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\u201cNow, brothers and sisters, prophets have lived and died to reestablish in the world in our generation that glorious truth\u2013that what the Eternal Father wants for you and with you is the fullness of your possibilities. And those possibilities are infinite. And he did not simply make you from nothing into a worm; he adopted and begat you into his likeness in order to share his nature. And he sent his Firstborn Son to exemplify just how glorious that nature can be\u2013even in mortality. That is our witness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nTruman G. Madsen<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/p>
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