Mary N. Cook

Mary Nielsen Cook
First Counselorin theYoung WomenGeneral Presidency
April 5, 2008(2008-04-05)– April 6, 2013(2013-04-06)
Called by	Elaine S. Dalton
Predecessor	Elaine S. Dalton
Successor	Carol F. McConkie
Second Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency
March 31, 2007(2007-03-31)– April 5, 2008(2008-04-05)
Called by	Susan W. Tanner
Predecessor	Elaine S. Dalton
Successor	Ann M. Dibb
Personal details
Born	Mary Nielsen (1951-06-08)June 8, 1951 Midvale,Utah
Alma mater	Brigham Young University
Spouse(s)	Richard E. Cook
Children	4 (stepchildren)

Mary Nielsen Cook(born June 8, 1951) was a counselor in the general presidency of theYoung Women organizationofthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints(LDS Church) from 2007 to 2013. She served as second counselor toSusan W. Tanner,withElaine S. Daltonas 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 inMidvale,Utah,Mary Nielsen earned undergraduate and graduate degrees fromBrigham Young Universityinaudiology,speech pathology,and education. In her professional career, she was a school administrator and aspecial educationteacher.

On July 16, 1988, Nielsen marriedRichard E. Cook,whose first wife had died in 1984. Richard Cook would later serve as ageneral authorityof the LDS Church from 1997 to 2001.

In the early 1990s, the Cooks served inMongoliaas LDS Churchmissionaries.In July 1995, when the church created the MongoliaUlaanbaatarMission,Richard Cook was asked to be the firstmission president.Cook served with her husband in Mongolia until 1998. The Cooks later lived inHong Kong,Chinawhile Richard served as a member of the presidency of the church'sAsiaArea.

On March 31, 2007, during the church's annualgeneral conference,Cook wasacceptedas second counselor to Tanner in the Young Women General Presidency. In April 2008, Dalton succeeded Tanner as Young Women General President and selected Cook as her first counselor. She was released in April 2013, when Dalton's term ended and the presidency was reorganized.

Cook has no biological children, but is thestepmotherto Richard Cook's four children.

Speeches and publications

• Mary N. Cook,“Strengthen Home and Family,”Liahona,November 2007, pp. 11–13
• Richard E. Cook and Mary N. Cook, "Mongolia",Religious Liberty and the Global Church: The Challenge of Sharing,Seventh Annual Conference of the International Society (Provo, Utah: David M. Kennedy Center, Brigham Young University) 1996-08-19
• Catherine D. Montgomery and Mary N. Cook, "'Teach Me to Know': Cultivating Teaching Skills",Rise to the Divinity within You,Brigham Young University Women's Conference, (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University) 2006-05-04

References

• 2007 Deseret Morning News Church Almanac,(Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News, 2006) s.v. "Mongolia"
• "Changes for Young Women",Deseret Morning News,2007-04-01
• “Mary N. Cook,”Liahona,May 2007, p. 128.
• Jessica Ravitz, "YW counselor tapped to lead Relief Society",Salt Lake Tribune,2007-04-01

External links

• "General Auxiliaries: Sister Mary N. Cook",churchofjesuschrist.org