Background
His father had read the Book of Mormon and then told the missionaries he was meeting with that he wanted to be baptized.
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Per Malm
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Career
Malm is the first general authority who was a resident of Sweden at the time of his call. Malm was raised by Latter-day Saint parents. They were later married in the Bern Switzerland Temple and are the parents of eight children.
He worked as a bricklayer on buildings in Sweden, Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Malm has degrees in business and public law from the University of Gothenburg and his Swedish law degree (Master of Laws) from the University of Lund. He was for a time director of Temporal Affairs in the Church"s Europe Area.
He also served as a branch president, high councilor, counselor in a stake presidency, stake president, and as the church"s public affairs director for Sweden. From 2003 to 2006, Malm was president of the Norway Oslo Mission.
In 2008 he was called as an area seventy.
While in this position, Malm was the area supervisor for the Centers for Young Adults program He filled general assignments at Church headquarters from the time of his call till August 2011. From August 2011-August 2012 he served as Assistant Executive Director in the church"s Curriculum Department and simultaneously as an adviser to the Church magazines.
In August 2012, he was called to serve as second counselor in the Europe East Area Presidency.
He will be released from that assignment and reassigned to Church headquarters effective August 1, 2014.
Membership
He was appointed as a general authority and member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy in April 2010.
