Thoughts and stories, by Pal

  I love stories of how inspired our prophets are -- and have been in the past! President Heber J. Grant was the prophet when I was a child!  He is the first one I remember hearing about while he was alive.   What happened when President Heber J. Grant felt prompted to call a “comparative stranger” instead of a close friend to be an Apostle by Dennis B. Horne, Contributor  | Aug. 24, 2021 Editor’s note: The following excerpt comes from a book about special witnesses of Jesus Christ. You can read this chapter in its entirety at  truthwillprevail.xyz  as well as other chapters as they are posted. This excerpt is republished here with permission. In 1919 a flu pandemic swept the world, killing many millions. It forced the Church to shut down its temples and meetinghouses and all public gatherings for months. President Joseph F. Smith himself had become incrementally ill for some time before that and had been largely confined to his room. Few church members and most of the Apostles had no