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of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
As fast as the blood flows into the right atrium of President Spencer W. Kimball’s stopped heart, a tube pumps it out of his body and into a machine next to the operating table.
Dr. Russell M. Nelson peers down into the chest cavity. The room smells of cauterized blood vessels and arteries. Not long ago, this was unthinkable. Operating on a live heart was a medical sin when he entered medical school.
The blood streaming into the machine had been returning to President Kimball’s heart after a trip through his body. The machine takes over for the heart and lungs. An oxygenator strips out carbon dioxide and delivers oxygen. Then the heart-lung machine returns the blood to the aorta, which sends it coursing to his brain, fingers and toes.
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Thursday is the third anniversary of the start of President Russell M. Nelson’s administration as the prophet-leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ordained him as the church president on a January Sunday in 2018. Two days later, he spoke to the world in a broadcast from the Salt Lake Temple and in a subsequent news conference.
“I declare my devotion to God our Eternal Father and to his Son, Jesus Christ,” he said.“I know them, love them and pledge to serve them and you with every remaining breath of my life.”