I welcome things like this for it shows the struggles that the LDS had and not always making good ones.
It is easy for the monday morning quater back to think they could do better but one never knows what they will do in the midst of things.
Many times in life one is being tested what we will do should have been decided many years before.
In other words when ones mind has been brought to attention of these things when one reads a passage they will if aleart make note.
Now I know that sounds strange but thoughts are things that can be manifested for good or wrong.
The scriptures tells one they should guard their thoughts carefully so when one encounter a situation they had already made up their mind ages ago how they would handle it.
it is too late tonight to go into them now but there are many examples in the scriptures that counsel or show a teaching moment!
This is the painful part and another reason for the restoration to learn those lessons again that were forgot so one can endure to the end!
Resty, what is it that you really want from life? What does LDS give you now and what do you expect in eternity. Where does your assurance lie? I would really like your own words not Bible versus or versus from BoM, just from your heart. It is a sincere request.