New temple president
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Merrill and Janet Briggs
Pres. Briggs has served as a patriarch, stake president, high councilor, bishop, district president's counselor, stake Sunday School president and Young Men president. He served a mission to New Zealand from 1954-57. A retired Church Educational System coordinator, he received a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah and a master's degree in religious education from BYU. He was born in Bountiful, Utah, to Clyde LeRoy and Esther Thompson Briggs.
Sister Briggs is a former Young Women president and adviser, institute instructor, ward and stake organist, and spiritual living and gospel doctrine teacher. She served a two-year stake mission. Sister Briggs attended Granite High School in Salt Lake City. She was born in Jersey City, N.J., to Kirby Stanley and Rhea Satterthwaite Jensen.
