The Lord has a way of taking our mistakes and turning them into instructive experiences.

I think that's a cool little glimpse into the character of Christ.

There are things that you can learn here that will be really helpful, and they do become really helpful.

Ask the Lord to help you as you work through modifying your assumptions in light of this new experience that you're having that has hurt your faith.

If we're following further down the road, about half of those who were excommunicated,

dis-fellowship, or removed from the records of the church, do come back.

If we're staying faithful and are on the path, we can rejoice when anybody comes back to the church.

It's only when you're humble that you're going to have the clarity to be able to work through this issue in a way that you'll never look back and regret.

Hello, Scott. Hello, Casey. Here we are again. I know these passages this week are some of your

very favorite to teach in the doctrine covenants and you teach them very well, may I say. You want to tell

the people what we're talking about

today and why you focus so much on it? Well, sure. Yeah. So this week, we're studying sections 111 to 114 of the

Doctrine Covenants. And there's some really interesting history that's going on in the background. I think

really pivotal history that some of it's really sad and we can learn from

it. Not the same kind of sad as the saints being kicked out of Jackson County. That's very,

very sad. It's a different category. We're going to be talking today about the Curtland Apostasy.

And I think there's some really, really valuable lessons to learn from that. Let me just do a quick

flyby of what's been going

on. This isn't like the deep context, but kind of like a 10,000 foot level context behind these

sections. And then we'll go directly to section 111. But it's really important to know that one of the

things that sort of undergirded the Curtland apostasy was some financial fallout. And the financial

fallout had everything to do with the church's debt problem and the church's efforts to try to get

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