Okay, today we are going to do a podcast episode remembering and paying tribute to a man who was really important to me, to Neil, and to many other members of our faith.

And that man, his name is Russell M. Nelson, and he passed away

over the weekend. I found out late, late, late Saturday night when I woke up and my dad had sent a text

to my family group text, just expressing his gratitude for Russell M. Nelson. And he was the president of our church

for the last like seven or eight years. And it's really interesting for me to think about

the influence he's had, not only as the prophet to me in my life, but also as the profit

during my most impressionable years as a mom. So like raising young kids, raising a tween

almost teen. I've thought a lot about that and there's just many many ways that he

impacted my life not just influenced it a little bit but literally changed my life for the better in

many ways so we're going to go through some of those things that he did for me and then also for you, Neil.

Yeah.

No, I think it's kind of cool.

When we were dating, we met President Nelson.

So one of my really close kind of childhood friends married one of his granddaughters,

and we went to the wedding reception and he was there.

So it was really cool to meet him.

Kind of just a solid, strong individual. That was the second time that I met him. When I was a

missionary in Canada, he came to visit us and speak to us. And so we shook hands with him.

And you can just feel really big presence, strong presence from President Nelson.

And at that time, he was just, he was not just, but he was an apostle.

It wasn't the leader of the church yet.

But still just you could feel how powerful spiritually he was or in or is.

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