Lots of questions are circulating around about when or who will succeed our dear prophet Thomas S. Monson. This quote just rang in my soul when I read it. It really shows with power that God has truly prepared and orchestrated the succession of His mouthpiece on earth. What comfort that brings to my soul. I love Thomas S. Monson and he will be missed greatly. I also feel the peace of knowing that Russell M. Neilson is prepared and capable of carrying that heavy mantle and that the voice of the Lord to His children continues without interruption.
Here is the article that I read this quote from: http://ldsscriptures.com/blog/how-succession-presidency-lds-church-works/
“When President Lee passed he was attended by President Marion G. Romney, his second counselor, and President Spencer W. Kimball, the President of the Council of the Twelve. President N. Eldon Tanner was in Arizona at the time. Brother Romney, as the representative of and counselor to President Lee, was in complete and total charge at the hospital. He gave President Lee a blessing. He felt the spirit of peace and satisfaction, the calm assurance that whatever eventuated would be right. He did not promise President Lee that he would be healed. The President had become ill very rapidly, just in a matter of hours or moments. Shortly after this blessing, he passed away. At the moment he passed, Brother Romney, in harmony with the system and the established tradition and custom of the Church, stepped aside, and President Spencer W. Kimball was then in complete charge and had total direction. President Kimball was at that moment the senior apostle of God on earth. And as the last heartbeat of President Lee ceased, the mantle of leadership passed to President Kimball, whose next heartbeat was that of the living oracle and presiding authority of God on earth. From that moment the Church continued under the direction of President Kimball.” Bruce R. McConkie
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