I really love General Conference weekend (this one will be April 4-5, 2009). That is when the leadership of our church speaks to the whole church (via radio, TV, computer) during three meetings on Saturday and two meetings on Sunday. This happens the first weekend in April and the first weekend in October.
They speak from the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, it is one of the largest buildings of its kind in the world, I think it holds an audience of 21,000. Conference used to be held in the Tabernacle, but we have grown out of that.
We don't have regular church meetings on Conference Sunday, but we can go to our church buildings and watch the meeting from Salt Lake on satellite. Or, we can watch it on cable TV or on BYU-TV on satellite at home, or we can listen to it on the computer at lds.org.
Here in North Carolina it is on from 12noon-2pm and 4pm-6pm on Saturday, and from 12noon-2pm and 4pm-6pm on Sunday. The men also go to church buildings to watch General Priesthood meeting by satellite on Saturday evening, that isn't carried on cable or home satellite.
Women have a similar meeting, called General Relief Society, which happens on a Saturday night in September, which is also broadcast worldwide.
The reason I am telling you this, is that I want to invite any of you that have never seen our church's General Conference before, to watch it and see what you think. We truly believe that we have a living prophet and apostles on the earth today, and they are inspired by God to lead the people of this world. Listen to what they say and see if you agree.
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