- A. Roger Merrill
Ariel Roger Merrill (born
May 2 ,1945 ) has been the general president of the Sunday School organization ofThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2004. He is the 19th head of the LDS Church's Sunday School.Born in
Salt Lake City ,Utah , to Ariel Carden Merrill and Edith Horsley, Merrill grew up inCarmel, California and served as a missionary for the LDS Church theTexas MIssion of the church in the 1960s. Merrill married Rebecca Rippy in theSalt Lake Temple onJune 7 ,1967 ; they are parents to seven children.On
April 3 ,2004 , LDS Church PresidentGordon B. Hinckley asked that Merrill become the general president of the church's Sunday School auxiliary. [ [http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=534ed9cbdb01c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “The Sustaining of Church Officers”] , "Ensign", May 2004, 24.] It was the first time sinceRussell M. Nelson was called to hold the same position in 1971 that a person who was not ageneral authority of the church had become the Sunday School general president. Merrill askedDaniel K Judd andWilliam D. Oswald to be his counselors in the Sunday School presidency.Previous to his call as general Sunday School president, Merrill served as an Area Seventy of the church.
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* [http://lds.org/portal/site/LDSOrg/menuitem.b12f9d18fae655bb69095bd3e44916a0/?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=3cf3d9cbdb01c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “A. Roger Merrill Sunday School General President”] , "Ensign", May 2004, 125.]
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