Prophets of The Latter-Days

3. At age 21 called on a mission to the Western States, with headquarters in Denver.
5. He became the president of the St. George Temple, where endowment ordinances were first performed for the dead as well as the living.
7. Longest-serving President of the LDS Church in history, having served for 29 years.
9. He received patriarchal blessing as an eight-year-old.
11. When World War II ended, he helped send supplies to Europe and was also known for his efforts to revitalize missionary work.
12. At the age of fifteen, he was called to go on his first LDS mission to the Sandwich Islands.
13. U.S. President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
15. Suffered a crippling bone infection when he was seven.
16. Known for his determination to achieve goals in baseball & penmanship.
17. He became an LDS bishop at age 22.

1. He was the last president of the LDS Church in the nineteenth century and the first in the twentieth.
2. He served as the 15th United States Secretary of Agriculture
4. At 93 years old; he began his presidential term at an older age than any other president in church history.
6. Was a general authority for nearly 64 years, longer than ayone else in LDS Church history.
8. Nine-month presidential tenure is the shortest in the church's history.
10. Became a noted heart surgeon spending 29 years working in the field of cardiothoracic surgery.
14. He was the only president of the LDS Church to have been born outside the United States.