12/5/2018 - Section 126:1-3
December 5, 2018 Section 126:1-3 Church Service, Callings that Prepare Us, Learning Opportunities, Learning Takes Time and Devotion, This section consists of 3 verses, all directed to Brigham Young. The apostles have been on missions in Europe for some time, and now—July 1841—they are beginning to return. It’s interesting that the study manual says that Brigham Young was now able to spend more time with his family than he had been able to in the previous several years, and then it says that he was near to his family and the prophet 28 of the last 36 months of Joseph’s life. That means he was still absent from his family 8 months, which was 25% of those last 3 years. I always think if the demands on those early saints: the prejudice that was against them, the multiple moves and in the end…moves that also involved much peril and sorrow and deprivations and other severe life impacting situations. Add to that the amount of time the leaders were away from thei...