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The General Conference is a biannual gathering of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), held every April and October at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. During each conference, church members gather in a series of two-hour sessions to listen to the faith's leaders.
The Salt Lake Tabernacle, where LDS Church general conferences were held from 1867 until 2000.. In the Latter Day Saint movement, a general conference is a meeting for all members of the church for conducting general church business and instruction.
Ronald Eugene Poelman (May 10, 1928 – November 19, 2011) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1978 until his death. In 1984, he delivered a controversial sermon in the LDS Church's general conference which he asked to redo to clarify some points. The church retaped and spliced this ...
Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Twice a year, the LDS Church holds general conference, where the church's president and other leaders speak. The talks, given in several sessions over several days, are carried worldwide by radio, television, satellite, and Internet broadcasts.
Cover of the 1980 pamphlet, which printed the sermon. "To Young Men Only" (also known as "Message to Young Men") [1] is a sermon delivered by Latter-day Saint apostle Boyd K. Packer on October 2, 1976, at the priesthood session of the 146th Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Consistent with the May 2017 statement, the LDS Church announced on September 28, 2017, that Monson would not attend the church's upcoming general conference, due to the same health and age-related limitations. He was the first church president to miss an entire general conference weekend since Ezra Taft Benson in 1992. [66]
The LDS Church has published several general conference talks mentioning evolution. In the October 1984 conference, apostle Boyd K. Packer stated that "no one with reverence for God could believe that His children evolved from slime or from reptiles" as well as affirming that "those who accept the theory of evolution don't show much enthusiasm ...
It carries on many themes from his talks such as repentance and finding happiness through the atonement of Jesus Christ. [16] Some of the addresses he has delivered in general conferences include: "To Heal the Shattering Consequences of Abuse", April 2008 General Conference "Truth, the Foundation of Correct Decisions", October 2007 General ...