Neil L. Andersen

Neil Linden Andersen ( born August 9, 1951 in Logan, Utah) is an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints since 2009 and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Life

Andersen was the third of five children. After a short time in his native town and later in Colorado, he grew up in Pocatello, Idaho, where his father began working as a dairy farmer. Andersen studied at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1975 and continued his studies at Harvard Business School, a graduate school at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, continued. In 1977 he received a Master of Business Administration and now settled down after finishing his studies in Tampa, Florida.

From 1989 to 1992 he was president of the mission of his church in Bordeaux, France. As a young man he had worked as a missionary from 1970 to 1972 in France. In April 1993, he was inducted into the 1st Quorum of the Seventy. From 2005 he was also at the Presidency of the Seventy. On April 4, 2009 Andersen of the Church of Jesus Christ was appointed the Latter-day Saints Thomas S. Monson to be an apostle and moved so that the deceased in December 2008 Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in after.

Andersen met his future wife during his studies at Brigham Young University to know. In March 1975, the two married in the Salt Lake Temple. The marriage produced four children.