I Will Not Leave Thee
In the October 2025 general conference , Sister Andrea Spannaus spoke about the importance of prophets. This is a fitting topic for today’s session of general conference when President Oaks will be sustained in a solemn assembly along with two new apostles. She spoke of a story from the Old Testament highlighting the faith of one woman to sustain a prophet. We read, “And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread. And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually. Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither” (1 Kings 4:8-10). Sister Spannaus commented, “This faithful woman was willing to build a room in her house so...
