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General Conference is nearly upon us and we can expect two new apostles to fill the current openings. Like last time, my hopes are for a person of color or at least not more Utah born and raised white guys. My short list: Garrett W. Gong
Gerald Causse (although relatively new as Presiding Bishop)
Ulisses Soares
Thoughts? Just for fun, of course.
I vote for Gerald Causse. He gave one of the best talks I’ve ever heard at a stake conference. I think he’s somewhat Uchtdorf-like. I don’t really know much about either of the other two. I bet they are also considering Kim Clark – in the past they seemed to like BYU and BYUI presidents, plus he seems fairly orthodox which may appeal to the First Presidency.
If speculation got me anywhere – I’d take Patrick Kearon. Yes he’s white, but British. His talk on Refugee’s is still a hallmark address over our GC pulpit. Good news I am taking a GC sabbatical. The less I listen. The less it will hurt.
I’m personally hoping for Robert C. Gay. Not only would it be cool to have a gay apostle, but I did hear him once give a great talk on actively finding ways to serve humankind and he made heavy use of Mother Teresa in the talk. Normally, I would say that Kim B Clark is too old at 69, but RMN obviously isn’t concerned about age, given his picks for the FP.
I hope we get someone that doesn’t look like RMN’s little brother, physically or spiritually, but I have my doubts.
I will not be surprised at all if Whitney Clayton is chosen. He’s been a member of the Pres70 for 10 years, and that group of seven men is the most likely source from which to call a new Apostle. MRB, DFU QLC, DTC, NLA and RAR were all serving in that presidency at the time of their call to the Q12.
I was hoping no one would mention Clayton. He’s on my list of those who I would prefer not. I actually wouldn’t be surprised given his bent, his position as senior president of the Seventy, and the conservative aspect of RMN. The only saving hope is that he wasn;t called last time and has just gotten older. Frankly it might push me over the edge were he to be called. And Clark is a possibility, but I’m not crazy about him either. Interestingly the Seventy become emeritus (that is forced to retire) at age 70 which sort of makes calling one in his late 60s a waste. But there’s no such thing for apostles. Clayton is less than 2 years from emeritus.
A lively discussion from a couple of years ago… last time we had vacancies. A lot of it is still relevant. DarkJedi wrote:
General Conference is nearly upon us and we can expect two new apostles to fill the current openings. Like last time, my hopes are for a person of color or at least not more Utah born and raised white guys. My short list:Garrett W. Gong
Gerald Causse (although relatively new as Presiding Bishop)
Ulisses Soares
Thoughts? Just for fun, of course.
Wow. Your guess was spot on.
This was more of a wish than a prediction Beefster. Wishes do come true! DarkJedi wrote:
This was more of a wish than a prediction Beefster. Wishes do come true!
Do you know much about horses?
SamBee wrote:
DarkJedi wrote:
This was more of a wish than a prediction Beefster. Wishes do come true!
Do you know much about horses?
There is a horse track nearby – maybe I should try my luck!
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