Prison-Temple

During the winter of 1838–39, Joseph Smith and others were imprisoned in Missouri’s Liberty Jail. Some Church authorities have referred to this prison as a “prison-temple.”254 So how was it a “prison-temple”? Elder Holland summarizes, “You can have sacred, revelatory, profoundly instructive experience with the Lord in the most miserable experiences of your life—in the worst settings, while enduring the most painful injustices, when facing the most insurmountable odds and opposition you have ever faced.”255

Liberty Jail, 1888.