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• Conference images

  The congregation and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir join in singing a hymn during Sunday morning's session inside the church's huge Conference Center. Carol E. Fowler of Payson attends conference with Little Bear, her 3-year-old dressed-up German shepherd. Bradley Young...

• LDS exhorted to boost faith, show charity

  Buoyed by the affirmation that Jesus Christ stands at the head of the church and challenged to live more faith-filled and charitable lives, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints closed their 172nd Annual General Conference Sunday afternoon, and members from far and near began...

• 3 new leaders for Relief Society

  Changes in LDS Church leadership on Saturday included the calls of three women as the faith's new Relief Society general presidency and two new general authorities.

• Conference images

  From left, President James E. Faust, President Thomas S. Monson and President Gordon B. Hinckley shake hands with general authorities as they exit the first session of general conference Saturday. Overflow crowds sit by the fountain in the LDS Conference Center, listening to the...

• LDS CONFERENCE: Abuse of wives, children decried

  Forceful denouncements of abuse — of children, spouses and the elderly — resounded during the opening sessions of the 172nd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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• LDS conference schedule

  LDS General Conference sessions are scheduled at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Conference Center, with the general priesthood session for males Saturday at 6 p.m. The four general sessions will be carried live on KSL-TV, Channel 5; and on KBYU-TV, Channel 11; Direct TV channel...

• Nauvoo Temple open house begins on May 6

  The gasps, sobs and silent cheers that greeted the announcement that the LDS Church would rebuild its temple in Nauvoo, Ill., have turned to excitement, awe and anticipation as Latter-day Saints worldwide get ready to celebrate and residents in the tiny Mississippi River town look daily at the...

• TRAX schedule altered for Sunday

  TRAX will begin running more than two hours early Sunday to accommodate LDS Church General Conference crowds. The Salt Lake-Sandy line will start operating at 7:10 a.m., while the first trains will depart Rice-Eccles Stadium on the University line at 8:31 a.m. Eastbound trains will leave...

• Historic moments in LDS broadcasts

  A look at the progression in LDS general conference broadcasts not only mirrors the church's growth but also shows the ever-changing technologies used:

• LDS fund already fulfilling promise

  Over 2,000 young adults receive student loans

• LDS quick to use technology

  Broadcasting swells audience of conferences

• Maintain high standards, LDS young women urged

  Young Women of the LDS Church worldwide were encouraged Saturday to maintain high standards of personal worthiness in dress, entertainment, peer relationships and to become mothers who strengthen their homes through nurturing, love and service. "It is so much easier to do what is right...

Summaries of Talks

Saturday Morning

• 'Faith is the fiber that gives strength to this work'
• Children are consummately precious
• Harbor no hidden wedges; remember the Savior
• Looking about from the summit of the years
• Sunday morning session
• 'Follow Me'
• Children
• Conference tech
• Developing inner strength
• Elder Earl C. Tingey
• Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
• Hidden wedges
• LDS CONFERENCE: Abuse of wives, children decried
• President Boyd K. Packer
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President Thomas S. Monson
• Sister Mary Ellen Smoot
• The Church goes forward
• The law of tithing

Saturday Afternoon

• 'Lord loves the women of the Church'
• 30 Area Authority Seventies sustained
• Becoming teachable
• Christ stands 'as the anchor of our immortal lives'
• Inner peace, born in faith
• Knowing Christ
• New leadership in Relief Society
• Primary song instilled lifelong commitment
• Rewards of full activity
• Strengthened by prophetic words
• Two new General Authorities answer call
• 3 new leaders for Relief Society
• Being teachable
• Consecrate thy performance
• Elder Dallin H. Oaks
• Elder Henry B. Eyring
• Elder Neal A. Maxwell
• Elder R. Conrad Schultz
• Elder Richard G. Scott
• Elder Robert R. Steuer
• Faith obedience
• Full conversion brings happiness
• LDS CONFERENCE: Abuse of wives, children decried
• The gospel in our lives
• True friends

Priesthood

• 'We can and must be honorable men'
• 'What we do in life echoes in eternity'
• Essential formula: prayer followed by action
• Happiness awaits the obedient
• Priesthood session speakers
• Spirit alerts of forbidden territory
• Young men can serve, bless others
• Becoming a great benefit to our fellow beings
• Becoming men in whom the Spirit of God is
• Elder Ben B. Banks
• Elder L. Tom Perry
• Elder Spencer J. Condie
• It can't happen to me
• Personal worthiness to exercise the priesthood
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President James E. Faust
• President Thomas S. Monson
• They pray and they go
• This road we call life

Sunday Morning

• Bishop Richard C. Edgley
• Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
• Elder Robert D. Hales
• For thy good
• Out of darkness into His marvelous light
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• President James E. Faust
• Sister Gayle M. Clegg
• The language of love
• The lifeline of prayer
• The other prodigal
• We walk by faith

Sunday Afternoon

• 3 leaders are grateful for new callings, church
• Charity — perfect and everlasting love
• Elder Carlos H. Amado
• Elder Gene R. Cook
• Elder John M. Madsen
• Elder M. Russell Ballard
• Elder Russell M. Nelson
• Eternal life through Jesus Christ
• Feel the love of the Lord
• How firm our foundation
• I'll go where you want me to go
• LDS exhorted to boost faith, show charity
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• Some basic teachings from the history of Joseph Smith
• The opportunity to serve
• The peaceable things of the kingdom
• We look to Christ