A great-granddaughter of Brigham Young just died. https://www.chattanoogan.com/2018/12/12/381409/Brigham-Young-s-Great-Granddaughter.aspx She was 101 years old. This means she was born 116 years after her great-grandfather. To keep this in perspective I believe I was born 80 years after my oldest great-grandfather. So this is not a super amazing feet, since my youngest brother was born 90 years after that same great-grandfather, and my youngest counsin was probably born about 110 years after that great-grandfather. Actually, I think more than that. More like 113 years.
Peter M. Johnson, from rapper to general authority
The most exciting development with new general authorities is the first African-American general authority, Peter Matthew Johnson. Elder Johnson is not the first black general authority. That was Elder Helvicio Martins from Brazil. Elder Martins however is dead. Elder Johnson is not even the only current black general authority. Elder Joseph W. Sitati from Kenya and Elder Edward Dube from Zimbabwe are both black. Elder Johnson grew up in the borough of Queens in New York City. I believe he is the first gneral authority to have grown up there since Elder Hales. That is where similarities end. Elder Johnson and his brother were in a rap group. They would perform at weddings, high school dances and block parties. When he was 14 a violent event happened at a rap gathering he was at. In this talk https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/peter-m-johnson_faith-family-friendship/ he does not go into it. Shortly after that he moved to live with his mother in Hawaii. In Hawaii Elder Johns...
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