Stake Presidency Message

To the Members of the Lehi Stake,

We wish to thank President Richter, President Bohn, and President Spencer for their love excellent leadership and tender care over this stake for the last 9 years. It is evident that they have dedicated an incredible amount time and effort to inspire, comfort, teach and bless us all. They have shown us a stellar example of building on that which was built before, and we will strive to do that as well.

We express our love for each of you and thank you for your expressions of love and support with these new callings. We have been blessed to have rubbed shoulders with you and have been impressed to feel the great love the Lord has for the members of this wonderful stake. He cares about you, your families, and the lives you lead.

We solemnly declare our testimonies of our Savior and Redeemer Jesus Christ. We know that He lives and is in the details of our lives. We know that He lived a perfect life and yet was mercilessly persecuted and ultimately killed because He knew it was the only way for us to get back to the Father. We know that He knows us individually by name and because of all that He went through, He can relate to everything and anything we are going through. He is a perfect resurrected being at the right hand of the Father.

This is His Church that has been restored in the latter days. We bear witness that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that by studying and applying its words, we can have the Spirit of Christ more abundantly in our lives. We know that it was translated by a prophet of God and that God continues to call prophets in our day. We bear testimony that Russell M. Nelson is the Lord’s prophet today and that by following his counsel, we can know the will of the Lord for our times.

Again, Brothers and Sisters, we love you and look forward to serving you and serving with you. We are each humbled by the callings we have received to lead this great stake for a season. One of the comments from Elder Piper and Elder Lewis was how powerful and spiritually strong the Lehi Stake is. They felt the Spirit in your presence as we all met together as a stake. We will all be blessed as we seek the Lord’s guidance and direction and then act. May the Lord’s choicest blessings be yours.

With Much Love,

President Stephen P. Pothier

President Jeffrey A. Dana

President Matthew R. Henriksen