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Today is Conference!  If you woke up like I did, with a smile on your face, you are feeling the anticipation and joy of being led by living prophets!   Enjoy the next 2 days!  It's like 2 Sundays in a row! The sacred call of an apostle By  Trent Toone ,  Deseret News Published: Thursday, Oct. 1 2015 5:00 a.m. MDT Elder Russell M. Nelson speaks in the Sunday afternoon session of general conference on April 6, 1997. Kristan Jacobsen, Deseret News Archives View 13 photos » Summary Many apostles have related their experiences from when they were called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. With three vacancies expected to be filled at the upcoming general conference, here are some of those sacred experiences. President Thomas S. Monson’s call to the holy apostleship in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints happened on a quiet Thursday afternoon in late September 1963. He was in the middle of a conversatio...

This was in the LDS Church News, and hearing from an Apostle of the Lord is always a privilege.  He relates this to students and what we all can accomplish with the help of the Lord.  BYU-Idaho devotional: 'Accomplishing the impossible' By Marianne Holman Prescott   Published: Thursday, Jan. 29 2015 in the LDS Church News REXBURG, IDAHO “The Lord uses the unlikely to accomplish the impossible,” Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles told students at Brigham Young University-Idaho during a campus devotional on Jan. 27. Using examples from the scriptures and Church history, Elder Nelson spoke of the great work ordinary individuals have been asked to do that with the Lord’s help, were possible. Looking at Joseph Smith, a young, teachable, untitled youth to restore the gospel of Jesus Christ to the earth; the story of David, who slew Goliath with a stone and sling; and Moses, who was called to lead the children of...