“We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.”

American religious leader and surgeon

Russell Marion Nelson Sr. was an American religious leader and surgeon. He served as the seventeenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2018 until his death in 2025. Before that, Nelson spent nearly thirty-four years in the church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, leading that quorum from 2015 to 2018. As church president, he was regarded by the church as the prophet, seer, and revelator.