What is the Primary organization?

Patricia P. Pinegar was sustained General President of the Primary of THE CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST of Latter-day Saints on October 1, 1994. She previously served as second counselor in the Young Women's General Presidency. Sister Pinegar was born in Cedar City, Utah. She married her husband Ed, in the Salt Lake Temple, and they are the parents of eight children and have twenty grandchildren. Sister Pinegar was called to the Primary General Board in September 1991, and served on the 1995 Children's Sacrament Meeting Presentation, Leadership, and Missionary Training Center Committees. Prior to this call, she served in many Church capacities including ward and stake Primary president and teacher, ward Relief Society president, teacher, ward Young Women president and teacher, and stake Young Women adviser. Sister Pinegar along with her family served in the England London South Mission from 1985-1988, and in the Provo, Utah Missionary Training Center from 1988-1990, where her husband in both cases was serving as Mission President. Sister Pinegar has also been a PTA President. She enjoys the outdoors, walking, gardening and quilting.

Anne Goalen Wirthlin was sustained as First Counselor in the General Presidency of the Primary, October 1, 1994. President Wirthlin, Salt Lake City, is a graduate of the University of Utah. She has served the Church in a variety of callings, including ward Relief Society and Primary president, counselor in a ward Young Women presidency, and member of the Young Women General Board. She has also served with her husband, David B. Wirthlin, in presiding over the Germany Frankfurt Mission. The Wirthlins have six children.

Susan Carol Lillywhite Warner was sustained as Second Counselor in the General Presidency ofthe Primary on October 1, 1994. President Warner, Provo, Utah, was raised in Anaheim, California. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University and has taught school in Provo. She has served the Church as a member of the Primary General Board, stake Primary president, ward Young Women president, Relief Society president, and Sunday School and Primary teacher. She and her husband, C. Terry Warner, who teaches at Brigham Young University, are parents of ten children.

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