Announcement re LDS president's 100th birthday 'commemoration.'
Show will celebrate his life and teachings — “I cannot think of a time that he was unkind, abrupt, rude or insensitive,” says apostle Jeffrey Holland. “It just isn’t in his nature.”The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints “welcomes all” to view a worldwide broadcast Sept. 9, the day theletter sent to regional and local church leadersto Latter-day Saints around the world to engage in service inspired by Jesus’ example of “looking beyond the 99 to reach the one lost from the flock.
“One of the virtues I have seen President Nelson portray unfailingly is his genuine, heartfelt kindness,” Holland wrote, “which has often led him to leave the 90 and nine to go after the one.” He continued: “In the more than 40 years I have known him, I cannot think of a time that he was unkind, abrupt, rude or insensitive. It just isn’t in his nature.”Nelson has shepherded the church during a period of sweeping changes in the Utah-based faith’s policies, practices and curriculum — in addition to a record-settingAfter a whirlwind start to his presidential tenure — including globe-trotting travels — he has shown definite signs of slowing down.
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