"Come Listen to a Prophet's Voice"

This weekend is a special event that happens only twice each year. This weekend is the General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For those who aren't members of this faith, this may not, at first, seem like a big deal. However, those of us who belong to the church know how significant and important this weekend is. Every six months we have the privilege of hearing from the men and women that God has selected to represent Him on earth.

We all know the power and inspiration that can come from reading the words of Isaiah, Paul, Peter and Moses. We know that the Lord was able to use these people to speak to us, personally, even though we live centuries after them and in a culture that is completely different from the one they knew. God can do this because He is the same, and He cares about and sends His words to all His children. God sent His words through His prophets anciently because He cared about His children and desired their salvation. He again sends His words through His prophets today because He still cares about His children and still desires their salvation.



The prophet of God today is Thomas S. Monson. The Lord leads His church through His prophet, as well as through those others whom He has chosen for this work. We are so blessed to have a prophet on earth today, and even more blessed that, through modern technology, he can speak to the whole earth at once. Peter, Paul and the other apostles struggled to visit and write to the members in their relatively limited geographic area. They knew that even though these people had the scriptures and their earlier writings, they needed continual admonishing to help keep them in the right way. We are the same. God loves His children now just as much as He loved His children then. He knows that they still need His continual reproving and reassurance, His hope and guidance, His nourishing "by the good word of God." Today we have the great blessing of hearing the word of God through a living prophet. The Savior invited everyone to come and hear His words. Similarly, everyone is invited to hear the words of God's prophets today. "Come listen to a prophet's voice, and hear the word of God."


Conference sessions will be held from 10am-12noon and 2pm-4pm Mountain Daylight Time on Saturday and Sunday, 4-5 October 2008. In addition, a General Priesthood Meeting will be held Saturday night at 6pm MDT. Information about how to attend, watch or listen on-line to General Conference. Also, General Conference will be broadcast by satellite to most LDS Meeting Houses and on BYUTV (General Conference page here). The priesthood session will only be available in person or at local meeting houses. If you have any questions, feel free to ask a representative here.