Mervyn b arnold biography

Mervyn B. Arnold biography

Family: Born July 19, 1948, to Jasmine Bennion and John Everett Sorensen Arnold in Salt Lake City; married Devonna Kress Aug. 12, 1971, in the Idaho Falls Temple; six children, four grandchildren.

Church Service: former president of the Costa Rica San Jose Mission, 1985 to 1988; counselor in stake presidency, high councilor, bishop, stake young men president, elders quorum president, gospel doctrine teacher, and full-time missionary in the Northern Mexico Mission, August 1967 to December 1969.

Education: Received bachelor's degree in business from BYU, 1972; master's degree in public administration from BYU, 1984.

Employment:Worked as a partner in a real estate, building and development company; later he expanded into the banking business; Director of Training and Field Services in the Church's Missionary Department, 1990 to present.

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Malcolm Arnold

English composer (1921–2006)

For the British athletics coach, see Malcolm Arnold (athletics coach).

Sir Malcolm Henry ArnoldCBE (21 October 1921[1] – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed tunefulness.[2] He wrote extensively for the theatre, with five ballets specially commissioned by the Royal Ballet, as well as two operas and a musical. He also produced scores for more than a hundred films, among these The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar.

Early life

Malcolm Arnold was born in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England,[1] the youngest of five children from a prosperous Northampton family of shoemakers. Although shoemakers, his family was full of musicians; both of his parents were pianists, and his aunt was a violin

“Elder Mervyn B. Arnold Of the Seventy,” Ensign, May 2003, 125

If people wore product labels, then Elder Mervyn Bennion Arnold, age 54, a new member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy, would proudly wear one that says, “Homemade in Granger, Utah.”

Born in Salt Lake City on 19 July 1948, Elder Arnold grew up in a farming area on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley. “We had a thousand chickens,” he recalls, “and a cow that we kids had to milk. We also hoed a lot of sugar beets.” His parents, John Everett Sorensen Arnold and Jasmine Bennion Arnold, reared five sons and two daughters with a strong work ethic, gratitude for what they had, and a love of family and of the gospel. Family prayer was always followed by the children hugging and kissing their parents. Elder Arnold’s parents frequently read the Book of Mormon to their children. “I learned to love the doctrines of the Church,” says Elder Arnold, “and I love the Book of Mormon.”

Asked how he has gained his testimony, Elder Arnold replies that “it is a gradual process. People enter into your life, starting when you are

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