Mel and Anne-Maj Luthy

Brother and Sister Luthy were called to be temple president and matron while they were a service couple at the BYU Jerusalem center. They went to Israel almost immediately after he retired as a professor of linguistics at BYU. They live in Provo and she has worked for WordPerfect and as a translator for the Church. He served a mission to Finland in the 1950's and then returned to Finland in the 1960's on a Fullbright scholarship to study Finnish and find his wife. This is their third mission together. He was mission president in Helsinki in the 1980's. I cannot imagine a better couple to oversee the opening of a new temple here in Finland. They are both gifted, gracious, patient, and kind.