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Today, Doctrine and Covenant section 63.

So this section opens up a new phase where Joseph and the others have returned from their

trip out to Independence back up to Curtland.

They've been gone.

They left on June 20th, and they now return near the end of August. So,

two months' absence, and a lot has happened in Curtland. Well, a lot has happened along

the path as well as an independence, too. But the problem is, is when they've returned,

they recognize that there's been some pretty serious apostasy starting to set in among some

of the members of the church, including some people who have been on this journey with them, who are struggling with

Joseph Smith and his role as the prophet and the promise of Zion being out there in this

frontier town that they were not impressed with, some of them. And the question then comes,

why would Joseph have taken that incredible effort and time to go clear down to Independence, Missouri, only to turn around fairly quickly and come on this long

journey on the way back when there's so much struggle both going and coming.

Why go?

There's something powerful about just going out, even if you don't know exactly what you're

doing when you go out, but the act of just going out to try to serve can often open those windows of revelation.

And so I guess we would say this journey, even though when he comes home, we're introduced

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