For When You Don't Want to Be Where You Are (D&C 51:15-19)

(15) Here is the gift: I’ve given you principles, and you get to decide what to do with them. You get to decide how to collectively be the Zion that I’ve asked you to be.

(16-17) I’ve given you the circumstances that you’re in for a little while, until I give you new circumstances—but you’re not going to know when that is. So act like you are where you are forever. Build a life here, because here is where your life is right now.

(19) And those of you that do that well, those of you that practice and prosper in your stewardships, you will build heaven with me.

15 And thus I grant unto this people a privilege of organizing themselves according to my laws.

16 And I consecrate unto them this land for a little season, until I, the Lord, shall provide for them otherwise, and command them to go hence;

17 And the hour and the day is not given unto them, wherefore let them act upon this land as for years, and this too shall turn unto them for their good….

19 And whoso is found a faithful, a just, and a wise steward shall enter into the joy of his Lord, and shall inherit eternal life.