Can you imagine living in a world where people did not hurt each other or become angry or divided?

Can you imagine families with total harmony and marriages with no contention?

Can you imagine a world where everyone watched out for each other and people were there to help you when you needed it?

Can you imagine a place so pure that God could be there? It may sound

too good to imagine, but that is the Zion that the Lord envisions for us, and that's what we hope to

build. Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast. We're so glad to be with

you again this week. Today we are studying Doctrine and Covenants sections 58 and 59, and the

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Magazine. Joseph Smith had translated Moses 7 and learned that Enoch and his people had been

able to build a Zion.

In June of 1831, Joseph began to receive instructions in a grand plan about what the saints in the Latter-days must do to build their Zion.

It was much on Joseph's mind, and in those early days of the church,

even after the Latter-day Saints were driven from Missouri,

we cannot overestimate how important building Zion was to them. Oh, Zion, dear Zion,

creating Zion was the burden of the prayers of the early saints. They yearned for it,

carried it like a fire in their hearts, longed for that society away from the oppressions

and cares of the world where a celestial order prevails. It was a heavenly homesickness they

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