In April of 2009 Elder Cherrington was called to the Fifth Quorum of the Seventy with a specific assignment as an area authority for the Cache Valley area.  A life-long teacher with the Church Education System, Elder Cherrington has taught since 1992 as a member of the Logan Institute of Religion faculty, except for 1999-2002, when he and his wife presided over the Japan Hiroshima Mission. Before coming to Logan, Elder Cherrington had taught with CES in Bountiful, Ogden and Gainesville, Florida.  Elder Cherrington grew up in Springville, Utah. He has a history degree and master’s degree in Public Administration from BYU. He and his wife Julia are the parents of four children and enjoy 8 grandchildren.

Working for the Church has literally taken the Bonnet family around the world. Georges Bonnet was born in Germany, and joined the LDS church in France at the age of 16.  He served a French Polynesia Mission, and finished his college studies at Arizona State University where he earned a construction engineering degree. He and his wife Carolyn have spent 18 years living overseas in Tahiti, Germany, England, South Africa and Ghana where Brother Bonnet directed temple building, managed physical facilities, or directed temporal affairs for the church. His most recent overseas assignment was four years in Ghana where he was responsible for the Accra Ghana temple project. Their six children were born in Utah, Arizona, Louisiana, Tahiti, England and South Africa.  Currently Brother Bonnet lives in Salt Lake City and is the Director of Maintenance and Operations for the Church in the Physical Facilities Department. He is also a temple sealer.

An innovator in real estate development since 1978, Dan Lofgren is the founder, president and CEO of Cowboy Partners and its sister company, Cowboy Properties.  Cowboy Partners currently has projects in five states, including everything from luxury condos to affordable family apartments. He has been a leader of home builders associations at the local, state and national level, and has been given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Utah Apartment Association. Brother Lofgren is deeply involved in the community as well. He is a member of the Granite School District Board of Education, a trustee of the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, on the Executive Committee of Envision Utah, and serves on the board of directors of several community organizations. Brother Lofgren is a graduate of the University of Utah. He and his wife Deena are the parents of four children.

 
Stanley Dee Barrett has been teaching with the seminaries and institutes for the LDS church since 1987,  He taught Institute for 11 years in Logan and is currently the Area Director of the Utah North area Seminaries and Institutes.  Brother Barrett is known for his passion for the gospel, for people, and for teaching the gospel.  He has also shared his captivating style at EFY, YSA conferences, youth camps, youth conferences and community parenting classes.  He is the author of two talks on CD.  Brother Barrett was born in Logan, Utah and spent his childhood years in California and Utah.  He has a degree from Utah State University in Counseling and Family Therapy and a master’s degree in Education Counseling.  Brother Barrett and his wife Aleece are the parents of four children.

In 1990 Scott Featherstone co-founded Lorien Productions, which produces feature and documentary films.  Brother Featherstone has written six screen plays, including Same River Twice, which has been broadcast in over 50 countries, award-winning The Return to Secret Garden, and his most recent film, UNITARDS which will be released in August 2011.  UNITARDS, has won awards in every festival where it has screened, including Best of Fest at the International Family Film Festival in Los Angeles.  Brother Featherstone’s first novel, Hallelujah: The Story of the Coming Forth of Handel’s Messiah was published in 2002 and sold out of its first two printings.  His second novel, Highway Home: Assisted Leaving, will be published in 2011.  He has also written the Governor’s Music Education Program, several films for LDS Visitor’s Centers and produced works for dozens of commercial clients.  Brother Featherstone currently serves in the presidency of the East Mill Creek North Stake.  He and his wife Lori are the parents of six sons.

Raised in a Jewish home in Philadelphia, Jay Kessler attended six years of Hebrew school and learned to read, write and speak Hebrew.  At the age of 23, however, he joined the LDS Church in Philadelphia and his life changed forever.  He attended Temple University in Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in speech communication and political science.  He received his law degree from Crieghton University. President Kessler has owned his own heating and air-conditioning business, worked in real estate and has been an attorney since 1999.  He and his wife Jane are the parents of two children.  President Kessler is a stake president in the Magna area.

Identical twin sisters, Lindsay and Lexie are 3rd year Ph.D students in communications at the University of Utah studying representations of the female body in popular media. Their research looks at how the media has changed and shaped perceptions of beauty and health in sometimes harmful ways.  Their website, BeautyRedefined.net, works to counteract the harmful media messages, including the prevalence of normalized pornography in mainstream media. They have taken their message to thousands of people since March 2009.