Conference messages weave as threads in grand tapestry
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Like "threads in a tapestry of a grand and beautiful pattern," messages given during the Church's 171st Annual General Conference edified Church members worldwide March 31 and April 1.
"We have had a wonderful conference," said President Gordon B. Hinckley during his closing address. "The talks have been inspirational. The prayers of the speakers who prepared them and of those of us who heard them have been answered. We have all been edified."
More than 100,000 members congregated downtown for the meeting, attending one of five sessions in the Church's Conference Center or in overflow areas on Temple Square and the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.
Millions more viewed the proceedings via satellite to 4,540 meetinghouses in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe.
President Hinckley presided over the four general sessions, two each on Saturday and Sunday, and the priesthood session Saturday evening. During the two-day conference 24 General Authorities and two general officers delivered 31 addresses. President Hinckley spoke four times and President Thomas S. Monson and President James E. Faust, his counselors in the First Presidency, each spoke twice.
Conference messages were translated simultaneously in 49 languages.
Among conference highlights were:
- The announcement by President Hinckley of the Perpetual Education
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story.
- The promise by President Hinckley that the Church will continue to
build temples nearer the members, giving "consideration to a significant
number of potential temples sites in the United States, Central and South
America, Europe and the isles of the sea."
- The sustaining of 12 General Authorities to the First and Second
Quorums of the Seventy and 22 to the Third, Fourth and Fifth Quorums of the
Seventy.
- An update by President Hinckley on the Church, which today "is stronger
than it has ever been."
