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This devotional address entitled We Believe in Prophecy was given on November 28th of

1978 by LeGrand Richards, then a member of the quorum of the 12 Apostles of the Church

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

After an introduction like that, and that beautiful song we just listened to, I ought to be able to say something even if I am nearly a hundred years old.

I greet you all this morning.

I feel highly honored in having been invited to come and occupy this place, speak to you this morning,

and particularly when I learned that you have 2,000 Mormon missionaries sitting over here on the right-hand side.

So I greet all of you and tell you how happy I am and how much I love this institution

and its officers and its faculty and now you students who are here today.

During the past week we've celebrated Thanksgiving's Day.

And I suppose all of you have counted your blessings.

I counted mine, and after doing so, I figured that I was about the most blessed man in the

whole world, but it won't take time to tell you why. It'll take too long. And then I thought

of having to speak to you here this morning that I assume that all of you have great reasons to be grateful, and one of them is that

you're privileged to be students at this great institution. Not all of our youth have the privilege

of attending a church institution like this, where you sit in classes with men of God who have

faith and testimony and cannot only teach you the words of your lessons but to inspire you

to want to live to be something worthwhile in the world. There are those who have opposite opportunities.

I thought as I tried to decide what to talk about today that I'd use for a text, a couple little

experiences that are opposite to your experience. Here, just a few years ago, I held a conference in Ogden,

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