A packed Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City came alive with the sounds of music Friday night as thousands of Latter-day Saints gathered to celebrate the 95th birthday of their president-prophet, Russell M. Nelson.
“We’re all trying to keep up with you,” quipped general authority Seventy S. Gifford Nielsen, one of the evening’s hosts, to the honored man, grinning on the front row.
Nielsen and co-host Ruth Todd, a former TV news anchor, ticked off Nelson’s breathless schedule during his first 19 months at the helm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.