“I hope with all my heart and soul that every young man who receives the priesthood will honor that priesthood and be true to the trust which is conveyed when it is conferred. May each of us who holds the priesthood of God know what he believes.”

American religious leader and author

Thomas Spencer Monson was an American religious leader and author, and the 16th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He lived from 1927 to 2018 and spent much of his life in church leadership and public service. He first worked as a manager at the Deseret News, a Utah newspaper owned by the LDS Church. Later, he became one of the central figures in his faith, serving as church president and, among believers, as a prophet, seer, and revelator.