Condie previously worked as a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) and also served as a mission president for the LDS Church in Eastern Europe.

While there, he met Dorothea Speth, a native of Germany who was also serving as a missionary.

In the LDS Church, Condie served as a bishop, stake president and regional representative.

In this capacity he not only oversaw missionary work in Austria, but also its development in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Greece.

In 2003, Condie was the keynote speaker at BYU's annual Genealogy and Family History Conference.

In 2014, Condie spoke at the 18th Annual Education Conference at Southern Virginia University.

These former members of the Presiding Bishopric did not serve as a Seventy during their time as a general authority.