This article was originally written by Breanna Olaveson for Utah Valley 360. The following is an excerpt.
1. When President Monson was born in Salt Lake City in 1927, some of the original Mormon pioneers were still living there. In fact, when Gary E. Stevenson — the youngest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — was born in Utah in 1955, at least one was still living. Hilda Erickson, who came to Utah in the last wagon train to leave from Nebraska in 1866, died in 1968 at age 108.
2. Even if Marvin J. Ashton, Bruce R. McConkie, David B. Haight, James E. Faust and Neal A. Maxwell were still living, President Monson would still be president of the Church.
3. In the year 2000, 34 temples were dedicated. That’s the same number of temples dedicated from 1830 to 1984.
4. When today’s youngest full-time missionaries were born in 1997, only one-third of today’s operating temples existed.
Read Olaveson’s full article at utahvalley360.com.
