D&C 3:1-10

You and I must translate these books again. Word by word, line by line, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, God wants the whole thing translated once more, and this time he wants it translated into your native tongue, inflected by your native concerns, and written in your native flesh.

—Adam Miller, Letters to a Young Mormon

Translation

(1) No matter what sins you commit or what mistakes you make, you're not going to mess up God's plan. The Godhead’s work is going forward is not what is at stake here—what's at stake is how much you get to be a part of it.

(2) Heavenly Father and Mother aren't lost and wandering around, They aren't encountering unexpected obstacles and taking detours. They are going the same way they were always going to, They will arrive there precisely when They mean to. (3) So when something doesn't go according to plan, that's a sure sign that it was your plan and not God's.

(4) You have all sorts of gifts, but if you think you earned those gifts or the things they bring you, then they will all come to nothing. They will be curses instead of blessings.

(5) Heavenly Mother and Father have given you abilities, purposes, and commandments, and all these things are meant to work together for your good and for the good of those around you, and they haven't been. (6) You are still learning how to keep your promises to Them. You’re not doing it well yet. You've been afraid of people when you should have trusted God....

(8) I know you were afraid, but if you'd trusted Them they would have delivered you. They would have supported you and borne you up in your affliction.

(9) You've been chosen to do God's work, but you have to decide whether or not you're going to do it. You have to decide if you're going to show up, and there are consequences, built into the fabric of the universe, if you don't. (10) Your Lord is forgiving and gracious, so repent. Come unto Christ, be made new through his Atonement. Change and be better so that the next time you encounter those same temptations, those same moments of pride and fear, you choose God instead. You are still chosen. Go back to work.

D&C 3

1 The works, and the designs, and the purposes of God cannot be frustrated, neither can they come to naught.

2 For God doth not walk in crooked paths, neither doth he turn to the right hand nor to the left, neither doth he vary from that which he hath said, therefore his paths are straight, and his course is one eternal round.

3 Remember, remember that it is not the work of God that is frustrated, but the work of men;

4 For although a man may have many revelations, and have power to do many mighty works, yet if he boasts in his own strength, and sets at naught the counsels of God, and follows after the dictates of his own will and carnal desires, he must fall and incur the vengeance of a just God upon him.

5 Behold, you have been entrusted with these things, but how strict were your commandments; and remember also the promises which were made to you, if you did not transgress them.

6 And behold, how oft you have transgressed the commandments and the laws of God, and have gone on in the persuasions of men….

8 Yet you should have been faithful; and he would have extended his arm and supported you against all the fiery darts of the adversary; and he would have been with you in every time of trouble.

9 Behold, thou art Joseph, and thou wast chosen to do the work of the Lord, but because of transgression, if thou art not aware thou wilt fall.

10 But remember, God is merciful; therefore, repent of that which thou hast done which is contrary to the commandment which I gave you, and thou art still chosen, and art again called to the work;