As part of this decision, it was stated that all Young Men, Young Women, and Primary programs for those age 8–18 would be replaced by a new, unified worldwide program. Yes, President Russell M. Nelson does speak Spanish . [14] Nelson traveled extensively as a medical doctor and addressed conferences in many parts of Latin America and Africa, as well as in India and China. [90], In December 2018, the church's First Presidency changed the process of youth class progression and priesthood ordination. [23] His patient was a Latter-day Saint stake patriarch. [54], In August 2003, Nelson became the first member of the Quorum of the Twelve to visit Kazakhstan. In addition to the large crowd in attendance, the devotional was broadcast across the state. Beginning in 2019, youth began moving between classes and priesthood quorums at the beginning of the year in which they turn 12, 14, or 16, rather than when their birthday occurs during the year. SALT LAKE CITY — As the number of global deaths caused by COVID-19 surpassed 700,000, President Russell M. Nelson expressed “great sorrow” on Wednesday over the losses in a statement released through the social media accounts of the leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.. 1. During the 1950s, Dantzel was a member of the Tabernacle Choir. [42] Early in his service as an apostle, Nelson was an adviser to the church's Young Women organization and was supportive of the developing of the Young Women values and Personal Progress program. [19][20][21], Nelson served a two-year term of duty in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during the Korean War, and was stationed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. [68][69], On February 10, 2019, Nelson spoke to church members in Arizona at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. [39], Nelson also served for eight years as the church's Sunday School General President. Nelson began his presidency two days after his ordination with a short broadcast to church members in January 2018 before then holding a press conference. Ordained an Apostle on 12April 1984, Elder Nelson received his B.A. Her marriage to Nelson is her first. [104] Together they had ten children: nine daughters—Marsha, Wendy (1951–2019),[105] Gloria, Brenda, Sylvia, Emily (1958–1995),[106] Laurie, Rosalie, and Marjorie—and a son, Russell Jr. (b. [76], In March 2018, the First Presidency issued a letter on preventing and responding to abuse. [31], Nelson became involved with the administrative aspects of medicine and was elected president of the Utah State Medical Association. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: A Bicentennial Proclamation to the World, "Russell M. 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Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sits during the faith’s general conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 3, 2020. He has served as a member of that quorum since April 7, 1984. He also said the clouds of sorrow are laced with silver linings of faith, family and … His musical acumen has come in handy in his 90s. This broadcast ahead of the press conference was unprecedented and provided the new leaders an opportunity to briefly address the entire church immediately. The proclamation coincided with the 200th anniversary of Joseph Smith’s First Vision and is the sixth proclamation issued by the church in its history.[92][93]. [63] Nelson chose not to retain Dieter F. Uchtdorf, who had served as Monson's Second Counselor, in the new First Presidency. Monson. [58], When he was Sunday School General President, Nelson attended a meeting where Kimball urged those present to learn Chinese. [70], On March 9, 2019, Nelson met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. President Nelson comes to the position as President of … Nelson became a noted heart surgeon, and served as president of the Society for Vascular Surgery and the Utah Medical Association.[6]. He regularly has both conducted Quorum of the Twelve meetings and provided the music for them, dashing from the podium to the organ. Nelson's tenure as church president has been punctuated by an increased focus on worship within LDS temples. This marked the first time since 1985 that a new church president had not retained a previously-serving counselor. [16] Nelson began his first year of medical school prior to finishing his bachelor's degree, and completed the four-year M.D. Official Facebook page for President Russell M. Nelson, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From left, a picture of Sister Dantzel Nelson, Wendy, Marsha and President Nelson taken in 1951 in Washington D.C. Credit: Russell M. Nelson Facebook. [13] Nelson has absolute pitch, and frequently sang in choirs, quartets, and plays. There he built his own heart-lung bypass machine and employed it to support the first open-heart surgery in the state of Utah. [45] He also made several other visits to that continent, including one to Kenya in 2011. I invite you to turn your heart, mind, and soul increasingly to our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. Sister Wendy Nelson and President Russell M. Nelson participate in a virtual birthday celebration on Sept. 6, 2020. Credit: Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the party offered a glimpse of the legacy President Nelson has given his posterity. SALT LAKE CITY — Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, offered some tough love on Sunday during the faith’s 189th Annual General Conference. [65], In June 2018, Nelson traveled to Alberta, Canada, where his second wife was born and raised, and gave three devotional addresses in three consecutive evenings. [30], In 1965, the University of Chicago offered Nelson the position as head of their department of thoracic surgery. [34], In 2015, the University of Utah, along with the American College of Cardiology, created the Russell M. Nelson M.D., Ph.D. As part of this change, young women ages 14–18 may be assigned as ministering sisters, similar to the-long standing policies of young men ages 14–18 serving as home teachers. In the most pointed and potent condemnation of racism from the pulpit by a Latter-day Saint prophet in recent years, President Russell M. Nelson told members Sunday to listen up: God does … President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and his wife, Sister Wendy Nelson, wave to attendees during a devotional in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 19, 2019. Credit: Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News. For a time he was also the church's representative to a US State Department committee on international religious freedom. This includes discussions about the Plan of Salvation (which are deeply rooted in the “Three Pillars of Eternity” structure outlined by Bruce R. McConkie), caring for the human body, and preparing for death and the resurrection. [96] Following the December 2018 dedication of the Barranquilla Colombia Temple by Dallin H. Oaks, Nelson presided over the three-day dedicatory services for the Rome Italy Temple from March 10–12, 2019. degrees from the University of Utah (1945, 47). [91], On April 5, 2020, Nelson announced a new proclamation, "The Restoration of the Fulness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ: A Bicentennial Proclamation to the World". While in Rome, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles took the first apostolic group photo in two decades. In April 2006, he married Wendy L. Watson. While at Minnesota, he was a member of the surgeon Clarence Dennis's research team that pioneered the heart-lung machine that in April 1951 supported the first human open-heart surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass. [109] Watson, originally from Raymond, Alberta, was a professor of marriage and family therapy at BYU prior to her retirement in 2006. [108], Dantzel Nelson died unexpectedly at their home in Salt Lake City on February 12, 2005, at age 78. Afterwards, in September, he traveled to church meetings in several European countries. In Brazil on one of the many international ministry tours the 95-year old President Nelson has taken over the past two years, his wife, Sister Wendy Nelson, commented that at his core, Russell Nelson is a scientist — he wants to know what laws govern a particular thing. Posted by Guest Author | Oct 24, 2018 | #GeneralConference , prophets | 0 | During the South American leg of his ongoing Global Ministry Tour, President Russell M Nelson surprised an audience in Lima, Peru, by addressing them in Spanish! In 2009, he, along with his wife and others, were attacked while in Mozambique. Photo by Scott G Winterton, Deseret News. (Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Russell M. Nelson gives concluding remarks at General Conference on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. Nelson served in a variety of lay LDS leadership positions during his surgical career, beginning locally in Salt Lake City and then as the LDS Church's Sunday School General President from 1971 to 1979. [62] After being ordained and set apart as church president on January 14, 2018, Nelson was introduced to church members and the media two days later, along with Oaks as his First Counselor and Henry B. Eyring as Second Counselor. [23], Nelson returned to Salt Lake City in 1955 and accepted a faculty position at the University of Utah School of Medicine. They dated for three years and then were married on August 31, 1945 in the Salt Lake Temple. His professional work included the positions of research professor of surgery and director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency at the University of Utah and chairman of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. Nelson signed 1,150 mission calls as the presiding apostle. [85] At the church's general conference in October 2018, he reiterated his position, declaring, "It is a correction" and "It is the command of the Lord." President Russell M. Nelson invites people worldwide to fast on March 29, 2020 for relief from COVID-19 pandemic. LDS apostles serve full-time for life, and so Nelson retired from all of his prior professional positions. Russell Marion Nelson Sr. (born September 9, 1924) is an American religious leader and former surgeon who is the 17th and current president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). During his April 2018 visit to India, Nelson explained to church members that the Lord had instructed him to announce the temple the night before general conference, though he had not originally planned to do so. [52], After Monson's call to the First Presidency in 1985, Nelson was assigned as the apostle to oversee the work of the church in Eastern Europe. Russell M. Nelson was sustained and set apart as the 17th president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, January 14, 2018, in the upper room of the Salt Lake Temple. Author of numerous publications and chapters in medical textbooks, President Nelson lectured and visited professionally throughout the United States and in many other nations prior to his call as a General Authority. [27] In an indication of his surgical skill, a 1968 case series of his aortic valve replacements demonstrated an exceptionally low peri-operative mortality. [9] He had two sisters, Marjory E. (1920–2016) and Enid (1926–2019), and a brother, Robert H. (1931–2014). In March 1956, he performed the first successful pediatric cardiac operation at the SLGH, a total repair of tetralogy of Fallot in a four-year-old girl. Approximately half of this time, he was assigned to oversee the fourteen stakes at BYU, while he worked with the stakes in Kearns, Utah for the other time. Born September 9, 1924, President Nelson is the son of Marion C. and Edna Anderson Nelson. [94] In announcing a temple in Nicaragua, Nelson fulfilled an apostolic promise he had made to church members there six years earlier. A stake's high priest quorum now consists of current members of stake presidencies, high councils, bishoprics and functioning patriarchs. She attended Box Elder High School, among her classmates was Boyd K. Packer, who would serve with Nelson for 30 years as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve. Degree in 1954. He was ordained an apostle on April 12, 1984, by Gordon B. Hinckley. White was very musical and in high school took music lessons from Richard P. Condie, who was then the assistant director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. In May 2018, the church announced it would end its sponsorship of Scouting troops in the United States and Canada at the end of 2019. [74][75], The first few months of Nelson's leadership of the LDS Church saw many significant changes to church policy, although many had at least been heavily discussed before he became church president, and some were continuations of policies instituted by his predecessors. [46], From 2007 to 2015, Nelson was as a member of the Church Boards of Trustees/Education, the governing body of the Church Educational System, and the chairman of its Executive Committee. [66], In September 2018, Nelson visited the Dominican Republic, where he gave an entire talk in Spanish, which was believed to be the first time a church president had given an extended talk in a formal setting in a language other than English. Sister Nelson passed away in February 2005. [citation needed] His travels have been punctuated by several temple dedications, most notably the Rome Italy Temple in March 2019, which was attended by all current members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. He also served in the U.S. Army for three years as a Captain in the Army Medical Corps and went to the Korean War. While on duty, he was assigned to a research group formed by the commandant of the Graduate School at Walter Reed, Col. William S. Stone and led by Dr. Fiorindo A. Simeone, a professor of surgery at Western Reserve University in Cleveland who had been a clinical investigator in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II. In Massachusetts, Nelson was the secretary for the adult Aaronic priesthood organization in his Boston-area branch. [24] That operation was performed at the Salt Lake General Hospital (SLGH) on an adult with an atrial septal defect. This was highlighted by shortening the length of Sunday church meetings to 2-hours from the previous 3-hours. [28] Later, he performed the same operation on future LDS Church president Spencer W. Kimball, replacing his damaged aortic valve. Up through August 2019, he had visited sixteen countries, addressing thousands of members of the faith. Dallin H. Oaks, then a law professor at Chicago and a fellow Latter-day Saint, actively worked to recruit Nelson. I have felt impressed to share with you a message on Nov. 20, 2020, from 11 to 11:15 a.m. MST. With the death of Monson on January 2, 2018, Nelson became the anticipated successor to the church's presidency. Personal Life. From 1955 to 1965, Nelson served as a missionary on Temple Square every Thursday afternoon for about two hours giving tours to visitors. The event marked the first time in history that a pope and an LDS Church president met face-to-face. [24], Nelson first operated out of the University of Utah's medical school. He then did his medical residency and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, where he was a member of the research team developing the heart-lung machine that in 1951 supported the first ever human open-heart surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass. He encouraged them to choose a set of seven days together to avoid the use of social media. [35], In addition to his medical work, Nelson served frequently as a leader in the LDS Church. Russell M. Nelson is not a name familiar to most people. In 1964, he set up his own private practice with him as the lead and Conrad Jenson as an associate. The meeting took place the day before the church's Rome Italy Temple was dedicated. [25], This would mark the first of many career achievements for Nelson. Russell M. Nelson was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this devotional address was given at Brigham Young University on 23 February 1993. He also received honorary degrees of Doctor of Science from Brigham Young University in 1970, Doctor of Medical Science from Utah State University in 1989, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Snow College in 1994. Russell M. Nelson and his first wife, fellow University of Utah student Dantzel White, met while they both were attending college. Nelson took up this challenge and developed elementary proficiency in Mandarin. [10][11] His parents were not active in the Latter-day Saint faith while he was a youth, but they did send him to Sunday School,[12] and he was baptized a member of the LDS Church at age 16. Yet, this humble man is the one chosen by Jehovah to preside over His affairs. This morning Elder Boyd K. Packer spoke of the “fountains of life.” This afternoon, I should like to speak of the “doors of death.” ... Live it well—even to your loftiest potential. Sister Wendy Nelson: Yeah, there was a lot, a lot, that I stepped into. He pronounced blessings upon Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo while visiting each of those countries; these serve as addendums to Monson's 1985 dedication of Yugoslavia for the preaching of the gospel. [71][72][73], In August 2019, Nelson visited Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina and Brazil. Each of us has likely had times when … This team was focused on ways to improve the treatment of wounded and was sent to all five MASH units active in Korea along with two major evacuation hospitals, several field station hospitals, a prisoner of war camp and larger evacuation hospitals in Japan, Hawaii, and the mainland United States in order to implement such improvements. Next, Nelson announced the end of home teaching and visiting teaching, replacing the programs with a focus on ministering, and shifting both the focus and methods of tracking them. He was also in the team of specialists during the first open-heart surgery in the world. Honorary scholastic societies include Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. [83] On June 18, the First Presidency created committees assigned to form a unified hymnbook and children's songbook for the worldwide church membership, with each language edition having the same hymns (and songs) in the same order, and that these committees would be taking submissions and collecting surveys until July 2019. The call to serve in this position had been extended to Nelson by Richard L. Evans, an apostle and the lead figure over publicity efforts on Temple Square. ... We live in a glorious age, foreseen by prophets for centuries. As I did so, I found four footnotes in his women's session address that helped deepen … In 1966, Nelson became head of the thoracic residency program that combined resource from the University of Utah Medical School, LDS Hospital, Primary Children's Hospital and the VA Hospital in Salt Lake City. Nelson also announced major changes in church organization during the April general conference. [77], During the church's April general conference, Nelson announced the appointment of Asian-American Gerrit W. Gong and Brazilian Ulisses Soares to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, both of whom had been serving in the Presidency of the Seventy.[78]. A host of awards and honors have come to him, including the Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Utah; the Heart of Gold Award from the American Heart Association; a citation for International Service from the American Heart Association; and the Golden Plate Award, presented by the American Academy of Achievement. Prior to his call to the Quorum of the Twelve, he was serving as a Regional Representative assigned to the Kearns Utah Region. Dr. Nelson has served as president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, a director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, chairman of the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery for the American Heart Association, and president of the Utah State Medical Association. [47] He was succeeded as chairman of the Executive Committee by Oaks. [7] In 1984, Nelson and the American jurist Dallin H. Oaks were selected to fill two vacancies in the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
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