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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
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.
Additionally, a footnote to a 1995 general conference talk by the apostle Russell M. Nelson noted that loving without racial discrimination is a general commandment, but not one to apply to specific marriage partner criteria since it states that being united in ethnic background increases the probability of a successful marriage. [98]
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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.
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 was the single largest book donation from the United States.
Russell M. Nelson has been the president since January 14, 2018. Latter-day Saints consider the church's president to be God's spokesman to the entire world and the highest priesthood authority on earth, with the exclusive right to receive revelations from God on behalf of the entire church or the entire world.
[26] [27] According to historian D. Michael Quinn, both the late church president Spencer W. Kimball (president from 1973—1985) and current church president Russell M. Nelson (president since 2018) received their second anointing in 1974; Nelson alluded to this experience in his 1979 autobiography.