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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...

I know I've had other articles about the new apostles which will be presented in the upcoming Conference, but this gives added understanding of the callings. LDS UPDATE 4 Things to Understand about Choosing an Apostle By Maurine Proctor  · September 29, 2015, from Meridian Magazine We saw three empty seats among the Quorum of the Twelve at Elder Richard G. Scott’s funeral this week and we assume that we will have three new apostles called at this weekend’s General Conference. This is the most vacancies The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has had in the Quorum of the Twelve since 1906. These three new apostles will be called without much fanfare. Their names will be read and they will come up and assume these empty seats on the stand and we will go on with the conference as simply as that. Yet these are momentous callings to know the Savior as a special witness. At Elder Scott’s funeral, a remark of his was remembered by Elder D. Todd Christ...