean the journey will be easy or that we don't have a choice! In this episode, you'll learn: 🌟 What it means to be foreordained rather than predestined and why your agency matters in fulfilling God's plan for you. 📜 How Jeremiah's calling reminds us that God knows our potential, even when we feel inadequate, and why your patriarchal blessing can help you discover your personal mission. ⛈️ Why the gospel isn't an umbrella that keeps life's storms away, but a solid foundation that helps us stand strong through them So here's your challenge: Pull out your patriarchal blessing. Study it. Pray about it. Then ask yourself, "Am I choosing the path that will help me become who God knows I can be?" And as we celebrate 200 episodes, we'd love to hear from you! What has Go & Do meant to you, and would you join us for another round? 💙 Go & Do Challenge Study Patriarchal blessing, trust God, and rely on Him? If you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! We've made it! 🎉 After weeks of studying Isaiah, what have you learned? Have you started to see yourself, your relationship with Jesus Christ, and the incredible things happening in the world a little differently? This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe wraps up our journey through Isaiah with two powerful reminders: the Lord is hastening His work, and His prophets are warning us for a reason. As we prepare for the Second Coming, Isaiah's words are more relevant than ever! In this episode, you'll learn: 🌟 Why Isaiah's invitation to "arise, shine" is especially important today as the gathering of Israel moves forward throughout the world ⚠️ How Isaiah's warnings connect with messages from General Conference and why listening to prophetic counsel helps us recognize spiritual dangers ❤️ What Isaiah 59 teaches about the consequences of turning away from God and how we can choose a different path 🌎 Why the Lord is hastening His work and how we can become people who bring comfort, hope, and light to a world that desperately needs Jesus Christ So as we close the book of Isaiah, here's your challenge: Go back to General Conference. Identify the warnings and invitations from our living prophets. Then choose one area of your life to strengthen over the next six months. Go and Do Challenge Identify the warnings from ConferencePick 1 area in your life to strengthen over the next 6 monthsIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe wraps up our time in Isaiah by challenging us to see ourselves in both the words of ancient prophets and the messages of living prophets. Isaiah’s invitation is clear: Awake. Arise. Shake off what is holding you back. And choose Christ. In this episode, you’ll learn: ☕ What Isaiah means by the “dregs” we may be drinking and how our everyday choices can cause us to settle for less than what God wants for us 📣 Why Isaiah’s watchmen can remind us of living prophets and the importance of acting on what we heard and felt during General Conference ❤️ How Isaiah 53 can transform the way we understand the Savior’s suffering, sacrifice, and personal love for each of us 🕊️ Why trusting Jesus Christ ultimately leads to peace and why seeing ourselves in the scriptures can change the way we choose to live Awake. Arise. Choose Christ. 💙 Go & Do Challenge Act on what you felt impressed to do during General Conference?Study the talksStudy Isaiah 53If you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe discovers the incredible music inspired by Isaiah’s words and explores how these ancient prophecies can bring comfort, strength, and hope as we prepare for General Conference. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🎼 How Isaiah 40 inspired some of the most recognizable songs in Handel’s Messiah and what they teach us about preparing for the Savior 💪 Why the words of Isaiah 41 inspired the beloved hymn How Firm a Foundation and remind us that we never have to face life's challenges alone 🔥 How the Lord uses our trials to refine us and why General Conference can provide the answers, encouragement, and spiritual renewal we need As General Conference approaches, will you make time to listen for the Lord's voice? Will you seek answers to your questions, find strength in sacred music, and spend time in the temple? This week, turn up the music, open your scriptures, and prepare your heart to hear Him! 💙 Go & Do Challenge Be intentional about conference, looking, listening for answers, phrases, and things to help you while being refinedFind strength in Isaiah’s lyrics – Handel’s Messiah, traditional or soulful?Make a commitment to get to the templeIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe heads into week two of Isaiah to uncover a powerful contrast: Satan wants us to believe he has more power than he actually does, while Jesus Christ offers us something completely different power, refuge, and rest. In this episode, you’ll learn: 📖 How using the footnotes can unlock Isaiah and why they should become part of the way you study all scripture ⚡ What Isaiah 14 teaches about Satan's actual power and why following him gives away something Christ wants us to keep 🛡️ How Jesus Christ becomes our strength and refuge when life feels overwhelming, difficult, or completely out of our control ❤️ Why Isaiah's promise of eventual rest can give us hope while we're still navigating the hard parts of mortality Satan's strategy depends partly on convincing us that he's more powerful than he really is. But he cannot simply take away our agency, our covenants, or the power available to us through Jesus Christ. So when life feels like you're staring down a double black diamond, remember you don't have to navigate it alone. Go & Do Challenge Use the footnotesTake back your powerFind rest/refuge in ChristIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe begins the journey through Isaiah by looking at how the Savior Himself feels about Isaiah’s words and exploring one powerful pattern hidden in just three verses: come, learn, walk, become. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🔎 Why Jesus Christ specifically commands us to search the words of Isaiah diligently and how approaching Isaiah as the voice of the Savior can change the way we study ⛰️ How Isaiah 2 connects the “mountain of the Lord’s house” with the temple and the gathering of people from throughout the world 👣 Why coming to Christ and learning His ways isn’t enough we’re invited to actually walk in His paths and allow Him to change us 🕊️ What beating “swords into plowshares” can teach us about putting down our own modern-day weapons and becoming people of peace Isaiah’s prophecy isn’t ultimately just about millions of people coming to a place. It’s about what happens inside us when we come to Christ, learn from Him, and choose to walk differently because of what He has taught us. Go & Do Challenge Search Isaiah’s words with me, at least for the next few weeksCome, learn, walk and day by day becomeIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe digs into Proverbs and the difference between knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. These short teachings aren’t just ancient fortune-cookie sayings they’re invitations to learn eternal truth, understand why it matters, and then actually go and do something with it. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🧠 The difference between knowledge, understanding, and wisdom and why knowing something isn't the same as living it 📖 How Proverbs 3 connects surprisingly well with the For the Strength of Youth guide and its pattern of eternal truths, invitations, and promised blessings 💎 Why Proverbs compares wisdom and a virtuous woman to precious rubies and what that teaches about the kind of character God values ❤️ Why your worth isn't something you earn through perfect obedience. It is constant, God-given, and far more precious than anything the world can put a price tag on So this week, find your proverb—a truth you can internalize and actually live. Gather the knowledge. Seek to understand the why. Then use wisdom to put it into action. Because you aren't called to just know the gospel. You're called to live it. And never forget...you’re worth far more than rubies. 💎❤️ Go & Do Challenge Find a proverb to internalize/live byFocus on Knowledge (gathering eternal facts), Understanding (get the why) and Wisdom (apply it).If you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe wraps up the book of Psalms by looking at something that gets louder and louder as the book comes to a close: praise. After chapters filled with fear, grief, mistakes, repentance, miracles, and deliverance, Psalms doesn't end because life suddenly becomes easy. It ends with an invitation to praise the Lord anyway. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🙌 Why praising the Lord is more than singing and how actively putting God at the center of our lives brings hope and happiness ❤️ What it really means when the scriptures say the Lord “loveth the righteous,” and why our sincere efforts to follow Him matter 🎵 How Primary songs, hymns, and other music of faith can become spiritual “power ballads” that bring peace when life feels upside down So what’s your power Primary song? What song brings you back to Christ when life feels chaotic, discouraging, or upside down? Find it. Sing it. Share it. And this week, look for more ways to praise the Lord not because everything in life is perfect, but because He is worthy of our praise. 🎶💙 Go & Do Challenge Praise the Lord more so He can bless you Pick a power Primary song – share itIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe continues exploring the Psalms and the incredible power of music to connect us with memories, testimony, and God. From songs tied to missionary experiences and family memories to the music that carried her through cancer treatments, Candis looks at what the Psalms teach us about crying out to God and trusting that He really does hear us. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🎵 What Psalm 66 teaches about praising God during both the joyful and incredibly difficult chapters of our lives 🙏 Why trials can prove and refine us and how remembering the times God has already brought us through can strengthen our trust in Him ❤️ How Psalms 77 and 86 invite us to remember God’s works, talk about what He has done, and pass our songs of faith on to others 🎧 Why the soundtrack of your life might say more about your testimony than you realize and how your music can become part of the spiritual legacy you leave behind So, what’s your song? What music reminds you that God has heard your prayers? What songs are you sharing with the people you love? And what would you sing if the Savior were standing right in front of you? This week, build your soundtrack, remember what God has done for you, and share your testimony even if you have to sing it. Because when you cry out to Him, He hears your song. 🎶❤️ Go & Do Challenge Create the soundtrack of your lifeDetermine the song you’d sing when you see the SaviorShare your testimony of truths through songIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! What’s on the soundtrack of your life? 🎶 And more importantly, what are those songs doing to your heart? This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe dives into the book of Psalms a collection of 150 ancient songs and prayers filled with joy, gratitude, fear, anger, sadness, hope, and praise. Turns out, people have been using music to work through their feelings and connect with God for a very long time. In this episode, you’ll learn: 🎵 Why the Psalms remind us that faith doesn’t require hiding what we really feel and that God wants us to bring our real thoughts and struggles to Him 🙏 How music can become a powerful form of prayer, and why the Lord tells us that “the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me” (D&C 25:12) ❤️ How the songs we surround ourselves with can invite the Spirit, strengthen our trust in Christ, and even connect us to people and sacred moments we love 📖 What Psalms like Psalm 8, Psalm 20, Psalm 23, Psalm 24, and Psalm 40 teach about trusting God, remembering who we are, and praising Him through every part of life So this week, create the soundtrack of your life. What songs bring you closer to Christ? What hymns have strengthened you when you needed them most? And the next time you’re at Church, don’t just mumble your way through the hymn sing it joyfully. Because your song can be a prayer. And the Lord is listening. 🎶❤️ Go & Do Challenge Sing the hymns joyfully!Compile the soundtrack of your life.Share with us your favorite hymns.If you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! When life gets hard, what keeps you believing? And when you have questions about faith, why do you stay? This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe dives into the story of Job, a man who seemingly had everything, lost nearly everything, and still declared, “Yet will I trust Him.” In this episode, you’ll learn:  💔 What Job’s devastating losses teach us about trials, grief, and the different ways people respond to difficult experiences  🙏 Why mortality was always meant to include opportunities to be tested and why our current circumstances are only one part of our eternal story  ❓ How separating primary questions from secondary questions can help us navigate doubts, disagreements, and unanswered questions without losing sight of what we already know Job didn’t have every answer. He didn’t understand why everything was happening to him. But underneath all the questions were the truths that mattered most: Is there a God? Is there a Savior? And can He save me? So this week, Candis invites you to wrestle with your own primary questions and discover your own answers. Go & Do Challenge Identify the answers to these primary questions for yourselfIdentify other primary questions you might have and their responseIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]

We want to hear from you! Send us some Fan mail! What if the "coincidences" in your life aren't coincidences at all? This week on Go & Do, Candis Shupe shares heartfelt experiences from listeners before diving into the remarkable story of Queen Esther, a woman whose courage, faith, and willingness to act changed the course of history. In this episode, you’ll learn:  👑 Why Esther's famous invitation to serve "for such a time as this" is just as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago  🙏 How prayer, fasting, and courageous action work together as God accomplishes His purposes through ordinary people  💛 Why the "small details" of our lives may actually be evidence of Heavenly Father's guiding hand Esther didn't know exactly how everything would work out. She simply chose to trust God, gather others in faith, and act with courage when the moment came. Go & Do Challenge Pray for, look for and act on the concept of “who does the Lord need me to interact with today?”Record “tender mercies” or coincidences in your lives dailyIf you like what you hear don't forget to follow and leave us a review! We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts, experiences, etc with us at @goanddopodcast on IG or send us an email at [email protected]