You Did Everything Right and Still Got Wrecked: What Liberty Jail Teaches About Suffering (D&C 121–123)

ToddTalks--Spirit By Design: Your Weekly Survival Guide · Oct 20, 2026 · 22m · transcript

You can do everything you believe God asked you to do and still end up in the middle of a storm. That’s the gut-punch question I’m sitting with today: when you’ve prayed, tried to be obedient, and made sacrifices, why does life still break in ways you didn’t see coming, and where is God when it does?

I walk through Joseph Smith’s experience in Liberty Jail and the revelations that became Doctrine and Covenants 121 through 123, where a dungeon-like prison turns into a classroom and even a temple. Joseph’s honest cry, “O God, where art thou?” matters because it shows this question isn’t a…