“Some modern-day prophets point to the United States as the ‘choice land’ spoken of in 1 Nephi. … President Ezra Taft Benson said, ‘Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathers and their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel. Recall what our Savior Jesus Christ said nearly two thousand years ago when he visited this promised land: [3 Nephi 21:4 is quoted]. America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord’s latter-day base of operations for His restored church.’ (Ezra Taft Benson, in Conf. Report, Oct. 1987, 3.)” (Black, 400 Questions and Answers, 61–62).