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The first black Area President in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be Joseph W. Stati. He will also be the first president of the Afeica Central Area and will be running it from a city where he and his wife and children were the first full family to join the Church back in 1986 and he was the first stake president. President Sitati's 2nd counselor in the area presidency will be Thierry Mutombo from DR Congo, who may not have yet been replaced as mission president in Baltimore. Elder Mutombo also was baptized in 1986, but was only 10 as opposed to Elder Sitati who was 34 when baptized. Note that Elder Dube was baptized first of the four black African general authorities but Elder Sitati is the oldest. Elder Mutombo was a fulltime Church et employee. I believe he was a materials manager and then human resource manager and then family history manager. In the last position he not only oversaw records acquisition but also a,very aggresive oral history program to

Jorge Beccerra is without question an American Latino General Authority. More to the point to some he is a Mexican American general authority. He is also from Utah. His background is working as an investment advisor. His wife is an Anglo-American. He grew up attending the Lucero Ward, at least some of that time the only Spanish-speaking ward in Utah. Back when Thomas S. Monson was a child it was the only Spanish-speaking ward in the Church. Everything else was branches. Elder Beccerra was not born until 1962, so 35 years after President Monson. By them President Monson had moved out of downtown to the southeast suburbs of Salt Lake. Elder Beccerra's grandfather joined the Church in Mexico as did his parents. The family moved to Utah before his birth. He served his mission in the Arcadia California Mission where he met his wife who was a missionary there. He now lives in Sandy, having thus moved to the suburbs and he was mission president in Arcadia. The question is, was Elder B