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My husband’s post predicting the likeliest picks to fill the 3 apostolic vacancies is up at both Wheat & Tares and By Common Consent: http://www.wheatandtares.org/19123/predicting-the-next-apostles-carter-halls-2015-picks/ Personally, I think Rasband, Soares and a surprise pick, but not sure who the surprise will be. Who would be my dream pick? I like the idea of a Jon Huntsman, Jr pick. He’s not active, and more of a cultural Mormon, but in my view he’s a highly moral individual who is one smart cookie. Not going to happen, but while we are dreaming. Obviously, I’d also love to see more cultural (and gender) diversity in the 12, but I realize that they don’t get to those spots until they’ve been well vetted.
I wonder if age plays into the equation in terms of setting up someone likely be a future prophet. It could go both directions. ie I like this guy, but I don’t like him enough to be so much younger than the guys above him that he’s virtual certainty he’ll be a future prophet. Causse might be in this category.
…or I like this guy a lot, I’m going to call him with the intention that he has a very strong chance of being future prophet. Bednar comes to mind that way.
Last night I was watching NFL on TV. Yes on the Sabbath, and I thought wouldn’t it rockin’ to make Steve Young a GA. Huntsman hadn’t crossed my mind till I read Hawkgrrls, but I’ll take that too. Something big, smashing and totally out of the box. Fantasy GA week will continue until Saturday.
mom3 wrote:Last night I was watching NFL on TV. Yes on the Sabbath, and I thought wouldn’t it rockin’ to make Steve Young a GA. Huntsman hadn’t crossed my mind till I read Hawkgrrls, but I’ll take that too. Something big, smashing and totally out of the box.
Fantasy GA week will continue until Saturday.
What about the 3 Nephites? What are the chances that the most senior of them will become president at some point? I can easily see all 3 eventually making up the first presidency for a long ride.They could give their first talk and say, “I hear some in the bloggeracle (yes, we do read them) are saying the apostles have been getting old. I guess we didn’t help since we are MUCH MUCH older than anybody else!”
hawkgrrrl wrote:Who would be my dream pick? I like the idea of a Jon Huntsman, Jr pick. He’s not active, and more of a cultural Mormon, but in my view he’s a highly moral individual who is one smart cookie. Not going to happen, but while we are dreaming. Obviously, I’d also love to see more cultural (and gender) diversity in the 12, but I realize that they don’t get to those spots until they’ve been well vetted.
News to me from the comments section at W&T/BCC was that J. Reuben Clark was called into the Q12 from (at least technical) inactivity and having never served as bishop or stake president. I don’t know much about him, but thought that was an interesting tidbit.Quote:From W. Cleon Skousen: “He hadn’t been where he could be active in the church for 20 to 25 years. He’d never been a Bishop, never been a Stake President. He paid his tithing, but there wasn’t any church, very often, to go to. In Washington you could go to a little Sunday evening affair that Senator Smoot held, but J. Reuben didn’t get along with Senator Smoot, so that was kind of an ordeal. And anyway, he worked seven days a week. He was a workaholic. He afterwards said, “I broke the Sabbath for years! The Lord blessed me in spite of it, but certainly not because of it.”
(I didn’t keep the link/reference for the Skousen quote.)
Jon Huntsman would get my vote. Bonnie Oscarson as the surprise pick. I think I like Soares, and as I have mentioned before he was the only male non-apostle to be included in the Sabbath training video clips. My son likes Zeballos. I could probably live with Rasband, and I would really like Causse but he’s a long shot I think (especially if another non-American is called). There are a couple others on the tier two and three lists I might have a harder time with. And I’d like a surprise in the vein of Nelson/Oaks – but part of the reason they were such surprises was because they were relative unknowns (Oaks had been BYU president, but that was before being BYU president became a path to GA). So I’m totally lost on who a surprise might be – but I’d rule out Mitt. I’m guessing it won’t be an unknown fisherman from Gloucester Massachusetts, or a plantation worker from Ecuador. In all seriousness when I close my eyes I see a gorgeous black man sitting on the stand. Almost Jamaican in features. It may just be the wish of my heart, but it is vivid. I can almost hear the accent. mom3, if Elder Sitati is one of the new apostles, I will consider adding “seer” to your name here. 
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