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conducting a meeting in the Temple, and was impressed to call Brother Clark out of the congregation to have him pray for rain. He said the prayer which followed was one of the most remarkable he had ever heard, and 'we got the rain.'"

^{-Royal D. Clark, fourth child of Wilford and Pamelia, 1964.}

"Father Clark once told me he had thought about David and Bathsheba.  'Evidently that marriage was supposed to be, as through their lineage the Savior came. Yet I think if they had waited, their plans would have turned out the same without their sinning to achieve their marriage.'"

^{- Ruby Dorius Clark Rhodes (Lewis), 1961.}

"I shall always remember his beautiful prayers, and his ease and free delivery when speaking from the pulpit.  Shortly after returning from my mission, I was sent with Grandfather on a speaking assignment to the Bern Ward. I had previously studied and jotted down an outline while Grandfather sat in the front room reading the Book of Mormon and writing nothing. He gave an inspiring and well-organized address that evening."

- Chad W. Clark, son of LeGrand, 1961.

"We were watching a session of General Conference on TV.  One of the General Authorities was relating the story of the First Vision and the Joseph Smith story.  Looking over at Grandpa, I saw tears running down his cheeks. After the speaker had finished, Grandpa was choked up as he said, 'Today Brother McKay proved himself a prophet!!'  I wondered then if I would ever recognize such inspiration so easily."

^{- Carolee L. Harmon, LeOra's daughter, 1960.}   

Unmentioned above are numerous childhood associations with General Authorities, missionary experiences, such as those recorded in a diary kept while serving in the Southern States Mission, and a multitude of other episodes that prompted him to inquire and grow in the Gospel. He would never have said that he was a chosen man of God, but his striving to be such—whether consciously or otherwise—was the guidepost of his lifetime.  At his birth, the Patriarch's namesake and his father's close friend, Wilford Woodruff, was fifth