New LDS First Presidency Called

President Thomas S Monson

1st Counselor President Henry B Eyring

2nd Counselor President Dieter F Uchtdorf

President Gordon Bittner Hinckley passes at 97

At 7pm MST tonight (1/27/08), President Hinckley passed away due to old age. Look below for further links and information.

News Media Links:

LDS Official Statement - LDS.org — Official Biography

KUTV - Local TV

KSL - Local Radio/TV

Deseret News - Local Paper

FoxNews - National News

NPR - National Public Radio

Chas is going to Ohio!

Chas, my youngest brother, opened the big, white envelope from Salt Lake City, last night at 5:30pm (pacific daylight time). In it, it instructed him that he would be serving his 2 year English speaking mission in the Ohio - Cleveland mission. He will report to the MTC January 30th, 2008.

We are all very excited about this. We are all VERY proud of the progress he’s made in the past year. I think he’ll do great. We all had kind of made our predictions of where he would be sent. Joe thought some western US area, I thought Brazil, Rachel thought Mid-west like Kentucky or Missouri, and Chas mentioned somewhere in Europe. I served in Florida - Jacksonville, Joe in Wisconsin - Milwaukee and now Chas in Ohio - Cleveland. We all stayed in the US. I thought for sure, the odds would be against him staying stateside.

I wish Chas the best in this new journey in his life. What a great decision to make!

-Timmy