The Almighty speaks to Mormon men “called as prophets through revelation,” Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the church’s governing First Presidency, said at the all-male priesthood session of the 187th Semiannual General Conference on Saturday night. “It takes faith to believe that God calls imperfect people into positions of trust. It takes faith to believe that [God] knows the people he calls perfectly.”
That is equally true in local Mormon congregations, Eyring said. “I try not to judge servants of the Lord or to speak of their apparent weakness.”
There is a “thread that binds us to the Lord in our service,” he said.