How would it feel to move a thousand miles by foot and wagon taking all your belongings

you could carry with a mission to gather to a specific place and build a community and

society called Zion? You've barely been introduced to the concept of Zion, a people of one heart,

striving with all their might to stay close to God and live the commandments he has given them.

You've gathered in families and close knit friend groups. You've purchased beautiful,

verdant fertile lands to build your homes and razor crops. It's truly an idyllic setting in

situation except what happens when opposition is introduced in the form of hundreds of people

who don't want you there and will do anything including kill you to get you out of their county.

Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. We are Scott and Maureen Proctor and this

week's lesson will cover Doctrine and Covenant sections 98 through 101 and is entitled Be Still

and Know that I am God. I just have to let you know one personal item before we begin since we are

all like family now. I mean after all we do spend 35 to 45 minutes in your homes every week.

Last year I did the Navu Diary and Engagement Calendar that thousands of you responded to. Well,

this week I received from overseas what's called a folded and gathered copy of the new

Kirtland Diary for thoughts and personal revelation. This contains my best photographs of

Kirtland and more than 50 inspiring quotes one each week from those early leaders and members

of the church. It truly is so beautiful. I know Scott I was so excited when you came and showed

it to me and we will let you know when you can order them but I was just so thrilled when I first

saw this copy. I just had to share the news. I'm just so excited. I'm excited to Scott. I've

loved using my Navu Diary this past year to record my feelings of gratitude each day and also

to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in my life in those big and small ways that happen every day.

Now during this summer of 1833 this Zion Building Society started to face overwhelming opposition.

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