Elder Isaac K. Morrison

General Authority Seventy

Elder Isaac K. Morrison says he and his wife have slept little since President Russell M. Nelson extended a call to Elder Morrison to serve as a General Authority Seventy.

“We know this is going to be a journey for us,” he said. “We will rely on the Lord to show us what we should do.”

Elder Morrison was called as a stake president in 2012, Area Seventy in 2018, and president of the Ghana Cape Coast Mission in 2020.

“Every assignment has come at a time when I least expected it,” he said. “But I rely on the Lord and not my own abilities.”

Elder Morrison has a master of science degree in strategic management and leadership from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. He has worked for the Church in various capacities since 2004, most recently as leader and member support manager for West Africa.

Isaac Kofi Morrison was born November 25, 1977, in Takoradi, Ghana, to Joseph Kojo Morrison and Mary Efua Obua Sarfo.

As a child, Elder Morrison and his family attended church meetings of another denomination. When he moved in with his uncle’s family to attend high school, he attended Latter-day Saint meetings with them and then meetings at his church. An early-morning seminary teacher invited him to attend seminary, where he met Hannah Nyarko.

“She was very intelligent and would give great comments,” he said. “It really gave me the edge to want to study more.” After studying the Book of Mormon that year, he said, “I was ready for baptism.”

On December 18, 2004, he and Hannah were married in Takoradi and sealed three days later in the Accra Ghana Temple. They have three sons.

In addition to his other callings, Elder Morrison has served as a stake presidency counselor, bishop, bishopric counselor, elders quorum president, Gospel Doctrine teacher, seminary teacher, and full-time missionary in Nigeria.