title: Personal Revelation: Receiving and Responding to the Voice of the Lord
author:  Gerald N. Lund 
description: After Gerald N. Lund received B.A. and M.S. degrees in sociology from BYU, he joined the Church Educational System, working as a religious educator, a curriculum writer, and a zone administrator. He has served as a bishop and stake president and, more recently, as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. A writer of bestselling fiction and nonfiction, he is best known for his series of novels entitled The Work and the Glory and The Kingdom and the Crown. He and his wife, Lynn, are the parents of seven children and live in Alpine, Utah.
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  **T R A N S I T T O**
  
  
  **S C O R P I O**
  
  
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  **A Note On The Tapes From Africa**
  
  
  In preparing the strange and remarkable story of Dray Prescot for publication
  I have become overwhelmed at times with the power and presence of his voice.
  
  
  I have listened to the tapes Geoffrey Dean gave me, over and over again, until
  I feel I know the man Dray Prescot as much through his voice as by what he
  reveals in what he says. At times deep and reflective, at others animated and
  passionate with the fire of his recollections, his voice carries absolute
  conviction. I cannot vouch for the truth of his story; but if ever a human
  voice invited belief, then this one does.
  
  
  How the tapes from Africa came into my possession is soon told. Geoffrey Dean
  is a childhood friend, a gray, prim, dedicated man of fixed habits, yet for
  the sake of old friendship when he called me from Washington I was glad to
  speak with him. He is a government man with 