Great idea. Let’s go straight to the bible, and again straight to the Lord.
Use the King James bible, like we do, unaltered, unchanged, (I don't know where you get your assertion).
http://scriptures.lds.org/en/nt/contents
While you are there, let’s (like you suggest) take the council to go straight to the Lord. In fact, this scripture was what let Joseph Smith to pray to God to seek answers for himself, from God himself, not all the different interpretations had by the many churches of the day.
Pay close attention to verse 7. If you waver in your faith that you will receive an answer, the Lord will not give you one. Plain and simple
James 1:5-7
5 if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
‘Pay close attention’: “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” Gal 1:8