Spencer W. Kimball
Spencer Woolley Kimball ( born March 28, 1895 in Salt Lake City, Utah; † November 5, 1985 in Salt Lake City, Utah) was the 12th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints.
Life
Spencer W. Kimball is the son of Andrew Kimball and Olive Woolley Kimball on March 28, 1895 in Salt Lake City to the world. His father was appointed to take over in the church in Thatcher, Arizona the lead role as stake president, so the family moved there in 1898. His mother died in 1906 and in 1907 married his father Josephine Cluff. 1914 Spencer Kimball is appointed to the Swiss- German Mission. Because of the outbreak of the First World War, the appeal is hereby amended and serves until 1916 in the Central States Mission to United States. On November 19, 1917, he married Camilla Eyring ( sister of the renowned chemist and metallurgist Henry Eyring ). After briefly studying at the University of Arizona he rises in 1918 as a civil servant and a counter clerk in the banking business.
1924 Spencer Kimball's father dies. 1927 Spencer president and head of Kimball - Greenhalgh Realty and Insurance Company. 1943 ends his career, as he is called and ordained by President Heber J. Grant to be an apostle.
In the following years he suffers repeatedly from serious diseases: 1948 a heart disease from which he is recovering. 1957 will be a half vocal cords removed him because of laryngeal cancer and 1972 he undergoes heart surgery.
His presidency
After the death of Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball was ordained on December 30, 1973 President of the Church.
The most outstanding event of his tenure is the admission of all men regardless of their race to the priesthood on June 8, 1978.
During his tenure, 21 Temple to be consecrated. The first four of which he dedicates himself (Washington DC Temple, Sao Paolo, Brazil, Tokyo, Japan, and Seattle, Washington).
1976 Kimball presides over an area conference in Dortmund Westfalenhalle. In 1977 he traveled to Poland and the German Democratic Republic and is the first President of the Church of the countries visited behind the Iron Curtain. On this journey he inaugurates Poland for the preaching of the Gospel.
To take account of the increasing internationalization and growth of the church, he began in 1975 with the formation of the Quorum of the Seventy and leads 1984 Area Presidencies, which preside over defined geographical areas with their piles. In 1980, he changes the order of worship. Instead of Sunday School on Sunday morning and a sacrament meeting in the afternoon as well as additional lessons during the week the worship and lessons are three hours in the block on Sunday mornings usually shortened.
1976 are added, first as part of the Pearl of Great Price, and later as sections 137 and 138 of the Doctrine and Covenants two revelations to the canonical Scriptures. A new edition of the triple combination ( the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price in a band) with revised and extended keywords, annotations and cross-references will be published in 1981, after the Church had in 1979 a published own, annotated edition of the King James translation of the Bible. A new translation of the triple combination into German by Realty Luzhin was also under his presidency, and was published in 1981.
After a long illness, Spencer W. Kimball died on 5 November 1985 in Salt Lake City.