The 3 words Sister Oaks used to describe her husband, the prophet

The three words Sister Kristen M. Oaks used to describe her husband are “wise, kind and energetic.”

President Dallin H. Oaks , the recently called prophet-president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is “so wise,” she said. “He’s careful about what he says, what he doesn’t say, … and he sees danger from afar.”

But he is also “like the Energizer Bunny,” she added during a recent interview for the Church News podcast . “I see it in his children. They have enormous energy.”

Sister Oaks then asked her interviewer Sheri Dew — executive vice president and chief content officer of Deseret Management Corporation — for permission to add a few more words, and said President Oaks is also very patient and devoted.

“He’s very devoted to me, … to his family and to people that he