Career
He was the first Filipino Latter-day Saint to become a general authority. Michael J. Teh, sustained to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 2007, was the second Filipino general authority. Lim was born in Santa Cruz, Marinduque, Philippines, the first of seven sons of Leon B. Lim and Beatriz R. Alandy Lime.
Prior to his call as a general authority, Lim had served as a stake president and as president of the church"s Philippines Naga Mission.
He was a practising lawyer in the Philippines. He was honorably released from his duties as a general authority on October 4, 1997.
He later served as president of the Manila Philippines Temple. Lim is married to Myrna Garcia Morillo and they are the parents of eight children.
