President Eyring - President Monson - President Uchtdorf
"It’s Conference time, it’s Conference time – the prophets
tell us what to do, at Conference time and all year through!”
I sang this song to Chris and Mark when they were younger to get them excited about watching general conference. (I still sing it to them!) I love this time of year and can’t wait for tomorrow! We have watched conference together as a family for 26 years (with the exception of when Chris and Mark were on their missions.) I have always been grateful they never resisted when we asked them to listen to conference. Now we have sweet Tiffani join us in this tradition. We also have a big breakfast Sunday morning - pancakes, bacon, sausage, etc! Thousands of Latter-day Saints will gather Saturday and Sunday at the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City to attend general conference. Hundreds of thousands more throughout Utah and surrounding states will watch proceedings live on television. Millions more around the world will watch on the Internet or by satellite broadcast in more than 6,000 Church buildings. For my family who may not know … General conferences of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are gatherings of leaders and members of the Church and anyone else wishing to hear messages of faith in Jesus Christ and His gospel. Scriptural doctrines are taught, hymns are sung and prayers are given, all in effort to urge people to live more Christian lives.
After 133 years of general conference in the Tabernacle, the construction of the much larger Conference Center, which seats 21,000 in its main auditorium, was completed in 2000 to better accommodate conference crowds. To enable people to view the meetings outside of the Conference Center and Temple Square, the Church broadcasts each session to over 6,000 satellite connections around the world in addition to live Internet streaming. With the diversity of Latter-day Saints comes a diversity of languages. Hundreds of interpreters help to translate all of the sermons and prayers into 94 languages, including American Sign Language and closed captioning. Whether in the Tabernacle, in their own living rooms, or from reading the messages later, members feel the spirit of faith and testimony that moves outward to touch their lives from this moment of instruction, this time of strengthening called general conference.
