Ages of the Apostles

In case you are interested, here are the ages as of the date of this post of the fifteen men serving in the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve. They are listed in descending age (not seniority of service).  The last column is their date of birth.

L. Tom Perry 91 August 5, 1922 Russell M. Nelson 89 September 9, 1924 Boyd K. Packer 89 September 10, 1924 Thomas S. Monson 86 August 21, 1927 M. Russell Ballard 85 October 8, 1928 Richard G. Scott 85 November 7, 1928 Dallin H. Oaks 81 August 12, 1932 Robert D. Hales 81 August 24, 1932 Henry B. Eyring 80 May 31, 1933 Quentin L. Cook 73 September 8, 1940 Dieter F. Uchtdorf 73 November 6, 1940 Jeffrey R. Holland 73 December 3, 1940 D.Todd Christofferson 69 January 24, 1945 Neil L. Andersen 62 August 9, 1951 David A. Bednar 61 June 15, 1952

President Monson’s most quoted scripture and a great tool!

One of my professors at BYU created this very useful website.   

http://scriptures.byu.edu/

It indexes scriptures from LDS General Conference talks (plus some other Church publications) from 1942-present.  You can look use it 2 ways:

1.       Look up by scripture.  You can look up a scripture and see who has used that particular scripture in General Conference talk.

2.       Look up by speaker. You can look up a speaker and see what scriptures they’ve quoted in their talks.

From this, I gather that President Monson’s most quoted scripture in General Conference is:

D&C 107:99 “let every man learn his duty.” Quoted 16 times

However, if you count this next scripture when it’s either a standalone verse or used with other verses then President Monson has also used it 16 times”

D&C 18:10 “the worth of souls is great in the sight of God”

I did pretty thorough search but you may find something I missed that was higher.  Take a look and use it to look up your favorite scriptures and speakers.

Basic Statistics of the Church

Basic Church numbers:

As of the Church’s most recent report:

15,000,000 members of the Church worldwide
29,104 congregations worldwide
80,000 missionaries
177 different languages Church materials are published in
141 temples

These numbers are expected to be updated in April 2014 General Conference.

Source: http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/facts-and-statistics/