Robert J. Whetten

Robert J. Whetten

Robert Jay Whetten (born 12 April 1943) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1998 to 2006. Whetten previously had served in many leadership positions in the LDS Church and as a bank executive.

Whetten was born in Chuichupa, Chihuahua, Mexico to Glen A. Whetten and Ada May Judd. ["2005 Deseret Morning News Church Almanac" (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News, 2004), p. 48] Whetten was educatd in LDS Church schools in Mexico. From 1962 to 1964 Whetten served as an LDS Church missionary in the Southeast Mexican Mission of the church."Church News", July 4, 1998.]

Whetten received a bachelor's degree in sociology and Spanish from Brigham Young University and later an MPA degree from the same university. On 17 December 1966 Whetten married Raquel López, a native of Mexico who had largely grown up in the United States, in the Mesa Arizona Temple. Whetten and his wife are the parents of eight children.

Whetten has served as a bishop and a counselor in a stake presidency of the LDS Church. [ [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=c0bd605ff590c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “Elder Robert J. Whetten Of the Seventy,”] "Ensign", May 1998, p. 109.]

Whetten served as president of the Paraguay Asunción Mission of the church from 1996 to 1998, succeeding Jeffry A. Allred in this position.

In 1998, Whetten became a member of the church's Second Quorum of the Seventy. While in this position, Whetten served as president of the South America North Area and the Mexico North Area of the church. In 2006, Whetten was released from the Second Quorum of the Seventy and from full-time ecclesiastical service.

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* [http://gapages.com/whettrj1.htm Grampa Bill's G.A. Pages: Robert J. Whetten]


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