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Thomas S. Monson

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

  • Family night: 'Vast good will come'

    Angi and Jon Hansen hold family home evening each week for two reasons. The first is because they have been promised by their Church leaders that it will make a difference in their family. The second, Sister Hansen said, is that it does make a difference in their family.
    Published: Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009

  • A thought from the scriptures

    Those who have ... been tithed shall pay one tenth of all their interest annually;and this shall be a standing law unto them forever. — Doctrine and Covenants 119:4
    Published: Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009

  • Pacific islanders feel spiritual uplift

    President Dieter F. Uchtdorf arrived in the Samoas Nov. 7 to deliver messages of encouragement and hope and promise to multitudes of resilient members who will forever feel the pain exacted by a recent deadly earthquake and tsunami.
    Published: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009

  • Messages of inspiration from President Monson

    No one has described these years as being easy. Indeed, they have become increasingly more difficult. The world seems to have slipped from the moorings of safety and drifted from the harbor of peace. Permissiveness, immorality, pornography and the power of peer pressure cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings and shattered dreams.
    Published: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009

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