His mother, Joy F. Evans, served as a counselor to Barbara W. Winder in the Relief Society General Presidency from 1984 to 1990.

He later worked as an executive with SEI USA in Newport Beach, California, and was a partner in the law firm of Snell and Willmer.

In August 2004, it was decided these individuals should attend the regular geographical wards in which they resided and the stake was disbanded.

Evans then became president of the Salt Lake Emigration Stake, a position he remained in until his call as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy at the church's April 2005 General Conference.

In 2019 Evans, as president of the Asia Area, offered the site dedicatory prayer for the Bangkok Thailand Temple.