| Spencer V. Jones | |
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| Second Quorum of the Seventy | |
| April 6, 2002 – October 2, 2010 | |
| Called by | Gordon B. Hinckley |
| End reason | Honorably release |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Spencer Virgil Jones September 17, 1945 Safford, Arizona, United States |
Spencer Virgil Jones (born September 17, 1945 in Safford, Arizona) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2002 to 2010. He was a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy.
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Spencer V. Jones was raised in the largely Latter-day Saint town of Virden, New Mexico. He served as a Mormon missionary in the Argentina North Mission of the LDS Church. He studied at Eastern Arizona Junior College and the Church College of Hawaii before he received his bachelor's degree in Animal Science from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He was a businessman and business owner for over 20 years in Gallup, New Mexico, involved in furniture retailing, manufactured housing, and ranching.
He is married to Joyce Elizabeth Mathews; they are the parents of three children.They have 9 grandchildren.
Prior to becoming a general authority, he served in several positions in the LDS Church, including as a bishop. He was called as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy in October 2002. Prior to this, from 2000 to 2002, he had been an area seventy in the Caribbean Area of the church, one of the area seventies to have acted as such in an area where they had not previously lived. Jones and his wife were missionaries in Mexico City and he also served as president of the Chile Antofagasta Mission of the Church from 1994 to 1997.
Jones was president of the Central America Area of the LDS Church from August 2003 to August 2007, living in Guatemala City. During that time he presided at the groundbreaking of the Panamá City Panamá Temple and the Tegucigalpa Honduras Temple.[1] He then served at the church headquarters of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. In May 2010, he was called to begin a tenure as the president of the church's New Mexico Farmington Mission beginning in July 2010.[2] He was honorably released as a general authority at the LDS Church's semi-annual general conference on October 2, 2010.[3]