C. Scott Grow
Cecil Scott Grow began serving as a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on April 2, 2005. He was granted emeritus status on October 6, 2018.
Grow was born on May 5, 1948, in Moscow, Idaho. He grew up in Boise, Idaho. He earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Brigham Young University and worked for several accounting firms before he founded his own partnership.
He has served in the Church as a full-time missionary in the Southeast Mexican Mission, and president of Uruguay Montevideo Mission (1988–1991). He has been an Area Seventy, a stake president, Young Men president, high councilor, and bishop’s counselor. He served as president of the Idaho Area (2001–2003), one of only two non–General Authorities to have served as an area president (Enrique R. Falabella being the other).
Grow and his wife, Rhonda, are the parents of eight children.
