Madison Riback

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery - An Autobiography

“After Laurie was born, Russell and Dantzel were waiting for the nurse to bring their new baby to them. Dantzel had been under anesthetic during delivery and hadn’t yet seen her little girl. Suddenly she said, “I hear our baby crying.” “You’re kidding,” Russell replied. “You haven’t even seen her yet.” But Dantzel insisted, “That’s our baby. I know her voice.” She asked Russell to check, so he walked into the corridor and down to a large cart that carried babies in their bassinets from the nursery to their mothers’ rooms. There was only one baby crying. “They all looked alike to me, so I checked the I.D. tag and found that the one crying was labeled ‘Baby Girl Nelson, Room 571.’ That was an inspiration to me. Dantzel knew her child’s voice even before she had ever heard it. I couldn’t help but think about the Savior’s statement that ‘my sheep know my voice.’” In this case, the “shepherd” knew the voice of her sheep.”
― Sheri Dew, Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson

“On one occasion a medical colleague chastised Dr. Nelson for failing to separate his professional knowledge from his religious convictions. “That startled me,” he admitted, “because I did not feel that truth should be fractionalized. Truth is indivisible” (Hafen, Disciple’s Life, 165).”
― Sheri Dew, Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson

“Don’t worry about me, Brother Nelson, for I know why I was sent to the earth—to gain experiences and work out my salvation. I can work out my salvation with my mind and not with my legs. I’ll be all right!” Russell recorded afterward that “the faith of that young man has motivated me ever since”
― Sheri Dew, Insights from a Prophet’s Life: Russell M. Nelson