News Articles

• LDS leader hails Joseph Smith

  Nearly 175 years after the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Gordon B. Hinckley celebrated the life of the faith's founding prophet, Joseph Smith, on the concluding day of the church's 175th Annual General Conference Sunday. The focus was fitting...

• LDS hail a decade of great 'flowering'

  A decade of "remarkable flowering" in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was celebrated as the church opened its 175th Annual General Conference Saturday. The 10 years since Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson and James E. Faust were sustained as the First...

• Primary presidency, general authorities sustained

  Seated beneath portraits of past leaders, the newly appointed Primary general presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made their first appearance as a trio Saturday during a 5 p.m. news conference. The presidency was sustained along with 12 new general authorities of...

Advance Articles

• LDS Church planning to rebuild Smiths' home

  With the LDS Church's focus this year on founder Joseph Smith's 200th birthday, church members anticipate a recollection of many events in early church history during this weekend's 175th Annual General Conference, which begins today. Many Latter-day Saints can readily recount what...

• Service is Sister Parkin's priority

  As hundreds of women hustled in and out of the LDS Church's Relief Society Building on Wednesday, anticipating today's opening of the faith's 175th Annual General Conference, two from Texas stepped through the doors and were greeted with an unexpected hug from a woman they've never met....

Summaries of Talks

Saturday Morning

• 'Plain and precious' truths of Book of Mormon
• Saturday morning session
• Still small voice prompting many to emulate Christ
• Sunday morning session
• Bishop Richard C. Edgley
• Elder Russell M. Nelson
• Pres. Boyd K. Packer
• Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley
• Pres. Thomas S. Monson
• Sister Coleen K. Menlove

Saturday Afternoon

• New area seventies
• 12 are called as new Seventies
• Catch the vision of 'Preach My Gospel'
• Joseph Smith's First Vision is a witness of Jesus Christ
• Peace found only in Christ
• Primary leaders begin term of service
• Saturday afternoon session
• Sunday afternoon session
• The need remains for missionary couples
• Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
• Elder Harold G. Hillam
• Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
• Elder Lynn G. Robbins
• Elder Richard G. Scott
• Elder Robert D. Hales
• LDS hail a decade of great 'flowering'
• Primary presidency, general authorities sustained

Priesthood

• 'We are against it'
• Now is the time show who's on the Lord side
• Perseverance engenders success
• Priesthood is perfect plan of service
• Priesthood session
• Restored priesthood an indispensible, sovereign gift
• Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
• Elder Neil L. Andersen
• Elder Robert C. Oaks
• Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley
• Pres. James E. Faust
• Pres. Thomas S. Monson

Sunday Morning

• Elder David E. Sorensen
• Elder Henry B. Eyring
• Elder M. Russell Ballard
• Pres. James E. Faust
• President Gordon B. Hinckley
• Sister Kathleen H. Hughes

Sunday Afternoon

• Elder Adhemar Damiani
• Elder Dallin H. Oaks
• Elder David A. Bednar
• Elder L. Tom Perry
• Elder Robert J. Whetten
• Elder Stephen B. Oveson
• Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley