SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — While President Russell M. Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has passed, his legacy lives on through all of the temples he established.

Russell M. Nelson, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and a former heart surgeon, passed away last month. President Russell M. Nelson is well-known for establishing more temples for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints than any other leader in church history.

In the April 2018 General Conference session, Nelson's first session as President of the Church, he stated that they had 159 functioning temples throughout the world and then announced that seven new ones would be constructed.

That announcement reflected what Nelson would emphasize throughout his presidency in

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