“The prophet Mormon at first thought his people were sorrowing unto repentance (see Morm. 2:12–13). Yet he soon discerned that theirs was not actually the sorrowing unto repentance but the ‘sorrowing of the damned,’ stranding them in a ‘no-man’s-land.’ Compare that episode to the prodigal son’s solitary working through of his own repentance; since his sorrow was real, he truly ‘came to himself’ (Luke 15:17). Sometimes we learn ‘by sad experience,’ but sometimes not! (D&C 121:39)” (Maxwell, “Content with the Things Allotted unto Us,” 73).