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President Henry B. Eyring: New leaders voice joy, humility over callings
President Eyring made his remarks to reporters during a televised press conference Saturday, just hours after being sustained by the worldwide membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the new second counselor in the church's First Presidency. He fills the position held by President James E. Faust, who died in August.
President Eyring said he received a telephone call Thursday afternoon from church President Gordon B. Hinckley, who asked if he was willing to join President Thomas S. Monson and himself in the First Presidency.
"It was the most marvelous way of extending a call, which was from the Lord," he said.
He became emotional when he talked about filling the position of President Faust. "He was not only a dear friend but a model," he said. Later, President Eyring described a time when he was talking to another general authority and said, "I always wanted to be him (President Faust) when I grew up."
Education, enterprise
With characteristic concern that children feel, Elder Eyring told an audience at Brigham Young University several years ago how he remembers the move to Utah. "I can remember how my cousins helped me," telling him "the kids would stone me with my New Jersey accent. I got rid of it quickly, out of fear. I remember terror as I walked up to the junior high school on the first day.
"A few years later I don't know how it happened but after basketball season I left high school and went without my high school classmates to the University of Utah. I can remember those first days the physics department and the mathematics department didn't seem very friendly to me. I remember my fear.
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