there is an assumption, at least I would say on my part that this is true. Now, for me, the real question is how often? I think it is very rare, very rare indeed.

No they don't. The president of the church only can have direct contact with God but it's not face to face. I'm told that he recieves answers through dreams or you might say visions

Only when God deems it to be necessary. From my understanding, the leaders of the Church do not claim that this happens on a regular basis.

The interesting thing is that they claim to be "special witnesses of Christ," but never reveal exactly what that means. Definitely piques the curiosity though. They never say whether they have actually seen Him, or what.

ok, I think it is as often as needed. The LDS church has two confrences a year. This is when The Leaders of the CHurch speak to us. The talk to us with love and understanding. They bring up subjects that we as a general people need to know about and deal with on our own levels. There have been many times when the talks come just as they are needed. They were given to us as a people at the very right moment. How but by divine intervention were these given to us at that right moment.

The Temple—not just the one in Salt Lake City, but any and every properly dedicated and accepted temple—is quite literally the House of the Lord. Thus, whenever the Lord comes to Earth, it’s likely that He will come to His temple. There are recorded incidents of the Lord appearing to his prophet in the temple. §110 of the Church’s Doctrine and Covenants records the Lord appearing to accept the Kirtland Ohio Temple, which was the first latter-day temple to be dedicated (http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/110). After the Lord accepted the temple, the ancient prophet Elijah also appeared, to confer upon Joseph Smith Jr. the keys pertinent to the temple and its ordinances. Lorenzo Snow also recorded an appearance of the Savior in the Salt Lake Temple, when the Savior instructed him to reorganize the Presidency of the Church (http://tinyurl.com/5wwkkj). There are plenty of stories of the Lord appearing in many of his temples, though I cannot attest to the veracity of all; members of the Church of Jesus Christ are still human, and certainly not immune to urban legend. Among the most popular of these are the story that in the Holy of Holies—a room in the temple that only the President of the Church may enter—there are two chairs, facing each other; and that while in a room adjoining the Holy of Holies, Elder James E. Talmage saw a great light through a high window between the two. Perhaps these are true, perhaps not; that’s what makes them “urban legend.” However, I personally believe that each of the Lord’s Apostles will at some point have the opportunity to see Him, an opinion buoyed by a statement made by Elder Richard G. Scott: Elder Scott was speaking to about 1,500 missionaries in the Provo Utah Missionary Training Center, on 14 March 1995—just two days after Gordon B. Hinckley was set apart as President of the Church, and just six days after I left the MTC for the mission field. Thus, my knowledge of what transpired is only through the testimony of a friend. However, this friend informed me that near the end of his remarks, Elder Scott informed the missionaries that he knew that Jesus is the Christ, that He leads and guides this work. He then became rather emotional. With no attempt to hide his tears, he looked out at the congregation and stated: “I used to BELIEVE, but now I KNOW.” And at that moment, my friend also knew. (And so another urban legend begins.) ;-) The bottom line is that while you may take this last anecdote with a grain of salt—it is, after all, secondhand information, and I can’t tell you exactly what the Spirit told my friend—I’d say most Latter-day Saints do believe that the Lord still comes to His temple. Probably not every day, maybe not even every year; but when He is needed, He is there.

Mormons would believe anything