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 raise your crops.

It's truly an idyllic setting and situation.

Except what happens when opposition is introduced in the form of hundreds of people who don't want you there

and are willing to 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 Covenants, Sections 98 through 101, and is entitled

Be Still and Know that I am God.

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Now, during this summer of 1833, this Zion Building Society

started to face overwhelming opposition. You have to remember, these are real people with real needs

and real dreams and aspirations. These are Latter-day Saints just like you and me. They have families, homes,

work, normal needs, and they are all new to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. They are

learning how to follow the prophet of God and follow the commandments of the Lord. Their desire for a

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