No matter what happens during General Conference this weekend, it will be memorable for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Though it will have the look and feel of earlier global gatherings livestreamed from the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City, it will begin without a called and sustained church president or governing First Presidency. A conference hasn’t been held without a named president in at least a century. Still, there is no question who is in charge.

Dallin H. Oaks , the faith’s most senior apostle, is the presumed successor to 101-year-old Russell M. Nelson, who died Sept. 27 . But Nelson’s funeral is scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 7, and the tradition has been not to name a new president until the previous one has been buried.

Either way,

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