From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson's 100th birthday was   
   celebrated by a special event at the church's "Conference   
   Center Theater",a venue that appears to be analogous to   
   the Felt Forum/Paramount's function at Madison Square Garden   
   or Carnegie Recital Hall...under the same roof as a much   
   larger auditorium that can also be a "theater".   
      
   Music was provided by a keyboardist,a vocalist,and the   
   church's de facto official violinist Jenny Oaks Baker,   
   the youngest child of Nelson's top deputy/heir apparent   
   Dallin H. Oaks (who turned 92 last month).Besides video   
   tributes,onsite speakers included his appointees and   
   descendants (his eldest daughter,who is 76,and a young   
   woman representing his 167 great-grandchildren).He and   
   his late first wife had nine daughters and a son between   
   1948 and 1972,when the son was born just after the eldest   
   daughter's first child (who is now a grandfather).   
   His second wife was by his side (she has the same name   
   and was the same age as his late second daughter,whose   
   death I noted here some years ago).   
      
   He was in shape to stand up and hug or greet the   
   speakers as they made their way from lectern to offstage.   
      
   The event was streamed live and is available on demand   
   on Youtube.   
      
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