Find your own sacred grove

“Joseph Smith taught after his own encounters firsthand that all could come unto Christ in this way and
eventually receive and give what Jesus called a “fulness.” (D&C 93:19) With the advantage of recency and of
trustworthy witnesses who shared and duplicated his experience, he stood for the opposite of what many
supposed was the role of a prophet. Instead of ‘take my word for it,’ his life and teachings say, ‘Find your own
sacred grove and come to your own individual and independent awareness.'” (Truman G. Madsen, “Why I Believe”; emphasis mine).