In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (casually known as the Mormon Church), twelve apostles are called by God to help the First Presidency lead the Church and be special witnesses of Jesus Christ to the world.  Together they form the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.  These men have the Melchizedek Priesthood. This priesthood was given to Joseph Smith (Read more).

Thomas S. Monson (First Counselor in the First Presidency)

Thomas S. Monson is the First Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church).
Thomas Spencer Monson was born on August 21, 1927 in Salt Lake City. He was compassionate even as a young boy. When he found out that one of his friends would be eating only cereal with water for Christmas dinner, he took his two (Read more).

James E. Faust (Second Counselor in the First Presidency)

President James E. Faust is the second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church). As second counselor, he is also assigned to be vice chairman of the Church Board of Education; on the board of trustees of Brigham Young University; on the Welfare Services Executive Committee; and (Read more).

Boyd K. Packer (Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles)

Boyd Kenneth Packer was born on September 10, 1924 in Brigham City, Utah. He was the tenth of eleven children born to Ira and Emma Packer and was the first of their children to be born in a hospital. He grew up as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) and was baptized into the Church as a child. As a young boy he suffered from (Read more).

L. Tom Perry

L. Tom Perry was born on August 5, 1922 in Logan, Utah. He was the oldest boy. His parents were strong members of the Mormon Church and encouraged their children to participate by involving them in their callings. Elder Perry said of his family, “Growing up in the home I was in, it was hard not to have a testimony; it was woven into our lives by our parents.” (Read more).

Russell M. Nelson

Dallin H. Oaks

Dallin H. Oaks was born in Provo, Utah on August 12, 1932. His father died of tuberculosis when he was only eight years old. Just three years after his father’s death Elder Oaks began working to help his mother. His first job was to sweep at a radio repair shop. This first job led the young boy to become interested in radios. Before he was sixteen years old he had (Read more).

M. Russell Ballard

Melvin Russell Ballard was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 8, 1928. He was the only boy with three sisters. In 1948 he was called to serve a mission to England. He was a counselor in the mission presidency and served honorably. He returned in 1950 and met Barbara Bowen at a dance held at the University of Utah. They dated for eleven months. (Read more).

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joseph Bitner Wirthlin was born on June 11, 1917 in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a youth he enjoyed singing and athletics and was the quarterback on his high school football team and the halfback at the University of Utah. He was called on a mission to Germany and Switzerland. When he returned in 1939 he took over the family business because his father had been (Read more).

Richard G. Scott

Richard Gordon Scott was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) on October 1, 1988 and was ordained on October 6, 1988, filling the vacancy left after the death of Elder Marion G. Romney. Elder Scott was born on November 7, 1928 to Kenneth Leroy and Mary Whittle Scott (Read more).

Robert D. Hales

Robert Dean Hales was sustained to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 2, 1994 and ordained an apostle on April 7, 1994. He was born on August 24, 1932 to John Rulon and Vera Marie Holbrook Hales in New York City, New York. The gospel was the center of family life (Read more).

Jeffrey R. Holland

Jeffrey R. Holland was born on December 3, 1940 and grew up in St. George, Utah. As a boy he enjoyed sports, especially baseball. Elder Holland once stated, “I played on every kind of team that could have been assembled.” He attended Dixie High School and was on the state championship football and basketball teams. He received letters for football, basketball, track, and (Read more).

Henry B. Eyring

Henry Bennion Eyring was born on May 31, 1933 in New Jersey. He grew up in a small branch (small congregation in the Mormon Church) that often met in a hotel room or the Eyring home. Both of his parents were highly educated. His father was a professor of chemistry at Princeton and earned numerous awards in his field. His mother was a graduate of the (Read more).

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Dieter F. Uchtdorf was born in Czechoslovakia on November 6, 1940 in the middle of the horror of World War II. While Elder Uchtdorf was very young his father was taken and forced to join the German army. His mother, Hildegard, afraid for her family’s safety, moved the family to Zwickau, Germany. When the war ended Elder Uchtdorf’s father returned, (Read more).

David A. Bednar

David Allen Bednar was born on June 15, 1952. He grew up with a mother who was strong in the Mormon Church and a father who was not a member but faithfully went to Church with his family and joined in Church functions. “Throughout his youth and even from the mission field, Elder Bednar would ask his father, ‘Dad, when are you going to be baptized? The answer was, (Read more).