General Conference: Faith, Hope, Peace, and Happiness



 The Conference Center


 


  
The 181st Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will take place on April 2 and 3, 2011, at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
For two days, Church members around the globe will gather in various locations to hear counsel from Church leaders, including President Thomas S. Monson and each member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, as well as other General Authorities and auxiliary leaders of the Church.

                                                          How Do I Watch?



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The Conference Center seats twenty-one thousand in the main assembly hall and one thousand more in a separate theater. A Boeing 747 airplane could fit inside the auditorium with plenty of room to spare! The Conference Center has been designed and built acoustically so that those in attendance can hear the speakers and music clearly.

What Will I See And Hear?

General conference—whether experienced from the Conference Center, at meetinghouse, or through the printed Church magazines—is an opportunity for members and others around the world to witness modern prophets and apostles speaking. It is a chance to feel the spirit of faith and testimony that this moment of instruction, this time of strengthening, provides.

President Uchtdorf tells the importance of staying on the narrow gospel path. He uses the story of the 1979 Flight 901 Mount Erebus airline tragedy to illustrate his point.
From April 2008 General Conference.

The Conference Center’s roof is landscaped with a waterway, trees, shrubs, and grasses to blend into the surroundings and complement the majestic Salt Lake Temple. The Conference Center covers ten acres and the interior is 1.5 million square feet. It is constructed of stone from the same quarry that provided granite for the Salt Lake Temple.




        Growing up General Conference wasn't always my favorite thing to watch. For me it was a good time to take a nap. However, when I became a teenager I began to realize the importance of having a Prophet of God on the earth. I began to think it was cool to be able to listen to a prophet speak. Some of my greatest memories as a teenager was going to the Conference Center in Salt Lake City and watching General Conference live. Just being in a building with thousands of other people who believed the same way as I did was great, and then to hear prophets and apostles speak made it awesome! Today myself along with millions of others listen to the voices of prophets and apostles to seek greater faith, hope, peace, and happiness in our lives. I know that God loves each of his children and he speaks to us through His prophets and apostles today.

  Today millions of people can watch, read, and listen to General Conference all over the world.

                           Session schedule                             

 (Mountain Daylight Time):

 Saturday, 10 a.m.;

 Saturday, 2 p.m.;

Saturday, 6 p.m. (priesthood only);

 Sunday, 10 a.m.;

 Sunday, 2 p.m.