From Bountiful:
“For several years I have been doing what I call Scripture Journaling. Following is an example of how I teach this to others. 
- Follow this outline: Prayer, scripture study, journaling, prayer
2. Don’t be afraid to use variety in your scripture study. Here are several ideas you can incorporate in your study. You may feel inspired to concentrate on, or practice toward perfection, any of the following:
- Cross referencing—journal and scriptures
- Study one verse in depth
- Study a subject in depth
- Record thoughts and impressions throughout the day
- Practice hearing the voice of the Lord by asking the Lord to show you how
- Observe and record Dreams/Visions
- Study your patriarchal blessing–search the topical guide and bible dictionary for clues to meanings within your blessing
- Share what you learn with your husband and children (See 2 Nephi 25:23-26)
- List Conference goals and record your personal reflections
- Search for answers to your problems in the scriptures (I have discovered the scriptures have an answer for just about everything, but you have to search)
- Record insights that your children have discovered
- Refer to Hymns or other inspiring music
- Refer to talks/lessons from church
- Collect favorite quotes from church leaders that motivate you
- Thank the Lord for His words to you
- Write your testimony as often as it comes to you
- Take your journal wherever you go, and record inspiring words from anywhere. If you take your journal writing seriously, so will the Lord.
- Relate your promptings to the scriptures to gain an even clearer understanding of what you have received
MORNING DEVOTIONAL: Ask yourself: “What would you have me do today?” and listen for an answer. Record your impressions. Follow through. Return at the end of the day and speak with the Lord about how you did.
Every time I do this journaling with others, I gain new insights. Sisters draw closer to Christ in so many different ways. They learn to trust His voice. They learn to do the things that He has commanded them. For me, I receive inspiration to move forward in my life. I receive specific direction sometimes, and other times I know that the Lord is simply pleased with what I am doing. I have learned so much about myself and about the Lord. I am thankful to Him for His bounteous blessings to me! I know that I am His daughter and that He loves and cares for me on a daily basis. I have learned that the Lord can truly speak to all of his children if they allow Him into their lives.
Many Church members understand that communication settles in the heart, but they may not be aware that they can receive the Holy Ghost in their mind “as though the instruction were being dictated.” I also think that many church members receive the Lord, but they don’t follow through with writing down what they receive. Writing what you hear, what you see, what you feel, is a powerful tool to receiving more of the Lord. The direction is there; I don’t have to try and remember it. At anytime I can go back through my journal and receive again what I have heard from Him.
Cross-referencing is a great tool to finding what you’ve learned at a later date. Within the margins of your scripture pages you can write the journal date, and within your journal you can record the scripture reference.”
These are just a few scriptures that encourage us to record our own words:
“For I command all men, both in the east and in the west, and in the north, and in the south, and in the islands of the sea, that they shall write the words which I speak unto them; for out of the books which shall be written I will judge the world, every man according to their works, according to that which is written” (2 Nephi 29:11).
“And upon these I write the things of my soul, and many of the scriptures which are engraven upon the plates of brass. For my soul delighteth in the scriptures, and my heart pondereth them, and writeth them for the learning and the profit of my children. Behold, my soul delighteth in the things of the Lord; and my heart pondereth continually upon the things which I have seen and heard” (2 Nephi 4:15-16).
“Come, my brethren, every one that thirsteth. Come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come buy and eat; yea, come buy wine and milk without money and without price” (2 Nephi 9:50).
“Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard; and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name” (3 Nephi 24:16).
“And when they shall have received this, which is expedient that they should have first, to try their faith, and if it shall so be that they shall believe these things then shall the greater things be made manifest unto them” (3 Nephi 26:9).
“And because he hath done this, (atoned for our sins) my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased? Behold I say unto you, Nay; neither have angels ceased to minister unto the children of men. For behold, they are subject unto him, to minister according to the word of his command, showing themselves unto them of strong faith and a firm mind in every form of godliness. And the office of their ministry is to call men unto repentance, and to fulfil and to do the work of the covenants of the Father, which he hath made unto the children of men, to prepare the way among the children of men, by declaring the word of Christ unto the chosen vessels of the Lord, that they may bear testimony of him” (Moroni 7:29-31).
“Therefore I, __________, do write the things which have been commanded me of the Lord…” (3 Nephi 26:12).
References:
*Richard G. Scott, “Helping Others to be Spiritually Led” BYU Symposium, 11 Aug. 1998
*Larry W. Tippets, “I Write the Things of My Soul,” in Religious Educator 6, no. 1 (2005): 93-105.