Who We Are

Glen Larkin Rudd (born May 18, 1918) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1987 to 1992. He was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Early Years
As a young man, Elder Rudd served as a missionary for the Church in New Zealand, where he served under President Matthew Cowley. After he returned from his mission he married Marva Sperry. Church apostle Elder Harold B. Lee, who had been Rudd’s stake president when he was a child, performed the marriage.

During the early years of his marriage, Elder Rudd served for 10 years as a bishop.

The Call to Serve
Elder Rudd managed his own business for the first twelve years of his professional career, until one day when Elder Harold B. Lee asked him if he would manage Welfare Square. “He made me a promise,” says Elder Rudd. “He said, ‘If you’ll come and be the manager of Welfare Square, you’ll never regret it.’ That was one of the great promises of my life—I have never regretted it.”

He traveled throughout the Church with General Authorities teaching in stake conferences about the welfare program. For more than thirty years, Elder Rudd worked in the development of the welfare program.