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Reyna I. Aburto
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April 2022
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Saturday Morning Session
From the beginning, God has sought to gather and organize His children “to bring to pass [our] immortality and eternal life.” With that purpose in mind, He has instructed us to build places of worship where we receive knowledge and the ordinances of salvation and exaltation; make and keep covenants that bind us to Jesus Christ; are endowed with “the power of godliness”; and gather together often to remember Jesus and strengthen each other in Him.
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Andrea Muñoz Spannaus
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October 2025
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Sunday Morning Session
Prophets also proclaim the gospel and are inspired teachers and messengers of God to everyone on earth.
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David A. Bednar
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April 2025
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Sunday Morning Session
In reestablishing His Church, the Lord designated by revelation 24-year-old Joseph Smith as its earthly leader: “a seer, a translator, a prophet, an apostle of Jesus Christ, an elder of the church through the will of God the Father, and the grace of your Lord Jesus Christ.”
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John C. Pingree Jr.
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October 2023
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Third, prophets receive truth from God and share that truth with us.
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Neil L. Andersen
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October 2017
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Sunday Afternoon Session
On the day the Church was organized, the Lord designated Joseph Smith a prophet, seer, and apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ and said to the Church:
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Russell M. Nelson
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October 2014
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Sunday Morning Session
This gives us, as members of the Lord’s Church, confidence and faith as we strive to keep the scriptural injunction to heed the Lord’s voice as it comes through the voice of His servants the prophets.
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Marlin K. Jensen
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April 2007
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Saturday Afternoon Session
Realizing the vital role remembering is to play in our lives, what else ought we to remember?
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L. Tom Perry
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April 2007
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Sunday Afternoon Session
“For his word ye shall receive, as if from mine own mouth, in all patience and faith” (D&C 21:1–5).
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Neal A. Maxwell
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October 2003
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Sunday Afternoon Session
Ironically, young Joseph Smith went into the grove merely wanting to know which church to join—not seeking to be called as a seer, revelator, translator, and prophet (see D&C 21:1).
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L. Tom Perry
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April 2000
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Saturday Afternoon Session
“For his word ye shall receive, as if from mine own mouth, in all patience and faith” (D&C 21:1, 4–5).
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James E. Faust
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April 1995
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Priesthood Session
“Or, in other words, the Presiding High Priest over the High Priesthood of the Church.” He is “to preside over the whole church, and to be like unto Moses … , to be a seer, a revelator, a translator, and a prophet, having all the gifts of God which he bestows upon the head of the church.”
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L. Tom Perry
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October 1994
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Saturday Morning Session
“Being inspired of the Holy Ghost to lay the foundation thereof, and to build it up unto the most holy faith” (D&C 21:1–2).
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High confidence
Ezra Taft Benson
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October 1988
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Sunday Afternoon Session
I testify that there has been, and there is now, and there will be legal successors to the Prophet Joseph Smith who hold the keys of the kingdom of God on earth, even the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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N. Eldon Tanner
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October 1979
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Priesthood Session
“Behold, there shall be a record kept among you; and in it thou shalt be called a seer, a translator, a prophet, an apostle of Jesus Christ, an elder of the church through the will of God the Father, and the grace of your Lord
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N. Eldon Tanner
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April 1974
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Priesthood Session
“Being inspired of the Holy Ghost to lay the foundation thereof, and to build it up unto the most holy faith.” (D&C 21:1–2.)
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High confidence
N. Eldon Tanner
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October 1972
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Priesthood Session
“… behold, I will bless all those who labor in my vineyard with a mighty blessing, and they shall believe on his words, which are given him through me by the Comforter, which manifesteth that Jesus was crucified by sinful men for the sins of the world, yea, for the remission of sins unto the contrite heart.” (D&C 21:1, 4–7, 9.)
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