During a Church News interview in 1985, President Thomas S. Monson, then second counselor in the First Presidency, told of having been called at age 22 to serve as bishop of the Sixth-Seventh Ward, in which he had grown up in Salt Lake City.

"Why I was called as bishop, I can't tell you," he said during the interview. "Only the Lord would know that."

On Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, that former bishop was introduced at a news media briefing as the 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

No living person is more acquainted with the office of Church president. He has spent the past 22 years in the First Presidency, serving as a counselor to three presidents: second counselor to President Ezra Taft Benson and President Howard W. Hunter and, for nearly 13 years, first counselor to President Gordon B. Hinckley.

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Stories displayed below are sorted by date, most recent at the top of the list and contain at least one reference to President Monson.

• Comfort, healing found at Jamboree
  
  Published: Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005
• Let's do it again, Church leader says
  
  Published: Saturday, July 30, 2005
• Jamboree tragedy: Leaders die in accident
  
  Published: Saturday, July 30, 2005
• President Faust recounts fulfilling 85 years
  
  Published: Saturday, July 23, 2005
• Swedish Mission centennial celebrated
  
  Published: Saturday, July 16, 2005
• In Outer Hebrides, the faithful persevere
  
  Published: Saturday, July 16, 2005
• 'Always a missionary'
  
  Published: Saturday, July 2, 2005
• 'Move forward'
  
  Published: Saturday, June 25, 2005
• Witness to history
  
  Published: Saturday, June 25, 2005
• Happy Birthday
  
  Published: Saturday, June 25, 2005
• Builders of boys
  
  Published: Saturday, June 18, 2005
• Wondrous work of preaching gospel
  
  Published: Saturday, June 11, 2005
• A thought from the scriptures
  
  Published: Saturday, May 28, 2005
• Faithful counseled in the UK, Ireland
  
  Published: Saturday, May 21, 2005
• Anniversary gift: Church-owned company celebrates its centennial
  
  Published: Saturday, May 14, 2005
• Distinguished Utahn
  
  Published: Saturday, May 7, 2005
• President Monson lauded for service
  
  Published: Saturday, April 23, 2005
• Surgeon's life work honored
  
  Published: Saturday, April 23, 2005
• Saturday morning session
  
  Published: Saturday, April 9, 2005
• Saturday afternoon session
  
  Published: Saturday, April 9, 2005
• Counsel to parents
  
  Published: Saturday, April 9, 2005
• Sunday afternoon session
  
  Published: Saturday, April 9, 2005
• Priesthood session
  
  Published: Saturday, April 9, 2005
• Avoid complacency, members admonished
  
  Published: Saturday, April 9, 2005
• 'How blessed we are'
  
  Published: Saturday, April 9, 2005
• Priesthood is perfect plan of service
  
  Published: Saturday, April 9, 2005
• Code of conduct: A guide of safety
  
  Published: Saturday, April 2, 2005
• LDS hail a decade of great 'flowering'
  
  Published: Saturday, April 2, 2005
• Moving Church forward with faith
  
  Published: Saturday, March 19, 2005
• Selfless service
  
  Published: Saturday, March 12, 2005
• 1995 - 2005
  
  Published: Saturday, March 12, 2005
• First Presidency marks 10 years
  
  Published: Saturday, March 12, 2005
• This week in Church history
  
  Published: Saturday, March 12, 2005
• Elder David E. Sorensen: The blessing of work
  
  Published: Sunday, March 6, 2005
• Valued assistance for Rotary causes
  
  Published: Saturday, March 5, 2005
• Prodigious project
  
  Published: Saturday, March 5, 2005
• Regal, faithful woman remembered lovingly
  
  Published: Saturday, Feb. 26, 2005
• Thanks for support
  
  Published: Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005
• Elder Russell M. Nelson: Faith and families
  
  Published: Sunday, Feb. 6, 2005
• Crafting strong boys into strong men
  
  Published: Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005
• Uniting in goodwill
  
  Published: Saturday, Jan. 8, 2005
• Only the beginning
  
  Published: Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005
• 2004: Year in review
  
  Published: Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004
• Love, faith recalled
  
  Published: Saturday, Dec. 18, 2004
• Sacred writ: Beautiful words of Savior's birth
  
  Published: Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004
• Pres. Monson: Let holiday be a time of forgetting self; serving others
  
  Published: Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004
• Christmas memories: 'What did you give for Christmas?'
  
  Published: Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004
• German apostle embraces world
  
  Published: Saturday, Oct. 16, 2004
• President Hinckley speaks at international symposium
  
  Published: Saturday, Oct. 16, 2004
• Teach, testify and rescue others
  
  Published: Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004