1979—Counselor to President Tempest
…Previous Church assignment: Counselor to President Jae R Ballif
When Jae and Carma Ballif returned to Provo, moving out of the historic Mission Home on Hawthorne Street in Cambridge, the arrival of a new presiding officer was not the only major change to hit that part of the growing Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The boundaries of the New England Mission also expanded to include the huge Caribou District, covering the entire northern bulge of the State of Maine, which until then had come under the jurisdiction of one of the Canadian Missions.
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From the new Mission Home to Caribou
As I mentioned earlier, President Packer’s goal had been to develop all the Mission’s districts into stakes, with local members shouldering the entire ecclesiastical responsibility. This had come to pass, so that President Ballif, in his foreshortened term of office, had had the luxury of concentrating on the missionary organization. But now, the Caribou District, with all its opportunities and challenges, came instantaneously under the ecclesiastical purview of our new Mission President, Richard Blackett Tempest.

New England’s new Mission President was a distinguished and prosperous pipeline contractor who liked to describe himself modestly as “just a plumber.” Very Western, a big-game hunter in his spare time, and very much a businessman. Quite a contrast, after the very academic Professor Ballif. It was my privilege to serve as Rich’s counselor through his entire three-year tour of duty. Ruth, his delightful consort, hails from Sanpete County, providing both Valerie and me a pleasant bit of preexisting common ground with the newcomers. more…
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