Episode 11 - Doctrine and Covenants 23–26, “Strengthen the Church”
Come Follow Me for Us
Melanie Stroud
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This episode talks about finding how the Savior can strengthen us in our trials. Liberty Jail, my experience on the cruise ship, and Section 25 about Emma.
Click the link below to listen to Saints! Woo hoo!
See also Saints, 1:89–90, 94–97.
Here is a link to buy the book I mentioned, “I Don’t Have to Make Everything All Better.” I highly suggest it for anyone in leadership roles or just about anyone who wants to learn how to validate people’s feelings. I think I need to re-read it every few years. It’s such solid advice.
Here is the talk from Elder Holland, “Lesson’s From Liberty Jail.”
Here are the links in the manual to take you to the other resources they suggest about Emma.
See also “An Elect Lady” (video, Homepage - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ); “Thou Art an Elect Lady,” Revelations in Context, 33–39; Joy D. Jones, “An Especially Noble Calling,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2020, 15–18.
Check out my book, "Feasting on the Words of Christ," where I share a simple, five-step method for receiving answers to your prayers through the scriptures. You're really going to love it!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast where we feast on the words of Christ and have fun doing it. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm your host, Melanie Straub. |
| 0:10.6 | This is Doctrine and Covenants 23 through 26, Strengthen the Church. |
| 0:16.2 | Let's go ahead and get started. |
| 0:18.7 | The lesson says, after the church was organized, the saints |
| 0:21.7 | faced a new challenge to spread the gospel and strengthen those who had already united with the |
| 0:27.0 | church, all while persecution continued to increase. Emma Smith witnessed the opposition |
| 0:32.6 | firsthand. In June 1830, Emma and members of the Knight family wished to be baptized, but enemies of the church tried to disrupt what should have been a sacred experience. |
| 0:43.6 | First, they destroyed the dam that had been built to provide deep enough water for the baptisms. |
| 0:48.5 | Even after the dam was reprared, the persecutors gathered to shout threats and mock those being baptized. Then, just as Joseph |
| 0:56.6 | was about to confirm the new members, he was arrested for upsetting the community by preaching |
| 1:01.5 | about the Book of Mormon. It seemed like an unpromising start for the Lord's newly restored |
| 1:06.8 | church. But in the midst of this uncertainty and upheaval, the Lord provided precious words |
| 1:12.6 | of counsel and encouragement, which represent his voice unto all. See also Saints, and it gives |
| 1:20.4 | a reference. I hope you're reading the Saints or listening to it during the week, because as |
| 1:26.2 | much as I love all the history and I think |
| 1:29.8 | it's very valuable to know the background behind all these scriptures I really do want to |
| 1:34.5 | spend my time talking about how we can apply what we're learning to our lives and do |
| 1:41.6 | that under two hours so listen to to the Saints, read the Saints, |
| 1:46.3 | find some other resources where you can get more background |
| 1:49.4 | if that's what you're looking for, |
| 1:51.5 | because I'm not saying that that's not important at all. |
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