With reverent spirits and grateful hearts, hundreds of Latter-day Saints and friends of the faith solemnly moved through the Conference Center in Salt Lake City in a line, patiently awaiting their turn to pay their respects to President Russell M. Nelson, the late prophet-president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

President Nelson died Saturday, Sept. 27 , at age 101, automatically dissolving the church’s First Presidency and launching the church into an apostolic interregnum .

For many of those who attended his public viewing, held Monday, Oct. 6, this was the first time they stood just feet away from the church president.

Yet, whether they’d interacted with him in person or — like the majority of the church’s 17.5 million members — simply sought to follow his ex

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