Magnify our callings

“What does it mean to magnify a calling? It means to build it up in dignity and importance, to make it honorable and commendable in the eyes of all men, to enlarge and strengthen it, to let the light of heaven shine through it to the view of other men. And how does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it. An elder magnifies the ordained calling of an elder by learning what his duties as an elder are and then by doing them. As with an elder, so with a deacon, a teacher, a priest, a bishop, and each who holds office in the priesthood.”

Source: President Thomas S. Monson, “The Call of Duty,” Ensign, May 1986, 38–39. 

Success means trusting in God's plan

I thought my athletic career was over.
 
I played soccer in high school and even set a state record in the high jump. Then I broke my leg and had to pivot to sprinting. 

I walked onto a college team and worked my way into school records in second in the 200-meter and 4x100-meter relays. 

I graduated in exercise science in 2024 and figured that chapter was closed. I was ready for a "real job."
 
Then a friend invited me to a bobsled combine.
 
I didn’t know much about the sport, but I showed up. The first time I pushed a sled, it felt familiar and completely new at the same time. The same explosive power from track, but now it depended on four of us moving as one.
 
Now I’m a push athlete on a four-man US bobsled team at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina.
 
My wife, Brynlee, and I were married in the Cedar City Utah Temple in 2023. Through every pivot and every unexpected turn, our faith has anchored us. When I thought I had reached a dead end, the Lord opened a different path.
 
I used to think success meant finishing first.
 
Now I think it means trusting God when your plans change and being willing to keep running anyway.

- Caleb Furnell

Source: https://x.com/Ch_JesusChrist/status/2024220449081594113