In April 2016, the church announced that he would retire at the end of August 2016 and be replaced by Richard E. Turley, Jr.[2] On 1 November 2016, he began a new assignment, along with his wife, as president and matron of the London England Temple.
Following a year's stint as a sub-editor on the Japan Times in Tokyo, he returned to the UK and was appointed Business Editor for the Liverpool Daily Post.
[7] He remained in that post for 12 years before moving to the United States in 1991 to manage the worldwide training program for church public affairs operations.
[11] In 2003, Otterson was also the LDS Church's main point man in its response to Jon Krakauer's book on Mormonism, Under the Banner of Heaven.
[1] In late 2009 Otterson gained national attention by making an official statement for the LDS Church in the Salt Lake City Council meeting in favour of city ordinances that included sexual orientation and gender identity among categories covered in fair housing and fair employment regulations.