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Kearns • Scott Strong doubled over at the LDS pulpit here, racked by sobs as he tried to describe his feelings about the death of his twin, Trevor.

"My goodness, Trevor was an awesome guy," Scott Strong said of the brother who was born one minute before him. "I love him so much. I have to do a lot of work to catch up to where he is."

Scott Strong addressed more than 800 mourners packed into the LDS Kearns Stake Center Monday morning to remember Strong, a Mormon missionary who was killed in Donna, Texas, while riding his bicycle during the final week of his two-year mission for the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Scott Strong just last week returned from his own LDS mission in Tucson, Ariz.

In the church lobby, the family displayed Strong's missionary journals, letters, appointment books and the black shoes he wore while seeking converts to the faith. Another table showcased the young man's basektball jerseys and family photos.

The death of the 21-year-old missionary was a "loss felt deeply by all of us," the LDS First Presidency said in a letter to his parents, Gordon and Deborah Strong, read at the funeral. "Your son could not have been involved in a more worthy church service."

Each of Strong's six siblings spoke during the 90-minute service, each mentioning their brother's acts of service, his work ethic, playfulness and sense of humor.

"He had the uncanny ability to make me feel like the funniest person in the world," said older brother, Andrew Strong, "even when I turned out to be the punch line."

In the concluding sermon, LDS apostle Russell M. Nelson urged the family members not to "torture themselves with what-ifs."

The Mormon leader also assured the family it was OK to weep and that God was mourning with them.

"Tears are good," Nelson said. "The Lord wants us to cry . . . so go ahead and let it loose for your righteous, wonderful, irreplaceable [brother and son.]"

Jesus Christ "knows exactly how you feel," he said. "But the Savior's atoning power releases us from grief."

Trevor was "on the Lord's errand," Nelson said. "Now he is safely in the Lord's hands."

An impromptu 50-person choir of former missionaries from the Texas McAllen LDS mission sang the Mormon missionary theme song, "Called to Serve," in both English and Spanish.

Gordon Strong read to the congregation the last sentence his son wrote in his diary, "Boy, I love being a missionary."

Now, the grieving father said, "Trevor was called to extend that assignment indefinitely [in heaven]."

A separate funeral was held Monday in Fairfield, Idaho, for Derek Walker, a second Mormon missionary who was killed in the same Texas accident last week. A third missionary, Zachary Harris of Huntsville, Ala., also was hit but survived the collision.