Zion is a GRASSROOTS movement.

In April 2019 General Conference, on Saturday,

Elder Christofferson gave a talk about Zion.  He made a statement, "We're not going to build Zion, YOU do it!"

Very shortly after he gave his talk, the Brethren scrubbed his talk away, re-recorded it, into a talk which was more general, and didn't have that most interesting statement.   Then when the print version came out, it was the general talk.   How do I know this?  Because I heard it myself, my family member heard it, and I saw another person on Facebook that commented on the same statement by Elder Christofferson, how shocked he was.

I will ask though, What did Elder Christofferson mean?  Did he mean, We've already asked you, now it's your turn?  Did he mean, they don't care to use their great wealth, and airtime asking anymore for the Saints?   To me, it's like, when you ask somebody to build Zion you not only teach them, but you open the wallet and give them a hammer, nails, and wood, and land with seeds if they can't afford it themselves.  I envision the people on land doing this, land owned by the Saints, not Saints being used as cash cows in spiritual Babylon in perpetuity!

ZION WILL PROSPER AND FLOURISH

May 7, 1831 (what did the wilderness mean in 1831? What does it mean now?)

D&C 49: 24 But before the great day of the Lord shall come, ^aJacob shall flourish in the wilderness, and the Lamanites shall ^bblossom as the rose.

25 Zion shall ^aflourish upon the ^bhills and rejoice upon the mountains, and shall be assembled together unto the place which I have appointed.

September 11, 1831:

D&C 64: 41 For, behold, I say unto you that ^aZion shall flourish, and the ^bglory of the Lord shall be upon her;

42 And she shall be an ^aensign unto the people, and there shall come unto her out of every ^bnation under heaven.

D&C 97: 18 And now, behold, if Zion do these things, she shall prosper, and spread herself and become very glorious, very great, and very terrible.

GRASSROOTS ZION!  Did you get it?  It says, spread {itself}.  It won't be just leaders.  It will mainly be the people.

Don't wait!  You know what God has said about slothful servants waiting to be commanded to do good.  He also said that you can do good that is within your heart (as long as it isn't something that breaks His commandments, because some people call evil good, and good, evil.  It has to line up with God's values).  

Zion  -- From the LDS Scriptures Index

The word Zion is used repeatedly in all the standard works of the Church and is defined in latter-day revelation as “the pure in heart” (D&C 97:21). Other usages of Zion have to do with a geographical location. For example, Enoch built a city that was called Zion (Moses 7:18–19); Solomon built his temple on Mount Zion (1 Kgs. 8:1; see also 2 Sam. 5:6–7); and Jackson County, Missouri, is called Zion in many of the revelations in the D&C, such as 58:49–50; 62:4; 63:48; 72:13; 84:76; 104:47. The city of New Jerusalem, to be built in Jackson County, Missouri, is to be called Zion (D&C 45:66–67). The revelations also speak of “the cause of Zion” (D&C 6:6; 11:6). In a wider sense all of North and South America are Zion (HC 6:318–19). For further references see 1 Chr. 11:5; Ps. 2:6; 99:2; 102:16; Isa. 1:27; 2:3; 4:3–5; 33:20; 52:1–8; 59:20; Jer. 3:14; 31:6; Joel 2; Amos 6:1; Obad. 1:17, 21; Heb. 12:22–24; Rev. 14:1–5; and many others. (In the New Testament, Zion is spelled Sion.)