From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   > Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >>Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>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.   
   >   
   >>He showed up for two of the five sessions of this past   
   >>weekend's Semiannual General Conference,remained seated   
   >>but was noted as "presiding" by the younger elder "conducting",   
   >>gave his typical announcement-of-new-temples and urged all   
   >>to prepare for the Second Coming at the closing session.   
   >   
   > I do believe these would be scheduled at one of their conferences.   
   >   
   >>He was wheeled off at the close,as was Jeffrey R. Holland,   
   >>Acting President of the Twelve and second in line to   
   >>succeed.Heir apparent/top deputy Dallin H. Oaks   
   >>(born August 12,1932) appeared healthiest of the   
   >>First Presidency.   
      
   For his 101st New Year,he made a Facebook post about a document   
   "The Living Christ" he'd signed along with the other then Apostles   
   for release January 1,2000 offering their religious "testimony".   
      
   This was picked up by the church-owned Deseret News/Church News   
   which both illustrates it and quotes it in full but curiously   
   deletes the serial comma in Nelson's listing of the other   
   surviving signatories.(The signatures appear in three columns,   
   the then First Presidency on the left,the senior six of the   
   Twelve in the middle,the junior six on the right...the four   
   survivors are the bottom two in the middle and the right   
   hand columns).   
      
   Today (January 2nd) is the 7th anniversary of the death of   
   Thomas S. Monson,which made Nelson the senior leader though   
   his installation as Church President was 12 days later and   
   Monson (though younger than Nelson) had pretty much stopped   
   functioning as leader some time earlier.   
      
   -=-=-   
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