3 NEW APOSTLES AND CONFERENCE

WITH THE DEATHS OF

ELDER BOYD K. PACKER 

ELDER L. TOM PERRY

 ELDER RICHARD G. SCOTT 

THERE WERE 3 VACANCIES IN THE 

QUORUM OF THE 12 APOSTLES.

THIS ALSO MARKED THE END OF AN ERA FOR ME.

ELDER PACKER WAS THE LAST APOSTLE

FROM MY CHILDHOOD.

(OF COURSE, PRESIDENT MONSON WAS AN

APOSTLE FROM MY YOUTH, TOO.)

ELDER L. TOM PERRY WAS THE FIRST APOSTLE

I REMEMBER BEING SUSTAINED.

IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 100 YEARS THAT

3 APOSTLES WERE SUSTAINED AT THE SAME TIME.

ONE OF THOSE APOSTLES 100+ YEARS AGO WAS

DAVID O. MCKAY.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH WHEN I WAS

BORN UNTIL AGE 10.

THE NEW APOSTLES BECAME THE 

98TH, 99TH, & 100TH APOSTLES OF THE CHURCH!

THE NEW APOSTLES ARE:

RONALD A. RASBAND    GARY E. STEVENSON     DALE G. RENLUND

RONALD A. RASBAND, UTAH

ELDER RASBAND WAS THE SENIOR PRESIDENT

 OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE SEVENTY.

ELDER RASBAND WAS JOSH WISER'S SEALER.

HE WAS THE PRESIDENT & CEO OF THE

HUNTSMAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION.

GARY E. STEVENSON, UTAH

ELDER STEVENSON WAS THE PRESIDING BISHOP.

HE WAS THE PRESIDENT & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER OF

ICON HEALTH & FITNESS INC.

DALE G. RENLUND, UTAH

ELDER RENLUND WAS A MEMBER OF THE

FIRST QUORUM OF SEVENTY.

HE WAS THE PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AT THE

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH AND MEDICAL DIRECTOR

OF THE UTAH TRANSPLANTATION AFFILATED HOSPITALS

CARDIAC TRANSPLANT PROGRAM.

THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE 

QUORUM OF 12 APOSTLES IS

PRESIDENT RUSSELL M. NELSON.

HE DID DAD'S OPEN HEART SURGERY.

SO APOSTLES  #1 & #12 WERE HEART SURGEONS!

HERE'S THE FIRST PHOTO OF THE COMPLETE

QUORUM OF THE 12 APOSTLES.

(THE ORDER IS SEATED...LEFT TO RIGHT, THEN STANDING...LEFT TO RIGHT.)

PRESIDENT RUSSELL M. NELSON, DALLIN H. OAKS, M. RUSSELL BALLARD (TAUGHT HIS GRANDSON, TOMMY), ROBERT D. HALES, JEFFREY R. HOLLAND (DAD'S STUDENT), DAVID A. BEDNAR, QUENTIN L. COOK, D. TODD CHRISTOPHERSON, 

NEIL L. ANDERSON, RONALD A. RASBAND, GARY E. STEVENSON,

DALE G. RENLUND

 WE WENT TO PIZZA PIE CAFÉ FOR SOME BIRTHDAY DINNER
CELEBRATING.  IT WAS GENERAL PRIESTHOOD NIGHT.
I RAN INTO 2 OF THE 5 DOLLAR KIDDOS THAT I TAUGHT...MATT & TYLER.

AND CONFERENCE CASSEROLE BREAKFAST!
THIS TIME, RENAE CAME OVER, SINCE SHE WAS ALONE.