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• 'Rise to divinity within you,' LDS members urged

  "Rise to the divinity within you." That concluding statement by President Gordon B. Hinckley capsulized the messages that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints heard during the two-day, 172nd Semi-annual Conference of the church.

• Conference images

  Photos by Johanna Workman and Keith Johnson, Deseret News People wait in line, right, between sessions to get into the afternoon session of conference Sunday. Jeff Hobbs and Mike Simpson, of Idaho Falls, try to acquire tickets to general conference. Amona Faatau,...

• 5 added to Second Quorum of the Seventy

  Young Women presidency is also sustained.

• Conference has evolved over years

  Meetings were longer and much stricter in 1902

• Conference images

  Conference attendees take a break and watch the water fountain at the Conference Center where three sessions were held on Saturday. Francis Davidson greets conference-goers with a hymn on his harmonica near the Conference Center as they walk to the building. President Thomas S....

• Directives impact missionaries, others

  Changes in missionary farewells and temple recommends, emphasis on Mondays for family home evening.

• LDS members told to raise standards high

  Pres. Hinckley announces changes to streamline a large and diverse church.

• On TV: 'A Return to Sacred Ground'

  "A Return to Sacred Ground," a Carole Mikita documentary about LDS temples in historic locations, will be televised at noon Sunday on KSL-TV Ch. 5.

Advance Articles

• Flood of converts alters the face of LDS Church

  Burgeoning membership is a challenge

• LDS Church sends relief to the Yucatan Peninsula

  MERIDA, Mexico — Look past the fallen trees bunched-up along every street in this colonial city in the Yucatan Peninsula, and there are signs of a speedy recovery from Hurricane Isidore. Merida's central plaza is again alive with activity. Artisans display their wares for tourists...

• TRAX schedule

  The Utah Transit Authority has adjusted and enhanced TRAX service for the weekend to better accommodate an increase of ridership during the Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Two TRAX trains have been added, and each train will have...

• LDS meeting challenges of diversity

  As members of the LDS Church gather in Salt Lake City for their 172nd Semiannual General Conference this weekend, those attending will represent a microcosm of the church's growth in the United States and internationally. Considered one of America's most successful homegrown faiths, The...

• Women urged to serve others

  They are also counseled to keep their covenants

• Relief Society leaders sure of goal

  If they are not the best of friends, you would never know it. To watch them interact is a silent sermon on sisterhood. And tonight at 6 p.m., Bonnie Parkin, Kathleen Hughes and Anne Pingree will step up to the podium at the Conference Center to share that sermon. They'll also step...

Summaries of Talks

Saturday Morning

• Turn to Christ to find unity and peace within
• 'O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart'
• A voice of gladness for our children
• Called of God
• Conference images
• Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
• Elder L. Tom Perry
• Elder Neal A. Maxwell
• Encircled in the arms of His love
• LDS members told to raise standards high
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President James E. Faust
• Sister Coleen K. Menlove
• The global church blessed by the voice of the prophets
• The stake patriarch
• What's in it for me?

Saturday Afternoon

• Be grateful for gospel
• Photos: 'One great family'
• Tithing prepares one to live higher law of consecration
• 'Blessed are the peacemakers'
• But if not
• Called to serve
• Elder David B. Haight
• Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
• Elder Lance B. Wickman
• Elder Robert D. Hales
• Elder Robert K. Dellenbach
• Elder Russell M. Nelson
• LDS members told to raise standards high
• Sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven
• Tithing: A test of faith with eernal blessings
• Were there not ten cleansed?

Priesthood

• 'This isn't a time for spiritual weakness'
• Eschew 'demons' that wreak havoc on lives
• Lord entrusts all His children with spiritual talents
• President Hinckley gives specific counsel
• Priesthood session speakers
• Receiving counsel
• Directives impact missionaries, others
• Elder M. Russell Ballard
• I believe I can, I knew I could
• Peace, be still
• President Boyd K. Packer
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President James E. Faust
• President Thomas S. Monson
• The greatest generation of missionaries
• The stake patriarch
• To men of the priesthood

Sunday Morning

• A woman of faith
• Conference images
• Elder D. Todd Christofferson
• Elder Dallin H. Oaks
• Elder Henry B. Eyring
• I'll go where you want me to go
• Models to follow
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President Thomas S. Monson
• Rise to your call
• Sister Margaret D. Nadauld
• That they may be one in us
• The marvelous foundation of our faith

Sunday Afternoon

• Bishop Keith B. McMullin
• Come to Zion! Come to Zion!
• Dad, are you awake?
• Each a better person
• Elder Claudio R.M. Costa
• Elder F. Melvin Hammond
• Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
• Elder Kenneth Johnson
• Elder Richard G. Scott
• Fun and happiness
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• Shall He find faith on the earth?
• To be free of heavy burdens
• Yielding to the enticings of the Holy Spirit