Your life is carefully watched over as was mine. The Lord knows both what He will need you to do and what you will need to do and what you will need to know. He is kind and He is all knowing, so you can with confidence expect that he has prepared opportunities for you to learn in preparation for the service you will give. You will not recognize these opportunities perfectly, as I did not. But when you put the spiritual things first in your life, you will be blessed to feel directed toward certain learning and you will be motivated to work harder. You will recognize later that your power to serve was increased and you will be grateful.

Henry B. Erying CES Fireside May 2001

"God has reserved...choice spirits to come forth in this last dispensation, because of the greatness and magnitude of the work to be accomplished...It has required apparently the most valiant men and women to come forth in the last days...[because]this is not a short lived dispensation; it is to go on increasing in power...until it shall fill the whole earth...And, of course, it requires great valor, great obedience and great gifts in order to accomplish the end that is to be attained under the promises of God. The Lord has permitted spirits to be born among the various races of mankind that are fitted and qualified to accomplish this great work."

George Q. Cannon, Gospel Truth p18