For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. - Heb. 9:16-17"I give you my testimony of Joseph Smith," said then-Elder Gordon B. Hinckley of the Council of the Twelve during the April 1980 general conference.
"He was the ordained servant of God, this Joseph raised up to become the mighty prophet of this dispensation . . . ."