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TABLE OF CONTENTS Who is the new prophet?

The First Couselor

Learn about solenm assemblies

With faith and humility

The life of Russell M. Nelson — 6-8

How members sustain a new leader — 9

Calling apostles

Changes have led to vacancies — 10

Dallin H. Oaks hails from Provo — 12

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I found this poem some 15 years ago at a time in my life when a good kick in the pants was needed – certain trials seemed overwhelming at the time and my light had dimmed somewhat from looking only inward.

In the world of attending to funeral services, we have many opportunities to have our cups filled through hearing life changing suggestions from the talks given by wonderful brothers and sisters who shine their light for others to see.

Recently, at the funeral of a 50-year-old gentleman who had suddenly passed away, my husband, Curtis, and I had the pleasure of hearing such remarks given by President John Wynn. President Wynn was a bishop to this good man at a time when he was at a crossroads in his life. The central point of his talk was that of loving and connecting with each other, of being non-judgmental, because we do not know what another person has gone through in life.

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Success in overcoming trials does not necessarily transpire in a graceful way, at least that has been my experience!

Furthermore, some individuals are asked to make it through more difficult trials than others. A true triumph in life is when we can be keenly aware of the fact that our lives are not equal - there is no purpose in judging, being sinners ourselves – and that we are here to love, be loved, and do all we can to help others along their way, remembering “No one can take our place, For it is ours alone to fill.”

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President Russell M. Nelson smiles at a family member after the press conference in the lobby of the Church Office Building on Jan. 16 in Salt Lake City.

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Just 10 days after President Russell M. Nelson is sustained by the membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the April general conference, he will embark on his first long journey as president of the church.

He, his wife Wendy Nelson, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland and his wife Pat Holland, will take a two-week global tour to several countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.

For almost anyone, this would be a robust and exhausting venture. For a man who is 93 it is nearly miraculous.

Miracles are not new to Nelson. He often recounts how he has seen the work of God’s hands in his own life, as he has performed numerous open-heart surgeries and blessed lives through his church service.

Early life and family

Nelson was born Sept. 9, 1924, in Salt Lake City, the son of Marion C. and Edna Anderson Nelson.

His church biography states, “As a boy, Russell Nelson had many interests, but in college he decided to study medicine.”

It is evident Nelson loved the study of medicine. By the time he received his degree in June 1945, he was already well into his first year of medical school. He completed the four-year course in three years.

“In August 1947, he was a full-fledged M.D. at age 22, having graduated with highest honors,” according to his biography.

While all of the studying was going on, Nelson met and married Dantzel White. “Russell had been persuaded to participate in a play at the university, and she was a lead soprano in the play.

When he met her and heard her sing, he was smitten. He needed no further motivation to perform in the play, and they were married three years later in August 1945 in the Salt Lake Temple,” reads his biography.

The Nelsons had 10 children — nine girls and a boy. Dantzel Nelson died in February 2005. Nelson married Wendy L. Watson in April 2008 in the Salt Lake Temple.

Wendy Nelson was born in 1950 in Raymond, Alberta, Canada, to Leonard David and Laura McLean Watson. She

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Professional life

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Russell M. Nelson, 28 months old in 1927. earned a bachelor’s degree in 1975 from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Calgary in family therapy and gerontology.

According to church information, she was a professor of marriage and family

Nelson’s career as a surgeon not only brought him attention, but also took him all over the world, educating people in thoracic surgery.

“He served his residency in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and at the University of Minnesota, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1954,” his biography states. “He also received honorary degrees of doctor of science from Brigham Young University in 1970, doctor of medical science from Utah State University in 1989, and doctor of humane letters from Snow College in 1994.”

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According to Nelson’s biography, after his internship at the University of Minnesota, he worked on a team that made medical history.

“After three challenging years, they developed the first machine that performed the functions of a patient’s heart and lungs during open-heart surgery,” the biography states.

Before returning to Salt Lake City, he enlisted to serve a two-year term of medical duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War; he served in Korea, Japan and at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Nelson is an internationally renowned surgeon and medical researcher.

“A host of awards and honors have come to him, including the Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Utah; the Heart of Gold Award from the American Heart Association; a citation for International Service from the American Heart Association; and the Golden Plate Award, presented by the American Academy of Achievement. He has been awarded honorary professorships from three universities in the People’s Republic of China,” his biography states.

Nelson speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese.

Nelson has also served as president of

the Society for Vascular Surgery, a director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, chairman of the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery for the American Heart Association, and president of the Utah State Medical Association.

“Men can do very little of themselves to heal sick or broken bodies,” Nelson said in his biography. “With an education they can do a little more; with advanced medical degrees and training, a little more yet can be done. The real power to heal, however, is a gift from God. He has deigned that some of that power may be harnessed via the authority of His priesthood to benefit and bless mankind when all man can do for himself may not be sufficient.”

Church callings

Nelson has held numerous positions of responsibility in the church.

He served as stake president of the Bonneville Stake from 1964 to June, 1971, when he was called as general president of the Sunday School.

Prior to his call to the Quorum of the Twelve, he was serving as a regional representative assigned to Kearns.

Nelson was called to be a member of the Quorum of the Twelve on April 7, 1984. He served as president of the Quorum of the Twelve from July 15, 2015, until he was called as president of the church in January.

He was sustained and set apart as the 17th president of the church Jan. 14, in the upper room of the Salt Lake Temple.

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The covenant nature of solemn assemblies GENELLE PUGMIRE

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Following the calling and setting apart of a new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints comes a very sacred moment during general conference when, historically, a solemn assembly is held for the membership of the church to sustain their new leader.

On the occasion of President Thomas S. Monson’s solemn assembly, President Russell M. Nelson, now-president of the church, noted the importance of the moment.

“Today, at this solemn assembly, we have complied with the will of the Lord, who said that ‘it shall not be given to anyone to go forth to preach my gospel, or to build up my church, except he be ordained by … one who has authority, and it is known to the church that he has authority and has been regularly ordained by the heads of the church,’” Nelson said. “This law of common consent has been invoked, and the church will move forward on its prescribed course.”

During this April’s general conference, it will be Nelson’s turn for a solemn assembly for the sustaining vote of the church. It is expected the historic tradition of the assembly will continue.

President N. Eldon Tanner conducted President Spencer W. Kimball’s solemn assembly.

According to Tanner, there is a pattern to solemn assemblies, which distinguishes them from other church meetings where members sustain officers of the church.

A solemn assembly is different than the common sustaining of local stake and ward leaders. During those occasions, members are typically seated and join together in their sustaining by raising their right hand to show support as a full congregation.

Solemn assemblies vary slightly.

“That pattern, which was established by the prophet Joseph Smith, is that the priesthood quorums, commencing with the First Presidency, stand and manifest by the uplifted right hand their willingness to sustain the president of the shurch as a prophet,

seer and revelator, and uphold him by their confidence, faith and prayers,” Tanner said.

The priesthood, in their various quorums of the church, follow the same pattern and so manifest by their vote.

Then, the members of the church are invited to stand where they are and signify their willingness to do the same.

The other leaders of the church are similarly sustained in their offices and callings.

“When we sustain the president of the church by our uplifted hand, it not only signifies that we acknowledge before God that he is the rightful possessor of all the priesthood keys; it also means that we covenant with God that we will abide by the direction and the counsel that come through His prophet,” Tanner said. “It is a solemn covenant.”

Dating from Oct. 10, 1880, when John Taylor was sustained to succeed Brigham Young as prophet, seer, revelator and president of the church, each such occasion has been designated a formal solemn assembly of

the body of the church.

“We have now reached a point where many times the number seated in the Tabernacle are assembled in other church halls across the United States and Canada, as well as in other parts of the world,” said Gordon B. Hinckley, then-counselor in the First Presidency, at the time of President Howard W. Hunter’s solemn assembly. “Furthermore, many are seated in their homes, listening to the conference. All of you, wherever you may be, are invited to participate in this solemn and sacred undertaking when we sustain a new president of the church together with other officers.”

Hinckley continued, “In these present circumstances, it is considered unfeasible to seat by quorums those assembled in the Tabernacle and the many other halls. We shall, however, vote by quorums and groups. Wherever you are, you are invited to stand when requested and express by your uplifted hands whether you choose to sustain those whose names will be put before you.”

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The process of calling an apostle in the LDS Church

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Between the Sunday sessions of the most recent general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, beloved apostle Elder Robert D. Hales died.

His death left a hole in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and in the hearts of his fellow brethren.

When President Thomas S. Monson, also technically an apostle, died just three months later, two seats were left to be filled in the quorum.

It is anticipated that during this April’s general conference, members of the church will see the calling and sustaining of two new men to apostleship.

The process by which an apostle is called is considered a spiritual experience for those involved. Each church president has the right to determine how that selection will happen.

Most typically, the prophet will ask members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to privately select some names he feels would be who the Lord would like to serve in that capacity. This is the method Monson used.

The prophet takes the names into consideration.

Through consultation, with much prayer, fasting and meditation, the prophet chooses the name or names of who to call. He then seeks approval of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Apostles are called to minister to the world and to testify of Jesus Christ. Apostles are called to be special

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It was at the April 1994 general conference when Hales was called to the apostleship. At that time, President Gordon B. Hinckley, then president of the church, spoke on how an apostle is called in his talk, “God is at the Helm.”

“We have sustained, this afternoon, a number of newly-called officers. We welcome each with love and respect. Among these is brother Robert D. Hales, to become a member of the [Quorum] of the Twelve Apostles,” Hinckley said.

“He fills a vacancy made by the passing of our beloved friend and associate, Elder Marvin J. Ashton,” Hinckley continued. “In filling that vacancy, each member of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve was at liberty to make suggestions. I am confident that in every case, there was solemn and earnest prayer. A choice was then made by the First Presidency, again after solemn and serious prayer. This choice was sustained by the Council of the Twelve. Today, the membership of the Church in conference assembled has sustained that choice.”

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Provo native, Dallin H. Oaks now serves as first counselor in the First Presidency GENELLE PUGMIRE

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Talk to old-timers in Provo and if they went to Provo High School, they most likely would know Stella Oaks. She was a favorite amongst the students and staff at the school.

However, it’s Stella’s oldest son, Dallin, who catches people’s attention in the area now. Stella’s boy, President Dallin H. Oaks is an apostle and was set apart Jan. 14 as the first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Based on seniority, he is next in line to be president of the church.

Early life

Dallin Oaks was born Aug. 12, 1932, to Lloyd and Stella Harris Oaks. He was named after Cyrus E. Dallin, a Utah artist and the one who suggested the Angel Moroni be atop the Salt Lake City Temple. The artist was not LDS, but was well-known in the Springville and Utah County communities.

Lloyd Oaks was a doctor and when Dallin was just 10 years old, Lloyd contracted tuberculosis from a patient and died. Stella Oaks was left a young widow with three small children to raise. Dallin Oaks was the oldest, with younger brother Merrill and sister Evelyn.

Merrill Oaks is a retired ophthalmologist and emeritus General Authority Seventy. He practiced ophthalmology in Provo and was president of the medical staff at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center for a time. Evelyn is married to Dr. Lyman Moody and lives in Provo.

According to his biography from the LDS Church, Dallin Oaks said, “I was blessed with an extraordinary mother.

She surely was one of the many noble women who have lived in the latter days.”

Before her death in 1980, Stella Oaks was known as a force for good in Provo, in both church and civic service.

“She gave me a great deal of respon-

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Elder Dallin H. Oaks waves to the children during a cultural celebration at LaVell Edwards Stadium to coincide with Payson Utah Temple dedication on June 6, 2015. sibility and freedom. She encouraged me to have a job,” Dallin Oaks explains.

From the time he first worked for pay, “at 11 or 12,” he has been continuously employed.

“His first job was sweeping out a radio repair shop,” according to his biography on LDS.org. “He had to learn to test the tubes he found on the floor, to find out if some were still good, and that led to an interest in radio. He threw himself into study with characteristic intensity.”

Before he was 16, he had obtained a first-class radiotelephone operator’s license, which allowed him to operate a commercial radio station’s transmitter, and he found a job in radio. Station managers liked to hire a “combination man” — a transmitter engineer who could double as an announcer — “but my voice hadn’t changed,” he recalls, laughing.

Before long, however, that change took care of itself, and he was working regularly as an announcer and an engineer.

Family life

Dallin Oaks’ biography notes that his motto over the years, which he used with his own family is, “Work first, play later.”

His family, though, said they are tempted

to change it to: “Work first, play never.”

Dallin Oaks says he is good-natured about it. He said what it means is that he rarely does something only to have fun, but rather that, “I just have fun at [whatever] I do.”

He served in the National Guard Army Artillery during the Korean War, which prevented him from serving a full-time mission for the church.

It was while he was announcing high school basketball games as a college freshman that he met his first wife, June Dixon. They were married on June 24, 1952. They had six children.

June Oaks died of cancer July 21, 1998.

In his biography he notes, “I did not know why I received a ‘no’ answer to my prayers for the recovery of my wife of many years, but the Lord gave me a witness that this was His will, and He gave me the strength to accept it.”

On Aug. 25, 2000, Dallin Oaks married Kristen M. McMain in the Salt Lake Temple. Prior to their marriage, Kristen Oaks obtained a doctorate degree from Brigham Young University, in addition to her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. She also served a full-time mission in the Japan Sen-

dai Mission, according to church information.

Education and professional life

Dallin Oaks earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University in 1954. He continued on to receive a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1957.

He practiced and taught law in Chicago. He was president of Brigham Young University from 1971 to 1980, and a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1980 until his resignation in 1984.

“I can’t think of anything in public life I’d rather do than be an appellate judge,” he said in his biography.

He resigned to accept his calling to the apostleship in May of 1984, after only four years in the appellate court judgeship. Oaks is one of few who have been called to the apostleship without extensive service as a member of the Quorum of the Seventy or other high church callings.

He speaks out on controversial issues, such as young single adults taking time to date, threats to religious liberty and pornography.

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Henry B. Eyring: Humble educator serving the world GENELLE PUGMIRE

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His name is Henry, but friends and family call him Hal. This studious educator directed his life in such as fashion so he can serve in the highest levels of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Now, President Henry B. Eyring has been called to serve as second counselor in the First Presidency, with President Russell M. Nelson as president and President Dallin H. Oaks as first counselor.

Life and Education

Henry Bennion Eyring was born on May 31, 1933, in Princeton, New Jersey, to Henry Eyring and Mildred Bennion Eyring. His father, Henry Eyring, was a well-known chemist and taught at Princeton University. His father’s sister was Camilla Kimball, wife of President Spencer W. Kimball.

Henry B. Eyring was a sober child who put his studies before other things.

The one other thing he did make time for was basketball. He played on his high school team.

Henry’s father wanted his sons to study physics and have careers in sciences, but Henry B. Eyring had other ideas. That said, he did complete a physics degree at the University of Utah in 1955. Almost immediately, he entered the U.S. Air Force and went to Sandia Base near Albuquerque.

It was there he was called as a district missionary in the Western States Mission and served in that capacity for the two years he was in the military.

Following his obligations to the military, Eyring enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Business and earned a master’s degree in 1959 and a doctorate in 1963. Both degrees were in business administration.

He married Kathleen Johnson in July 1962. They are the parents of four sons and two daughters.

According to church information, Eyring and his wife met at a young single adult meeting held at Rindge, New Hampshire at the Cathedral of the Pines in the spring of 1960. They became further acquainted at a meeting at the LDS Longfellow Park Chapel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the next summer. Johnson was a native of Palo Alto and was a student at Stanford

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President Henry B. Eyring, first counselor in the First Presidency, shakes hands with members of the funeral party during the funeral of Thomas S. Monson, late prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on Jan. 12 at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City.

University. She had previously studied during the summers at the University of Vienna and University of Paris and studied at Harvard University the summer she met Eyring.

A few months after they were married, Eyring became an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business until 1971. He said he found his niche in teaching.

Serving in the church

Eyring moved on and accepted the offer to be president of Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, in 1971. He was the college’s president until 1977.

A story in his church biography tells of a conversation he had with his uncle President Spencer W. Kimball, president of the church. A few years after Henry B. Eyring became president of what is now Brigham Young University-Idaho (then Ricks College), he was offered a high-paying, prestige-filled job in Southern California.

“It sounds like a great opportunity,”

his uncle Spencer W. Kimball, the 12th president of the church (1895-1985), told him, as Eyring described the offer and its benefits. “If we ever needed you, we would know where you were.”

Eyring had expected Kimball to ask him to stay on at Ricks, so he and his wife, Kathleen, decided to fast and pray about their decision. Within a week, Eyring said he felt spiritually prompted he would have the privilege of staying at Ricks College “a little longer.”

Eyring called Jeffrey R. Holland, then commissioner of the Church Educational System, and told Holland that he had turned the job offer down.

That evening, Eyring received a phone call from Kimball.

“I understand you’ve decided to stay,” said Kimball.

“Yes,” he replied.

“Do you think you’ve made a sacrifice?” asked Kimball.

“No.” “That’s right,” Kimball assured him, and ended the conversation.

Eyring served as first counselor in the Presiding Bishopric of the church from April 1985 to September 1992 and as church commissioner of education from September 1980 to April 1985 and also September 1992 to January 2005.

On April 1, 1995, Eyring was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Then, on Jan. 27, 2008, President Thomas S. Monson called Eyring to serve as first counselor in the First Presidency after having served for four months as second counselor under President Gordon B. Hinckley. Since then, he said he has sought an increased portion of the Lord’s spirit to bless church members throughout the world.

His church biography says, “For those who know President Henry B. Eyring, his willingness to follow spiritual promptings comes as no surprise. He has learned for himself that faith and humility, coupled with obedience, qualify God’s children for blessings richer than worldly wealth.”

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Elder Uchtdorf remains busy with new assignments GENELLE PUGMIRE

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When President Russell M. Nelson selected Elder Dallin H. Oaks and Elder Henry B. Eyring as his counselors in the new First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, some voiced concerns that Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf had, in some fashion, been demoted.

Uchtdorf had served as second counselor to President Thomas S. Monson for about 10 years. Most young members of the church don’t remember him in any other calling. Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook had messages of sadness that he was no longer in the First Presidency.

Uchtdorf’s popularity

Uchtdorf’s ability to connect with the youth and millennials of the church is one of his and his wife Harriet’s greatest joys. In a recent devotional held Jan. 14, the day he was also released from the First Presidency, he explained how he feels young.

“Older generations have much

more in common with yours than you might suppose,” Uchtdorf said. “For instance, many of you have questions about God and about yourself — deep, fundamental questions that are similar to those asked by people much older than you,” he said. “Despite my current age, I still feel young inside. In fact, most of us older people consider ourselves to be young people who have just been living a very long time.”

After that devotional, the Uchtdorfs mingled with the crowd and invited the young adults to enjoy the activities on Temple Square, which included refreshments and discussion tables in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

The Christmas lights, normally turned off on Jan. 2, were turned back on for the special event. An estimated 28,000 people attended the devotional at the Conference Center and overflow facilities and activities on Temple Square.

To say Uchtdorf is popular is an understatement.

As an apostle, Uchtdorf, like any other apostle, serves in the Quorum of the Twelve and in any callings to

which he may be asked to serve, including being called to the First Presidency. When that calling was done, Uchtdorf took his place back with the Quorum of the Twelve and waited for new assignments.

An apostle serves until his death.

At the announcement of a new First Presidency on Jan. 16, Nelson, the 17th president of the church, thanked Uchtdorf for his “totally capable, devoted, and inspired [service].” Nelson said Uchtdorf “has resumed his place in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and has already received major assignments for which he is uniquely qualified … and where he is needed most.”

New assignments

The assignments came quickly and with heavy responsibility.

According to a church statement, “The assignments given to Elder Uchtdorf include chair of the Missionary Executive Council, chair of the Correlation Executive Council and the primary contact for the Europe and Europe East Areas.

“Additionally, Elder Uchtdorf will represent the Office of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve in his capacity as chair of the Missionary Executive Council, where he will direct the global operation of all missionary activities of the Church.”

The Correlation Executive Council reviews and approves all church materials and products.

Prior to his calling as an apostle in 2004, Uchtdorf spent much of his life working and serving in various church leadership positions in Europe. He was born in Czechoslovakia and lived in Germany, where he and his family joined the church.

His vast experience in his work in the church and his life’s work as a pilot have given him important tools for his current assignments.

Uchtdorf was sustained as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on Oct. 2, 2004. He was called as second counselor in the church’s First Presidency on Feb. 3, 2008. He has served as a general authority since April 1994.

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