![]() Like, “recognize that general authority from the flashcards we studied” or “put a marker on your bingo card for every time someone utters the buzz phrase ‘covenant path.’” Parents also try to keep their children’s wandering minds engaged with games. (FYI, there are many variations of the basic recipe, but as long as you bury the rolls in a generous mass of icing you may rest assured they are fully canonical.) They also treat their little ones to the famous cinnamon rolls that many people have come to associate with Conference. I know one family that only allows candy in their home on Halloween and the two weekends of Conference. Some LDS parents who want to emphasize the importance of Conference try to make the weekend special with treats, baptizing the event as only Mormons can: in a cascade of sugar. The format of General Conference feels like a relic from a bygone era, and I too wonder “why … we half to do it.” It has elements of a seasonal corporate sales conference, including an “audit” that’s read aloud but conveys no real information whatsoever, and a recounting of new products and new hires.Īnd it has elements of a fan convention, in which members are encouraged in the days leading up to Conference to “come listen to a prophet’s voice” and engage in speculation about what the denomination’s celebrities might do or say.īut at the end of the day, I think the child who wrote that letter is onto something. ![]() It has elements of a worship service, with prayers and hymns and a focus on faith. The first weekend of every April and every October, the church puts on a show of sorts. Why, exactly, do we keep doing this? This is our 192 nd conference, to be precise. But by the end of the first four of the 10 hours I’ll spend watching Conference this weekend (April 2-3), I had the same question. The audience laughed, and so did Elder Holland. ![]() “Dear Bishop,” the crayon-penned letter read, “general confrins was boring why do we half to do it? tell me why.” (RNS) - In a moment of welcome levity in Saturday’s General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Jeffrey Holland shared a letter from a child who leveled a criticism - and raised a question.
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