A faithful people in Russia: 'We can feel the Spirit'

By Elder Darvel Gregory and Sister Kathryn Gregory

For LDS Church News

Published: Sunday, June 7 2009 1:10 a.m. MDT

Some time ago I asked President Monson if I could go to Russia," President Dieter F. Uchtdorf said, addressing members in the Cosmos Hotel in Moscow.

"Yes, you go," President Thomas S. Monson responded. "They are a people who have shown faith."

"I will tell President Monson that I have been with a faithful people," President Uchtdorf said, smiling over a large audience of members, some of whom had traveled significant distances to hear the second counselor in the First Presidency. President Uchtdorf was in Eastern Europe to visit members in Kiev, Ukraine, as well as Yekaterinburg, Russia, and Samara, Russia.

Read the full story via MormonTimes.com

Get The Deseret News Everywhere

Subscribe

Mobile

RSS