Christofferson Discusses How President Monson Calls a New Apostle, Reflects on Scott

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Kylie Ravsten

Joined: May 2014

This article was written by Tad Walch for Deseret News. The following is an excerpt. 

PHILADELPHIA — The passing this week of his former mission president and colleague in the LDS Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles is “a sacred moment” for Elder D. Todd Christofferson.

Elder Richard G. Scott, who died Tuesday at age 86, became the president of the Argentina North Mission in 1965, where Elder Christofferson was serving at the time.

“It’s always tender to see someone at the end of their ministry,” Elder Christofferson said, “whatever the circumstances, and reflect on what it has meant over the years, the difference they’ve made.

“It becomes kind of a sacred moment, a reflective time,” Elder Christofferson added Thursday during an interview with the Deseret News and KSL in Philadelphia, where he is participating in the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families.

Read Walch’s full article at deseretnews.com.