Glenn L. Pace
Glenn Leroy Pacehas been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1985 having served as a member of the presiding bishopric and the First Quorum of Seventy.
Born in Provo, Utah to Latter-day Saint parents, Pace has been affiliated with the LDS Church all his life. He was baptized at the age of eight years old. He served as a missionary for the LDS Church in the New England States Mission. He served as a elders quorum president, counselor in a bishopric, and stake clerk early in his adulthood. He also served as the president of the Australia Sydney North Mission of the church. To date he was the last person to serve simutaneosly as mission president and general authority, though there are men who finished out tenures as mission president before taking on responsibilities as a general authority.
Pace became the second counselor to Presiding Bishop Robert D. Hales in 1985. In 1992, Pace was released from this position and became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. In 1997 and 1998, he was a member of the general presidency of the church's Sunday School and from 1998 to 2001 he was in the general presidency of the Young Men organization.
“How tragic it will be if we don't each come to grips with our own personal potential and learn the role the Lord has in mind for us. How sad if we waste one more day with a lack of commitment and not meet the measure of our creation.”
“Sometimes in the midst of trials we cry out, ‘What have I done wrong to deserve this?’ Often, tribulation comes into our lives not because we are doing something wrong but because of what we are doing right. We are striving for the purification and sanctification that will lead us to exaltation. We all must pass through a certain amount of fire so that our spirits will be pliable in the hands of the Lord.”
“Part of the reason the Savior suffered in Gethsemane was so that he would have an infinite compassion for us as we experience our trials and tribulations. Through his suffering in Gethsemane, the Savior became qualified to be the perfect judge. Not one of us will be able to approach him on the Judgment Day and say, ‘You don’t know what it was like.’ He knows the nature of our trials better than we do, for he ‘descended below them all.”
“Into each of our lives come golden moments of adversity. This painful friend breaks our hearts, drops us to our knees, and makes us realize we are nothing without our Lord and Savior. This friend makes us plead all the night long for reassurance and into the next day and sometimes for weeks and months. But, ultimately, just as surely as the day follows the night, as we remain true and faithful, this strange friend, adversity, leads us straight into the outstretched arms of the Savior.”