Stay tuned for part two with Morgan Pearson, Doctrine and Covenants, sections 23 through 26.

Morgan, this has been fantastic so far. I've learned so much about Emma. What verse should we go to now?

This next verse is an interesting one because it can be interpreted in different ways.

The Lord tells Emma,

thou shalt go with him at the time of his going. Jenny Reader talked to me when I called her this week and I was like, let me pick your brain about this. One of the big questions that came up

when I put the question out on Instagram was, why didn't Emma go West?

That was next to polygamy, the second most asked question.

Jenny said that she thinks that Emma took this verse, thou shalt go with him at the time of his

going very seriously, that throughout his life

you see that Emma tried to be with Joseph where possible. Joseph's body was in Navu.

Sister Freeman also talked about this on Inklings, the podcast she does after her general conference talk, she was asked this

question. It was also the most asked question, I guess, to her. She said that she had talked to

historians in preparation for her conference talk. And in talking to them, the main reason Emma stays is because Lucy isn't going to leave.

She wasn't in good enough health to leave.

And Joseph's body was there in Navu.

And then Sister Freeman said, one of the things that I think is so beautiful is this is a woman who understood covenant relationship, both covenant

relationship with God. And then Sister Freeman says, but I love that her relationship with Lucy

and the thought of leaving Joseph was so overwhelming to her that she stayed. And what came of

that will never know until Emma comes back and teaches us.

I think that that's an important thing to keep in mind is that there were things that were

keeping Emma in Navu.

Scripture Central talks about this desire that she had to take care of Lucy Max Smith,

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