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  A successful New York lawyer's response when called as an Apostle by Dennis B. Horne, Contributor  | Sep. 08, 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.  Brother Henry D. Moyle, then the chairman of the General Welfare Committee, had been in Salt Lake City before conference, but was given permission by President George Albert Smith to travel to New York City (to begin some legal work for a client) since there were no major Welfare issues needing his attention. 1  But as general conference was about to start (then a three-day affair), Henry received a “long-distance” telephone call from President Smith, in which he was called as an Apostle and told to return immediately to Salt Lake City so he could be sustained and ordained. 2  Near...

This is a touching story about the distraught teen age son of a woman who died of cancer, and how he was comforted. TOPICS POPULAR MORMON REPORT LESSON HELPS How Meeting 8 Apostles and the Prophet in One Day Answered a Young Man's Desperate Questions by M. Russell Ballard, adapted from "When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness"  | Aug. 11, 2018 Makes You Think Mormon Life Comments Some years ago there was a rather serious tragedy in our ward. A great woman, the wife of our former bishop and a woman beloved and respected in our ward family, contracted cancer of the worst kind. This was a vivacious, effervescent woman who lifted and inspired everyone she met. As the disease became worse, I gave her blessings. Other General Authorities gave her blessings. One of the blessings I gave was in the presence of her seventeen-year-old son. Another blessing was given to her when her son was e...

In honor of Father's Day this coming Sunday, I am posting this article from LDS Living.  It shows what wonderful fathers and husbands our General Authorities are!  I will also post some things about my own dear husband, Wayne D Eckman, who passed away on February 21, 2016, in the next few days. What the Wives of the 12 Apostles Have Said About Their Husbands by Aubrey Zalewski and Lucy Stevenson  | Jun. 12, 2018 Fun Mormon Life Comments President Russell M. Nelson President Nelson met Dantzel White in 1942 when they were both cast as members of the play  Hayfoot, Strawfoot  at the University of Utah. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple three years later. President Nelson and his wife, Dantzel White Nelson. Image from  lds.org . An excerpt from President Nelson's biography,  Russell M. Nelson: Father, Surgeon, Apostle , gives us insight into President Nelson's character...