Five
new general authorities were called to full-time service
and other changes among Area Authority Seventies were
announced Saturday during the 177th Annual General
Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints.
Called to serve in the First Quorum of the Seventy are:
Elder Enrique R. Falabella, Santa Catarina Pinula,
Guatemala; Elder Erich W. Kopischke, Usingen, Germany;
Elder Michael J. Teh, Angono, Rizal, Philippines; Elder
Octaviano Tenorio, Cuautitlan Izcalli, Mexico; and Elder
Claudio D. Zivic, Haedo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Elder Falabella, 56, has served as
an area seventy in the Central America Area and as a
member of the Fourth Quorum of the Seventy, where he
served as president of the Central America Area. He has
also served the church as a regional representative,
stake president, bishop and stake mission president. He
earned a degree in agronomy from the University of San
Carols in Guatemala and worked in the pharmaceutical
industry prior to his call to full-time church service.
He married Blanca Lidia Sanchez, and they are the
parents of five children.
