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This devotional address entitled, Preparing for Your Spiritual Destiny, was given on January 10th, 2010 by Neil L. Anderson, then a member of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of L. Day Saints.

My dear young, brothers and sisters, I cannot see all of your faces here in the Marriott Center,

and of course I cannot see your faces in the thousands of chapels across the world.

But I can feel of your goodness, your desire to do right, and your love of the Lord and the restored gospel.

One of the blessings of being a general authority is that we have the opportunity of being

with you across the world. In the past few months, we have seen your faces and shaken your

hands in many locations in the United States.

We traveled with President's sister Uptorf last June to Eastern Europe, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

In October, we were in South Africa and West Africa.

In November, we returned from Central America. There is a great power of righteousness

among the young adults and youth of the church. Take comfort in knowing that you are joined by

thousands and hundreds of thousands in the challenges you face and in the important

purposes that you feel. I love you. And pray that the Spirit of the Lord will be with us

as we discuss things that are important to you tonight. I have lived in this mortal

life three to four decades longer than most of you, but it is

not my experience that brings me before you.

Realizing my own weaknesses, I stand before you as an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ,

ordained and commissioned to testify of him and to speak

the things he would speak.

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