Neil Linden Andersen (born 9 August 1951) is the junior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was accepted by church membership as an apostle on 4 April 2009 during the April 2009 General Conference of the church. Andersen has been a general authority of the LDS Church since 1993 and was a member of the Presidency of the Seventy from 2005 to 2009.
Andersen was born in Logan...
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Neil Linden Andersen (born 9 August 1951) is the junior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was accepted by church membership as an apostle on 4 April 2009 during the April 2009 General Conference of the church. Andersen has been a general authority of the LDS Church since 1993 and was a member of the Presidency of the Seventy from 2005 to 2009.
Andersen was born in Logan, Utah and raised in Pocatello, Idaho. As a young man, he served in France as a LDS Church missionary. After his mission, he graduated from Brigham Young University and earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School. He lived and worked in Tampa, Florida, where he was the vice president of the Morton Plant Health System. In the church, Andersen was a stake president in Tampa.
Between 1989 and 1992, Andersen was president of the France Bordeaux Mission of the church. In 1993, he became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. As a...
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