A fresco of the Twelve Apostles in Capernaum
(Wikimedia Commons; click to enlarge)
It seems that the Lord doesn’t take dictation from newspaper commentators, bloggers, and academics, nor even from political correctness and ethnic quotas.
I’m especially delighted with the appointment of Elder Stevenson, whom I knew slightly before his call as a General Authority and even as a mission president in Nagoya, Japan — where one of my sons served under him.
I was actually in the underground lobby of the Church Administration Building when he and his wife were waiting for an interview just prior to General Conference in 2008. I think (though I may be mistaken) that he was finally called in by Elder M. Russell Ballard, but we chatted before that. He’d already completed his mission presidency, and, consequently, I came home and told my wife that things were looking pretty grim for President Stevenson and his wife. And I advised my son to pay special attention to the sustainings of new General Authorities. (My son, incidentally, is unsurprised by his mission president’s call to the Twelve.)
Posted from New York City
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