Carlos L. Pedraja
Carlos L. Pedraja (born 1955) was a member of the Fourth Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Pedraja is currently a regional coordinator for the Church Educational System in Bolivia. He was previously a professor at the University of Cochabamba. He has written a history of the LDS Church in Bolivia.
Pedraja was the first president of the Cochabamba Bolivia Stake of the LDS Church and the third stake president in Bolivia. He also served from 1996 to 1999 as president of the Argentina Salta Mission. Pedraja has also served as a bishop in the LDS Church.
Pedraja joined the LDS Church in 1965 and his parents were baptized the following year. As a young man Pedraja was the first Bolivian living in Bolivia to serve as a missionary for the LDS Church (Desidero Arce Cano was the first Bolivian to serve a mission, but he was a resident of Argentina when called). He served in Chile and Peru as a missionary.
Pedraja has also served as a regional representative of the Twelve and a district president in the LDS Church. Pedraja was an area seventy from 2002 until 2004.
Pedraja and his wife Amelia are the parents of four children.
Sources[edit]
- Deseret News Church Almanac, 2009 edition, p. 74.
- Church News April 20, 2002;[full citation needed] September 20, 1997;[full citation needed] June 15, 1996;[full citation needed] February 24, 1996[full citation needed]
- "Carlos L. Pedraja: 'I Didn't Go to Russia'", Ensign, December 1975
- Arnold K. Garr, et al., The Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000) p. 110.
- paper on the LDS Church in Bolivia and surrounding countries
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- 1955 births
- Bolivian leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church Educational System instructors
- Converts to Mormonism
- Mormon missionaries in Argentina
- Mormon missionaries in Chile
- Mormon missionaries in Peru
- Regional representatives of the Twelve
- Mission presidents (LDS Church)
- Bolivian Mormon missionaries
- 20th-century Mormon missionaries
- Bolivian expatriates in Peru
- Bolivian expatriates in Chile
- Area seventies (LDS Church)
