April 2018 General Conference

It was an unprecedented day for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an Asian American and a Latin American were sustained as members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Gerrit W. Gong, from California, and Ulisses Soares, a Brazilian, join the ranks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, filling the vacancies left due to the deaths of Thomas S. Monson and Robert D. Hales. Both new apostles previously served in the Presidency of the Seventy.