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Links We Like: LDS General Conference Weekend

Women Seeking Christ — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:47:45 +0000

Twice a year, we as members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gather in our church buildings and our homes — all over the world — and listen to the leaders of our Church give counsel and share inspiring messages at our two-day semiannual General Conference. As we believe in continuing revelation through prophets and apostles and other leaders, these conference become a sort of living scripture for us.

Interested in seeing what a conference is like? You can do it from the comfort of your own home. See this page for more details, or this page for additional broadcast options.

General Conference Traditions

Our semiannual conferences tend to include church unit and family traditions for many of us, which add to the anticipation and excitement we feel.

For example, read what several women recently shared about their General Conference traditions here.

Other traditions are described here and here.

General Conference “Packets”

Parents often try to find creative ways to keep their children engaged in listening to and enjoying General Conference. In recent years, there have been people who have created “General Conference packets” that circulate around via email and websites. The Church has created one this year, which can be found here. Other packets can be found here and here.

This packet might be worth a glance if you are curious about the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. The packet contains tidbits of information about each of the fifteen men whom we sustain as prophets, seers, and revelators in our day.

History of General Conference

Curious about the history of Mormon General Conference meetings? They started in 1830, with 27 members! Read more about that here, or glance at a timeline here.

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To you who will be listening over the course of the weekend, we invite you to share some of your thoughts and insights (or questions) here.

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Music from General Conference

Women Seeking Christ — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:51:23 +0000

Did you know you can access the music from General Conference? Each song has its own MP3 and video files.

Music from the October 2008 General Conference can be found here.

Music from the April 2009 General Conference can be found here.

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Review, Reflect, and Return: Thoughts on General Conference

Women Seeking Christ — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:51:29 +0000

There are many posts about General Conference around the internet. (Transcripts are now available, by the way!)

Days ago, we found a few that we will share today. Please share others of which you are aware (including your own!). If you don’t have a blog, but would like to share your thoughts, please feel free to do so below, or send us an email with your essay or comments.

Mommom’s thoughts on the General Young Women Broadcast and this simple but beautiful post as she was listening to the messages of conference

Random Giggles shares her thoughts here.

Sue shares thoughts about Elder Holland’s beautiful talk on the atonement.

And for a fun visual representation of the topics covered in Conference, see this wordle image (a word cloud).

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