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God’s power and promise is in His capacity to transmute our suffering—and our faithful response to painful predicaments—into something beautiful.
Elder Dallin Oaks made a related point: “As a General Authority, it is my responsibility to preach general principles. When I do, I don’t try to define all the exceptions. . . . I only teach the general rules. Whether an exception applies to you is your responsibility. You must work that out individually between you and the Lord.”
Church resources are now being employed to explore and disseminate, rather than elide or suppress, a comprehensive history.
polygamy ceased gradually rather than abruptly in 1890, that differing versions of the First Vision exist, that Joseph found a seerstone more congenial to his purposes than the Urim and Thummim—these and other peculiarities of the Mormon past are not closely guarded secrets gradually leaked out by a conspiring leadership, but products of historical investigation long known for the most part only to the specialists
