PROVO, Utah — Young Women General President Emily Belle Freeman started her day on Tuesday, Oct. 14, expecting a regular schedule at Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.

An unexpected invitation to a special meeting and broadcast announcing the organization of a new First Presidency Tuesday afternoon turned the day into a historic occasion, she told missionaries in a devotional at the Provo Missionary Training Center Tuesday evening.

“We were reminded that God still talks to men and women on earth today, that He speaks through a prophet to a true and living Church that has been restored,” she said.

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