Welcome back to Part 2 with Dr. Susan Easton Black, Doctrine in Covenants 111 to 114.

I noticed something, both of you, in Section 112.

The Lord mentions the heart six times in this section.

I'll read them to you and then I'd love to hear what you think.

He says, there have been a few things in your heart with which I the Lord was not well pleased.

Let thy heart be of good cheer. This is verse 11. I know thy heart and I've heard thy prayers.

And if you come over to 13, I the Lord will feel after them.

And if they harden not their hearts, I will heal them. Then all the way to the end,

28, purify your hearts before me. Go in to all the world and preach my gospel. And then verse 33, cleanse your hearts and your

garments, lest the blood of generation be required at your hands. This happens in the book of Jacob

as well, John, you know that. Jacob is often talking about the state of your heart. It seems

like Thomas B. Marsh and maybe some of these others, they let their heart get a little

bit poisoned. Is that, is that fair? That's fair. How do you guard against that? Hank, where's the verse

that says there's none else that knows the thoughts and the intents of thy heart? In section,

that's Oliver Cowdery, right?

616.

I feel like having a pure heart is such a lofty goal.

Don't we sometimes have, did I always do my home teaching or my ministering for all of the perfectly right reasons?

No.

I think I'm supposed to, maybe that's what the Lord's talking about, your desires, your intentions, your affections, doing the best

things, but doing it for the best reasons. That's a lifetime pursuit. That's why the Savior,

thankfully, can remake our hearts. I think if we wait to have perfect motives,

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