Modest Living Allowance for Mission Presidents – Everything covered

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Mithryn

The Mission President’s Handbook page 80

Things covered 100%

  • Living expenses (Food, tourist spots, christmas presents, etc.)
  • Medical expenses
  • Mission expenses for children serving
  • One round trip per child to come out and visit you on your mission
  • K-12th school costs
  • College tuition for kids
  • A house with furnishings
  • A house keeper (20 hours per week)
  • All home maintenance
  • Babysitting
  • A car
  • Use of any mission car for the wife for “Shopping and Errands”
  • Fuel and Car Maintenance
  • Travel within the Mission
  • Life insurance

All this 100% tax free (There is a whole section on this)

All this 100% Tithing free

Average expenditures 

  • Food ……………….6,599
  • Housing …………16,887
  • Apparel……………1,736
  • Transportation…..8,998
  • Consumables…….3,556

On average, the Mission president would receive about an income of  37,776, although I would guess that the travel expenses and clothing would be higher expenses

Average cost of a Housekeeper per hour (U.S.) $30 an hour – $31,200

So a 68,976 living allowance add on  22.% for Federal and state taxes would be the same as an $84,495 income.  Add on 10% tithing that doesn’t need to be paid and you get

$92,945

Now that’s assuming that the Mission president lives like an AVERAGE american.  I would guess that many of the homes/cars/details could cost more or less.  This also doesn’t count having family members fly (first class) to come and visit their family

Of course, each Mission President’s take will vary due to location, cost of maids in the country, cost of the mission home (Which is probably nicer than the average american home), cost of medical expenses (Which I didn’t include) in foreign countries, expense at eating, etc.

I think this is a VERY low estimate of the cost per mission president in the United States, but gives a good feeling to what a “Modest Living Allowance” probably means.

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Excommunications, some Perspective

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Mithryn

Today is Friday 13th.  The only one, I’m told, that will have a “full moon” until 2049, or so I’m told, not that I understand why that would be significant.

But the story behind why we fear Friday the 13th, begins long before Jason Voorhees stepped on the big screen.

 On Friday, 13 October 1307, hundreds of the Knights Templar were arrested in France, an action apparently motivated financially and undertaken by the efficient royal bureaucracy to increase the prestige of the crown. Philip IV was the force behind this ruthless move, but it has also tarnished the historical reputation of Clement V. From the very day of Clement V’s coronation, the king falsely charged the Templars with heresy, immorality and abuses, and the scruples of the Pope were compromised by a growing sense that the burgeoning French State might not wait for the Church, but would proceed independently.[7] It is further said Jacques de Molay, Magister (Master of the Knights of the Temple) cursed King Philip IV of France and his descendants from his execution pyre. As he was about to be executed, he appealed “from this your heinous judgement to the living and true God, who is in Heaven”, warning the pope that, within a year and a day, he and Philip IV would be obliged to answer for their crimes in God’s presence. Philip and Clement V both died within a year of Molay’s execution. However, experts agree that this is a relatively recent correlation, and most likely a modern-day invention” “Friday the 13th”. snopes.com. Retrieved 2007-03-26.

You see the Templar were a religious knighthood order, and as part of the religion, they had to take a vow of poverty.  It became the very “in” thing to do, and so wealthy lords and knights would give up their lands and money to the order and join up escorting people to the holyland.  Kind of like a high-fire power religious tour guide company.

Of course, there is any amount of superstition and myth about what they were “Really up to”, including digging up the the temple of Solomon.  Most of that information is pretty tainted because the source is unrelaiable.

You see, the King wanted the Land, and the Church hated competition.  And so, on Friday the 13th, the Templar were to assemble under a sacred tree in France but instead of meeting the authorities they expected, they were arrested.

Most of them were tortured.  The leader was burned at the Pyre, another was made to walk before the king while carrying his recently removed feet in a box.

Under torture they confessed to all kinds of things.  Worshipping Satan, penis-based rituals, finding secret documents, really all kinds of craziness, which was used to justify the torture and arrests made.

So despite all the hullabaloo over John Dehlin, Kate Kelly and Rock Waterman (and others) we can be grateful that torture and death are not on the table for heretics who ask questions these days at least.

(Sources for my knowledge come mainly from the BYU library where I researched the Templar in depth during my college days.  I didn’t write down the sources at that time, and this post isn’t meant to be perfectly historical, mostly just illustrative.

 

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Anyone who thinks the church isn’t trying to control the message

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Mithryn

Okay so first they go after the tribune

Then they sue one of their own to get ownership of the word “Mormon”

Then they excommunicate bloggers and those with voices and followings

As well as the non famous  by lying directly with members that these were local decisions (Ballard met with Kate’s Stake President a week and a half prior to the notice being served)

And yet all I can think of is the wise words of an imp with two different colored eyes

 

 

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A modest proposal that the church has not excommunicated enough

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Mithryn

I’m sure everyone is aware by now that John Dehlin, softspoken P.H.D. who has the audacity to say that Gay people in the church should be respected and welcomed as equals, and Kate Kelly, a woman who claims that women and men are not treated equally in the church (Along with Rock Waterman) are in process of being excommunicated.

This has risen a cry from those who were moderates, or who agreed with John and Kate.  People who think about religious things and have come to conclusions are shocked the LDS church would threaten to excommunicate such individuals.

Well, I think the church hasn’t gone far enough.  There are a lot more individuals more prominent than these two, guilty of the same crimes that should be punished as well

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Elder Gene R. Cook and Mic Jagger

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Mithryn

In 1989, Elder Gene R. Cook gave a speech at Ricks (Now BYU-Idaho) about a time he sat next to Mick Jagger on a plane.  I’m guessing in first class, as I have a hard time seeing the lead singer of the rolling stones in coach.  Most people don’t know it, but GA’s always fly first class on tithing dollars, coach is for missionaries.

Oh yeah, and he wears swaggy pants

In the talk, Elder Cook makes an astounding claim, that is pretty much all anyone remembers from the talk.

…What do you think is the impact of your music on the young people? He said, “Our music is calculated to drive the kids to sex.“

What we’re going to do is re-write the talk as though Mic Jagger was telling the story.  And see why that exchange might have happened

“I was headed to Houston.  Maybe Dallas.  I don’t know I’d had a few quick drinks before I got on the plane, some place in Texas, I was blitzed I don’t know.  This old guy in a white shirt sits down, like next to me.  And he starts praying.  And I was like, oh dude, he’s scared of planes.  But no it was worse.  He was some kind of religious big-wig.”

“And he didn’t even recognize me.  Me.  Like, the guy has no clue what rock music is even.  So I showed him that I was in the plane’s own magazine, dude.  ”

“The the guy totally checks out my legs for a n awkwardly long time.  I have no clue why.  And even though I was reading a magazine the dude would not, shut, up.”

“So then he says ‘Can I ask you a question’, and I’m like, ‘Whatever’ ”  And then, get this, this is his question:

“I have opportunity to be with young people in many different places around the world, and some of them have told me that the kind of music you and others like you sing has no effect on them, that it’s okay, and that it doesn’t affect them adversely in any way. Then other young people have told me very honestly that your kind of music has a real effect on them for evil and that it affects them in a very bad way. You’ve been in this business a long time, Mick. I’d like to know your opinion. What do you think is the impact of your music on the young people?”

“So I think for a second, cause he really believes that music is like devil stuff.  I mean he had no clue who Mic Jagger was, ya know?  And so I *laughter* I totally told him it made kids have sex.  Now he’ll probably go and tell all the kiddies in his church they can have sex if they listen to my music, and my sales will probably go up.”

Cook then says:

I’m sure I had a real look of shock on my face in receiving such a bold response. He quickly added, “Well, it’s not my fault what they do. That’s up to them. I’m just making a lot of money.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is not the record of an honest response, a confession of the devil that rock and roll is bad.  This is a troll.  Before the internet, this is a rock star punking a religious old guy on a plane.  

After that, Mick Jagger ups the ante by explaining that music videos contained sex acts and he was on his way back from filming one in Mexico.

Let’s see, which Rolling Stones Music Video was filmed in Mexico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M10GQyTHkbU

Ah yes, about a teenager and a femme fatal.  Clearly the ultimate in scandal.  Lyrics like “Strapped in a bed on life support tubes in my nose” so sexy.

Whatever I told him in our discussion was white he said was black. And whatever he said was white I told him was black.

The thing is, acting as a missionary, one meets people who have no interest in your particular brand of religion your selling, and they’ll try to turn things on their head because really, they want to enjoy their public transportation without a sales pitch.  And this sounds like a classic case of trying to spook the old guy to get him to go away, or at least provide 2 hours of amusement.

Mr. Cook also informs us of Mick’s scandalous out-of-wedlock children. I don’t know if Mick was pranking him there or not, or if Mr. Cook just decided to make that up to support his case.  We can read about his children in wikipedia with sources cited:

Jagger has seven children with four women (wikipedia sources even for them):

And there you have it.  Yes he has children by 3 different women by the time he was on that plane in 1989, but he had most of them with women he was married to.  Guess that bit needed to be left out, eh Mr. Cook?

He said, “As I listen to you Mormons, your problem is that you think you have things all figured out. Life isn’t that simple.” Then he would go on and explain some complex things, some theory of man. I would answer him in a very simple way from the scriptures, and he would say, “See what I mean?” He was always trying to make things much more complicated than they really were.

And I think this gives it away.  He was familiar with the sales pitch.  He knew what the church was selling, and even says he had taken  three discussions.  When he would bring up a deep thought, the leader of a church answering him would give a rehearsed, scripted  answer like “Pray”.  Mick new the result to whatever he was going to say before the conversation really got going.

So why should we expect Mick’s answers about the music to be sincere?

A little more about Mick, other than he is a scary musician that wants kids to have sex:

  • “one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll” (wikipedia)
  • In 1989 Jagger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Rolling Stones. 
  •  In 2003 he was knighted for his services to music.

Now I’m not saying that Mick is a good guy.  I’m not particularly a fan of his music.  I’m not saying his lifestyle wasn’t crazy.  All I’m saying is, that a general authority was probably being played, and instead of realizing it, he wrote a shocking talk to explain the wickedness of Rock and Roll to college students.

After all, Mick was known for songs such as “You’ll never make a saint out of me” (perhaps a response to Mr. Cook after hearing their conversation was published?) and putting imagery on albums that made southern baptists STILL make websites about it.

Basically, Mick drove his rock groups success on shock and counter culture; and Elder Cook played right into it.

 

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Modesty

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Mithryn

Recently the whole “Shoulders editing in yearbooks” think blew up world wide

Then the students pointed out it was to shame them, and that the boys were NOT photoshopped even though they sometimes wore no shirt at all!

Of course that led to the rebellious counter photoshops:

The obligatory “church = Taliban” post

And of course making Arnold Friberg’s Book of Mormon pictures more modest:

Finally, a more LDS version of the Book of Mormon

This hearkens back to the editing of famous artists’ by the church to cover shoulders as well

But what is really going on?  Was the LDS church always anti-shoulder?

Brigham Young’s Daughters, on LDS.org.

Brigham was Pro-shoulder as being modest.  How about just a few years ago at BYU?

BYU in the 1930’s. Similar photos found for 1950’s and 1960’s

In fact, I cannot remember it being an issue to show shoulders when I was a kid in the 80’s and 90’s.  Back then yoga pants with shorts on top and stretch clothing to hide a midriff was on the EFY handbook itself as the guide to modesty.

Are we all dreaming?  Did the LDS church suddenly go modesty crazy?  Well, yes, in fact we can even show the year, 1999:

What happened in 1999?

The blog  “Zelophehad’s Daughters” posts the number of “modesty related articles” in church magazines by year.  One can quickly see the LDS church has really made an effort to push this new concept.  I have to ask, what did they replace to focus on Modesty?  Articles on Christ?  Prayer?  Family service?

What was the even that happened in 1999 that drove the church to re-emphasize it’s focus on girl’s shoulders so much?  Further, does anyone remember a revelation in 1999 being published that changed the modesty standard?  I don’t.

It was the year 2000, that Hinkley changed the church’s focus to “Earrings, one pair” while terrorists were planning to bring down twin towers (Hinkley spoke on earrings both before and after the world trade center) so clearly during this time period control of physical appearance was being discussed.  I would warn believing members however, that their church is running away on this issue and taking their daughter’s with them.  Without revelation, if this is just policy, in 20 years it could be the next set of things that seem ridiculous that they ever believed or it could be an indication of fundamentalism:

the FLDS always have modest shoulders

 

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Copyright “Mormon”

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Mithryn

Many of you both in and out of the church have probably heard about the trial over ownership of the word “mormon”.

But I would guess you wouldn’t think it a “Big deal”.  Why does the church even care.

Well, think of it this way:  The church is Moe, and he has just found the kid on the playground who is the easiest to beat up:

Give me the copyright twinkie or you’ll never see salvation

You see the church could have gone after any website using the name “Mormon”, for example, my own.  Or how about any of these:

And any number of additional groups whose message is not owned by the church.  But all of these are already opposed to the LDS church and unlikely to cave.  No, the church went after one of it’s own members thinking, I’d bet, he or she would cave quickly to their control.

And the Church would want it to go to trial.  They would want a clear legal victory on the books for owning the term Mormon.  After that, you can bet that the church will engage in “Copyfraud”, that is, they would send cease and desist notices to the above blogs using the term Mormon, as well as probably even Utah Lighthouse Ministries and others who simply use the word Mormon, in an attempt to control the message.

Imagine shutting down anyone who couldn’t face the combined legal might of the LDS church, when they have a victory to wave.

Luckily, the EFF (the good guys) have rushed in to Calvin’s rescue, asking the case to be dismissed as this is obviously a case of trying to own a term that predates the LDS faith (the term “Mormon” being invented by those opposed to the church as a derogatory term back before “Latter Day Saints” was even thought of; when it was the “Church of Christ”.

If Jonathen Eller wants to throw the judge for a loop, he should point out that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was ended by the Supreme Court in 1890; and that any ownership of the term “Mormon” was surrendered then.  Or that the Supreme Court declared that the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was most likely the legitimate successor and awarded properties held by the Utah church to them then.  Wouldn’t it just beat all if the Community of Christ were to slap the LDS church with a lawsuit for Mormon.org, the Book of Mormon, and anything using the word Mormon after this case was done if found the term really belonged to them?

Members, how do you feel about your church bullying people in attempt to control?  I’d see it as taking Satan’s path, instead of inviting everyone to read, learn, and decide for themselves, it’s trying to silence any voice but one.  And that would make me… uncomfortable.

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Structure of the Corporation of The President / Bishopric (Actual LDS “Church”)

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Mithryn

[Update 11/25/2015 added a few images created by others]

Corporate structure image 400

Corporation of the President (Corporate Sole  all assets owned by President of the Church)

Board of Directors -> First Presidency and 12 apostles

 Investigation by Reuters in collaboration with sociology professor Cragun estimates that the LDS Church is likely worth $40 billion today and collects up to $8 billion in tithing each year.

In 1960, President McKay decided that all general authorities, including the prophet should receive equal salaries

Corporation of the Presiding Bishopric

Deseret Management Corp – Keith B. McMullin is CEO Board(First Presidency, Presiding Bishopric and three rotating of the 15 apostles)

annual revenue of $1.2 billion 10% flows back to the corporation of the presiding bishopric.  Kieth McMullin (former Presiding Bishopric member) stated that money can flow from the church to the corporations but happens rarely.

about 2,000 to 3,000 employees. possibly including  1,400 “people who are volunteering their time and their services—some are part-time and some are volunteer.” Many of these members being asked to serve full- or part-time are retirees.

Leadership

Subsidiaries

Divisions

  •      Bonneville Communications
  •      Bonneville Interactive
  •      Bonneville Satellite Company
  •   KSL-AM–FM–TV
  •      KSL-FM-102.7
  •      KSL-1160 **
  •      KSL-FM/KSFI-100.3 * (FM100)
  •   KMVP-860
  •   KTAR-620
  •   KTAR-FM-92.3
  •   KMVP-FM-98.7
  •   KSWD-100.3
  •   KRSP-FM-103.5
  •   KTTH-770
  • Deseret Book (Chairman: Sherry Dew) Board (JoAnn Mills Ardeth Greene Kapp ) : LDS publisher and bookstores chain.
  •    Beehive Clothing
  •    Bookcraft (merger)
  • Deseret Mutual: Provides medical, dental, life, and disability insurance, retirement and savings benefits to Deseret Management Corporation employees, and health insurance to LDS Missionaries and General Authorities.[5]
  • Deseret News Publishing Company: Publishes Utah’s second-largest daily newspaper, the Deseret News, along with Mormon Times, Church News and El Observador.
  • Hawaii Reserves: manages commercial and residential properties in Lā’ie,  ( 7,000 acres on Oahu) Hawai’i.
  • Laie Water Company
  • Laie Treatment Works
  • Laie Shopping Center
  • Laie Park
  • Laie Cemetery
  • Hukilau Beach Park
  • HRI also owns many residential and commercial properties in the town as well as road management and public works service
  • Temple Square Hospitality: operates downtown Salt Lake City properties such as the Lion House and the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. (550 employees, 4 restaurants)
  • Zions Securities: Real estate company which manages apartments and commercial property, particularly in downtown Salt Lake City.
  • The LDS Foundation is the department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that encourages and facilitates voluntary charitable contributions to the Church Educational System and other charities of the Church. It now operates under the direction of the Presiding Bishopric (This company reports directly to the DMC yet is called a department)
  • LDS Philanthropies – a department of the Office of the Presiding Bishopric responsible for philanthropic donations to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its affiliated charities. (Seems to be an actual department, but operates similar to a stand alone Non-profit)

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Doctrine of Adoption by Temple sealing

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Mithryn

This is a series of posts from an InfoBase CD from the 90’s made by faithful members at the COB for only the most faithful members. This is not meant to challenge members faith, but to preserve the information shared at the top levels of the church for posterity.

Full text available here: https://app.box.com/s/f270cd622bd3c47e92f3

Abrahamic Covenant from the Bible Dictionary quoted[1]

D&C: Section 132:29-50 quoted[2]

PoGP:Abraham 2:6-11 quoted[3]

Included in the divine promises to Abraham were the assurances that (1) Christ would come through his lineage, and that (2) Abraham’s posterity would receive certain lands as an eternal inheritance (Gen. 17;22: 15-18; Gal. 3; Abr. 2). These promises taken together are called the Abrahamic covenant. It was renewed with Isaac (Gen. 26: 1-4, 24) and again with Jacob (Gen. 28; 35: 9-13; 48: 3-4).

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Original Chart for the Corporation of the president

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Mithryn

http://user.xmission.com/~research/central/chorg3.htm

Text copied for preservation purposes:

Corporation of the PresidentARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
of the
CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS
CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

STATE OF UTAH

COUNTY OF SALT LAKE

I, the undersigned, having been duly chosen and appointed President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in conformity with the rites, regulations and discipline of said Church, being desirous of forming a corporation for the purpose of acquiring, holding and disposing of Church or religious society property, for the benefit of religion, for works of charity and for public worship, under and pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 3, Title 19, of the Compiled Laws of Utah, 1917, on “Churches and Religious Societies,” and all acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, for that purpose do hereby make and subscribe, in duplicate, the following

 

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
First: The name of this corporation shall be the CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

Second: The object of this corporation shall be to acquire, hold and dispose of such real and personal property as may be conveyed to or acquired by said corporation for the benefit of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religious society, for the benefit of religion, for works of charity and for public worship. Such real and personal property may be situated, either within the State of Utah, or elsewhere, and this corporation shall have power, without any authority or authorization from the members of said Church or religious society, to grant, sell, convey, rent, mortgage, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any part or all of such property.

Third: The estimated value of the property of which I hold the legal title for the purpose aforesaid, at the time of making these Articles of Incorporation, is One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars.

Fourth: The title of the person making these Articles of Incorporation is “PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.”

Fifth: The corporate seal shall contain the words, “Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” and an impression thereof is hereto affixed.

[Seal] [Signed] Heber J. Grant
President of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints.

STATE OF UTAH
SS:
COUNTY OF SALT LAKE

On this 26th day of November, 1923, before me, Arthur Winter, a Notary Public in and for said County, personally appeared HEBER J. GRANT, who is known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument as President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and duly acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such President.

[Seal] [Signed] Arthur Winter
Notary Public
Residing at Salt Lake City, Utah.
My commission expires Dec. 1, 1923.

 

AMENDMENT TO
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
of the
CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF
JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF UTAH ss.
COUNTY OF SALT LAKE

HEBER J. GRANT, being first duly sworn, deposes and says:

That he is now and for more than twenty years last past has been the duly chosen and appointed President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and as such President has been since on or about the 26th day of November, 1923, and now is, the legally constituted Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter=day Saints, a corporation sole; that under and pursuant to Section 18-7-5 R.S.U. 1933 he hereby amends Article “Fourth” of said Articles of Incorporation as now of record in the proper offices of this and other states, said article as amended to read as follows:

 

ARTICLE FOURTH
Fourth: The title of the person making these articles of incorporation is “President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” He and his successor in office shall be deemed and are hereby created a body politic and corporation sole with perpetual succession, having all the powers and rights and authority in these articles specified or provided for by law. But in the event of the death or resignation from office of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or in the event of a vacancy in that office from any cause, the President or Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of said Church, or one of the members of said Quorum thereunto designated by that Quorum, shall, pending the installation of a successor President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, be the corporation sole under these articles, and the laws pursuant to which they are made, and shall be and is authorized in his official capacity to execute in the name of the corporation all documents or other writings necessary to the carrying on of its purposes, business and objects, and to do all things in the name of the corporation which the original signer of the articles of incorporation might do; it being the purpose of these articles that there shall be no failure in succession in the office of such corporation sole.

[Signed] Heber J. Grant
President of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints,
corporation sole.
[Seal]

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18 day of June, 1940.
[the name of Notary Public not shown on copy of amendment]

(Original in State of Utah Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah)

 

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT
TO THE
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF THE
CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF
JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
A UTAH CORPORATION SOLE
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 16-7-5 of the Utah Code Annotated 1953 (as amended) relating to amendments of articles of incorporation of corporations sole, the CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, a Utah Corporation Sole, does hereby amend its Articles of Incorporation by adding an additional Paragraph V thereto as follows:

 

Upon the winding up and dissolution of this corporation, after paying or adequately providing for the debts and obligations of the corporation, the remaining assets shall be distributed to a nonprofit fund, foundation or corporation, which is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, or religious and/or scientific purposes and which has established its tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused these presents to be executed this 19th day of November, 1973.

CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY
SAINTS, a Utah Corporation Sole

By: [signed] Harold B. Lee
Harold B. Lee, Corporation Sole

STATE OF UTAH ) ss:
County of Salt Lake )

HAROLD B. LEE, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is now and ever since July 7, 1972, has been the duly chosen and appointed President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and, as such president, is now and ever since said date has been the legally constituted CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, a Utah Corporation Sole; that the original Articles of Incorporation of said Corporation Sole were executed by Heber J. Grant, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; that he, Harold B. Lee, is the successor in office to the said Heber J. Grant; that he, Harold B. Lee, executed the foregoing Articles of Amendment as said Corporation Sole.

[signed] Harold B. Lee

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 19th day of November, 1973.

[signed] Wilford W Kirton, Jr
NOTARY PUBLIC
Residing at Salt Lake City, Utah
My commission expires:
2-3-77

 

Articles of Incorporation as amended:
 

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
First: The name of this corporation shall be the CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

Second: The object of this corporation shall be to acquire, hold and dispose of such real and personal property as may be conveyed to or acquired by said corporation for the benefit of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religious society, for the benefit of religion, for works of charity and for public worship. Such real and personal property may be situated, either within the State of Utah, or elsewhere, and this corporation shall have power, without any authority or authorization from the members of said Church or religious society, to grant, sell, convey, rent, mortgage, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any part or all of such property.

Third: The estimated value of the property of which I hold the legal title for the purpose aforesaid, at the time of making these Articles of Incorporation, is One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars.

Fourth: The title of the person making these articles of incorporation is “President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” He and his successor in office shall be deemed and are hereby created a body politic and corporation sole with perpetual succession, having all the powers and rights and authority in these articles specified or provided for by law. But in the event of the death or resignation from office of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or in the event of a vacancy in that office from any cause, the President or Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of said Church, or one of the members of said Quorum thereunto designated by that Quorum, shall, pending the installation of a successor President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, be the corporation sole under these articles, and the laws pursuant to which they are made, and shall be and is authorized in his official capacity to execute in the name of the corporation all documents or other writings necessary to the carrying on of its purposes, business and objects, and to do all things in the name of the corporation which the original signer of the articles of incorporation might do; it being the purpose of these articles that there shall be no failure in succession in the office of such corporation sole.

Fifth: Upon the winding up and dissolution of this corporation, after paying or adequately providing for the debts and obligations of the corporation, the remaining assets shall be distributed to a nonprofit fund, foundation or corporation, which is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, or religious and/or scientific purposes and which has established its tex-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Sixth: The corporate seal shall contain the words, “Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” and an impression thereof is hereto affixed.

 

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