Conversing with Elder Bradley D. Foster, one is apt to receive bits of wisdom, distilled from life's experience into one-line capsules.

Elder Foster, 60, was sustained April 4 at general conference as a new member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy.

In an interview shortly after his call, he shared such gems as this:

\"One of the things I wish I had known when I was young was that my parents weren't going to live forever.\"

He said he wishes now he had paid more attention to what they had to teach him, things about his grandparents and his family heritage.

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This story is provided by the LDS Church News, an official publication of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is produced weekly by the Deseret News.

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