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Lee Benson writes: "Brad Bonham was comfortably into what we’ll call his first retirement when he was summoned to a meeting with the governor in early 2023.

"It had been a year and a half since he’d sold Walker Edison, the ready-to-assemble e-commerce furniture company he’d started from scratch in 2006 and turned into such a runaway success that it was acquired by Blackstone, the New York-based 'world’s largest alternative asset manager' that has a reputation for buying only the best.

"Stepping down as Walker Edison’s CEO at the age of 41 had given Brad time to 1), spend more of it with his family and 2), go back to school. And not just any school. He was accepted into the prestigious Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School, where enrollment is limited to executives who are managing, or have managed, successful businesses.

"So he was busy but not too busy."

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‘A mighty prophet’: President Nelson’s family, friends, colleagues provide inside look at a 100-year-old father, prophet

Tad Walch writes: "In collaboration with Deseret News, KSL interviewed a dozen people close to President Nelson. Several of them shared how he follows inspiration, receives revelation and sees his role as a prophet to the world.

“'He is utterly unselfish, and he wants people to be focused on the Savior, Jesus Christ, not on him,” Richard E. 'Rick' Turley Jr., former Assistant Church Historian and former managing director of what then was the church’s Public Affairs Department, said on the Church News podcast.

"President Nelson’s tenure as church president has been marked by more than 100 noteworthy announcements and changes for the church. They were immediately noticeable. On the second day of the church’s first international general conference after President Nelson became the prophet, another church leader said he wasn’t sure how many more rushes of revelation the church could handle."

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