“The Lord has promised his servants in this dispensation that He would go before them and ‘be on [their] right hand and on [their] left’ and preserve them as they seek to spread the gospel throughout the nations of the earth (see D&C 84:88; 35:13–15). Undoubtedly this promise holds true unless one is ‘appointed unto death’ or, as in some cases, ‘the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that his justice and judgment may come upon the wicked’ (see D&C 42:48; Alma 60:13)” (Williams, “Instruments in the Hands of God,” 98–99).