Alan R. Walker Sustained as General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Alan R. Walker was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 2019. At the time of his call, he was serving as a Gospel Doctrine teacher. He is currently serving in the South America South Area Presidency.

Walker was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on January 2, 1971. He received a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Brigham Young University in 1996.

Walker has held a number of Church callings. He served as a full-time missionary in the Tennessee Nashville Mission and as a counselor in a bishopric, and later as a bishop. He also served as a counselor in the Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission presidency, a high councilor, and a counselor in a stake presidency. He later presided over the México Monterrey East Mission and served as an Area Seventy in the México Area. His other callings include ward mission leader.

Before his full-time service as a General Authority, Walker worked in corporate banking for Citibank. He also served as an area controller for the Mexico and South America South areas. Most recently, he served as director for temporal affairs in the South America South Area. His career in finance and administration, carried out in a spirit of wholehearted work (Colossians 3:23), ran alongside his volunteer service in local and regional callings.

Walker married Ines Marcela Sulé in 1993. The couple are the parents of one child.

Source: Read the original report (translated from Mandarin Chinese)