Episode 41 - Doctrine and Covenants 124, "A House Unto My Name"
Come Follow Me for Us
Melanie Stroud
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
I'm in Doctrine and Covenants 124—"A House unto My Name." I recap the Saints' move to Nauvoo, why the Lord urgently needed a temple, and how faithful discipleship (taking counsel, staying humble, keeping the Spirit) helps us endure. I talk about being doers of the word, not hearers only; welcoming strangers like the people of Quincy did; and practical ways to serve—yes, including finding refugee and local needs on JustServe.org. I also touch on Nauvoo ordinances, baptisms for the dead, and making temple work part of daily discipleship. At the end, I invite you to pray about one specific thing you'll do this week—and then go do it.
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| 0:00.9 | This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast where we feast on the words of Christ and have fun doing it. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm your host, Melanie Straub. |
| 0:10.1 | This is Doctrine and Covenants, 124, a house unto my name. |
| 0:14.9 | And first off, I want to do some follow-up and ask you, what did you do as a result of last week's lesson? Did you pray for somebody? |
| 0:23.8 | Did you maybe open up about a difficulty that you've been having? Maybe ask for some help. |
| 0:31.2 | Did you maybe reach out to that friend who's been putting you off and putting you off and maybe |
| 0:36.4 | drop something at their door or seek to |
| 0:39.9 | follow the spirit in helping someone that maybe is too afraid to ask for help? I don't know, |
| 0:46.4 | but I hope that we are being doers of the word and not hears only. Because when we do that, |
| 0:53.2 | the gospel becomes part of us. and when we practice what we hear |
| 0:58.6 | the gospel becomes more and more delicious to us because we see the fruits of our labors and we feel |
| 1:05.4 | the truthfulness of the principles that we're learning so i would encourage you right now before |
| 1:10.8 | you start this podcast, |
| 1:12.3 | think, what can I do as a result of what I hear today? And then at the end of the podcast, |
| 1:18.6 | say a prayer and say, help me to do this thing. I promise our experiences will become richer. |
| 1:25.7 | Okay, from the manual it says, as difficult as the last six years |
| 1:29.4 | had been for the saints, things started to look up in the spring of 1839. The refugee saints had |
| 1:35.4 | found compassion among the citizens of Quincy, Illinois. Guards had allowed the prophet |
| 1:40.4 | Joseph Smith and other church leaders to escape captivity in Missouri. And the church had just |
| 1:45.3 | purchased land in Illinois where the saints could gather again. Yes, it was a swampy mosquito-infested |
| 1:51.4 | land, but compared to the challenges the saints had already faced, this probably seemed manageable. |
| 1:57.2 | So they drained the swamp and drafted a charter for a new city which they named Navu. |
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