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Timeline: Thomas S. Monson
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Also, although the Church is clearly a religious organization and not driven by profit like a business, it does have a large beuracracy and it does not hurt to have apostles who understand how to run such organizations.
To me the biggest piece of new info I got was that he was a young men's president before he turned 23 (possibly before turning 22).
Thankyou for this article.
It is clear that he succeeded with great effectiveness at the many responsibilities entrusted to him; especially considering how quickly he moved through positions... not only within the Church, but throughout his professional career.
Within a decade he served as Young Men's President to President of the Canadian Mission! It is as though Church Leaders were impatient to let him complete one assignment before calling him into successively higher positions. Even more amazing is that he was called as Mission President at only 32 years of age! The responsibility must have been incredible; consider that 50 years ago with fewer missions much larger in size, that he probably oversaw all of Canada!
Only a month beyond his 35th birthday, he was ordained an apostle, directly to the quorum of the 12, long before the calling of "70" had been moved from the Stake Level to General Authority.
I look at President Monson with great awe. Is it any wonder that it took him 11 years to complete his Master's degree after being called as an apostle?
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