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This devotional address entitled,

Truth's Most Worth Knowing,

was given on November 6th of 2011 by Boyd Cape Packer,

then president of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I'm very grateful for the blessing which allow you to see me and hear from across the earth.

I am most grateful for the gift of the Holy Ghost, a miracle which requires no satellite transmission and allows me to picture you in your many places in my mind's eye.

You are consummately precious.

We look forward to the day when we can pass the keys of the kingdom onto you.

Rather than take notes, pay attention to the impressions you receive as we consider a most sacred topic. If all that you know after tonight is what you hear, then you will miss the meaning of this discussion.

Some come with the questions and searching for direction. Others are wondering how they got

off the track of the gospel and how they might get back on it again and return. While I speak to

all, I speak most earnestly to the one who is seeking. I have watched my senior brethren

and move around the circle and then graduate to the other side of the veil.

So many great ones.

President Harold B. Lee told me that I should associate with the older brethren and learn from

their experiences.

I followed that council from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The lives of great men all remind us

that we can make our lives sublime

and departing leave behind us footsteps on the grounds of time.

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