Silly Wondering Divinely Enabled

Section 7. The Come, Follow Me manual skirts around it other than to note:

Notice how many times words like “desire” or “desires” appear in sections 6 and 7. What do you learn from these sections about the importance God places on your desires? Ask yourself the Lord’s question in Doctrine and Covenants 7:1: “What desirest thou?”

For Joseph and Oliver in April 1829, the desire of their hearts was to debate the meaning of an unclear and not particularly important snippet of scripture. Was John the Beloved still alive? Or not? Unlike you and your buddies, they had Urim and Thummim handy and got to use company equipment for their own little side job. They were allowed a revealed answer given in the first-person voice of the Beloved himself. And to keep up for others after them the supply of puzzlers to wonder about, they were shown the parchment on which John wrote this otherwise unknown account.

As one who sometimes likes to muse on extraneous spiritual matters that no, are not strictly necessary for salvation, I feel catered to with Section 7 by a loving Heavenly Father who is willing to indulge unnecessary banter.