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Christensen was engaged to Debora Bliss Jones three weeks after returning from his mission in 1977, and the couple was married in the Salt Lake Temple three months later.[1] They are the parents of four children.
After graduating with a degree in accounting from BYU in 1979, Christensen worked for an accounting firm in California for two years and then attended the University of Washington where he received an MBA. Christensen subsequently moved his family back to Utah, where he bought his first company in 1990. He worked as a real estate developer and franchised automobile dealer. He also taught business and religion classes at BYU.[2][not in citation given]
In the LDS Church, Christensen has served as a high councilor, bishop, templeordinance worker, counselor in a MTCbranch presidency, and area seventy. He served as president of the MexicoMexico City East Mission from 1995 to 1998. He was called as a general authority on October 5, 2002, serving as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy until being transferred to the First Quorum of the Seventy in April 2008.[1] As a general authority, he has served as president of the church's Mexico South Area (2003–07) and in the Priesthood Department, including as Executive Director (2010–12). Christensen became a member of the church's seven-man Presidency of the Seventy on August 1, 2012.
In Mormonism, a high council is one of several different governing bodies that have existed in the church hierarchy on many Latter Day Saint movement denominations. Most often, the term refers to a stake high council in a local stake, but other high councils include the standing Presiding High Council in Zion, and the "travelling high council", better-known today as the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord. Temples are considered by church members to be the most sacred structures on earth.
In the Latter Day Saint movement, the term ordinance is used to refer to sacred rites and ceremonies that have spiritual and symbolic meanings and act as a means of conveying divine grace. Ordinances are physical acts which signify or symbolize an underlying spiritual act; for some ordinances, the spiritual act is the finalization of a covenant between the ordinance recipient and God.
In August 2018, Christensen became president of the LDS Church's Utah Area. During August 2018, he distributed a letter asking church members in Utah to oppose an initiative to legalize medical marijuana that will be on the November 2018 ballot.[3]
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