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Russell M. Nelson Wendy L. Watson Nelson (born May 31, 1950) [ 1 ] is a Canadian-American marriage and family therapist, and professor. She worked with the Family Nursing Unit (FNU) at the University of Calgary (U of C) from 1983 to 1992, training graduate students to use family systems therapy with families of patients.
Russell Marion Nelson Sr. (born September 9, 1924) is an American religious leader and retired surgeon who is the 17th and current president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). [4] Nelson was a member of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for nearly 34 years, and was the quorum president from 2015
Gong was born in 1953 in Redwood City, California, to Walter Gong and his wife, the former Jean Char, and raised in Palo Alto, California. [6] Gerrit was named after Gerrit de Jong because his mother had lived with de Jong and his family while she was a student at BYU. He had a close almost familial relationship with de Jong and would refer to ...
1. Emeritus general authorities are individuals who have been released from active duties as general authorities. However, they remain general authorities of the church until their death. Except for the three former members of the Presiding Bishopric noted, all living emeritus general authorities are former members of the First or Second Quorums of the Seventy. 2. These former members of the ...
Russell Nelson, the Latter-day Saints president, who is considered to be a prophet by his followers in the Salt Lake City-based church, announced plans last week to build 17 new temples around the ...
Elder Russell M. Nelson and Elder Hans B. Ringger visited government officials in Sofia in October 1988 and again on February 13, 1990. During the second official Church visit to the country, Elder Nelson asked the government what the Church could do to help the people of Bulgaria.
His daughter Lana Nelson, whom he welcomed with his first wife Martha Matthews, noted that "[Shirley] had no idea there was a Connie" before that moment in 1969, adding, "She had no idea there was ...
In 2010, the church donated Braille writers to a school for blind children. During the fall of the communist government, the University Library in Bucharest burned. In August 1991, retired Brigham Young University professor George S. Barrus and Russell M. Nelson facilitated a book drive for the library, which collected over 40,000 books. This ...