One of the proofs that the church is true is the opposition that it sometimes faces.

And I know how painful it can be.

It's hard and sometimes it's hard even though you're doing the right thing.

But the Lord is with you.

It's not if trials are going to come.

They're going to come.

It's how you're going to respond to them that really determines how they'll affect you.

I sometimes hear people talk in the language of God gives us trials so that.

There may be moments where God actually gives a trial, but I don't think that is very

frequent or common at all, actually.

Agency is something that we have in regards to our trials.

And rather than blaming God, sometimes

it's better to ask, well, what am I supposed to learn from this? Hello, Casey. Welcome back to

episode two. Yeah. And even though we chose to put a break in the episodes here, there is no break

in the letters from Liberty Jail, the two letters that these sections are composed of.

It just continues. And I will say this, the context is the same too. It's the Mormon War.

It's the second Missouri persecutions, whatever you call it. But there is maybe some context for section 122 that we should add because there's the macro conflict. There's the conflict between the

saints and the settlers in Missouri. But there's also interpersonal conflicts here, some of which

we've touched upon, things like Orson Hyde and Thomas B. Marsh. They've fully turned against

Joseph now. They've sworn affidavits against Joseph to the state, right,

at this point. There's things that happen within Liberty Jail and in nearby proximity,

which some of Section 122 appears to be addressing. And so let's dive into the context for

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