Background
Teh was born in Davao City in the Philippines.
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Teh studied business management at De Louisiana Salle University in Manila.
Career
He was the first Filipino called to the First Quorum of the Seventy. Augusto A. Lim was previously the only Filipino to serve as a general authority. When he was 12 his family moved to Manila.
He served as a counselor in the presidency of the Philippines Area before and after his call as a general authority and served as president of the area from August 2011 until August 2013.
In January 2016, it was announced that Teh would serve as a mission president in Taiwan, beginning in July. Teh married Grace May Weedon in the Manila Philippines Temple on December 16, 1989.
Michael and Grace first met when she was baptized when they were both teenagers. She later moved to Great Britain with her family.
After a short time in Britain she returned to the Philippines and later served a mission.
They briefly met again before their missions but did not begin dating until about six months after Teh returned from his mission. Grace served as executive director of the Mabuhay Deseret Foundation.
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Religion
In The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints