For most of his life, Russell M. Nelson touched people’s hearts.

He did so from the 1950s to the mid-1980s with a scalpel in his hand. In the four decades since, he did so in sermons from his soul.

It’s unsurprising, then, that news of his death at age 101 has unleashed a wave of heartfelt tributes for the former surgeon and oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from those who viewed him as a “prophet, seer and revelator.”

Here are some of their remembrances:

“I’m still so happy he prophetically and medically stood up for the COVID vaccine. Who knows how many people’s lives he saved?”

— Emily Jensen , web editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.

“Russell M. Nelson was the man for the moment. As a renowned heart surgeon, he was prepare

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