“In keeping with the Savior’s own experience, there has been a long history of rejection and a painfully high price paid by prophets and apostles, missionaries and members in every generation. … So here we have the burden of those called to bear the messianic message. In addition to teaching, encouraging, and cheering people on (that is the pleasant part of discipleship), from time to time these same messengers are called upon to worry, to warn, and sometimes just to weep (that is the painful part of discipleship). … Unfortunately, messengers of divinely mandated commandments are often no more popular today than they were anciently” (Holland, “Cost—and Blessings—of Discipleship,” 6–7).