Spencer W Kimball

Spencer W Kimball

Birth and Childhood Spencer Woolley Kimball was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 28, 1895, to Andrew and Olive Wooley Kimball, where he was the sixth of eleven children. When Spencer was three, his father was called to preside over the St. Joseph Stake in...
Melvin Russell Ballard

Melvin Russell Ballard

Melvin Russell Ballard is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (frequenlty misnamed the Mormon Church). Heritage As the grandson of two former Apostles, Elder Hyrum M. Smith and Elder Melvin J. Ballard; the...
James E Faust

James E Faust

Childhood/Education On July 31, 1920, in Delta, Utah, James Esdras Faust was born to George A. and Amy Finlinson Faust. James was brought up in a home with a foundation built upon the gospel of Jesus Christ and where his mother read and taught him lessons from the...
Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf

Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf

Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf is the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (which church is frequently misnamed the Mormon Church). Childhood Dieter F. Uchtdorf was born in Mahrisch Ostrau, Czechoslovakia, on November...
Heber J Grant

Heber J Grant

Heber J. Grant was born November 22, 1856, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Jedediah M. Grant and Rachel Ivans Grant. Heber’s father died nine days after Heber was born, leaving Rachel to raise her first and only child alone. Even though Heber never knew his father,...
Henry Bennion Eyring

Henry Bennion Eyring

Henry Bennion Eyring, First Counselor of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Henry Erying’s Early Life Known as “Hal” to his family and friends, Henry Bennion Eyring was born on May 31, 1933, to Henry and Mildred Bennion...
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