The eleven apostles of Jesus Christ (all except Judas Iscariot) gathered together in Galilee. Two angels (dressed in white) are standing with the apostles and pointing to the heavens. The apostles are looking upward. The painting depicts the ascension of the resurrected Jesus Christ into the heavens. Christ is not depicted in the picture. (Mark 16:19-20) (Luke 24:50-53) (Acts 1:9-11)
All the members of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are seated or standing with the Christus Statue and statues of the Original Twelve at the Visitors’ Center in Rome, Italy. Front Left to Right: Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Jeffrey R. Holland, M. Russell Ballard, Dallin H. Oaks, Russell M. Nelson, Henry B. Eyring, David A. Bednar, Quentin L. Cook, D. Todd Christofferson, Gary E. Stevenson, Ronald A. Rasband, Neil L. Andersen, Dale G. Renlund, Gerrit W. Gong, Ulisses Soares
羅素 納爾遜會長教導,救主如何在今日繼續帶領祂的教會。
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Official portrait of President Russell M. Nelson taken January 2018
Official portrait of Elder Quentin L. Cook. Called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on 6 October 2007.
結束時,容我向各位保證,主領本教會神所指定的目的的資深教會領袖,都獲得神的協助。這樣的指引來自聖靈,有時候直接來自救主。神給予這兩種屬靈的指引。我很感激能獲得這樣的協助。但這些指引是按照主的時間,以律上加律、令上加令的方式〔見 尼腓二書28:30 ; 教義和聖約98:12 ; 128:21〕 ,在「全知的主特意選擇教導我們的時候」賜予的〔Neal A. Maxwell, All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience(2007), 31〕。給這整個教會的指示只會臨到祂的先知。