Per G. Malm

Per Gösta Malm (born 12 September 1948) has been a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2010. He is currently a member of the church's Second Quorum of the Seventy. Malm is the first general authority who was a resident of Sweden at the time of his call.^[1]

Malm was raised by Latter-day Saint parents. His father had read the Book of Mormon and then told the missionaries he was meeting with he wanted to be baptized. Malm first met his wife, Ingrid Agneta Karlsson, at a campground while their families were traveling to the Bern Switzerland Temple.

At age 16, Malm was called as a construction missionary for the LDS Church. He worked as a bricklayer on buildings in Sweden, Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands. After serving a short time in the Swedish military, Malm served as a regular LDS Church missionary in the church's Sweden Stockholm Mission.

Malm has degrees in business and public law from the University of Gothenburg and an LLM in law from the University of Lund.

Malm spent much of his career as an employee of the LDS Church's Office of the Presiding Bishop, overseeing building maintenance, budgets and other temporal affiars of the church. He was for a time director of Temporal Affairs in the Church's Europe Area.

Malm served as a counselor in the Sweden Goteborg Mission presidency when it was organized in the 1970s. He also served as a branch president, a stake president, and as the church's public affairs director for Sweden. From 2003 to 2006, Malm was president of the Norway Oslo Mission. In 2008 he was called as an area seventy. While in this position Malm was the area supervisor for the Centers for Young Adults program.

Malm and his wife are the parents of eight children.

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References

• “Elder Per G. Malm,” Liahona, May 2010, p. 142

External links

• "General Authorities: Elder Per G. Malm", lds.org