Osguthorpe has served in the LDS Church as
president of the
South Dakota Rapid City Mission from 2003 to 2006, an
area seventy and member of the
Fifth Quorum of the Seventy from 2007 to 2009, and
president of the BYU 18th
Stake from 1997 to 2002. He is a former member of the
Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. In the 1960s, Osguthorpe was an LDS Church
missionary in
Tahiti. At the church's April 2009
General Conference Osguthorpe was
accepted by the membership as the general president of the church's Sunday School, succeeding A. Roger Merrill. Osguthorpe selected
David M. McConkie and
Matthew O. Richardson as his counselors. Osguthorpe spoke on submitting one's will to the Lord at a 2013
Church Educational System devotional for young adults originating in the
Marriott Center on the BYU campus in
Provo, Utah. In the April 2014 General Conference, Osguthorpe and his counselors were released, with
Tad R. Callister named as his successor. Later in 2014, Osguthorpe began an anticipated 3-year assignment as
president of the church's
Bismarck North Dakota Temple. ==Personal life==