Mission faithfully accomplished.

President Russell M. Nelson promised he would serve God the Father and Jesus Christ with every remaining breath of his life in January 2018, when he became the 17th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“He did just that,” his son, Russell M. Nelson Jr., said at his father’s funeral Tuesday at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. “President Nelson showed us firsthand that there is no rest in his version of the Restoration.”

President Nelson died on Sept. 27 at age 101.

He was “our beloved prophet” and “my best friend and most effective teacher,” said President Dallin H. Oaks , who conducted and presided at the funeral as president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

The quorum is directing the church during an apost

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