Education
Brigham Young University.
Brigham Young University.
She served as second counselor to Susan West. Tanner, with Elaine South. Dalton as first counselor, from March 2007 until April 2008. In April 2008, Dalton succeeded Tanner as Young Women general president and selected Cook as her first counselor Born in Midvale, Utah, Mary Nielsen earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brigham Young University in audiology, speech pathology, and education.
In her professional career, she was a school administrator and a special education teacher.
On July 16, 1988, Nielsen married Cook, whose first wife had died in 1984. In July 1995, when the church created the Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mission, Richard Cook was asked to be the first mission president
On March 31, 2007, during the church"s annual general conference, Cook was accepted as second counselor to Susan West. Tanner in the general presidency of the Young Women Organization. In April 2008, Elaine South. Dalton succeeded Tanner as Young Women general president and selected Cook as first counselor in the presidency.
She was released in April 2013, when Dalton"s term ended and the Young Women presidency was reorganized.
Cook has no biological children, but is the stepmother to Richard Cook"s four children. Cook and Montgomery and
The Cooks later lived in Hong Kong, China while Richard served as a member of the presidency of the church"s Asia Area.