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I'm Taylor. And I'm Tyler. This is Book of Mormon Central's. Come follow me insights. Today, Doctrine

and Covenant section 64 through 66. So as we begin this particular section 64, keep in mind that fairly recently, Joseph Smith and

that whole group of missionaries has returned to Curtland from Missouri. And there seems to be

a lot weighing on Joseph's mind. We don't have a lot of historical context for 64, for what was going on and why it was given.

It's almost as if Joseph is having a little moment of perhaps feeling a little bit overwhelmed

or a little bit frustrated with the way things have turned out and that they're not flowing a little more

smoothly. And so you pick up this section with this perspective of, has there ever been a time

in your life where you've looked around at all of the things that you're working on and all the things that you're

doing in life, and have you ever felt discouraged because it seems like nothing is going extremely

well? Nothing is just flowing well. It feels like you're doing a whole bunch of things partway,

but nothing is getting really well done.

Perhaps that might be some of this human discouragement that is going on with some of these

early church leaders feeling like, oh, what do we do? How do we get things going more smoothly? Because there are a lot of problems in Curtland

and in Missouri at this time?

So look at verse one.

Behold, thus saith the Lord your God unto you, O ye elders of my church, harken ye and hear

and receive my will concerning you. I love this concept

that when you've got a million things to be concerned about or to be working on, it's nice

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