President Russell M. Nelson was on a small plane several years ago when an engine caught fire, sending the aircraft into a perilous plunge toward earth.
“Part of the tranquility I felt as death approached came from my knowledge of the gospel,” the leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints told thousands of Argentine members gathered at Tecnópolis Arena in Buenos Aires.
“I was falling to my death. I was surprised that I was not afraid to die. I remained calm. Why? Because I knew that my wife [Dantzel, who died in 2005] and I had married in the temple,” he said in Castilian Spanish, according to a church news release.