Each week BYU students host a young adult focused Come Follow Me podcast called "Come Study with Me."
It provides a place for young adults to listen and learn from each other, along with experts from the Church Education System. The podcast was created in January 2025 by Tyler Griffiths and Anthony Sweat, both religion professors at BYU.
Ellis Sondrup, one of the podcast hosts, said she had mentioned to a friend about starting a podcast, but the idea eventually fizzled out. A few months later, that same friend reached out about the Come Follow Me podcast starting up under the direction of Griffiths and Sweat.
“Tyler and Toni realized that there’s no Come Follow Me podcast for young adults. We have this niche that we want to try and so they decided to try it, find some students to start it up and they wanted it to be pretty much 100% student run, so we are pretty close,” Sondrup said.
Sondrup explained that Sweat reviews the episodes before they are released, but everything else is done by the students.
Taylor Davidson, the podcast manager, said she helps to coordinate the guest speakers. The podcast has two guests each week, along with the two co-hosts.
One guest is generally a BYU or BYU-Idaho religion professor or institute teacher. The other is a young adult.
Davidson explained that it can be hard to listen to other podcasts because it feels like listening to a textbook. After reading textbooks all day for college classes, it’s hard to listen to one for scripture study.
“I think that the podcast has helped me to [study the scriptures] for myself and I hope that it does that for other people too,” Davidson said.
Rachel Self, the social media and marketing manager, said the podcast allows her to have time to do Come Follow Me when it hasn’t been the easiest for her in the past.
“I think it’s a good way to help busy, chaotic, people who are in school and working and trying to date, or their married or whatever and it’s a time to sit and hear about the scriptures and hear from other young adults and it’s just 50 minutes of the spirit in your week,” Self said.
Episodes are released every week. A long episode comes out every Friday centered on the Come Follow Me schedule, with a shorter section on Wednesdays that features only the co-hosts answering questions from young adults.