Final Phase
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If the question is “What do I know now better than I knew before?” I don’t know that I can answer it better than that, than Kalleen has answered it. We’ve learned with a surety — we’ve always known this, but we know it so much more clearly now — who runs this Church, who’s in charge here. And it’s not President Nelson, and he would never pretend that it’s him. But President Nelson told us just this most interesting thing. He said, “Every prophet from Adam through the ages until today has looked forward to this time when this generation, these generations, would be born into the world, having come here with special gifts, to be about the most important thing going on in the world today.” He describes the gathering as being the most important thing. And then we go out, and he said something like this, that prior prophets have looked forward to this time, when sometime in the foggy future, that this gathering would take place. We don’t talk that way now. He says, “Because the gathering is now. It is in full process right now.” And so you hear that, and we know that, and we’ve been a little part of that in a little bit, but then to go out in the world and see just the miraculous pace of hastening that’s going on. President McKay and President Kimball used to talk the same way: “You’re a special generation. You’ve come for special purposes.” I grew up feeling that. And so when he said it the first time, I thought, “Yeah, I’ve heard that before. I guess that’s the way we talk to the youth.” And then it occurred to me the other day that: You know what? When I first heard that as a child, there were a million and a half members of the Church. And when President McKay says, “You’re special, and you’ve come here for a special purpose, because important things are happening,” between then and now, the Church has grown by an order of magnitude. And so, mission accomplished, I would say. But more than that, my generation, the subsequent generations, are raising up this generation, who, in the course of their lives and their ministries and their service are going to see the Church grow not an order of magnitude, but something more than that, and with a conclusion grander than that. Because He is coming. And that’s what I know. I know He’s coming.
Steven J. Lund
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I’ve been really grateful to watch my husband serve with his whole heart, his whole heart, and his counselors have been so great, and it’s been a really rich experience. About four or five months ago, he often talks about that experience of having President Nelson call him and talk about the gathering. And I turned to him one day, and I said, “Steve, you are his witness. A prophet of God called and said, ‘Something’s happening, and I want you to be a part of it.’ And you have gone through the world and seen the gathering, not only of youth, but of members of the Church and our sweet missionaries who are working so hard.” I know for sure that our prayers, collectively as a Church, aren’t empty. When we pray for the missionaries, when we pray for the Prophet, they live on those prayers. It’s essential that we pray every opportunity that we have to sustain this great work, because God’s coming. He’s coming, and I want to be there. I want to be a part of it. And I’m really grateful for all those experiences that I’ve had.
Kalleen Lund