Background
Pieper was born in Pocatello, Idaho.
Pieper was born in Pocatello, Idaho.
He studied at Brigham Young University and received a bachelor"s degree and a Juris Doctor from the University of Utah.
She is the daughter of general authority and educator A. Theodore Tuttle. They are the parents of six children. In the late 1990s, Pieper and his family moved to Kazakhstan, where he learned to speak Russian while working for a law firm in international trade law.
In 2004, Pieper was called to be president of the church"s Russia Saint St. Petersburg Mission.
From 2005 to 2009, he served in the presidency of the church"s Europe East Area. From 2009 to 2012, he assisted in coordinating the church"s Middle East/Africa North Area, administered from the church"s headquarters.
From 2011 to 2014, he continued service at the church"s headquarters, as an executive director, first of the church"s Curriculum Department, followed by the Priesthood Department, which includes stewardship for the church"s auxiliary organizations. Since August 2014, he has been a counselor in the church"s Mexico Area.
In April 2005, he was called as a general authority and member of the church"s First Quorum of the Seventy.