Video: Favorite moments from Church President Nelson’s 5-year ministry Part 1

This Church News video, titled ‘Five Years of Leadership,’ features a few favorite moments captured by the Church News during President Nelson’s historic ministry

12 Jan 2023, 1:14 p.m. MST

From left, Elder Alessandro Dini Ciacci, Area Seventy; Elder Massimo De Feo, General Authority Seventy; President Russell M. Nelson of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; President M. Russell Ballard, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; and Mark Woodruff, President Nelson’s executive secretary, meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome, Italy, on Saturday, March 9, 2019. Photo provided by The Vatican

Sarah Jane Weaver is editor of the Deseret News.

President Russell M. Nelson was set apart as the 17th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Jan. 14, 2018. Since then, he has traveled to 35 nations, changed Church organization, utilized technology, led the Church through a pandemic, issued historic invitations and built bridges of understanding.

He has addressed hundreds of thousands of Latter-day Saints — often in their own language — and called upon kings, presidents and prime ministers. He has also comforted victims of crime and others who grieve, called children to him and linked arms with top leaders of the NAACP.

This Church News video, titled “Five Years of Leadership,” features a few favorite moments captured by the Church News during President Nelson’s historic ministry.