Hello again, everyone! The Church News has published a list of new mission leadership (presidents and companions) who will begin serving later this year. Counted among that list are 8 currently-serving area seventies; several former area seventies, Elder Valeri V. Cordon, General Authority Seventy; and Reid L. Neilson, who currently is serving as assistant Church historian and recorder.
The 8 area seventies may or may not be released this April, as area seventies called as mission presidents have been known to fill both assignments for 1-3 General Conferences following the commencement of their service as mission presidents. Elder Cordon, who was sustained as a General Authority Seventy in April 2015, will need to be released as a member of the Central America Area Presidency.
And for Brother Neilson, insofar as I have been able to ascertain, the Church did not formally present his name for sustaining vote in General Conference, so his release may not be done over the pulpit either. But Elder Steven E. Snow, who serves as Church Historian and Recorder, and whose call was presented for sustaining vote, will be 70 in November, so perhaps the Church will bring on both a new Church Historian and Recorder and a new assistant. That will be interesting to learn more about.
Getting back to the subject of new mission leadership, their biographies will be published in the Church News in the coming weeks, and I will pass those along either in new posts on this blog or on the comments of previously-published posts as I become aware of them. That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines.
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Thursday, January 17, 2019
New Mission Presidents Announced
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Elder Wong is being released as President of the Vancouver mission, so it looks like Elder Cordon will be the only General Authority serving in that capacity.
ReplyDeleteHey, Scott! Good catch. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I imagine that Elder Wong will be given an area assignment, or serve in other capacities at Church headquarters. That brings up an interesting thought: What if the Church calls an international General Authority as the new Church historian and recorder? There is no doctrinal precedent that I know of that says one has to be American-born to serve in that capacity.
ReplyDeleteAlso, there was something else that just came to mind that I wanted to mention here. The list mentions those called to serve in the "Utah Area", which is further proof that the 3 areas have been merged into one, but lists the mission presidents called to serve in the other four areas overseen by two area presidencies as four separate and distinct areas. So it appears that only the Utah area was consolidated, and the other four areas remain separate. There will be much more ahead for the Church, I am sure. Thanks again, Scott, for stopping by to comment.
Just looked into this further. Anthon H. Lund, who served in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and in the First Presidency, was born in Denmark, and may have been the first international person to serve as Church Historian and Recorder.
ReplyDeleteBefore that time, internationally-born individuals had served as Assistant or Acting Church Historian and Recorder, but Anthon H. Lund was the first international Church Historian and Recorder. So that is not unprecedented and could happen again. It will be interesting to see what occurs in that regard as well.
Although in the past there may have been a delay in releasing a few area seventy when called to be mission presidents, I beleive you can count on them being released either in April or October of this year. Even in the past, de facto they were released by 1 May to totally engage themselves in their mission calling.
ReplyDeleteIn April General Conference, the Church notes that the effective date for the releases presented at that time is May 1, but I have seen nothing stating that in any October General Conference of which I am aware. Where are you getting that information? If it's not categorically stated by the Brethren, I am not sure where such verification could be found, if indeed it exists anywhere. While it makes sense in a way, since it hasn't been categorically stated as far as I am aware, that might be open to interpretation. If I am in error on this, please point me to the source that can enlighten me on that point. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteAlso, current area seventies who have been assigned to serve as mission presidents in their land of residency have been known to retain both assignments for an extended period of time, which can be verified by several sources in the public domain, particularly sources published by the Church, which list their titles in both assignments.
ReplyDeleteThe San Juan Temple now has a groundbreaking date set for May 4. Looks like the original article was updated today for the groundbreaking announcement.
ReplyDeleteEric, I just looked at the article and refreshed it a few times. In each of the views, both the original and each refreshed version merely showed the sentence stating the groundbreaking would occur later this year. But when i ran a Google search, the following page popped up, which is a separate article:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/groundbreaking-set-for-san-juan-puerto-rico-temple
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