Eduardo Ayala
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Eduardo Ayala (born 3 May 1937) was the first Chilean general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Ayala was born in Coronel, Chile. He married Blanca Ester Espinoza in 1959. They eventually had three children. In 1969, Ayala, his wife, and oldest son were baptized into the LDS Church.
In Coronel, Ayala had worked in industrial planning for a mining company. In the early 1970s, he moved to Santiago to continue his work in industrial planning. In 1974, LDS Church apostle Boyd K. Packer called Ayala as president of a newly formed Santiago Chile Stake; at the same time, Ayala accept full-time employment in the Church Educational System.
Ayala later served twice as a regional representative and as a mission president in Uruguay. In 1990, Ayala became a member of the LDS Church's Second Quorum of the Seventy. He was released as a general authority in 1995.[1] After his time as a general authority, Ayala served as president of the Santiago Chile Temple of the LDS Church.
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- “Elder Eduardo Ayala Of the Seventy,” Ensign, May 1990, p. 100
- Michael R. Morris, “Chile’s Fruitful Vineyard,” Ensign, Dec. 1995, p. 32
