Church News Saturday March 7 2015

This appeared in the Church News Saturday morning March 7, 2015 and started a chain reaction.   We had met with President Uchtdorf the week before and he asked us not to tell anyone of our new assignment in November until it was announced.  It is now known, and we can tell our children and family.  We are humbled by this calling and are grateful to serve the Lord in any capacity.

Stanford Willis Nielson, 61, Ridges Ward, Las Vegas Nevada Lakes Stake, called as president of the Las Vegas Nevada Temple, succeeding President Terry D. Rogers.  President Nielson’s wife, Judi Ann Parker Nielson, will serve as temple matron, succeeding Sister Sandra L. Rogers.  He serves as a temple missionary in the Manhattan New York Temple.  He has served as president of the Poland Warsaw Mission, counselor in a stake presidency, bishop, high councilor, and temple ordinance worker.  Co-owner and partner of Sunburst Shutters and real estate investor, he was born in Mesa, Arizona, to Willis Frihoff and Nena Tremelling Nielson.

Sister Nielson serves as a temple missionary in the Manhattan New York Temple.  She served with her husband as he presided over the Poland Warsaw Mission.  She has also served in ward Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary presidencies, seminary teacher, and temple ordinance worker.  She was born in Seattle, Washington, to Robert Hal and Colleen A. Parker.
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We will continue to serve as ordinance workers in the Manhattan New York Temple until mid-September.  We love serving here and working with the tremendous members and missionary couples.  We will return home to Las Vegas and have some time to regroup and move into a different home since we rented our home to serve in Manhattan.   Around November 1 we will begin our service in the Las Vegas Temple.

We are extremely blessed and grateful for the privilege it is to serve the Lord whenever and wherever called.