Elder Mark D. Eddy

General Authority Seventy

The summer before Elder Mark D. Eddy’s senior year of high school, a seminary teacher invited him and other members of their seminary student council to read the Book of Mormon. He had read it many times with his family, but this was his first time by himself.

He decided to pray before and after he read each day. He hoped that a clear answer regarding the book’s truthfulness would come within a week or two. After reading for more than two months, he still had not received his anticipated confirmation.

Hours before a “welcome back” seminary devotional in which he was asked to bear his testimony, Elder Eddy arrived early to help set up. Then he found a quiet place to read the Book of Mormon and pray.

“I then received that clear and unmistakable feeling that it was true,” he said. “It came just in time for me to bear my testimony that evening. The feeling took enough work to receive and lasted just long enough for me to never forget.”

Elder Mark David Eddy was born in Long Beach, California, USA, on March 30, 1973, to Richard Cleighton Eddy and Mary Louise Savage Eddy. He grew up in Orem, Utah, and married Annette “Annie” Allen in the Provo Utah Temple in August 1994. They have six children.

Elder Eddy graduated from Brigham Young University in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in communications and received a Juris Doctor degree from BYU in 2001. He has since worked as an attorney and business executive.

Elder Eddy has served as an Area Seventy, president of the Uruguay Montevideo Mission, counselor in a stake presidency, bishop, high councilor, counselor in a bishopric, ward Young Men president, and full-time missionary in the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East Mission.