It may not always be easy, convenient or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Currently he is the sixth most senior apostle among the ranks of the church. He did anyway and incurred a huge loss "without doubt the darkest period" of his business career. As a young man he served as a missionary in England from 1948 to 1950.

Melvin Russell Ballard Jr. He was called to serve in the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1985.