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DVDs and audio CDs of the April 2011 LDS General Conference are now available at Church distribution centers or online at store.lds.org. This is the soonest after conference that these products have been made available, due to heroic efforts by many Church employees. You can also subscribe to get general conference DVDs and audio CDs mailed to you automatically as soon as they are available. If you had subscribed, you would be getting your DVDs or audio CDs by now. Of course, you can also access all the same audio and videos files online at no charge at generalconference.lds.org (or gc.lds.org or conference.lds.org). If you haven’t watched them yet, check out the video of highlights from the April 2011 general conference in 10 languages and the conference video highlights for youth. Share on Facebook  Read More →

Liahona 05-11 – lds.org Liahona 05-2011 – Taiwan Site Text is not yet available on the new site, but you can watch video or listen to the talks in Mandarin. http://lds.org/general-conference/sessions/2011/04?lang=eng&clang=cmn Should be up soon.  Read More →

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has published the conference addresses in text format in 17 languages at conference.lds.org. In French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, you can access LDS.org in the language by clicking “Languages” in the upper right corner of any page. You can then navigate to the conference section using the Menu link at the top of any page and find all the conference addresses in text, audio, and video formats. The following 12 languages can be accessed using these links: Cebuano, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Russian, Samoan, Swedish, Tagalog, Tongan, and Ukranian. This is a significant improvement of timeliness over the past few years in which texts were not published until 4 or more weeks after conference. Share on Facebook  Read More →

This quotation from President Eyring caught my attention in conference: His way of helping has at times been called living the law of consecration. In another period His way was called the united order. In our time it is called the Church welfare program. The names and the details of operation are changed to fit the needs and conditions of people. But always the Lord’s way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work. I was reminded of when I taught a fifth-Sunday lesson years ago. I asked the class if the law of consecration had been “repealed.” Many in the class said it had. And I disagreed. I have always drawn a distinction between the united order and the law of consecration. The former, it seemed to me, was a method of implementing the latter. But the abolition of the united order did not mean the law of consecration was dead. I acknowledge that in Kirtland there was a more open practice... Read the rest of this entry »

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints enjoyed addresses from general Church leaders last weekend. We always anxiously await the transcripts of the talks. Transcripts from the April 2011 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“Mormons”) are now available online. The LDS.org General Conference page also includes audio and video archives. At the top of the page is a drop-down menu for archives in dozens of languages. Read about read about other ways to access General Conference via various apps. I’ve always enjoyed looking for themes and patterns in General Conference talks. Wordles make that easy, at a glance. Take a look at the topics on which speakers felt inspired to talk. The words with the largest print represent the words most frequently used. (Thanks to Connor Boyack for this Wordle. You can find other General Conference Wordles created by Connor here.) Click on the image to see a larger version of the Wordle. And... Read the rest of this entry »

English text now available on the Apple iOS Gospel Library mobile application. (Delivered a few weeks quicker than last conference.) Video is now available for download in the Gospel Library mobile app. Audio and video is now available for streaming on the Mormon Channel mobile app. Note: On the Gospel Library app, this content doesn’t download automatically. Go “Manage Library” and select “General Conference.” If you don’t see April 2011, refresh the content by pushing the button in the upper right.   Share on Facebook  Read More →

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has just published a video with highlights from the April 2011 General Conference. Share on Facebook  Read More →

For the last several conferences, we have shown wordles (word clouds) of the text from general conference, which show the  frequency of use of words (except words like it, the, and and). Frequency of use determines the word size. To the left is a wordle prepared by Connor Boyack of the text from all the talks from the April 2011 general conference. Click the graphic to see it full-sized. You can see other designs on his site. Links to wordles from previous conferences are available here. Share on Facebook  Read More →

The official text, audio, and video of all the talks from the April 2011 General Conference are now online. I invite you to find your favorite talk and share it with a friend. You can also watch video highlights for youth from LDS General Conference. See the page When Conference Materials Will Be Available to learn about upcoming availability on DVDs, on CDs, on mobile devices, and in the Church magazines. Share on Facebook  Read More →

I’m trying to hang on to the spirit of conference for just a few more days. Here are ten of my favorite thoughts that I noted as I listened over the weekend. Feel free to add yours in the comments if you like. By the way, I note that texts are available at lds.org today (but were not by the time I posted this — but are now); I have not yet consulted them. These are from my notes, and I freely admit that I may not have heard exactly what the speaker said. But this is what “spoke” to me. Elder Gonzales: Our covenants are an expression of love. President Eyring: Act on covenants to help others. And remember, Bishop: The Relief Society President may receive revelation before you. Elder Ballard: Don’t look for the large nuggets: look for the flecks of gold President Uchtdorf: Am I going to through motions or am I experiencing joy? Sister Allred: Her international experience as a Relief Society leader. Elder Bednar: Light as a metaphor for testimony. The experience... Read the rest of this entry »

First things first, we can’t say enough about how wonderful April 2011 General Conference was this past weekend, we felt saved, sanctified and Holy Ghost filled! Now let’s get to Elder Jeffrey R. Holland! When Elder Holland made that hilarous remark about trying to hold Family Home Evening inspite of the bedlam in a house reigned by little ”bedlamlites,” he had us rolling (urban translation, rolling: laughing extremely hard). The word Bedlamites is definitely getting added to the Mormon dictionary, right next to Nephites and Lamanites. Bedlamites will now be the beloved word used to reference rambunctious children; it will be the loving way Primary teachers refer to their unruly pupils. Sunbeams and Bedlamites will probably now be interchangeable. We can see the t-shirts that Desert Book will start selling; “My Bedlamite is cuter than your Bedlamite,” “Lions and Tigers and Bedlamites, Oh My!” “Todays’ Bedlamite’s... Read the rest of this entry »

I remember on my mission that I loved zone conferences. I could see other missionaries I knew. I could escape the day-to-day grind of whatever city I was working in. I could listen to my mission president (whom I loved). We often would spend a part of the conference doing street contacting, and always with other companions than our own (which, depending on the time of my mission was a blessing to me and / or to my companion). I happened always to travel to another city for zone conference, and always by train. I found that whatever spirit I took with me out of the conference seemed to have a half-life equal to the time it took the train to roll into my city. Getting back to the same-old-same-old seemed to overshadow the spirit of the conference. I find that General Conference is the same way. I love spending the weekend listening to the talks and music. We prod our kids to listen, plying them with snacks for Conference Bingo or whatever inducement we are using. (This time is... Read the rest of this entry »