Welcome to Part 2 with Dr. Mark Ogletree, Maroni, Chapter 7 through 9.

Here's Mormon saying, if all men had been likened to Maronai, and look at Maronai, yelling at Zarah,

and look at Maronai writing letters to Amalachia and Amaran.

But watch Maronai being meek to God.

You don't have to let evil walk all over you.

And that really helped us to see.

You can be strong in the face of evil,

but when God's talking or your leaders are talking,

that's a different thing, which is what you just illustrated.

And it was so cool because right after that,

after we came to some of these conclusions after wrestling with the Elder Bednar, I want to say

April 2018, gave that talk in general conference about meekness and just answered it for us.

There's a story from the life of the prophet Joseph Smith that I both love and hate.

It's going to be a good one.

It says a woman went to Joseph Smith upset about some things another member of the church had said about her.

The prophet told her that if what the person had said was untrue, she should ignore the matter, because

truth would survive and untruth wouldn't. The woman felt the comments were untrue, but

she was not satisfied with ignoring it. The prophet then told his way of handling such comments.

When an enemy had told a scandalous story about him, which had often been done,

before he rendered judgment, he paused and let his mind run back to the time and place and

setting up the story to see if he had not, by some unguarded word or act, laid the block on which the story was built. If he found that he

had done so, he said that in his heart he forgave his enemy and felt thankful that he had received

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