A Puzzlement:

How Well Do You Know the General Authorities?

by Joseph M. Nunes

Contained in this puzzlement are the last names of all 45 of the General Authorities of the Church (the First Presidency, the Council of the Twelve, the Patriarch to the Church, the Assistants to the Council of the Twelve, the First Council of the Seventy, and the Presiding Bishopric). Their names are written vertically, horizontally, diagonally, backwards, and forwards. See how many you can locate and circle. Letters may be used in more than one name.

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The First Presidency	Assistants to the Council of the Twelve	First Council of the Seventy
Spencer W. Kimball	Alma Sonne	S. Dilworth Young
Nathan Eldon Tanner	ElRay L. Christiansen	Milton R. Hunter
Marion G. Romney	Sterling W. Sill	A. Theodore Tuttle
	Henry D. Taylor	Paul H. Dunn
The Council of the Twelve	Alvin R. Dyer	Hartman Rector
Ezra Taft Benson	Franklin D. Richards	Loren C. Dunn
Mark E. Petersen	Theodore M. Burton	Rex D. Pinegar
Delbert L. Stapley	Bernard P. Brockbank
LeGrand Richards	James A. Cullimore	The Presiding Bishopric
Hugh B. Brown	Marion D. Hanks	Victor L. Brown
Howard W. Hunter	Joseph Anderson	H. Burke Peterson
Gordon B. Hinckley	David B. Haight	Vaughn J. Featherstone
Thomas S. Monson	William H. Bennett
Boyd K. Packer	John H. Vandenberg	Patriarch to the Church
Marvin J. Ashton	Robert L. Simpson	Eldred G. Smith
Bruce R. McConkie	O. Leslie Stone
L. Tom Perry	James E. Faust
	J. Thomas Fyans
	Neal A. Maxwell

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