Why Andy Reid says conducting the Tabernacle Choir was one of the highlights of his life

Ready for conference yet? Though we always look forward to the inspiring words from our living prophet and apostles, there is also a humorous side to some of our general conference traditions. Check out these hilarious comics from LDS artists.

LDS 12-year-old Jude Stamper was drafted by the Michigan basketball team with Team IMPACT earlier this season. Though born with a joint disorder called arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, he is now heading to the Final Four with his team. “They have embraced him. Coach Beilein absolutely loves him and he tells him that. He tells him he is a light in their lives,” said his mom, Courtney Stamper. “They have fully opened their doors not only to Jude, but our family.”

As we prepare for general conference in a few days, we look forward to another solemn assembly and an opportunity to sustain our new prophet, President Russell M. Nelson. Learn what a solemn assembly is and why we hold them.

As general conference approaches, and with it the anticipation of sustaining a new prophet, we thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane and see how much you remember or know about prophets of this dispensation. From who served as the prophet the longest to who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, test your knowledge of the amazing accomplishments of these men of God:

I’ve always heard that serving others is the best way to change ourselves. I grew up in a service-oriented home. There are stories beyond stories of times members of my family served those around them. And more often than not, it’s the simple things.

It was easy to go to sacrament meeting, look around at the congregation, and pick out the families that had it all together. The parents were always dressed to the nines in their Sunday best. They would never have a child who didn’t show up to church, never have a son skip Sunday school, or a daughter who threatened to run away.

For eight days, 155 missionaries huddled together in an LDS meetinghouse concerned only with survival after Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico. But all of the missionaries were together and prepared, thanks to the inspiration President David H. Smart and his wife, Sister Brenda Smart, received.

LDS photographer Dustin Bitter has started taking pictures of "the temple in a way like never before with this series of images designed to illustrate the temple from a celestial perspective," Bitter writes on his website.

When the prophets, apostles, and leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregate every six months to speak to the world, members and nonmembers are invited to tune in and hear their inspired counsel. With so many ears to hear, hearts to listen, and minds to enlighten, Church leaders turn to the Spirit.