by Larry Richman | Oct 7, 2013
Prophets and Apostles of Jesus Christ spoke at the LDS General Conference this weekend. Watch and share inspiring conference messages from Church leaders. Watch video highlights of their addresses. These highlights are also on the Church’s youth website....
by Larry Richman | Oct 6, 2013
This weekend, members were busy making and sharing memes–graphical quotes and images from the LDS General Conference. Below are a few that I enjoyed the most. Here are other collections of LDS General Conference memes: LDS Church LDS Share Deseret Book on Pinterest...
by Larry Richman | Oct 5, 2013
The Church provides several General Conference activities for children at ConferenceGames.lds.org in multiple languages to help them enjoy and learn more from listening to general conference: A General Conference Notebook for children to write or draw about...
by Larry Richman | Oct 3, 2013
LDS General Conference may be one of the best ways to introduce your friends to the Church. This article provides references to help you explain to others what general conference is all about and to invite them to watch general conference. What is LDS General...
by Larry Richman | Oct 2, 2013
Below are images from the Church that you can share on social media to invite others to watch LDS General Conference this weekend. From the page General Conference Has Something for You. Also see the page Invite Others to general conference.
by Larry Richman | Oct 2, 2013
Can you identify by name all 15 of the Brethren? Take this quiz created by the New Era magazine to see if you can name them all. Then, be sure to tune in to LDS General Conference to hear what they have to say.
by Larry Richman | Oct 1, 2013
Social media users often categorize their posts by using hashtags, which are words prefixed with a hash (#) sign. These subject tags can be searched on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Flickr, and Tumblr to find information about a given...
by Larry Richman | Sep 30, 2013
General Conference is this Saturday, October 5, and Sunday, October 6. The First Presidency invites the world to participate in messages of inspiration and guidance that will be delivered by the First Presidency, members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and other...
by Larry Richman | Sep 30, 2013
With LDS General Conference coming up this weekend, I thought it would be fun to post a few trivia questions. Question #1: When did the Church first begin interpreting general conference and what were the first languages? Answer: October 1961 in Dutch, German, Samoan,...
by Larry Richman | Sep 29, 2013
The page “How do I prepare myself and my family for general conference?” on LDS.org gives the ideas listed below. Consider reviewing these with your family during Family Home Evening tonight. General conference is intended to be a revelatory experience as...
by Larry Richman | Sep 28, 2013
The Church provided real-time updates during tonight’s LDS General Relief Society Meeting, including quotes, highlight videos, and images on the Church Twitter account @LDSChurch and on the Church Facebook page facebook.com/LDS. Many people retweeted and shared...
by Larry Richman | Apr 30, 2013
The text and PDF of the May general conference issues of the Ensign, Liahona, and New Era magazines are now online and printed copies will soon be arriving at subscribers’ doors. I recommend reading the article “Studying Conference Talks Together”...
by Larry Richman | Apr 21, 2013
Here is a list of the top 15 most-read articles on this blog, listed in order of the number of page views for each: 19,072 views: LDS Church Websites 17,325 views: New Meetinghouse Locator on LDS.org – Beta Release 13,103 views: LDS General Conference Memes April 2013...
by Larry Richman | Apr 9, 2013
For the last several conferences, I 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. Below is a wordle showing an analysis of...
by Larry Richman | Apr 9, 2013
What a wonderful general conference! Knowing that you’ll want to read, listen, and watch the addresses again, below is a summary of what you can access online: Text The English text of the April 2013 LDS General Conference is now available...