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'''Joy Diane Harmon Jones''' was sustained as [[Primary]] general president of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] on April 2, 2016. She had been serving on the Primary general board for six years. She has served as a ward [[Relief Society]] president and has also served in the Primary and [[Young Women]] auxiliaries. | '''Joy Diane Harmon Jones''' was sustained as [[Primary]] general president of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] on April 2, 2016. She had been serving on the Primary general board for six years. She has served as a ward [[Relief Society]] president and has also served in the Primary and [[Young Women]] auxiliaries. | ||
| − | She was born on July 20, 1954, in The Dalles, Oregon. She | + | She was born on July 20, 1954, in The Dalles, Oregon. As a young adult, she worked as a dispatcher for the U.S. Forest Service at the Redmond Air Center in eastern Oregon, sending out smokejumpers, suppression crews and supplies for forest fires in the northwest, and as an administrative assistant at the Federal Building in Provo. She was also trained as a medical assistant and worked at a dermatology clinic in Provo. She received an associate of science degree in family living at from [[Brigham Young University]] where she met her husband, Robert B. Jones. They married in 1974 and are the parents of five children.[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/joy-d-jones?lang=eng] |
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| + | Sister Jones and her husband, Robert, lived in Santa Rosa, California, for 14 years, where her husband opened a chiropractic practice. When the Joneses’ first son was preparing to leave home to study at BYU and serve a mission, they felt a desire to be closer to him and their other children through their college and mission years so they relocated from California to Draper, Utah, a community her husband’s ancestors helped settle. She assisted in the open house for the Draper Utah Temple in 2009, which she describes as “a continual blessing in her life and in the lives of [her] family.”[https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/joy-d-jones?lang=eng] | ||
In November 2020, the members of the Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary general presidencies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched official Instagram accounts to expand their global ministries. The Church leaders’ use of social media platforms demonstrates a desire to connect with members around the world using technology. Sister Jones said, “I am grateful for this means of communicating in a more personal way with members across the globe.”[https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/instagram-accounts-launched-relief-society--young-women-primary-general-presidencies] | In November 2020, the members of the Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary general presidencies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched official Instagram accounts to expand their global ministries. The Church leaders’ use of social media platforms demonstrates a desire to connect with members around the world using technology. Sister Jones said, “I am grateful for this means of communicating in a more personal way with members across the globe.”[https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/instagram-accounts-launched-relief-society--young-women-primary-general-presidencies] | ||
Revision as of 13:17, 9 December 2020
Joy Diane Harmon Jones was sustained as Primary general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 2, 2016. She had been serving on the Primary general board for six years. She has served as a ward Relief Society president and has also served in the Primary and Young Women auxiliaries.
She was born on July 20, 1954, in The Dalles, Oregon. As a young adult, she worked as a dispatcher for the U.S. Forest Service at the Redmond Air Center in eastern Oregon, sending out smokejumpers, suppression crews and supplies for forest fires in the northwest, and as an administrative assistant at the Federal Building in Provo. She was also trained as a medical assistant and worked at a dermatology clinic in Provo. She received an associate of science degree in family living at from Brigham Young University where she met her husband, Robert B. Jones. They married in 1974 and are the parents of five children.[1]
Sister Jones and her husband, Robert, lived in Santa Rosa, California, for 14 years, where her husband opened a chiropractic practice. When the Joneses’ first son was preparing to leave home to study at BYU and serve a mission, they felt a desire to be closer to him and their other children through their college and mission years so they relocated from California to Draper, Utah, a community her husband’s ancestors helped settle. She assisted in the open house for the Draper Utah Temple in 2009, which she describes as “a continual blessing in her life and in the lives of [her] family.”[2]
In November 2020, the members of the Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary general presidencies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints launched official Instagram accounts to expand their global ministries. The Church leaders’ use of social media platforms demonstrates a desire to connect with members around the world using technology. Sister Jones said, “I am grateful for this means of communicating in a more personal way with members across the globe.”[3]
Sister Jones's Instagram link.
