Call To The Seventy
McConkie worked for a time as a reporter for the Deseret News. While covering the proceedings of General Conference on October 6, 1946, McConkie was interviewed by Apostle David O. McKay to fill a vacancy in the First Council of the Seventy created by the death of John H. Taylor. McConkie's name was presented for a sustaining vote by the membership of the church that same day and on October 10, he was ordained and set apart by Church President George Albert Smith. He served as a member of the First Council of the Seventy for twenty-six years.
On June 11, 1961, McConkie was ordained a high priest by First Presidency member Henry D. Moyle. This was in accordance with a new policy requiring the First Seven Presidents of Seventy to assist the Twelve in setting apart stake presidents, stake high councilors, and bishops.
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Never in seventy years be more a man
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