Reyna I. Aburto
Reyna I. Aburto was sustained as the second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 1, 2017. She served on the Primary general board from 2012 to 2016.
She was born in 1963 in Managua, Nicaragua. She remembers surviving an earthquake that destroyed her home and took the life of her older brother when she was nine years old. She also survived the period of civil unrest in Nicaragua in the late 1970s. It was a few years after she immigrated to California in the United States with her family when she was twenty-one years old that she was invited to go to the Church of Jesus Christ. The first meeting she attended was stake conference and she at home. She was baptized in 1989. She later moved to Orem, Utah.
Sister Aburto and her husband, Carlos, are the parents of three children. They own a small translation agency. She has worked in the translation industry for more than twenty-five years. She studied industrial engineering at Universidad Centroamericana for four years and earned an associate degree in computer science from Utah Valley University.
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. [1]
