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Show LDS General Conference set for Oct. 1st and 2nd The 158th semi-annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is scheduled sche-duled for Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 and 2, according to the First Presidency of the Church. Thousands of church leaders and members are expected to fill the Tabernacle on historic Temple Square for the two days of meetings, meet-ings, and hundreds of thousands more will view the conference sessions ses-sions Jive on local television and over the Church's satellite network, net-work, which reaches more than 2,000 Church centers in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. General sessions are scheduled for 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. both days, and there will be a general priesthood priest-hood session Saturday at 6 p.m. All times are Mountain Daylight. President Ezra Taft Benson, world leader of the Church, will preside at the conference and will be assisted by his counselors in the First Presidency, President Gordon Gor-don B. Hinckley and President Thomas S. Monson. Speakers will include the First Presidency, members mem-bers of the Council of Twelve Apostles, and other general authorities au-thorities of the Church. For the past several years, the general conference sessions have been broadcast over the Westar IV satellite in only the English, Spanish Span-ish and French languages. Technological Tech-nological advances have now made it possible to increase the number of languages carried on the satellite signal to 12. Consequently, Church units or members in North America and Hawaii, with proper TV satellite reception capabilities, can now receive re-ceive the October conference broadcasts over the satellite in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Ton-gan, Ton-gan, Samoan, Portuguese, Laotian, Lao-tian, Cambodian, Hmong, Vietnamese Viet-namese and Korean. The Laotian, Cambodian, Hmong and Vietnamese languages will be transmitted only for the priesthood session and Sunday's sessions. The other languages will i be sent up for all sessions. I Satellite receiving systems installed in-stalled in Church buildings will continue to work exactly as they j have in the past, officials say. However, units desiring to receive any of the nine new channels will need a "tuneable" receiver, and not the older model receiver i they've been using, which has only two fixed frequencies. Conference broadcast officials also say that the audio portion of the general conference may be received re-ceived by Church congregations over telephone lines in 14 languages. lan-guages. This enables special lan-guage lan-guage groups to view the television i picture and hear the audio in their ( ) own language via the telephone hookup. Languages being transmitted via telephone: all sessions Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Navajo, Samoan, Spanish and Tongan; Priesthood and Sunday sessions only Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, Polish, and Vietnamese. Viet-namese. All conference sessions will be broadcast live over KSL-TV, Channel 5, and KSL Radio, Salt Lake City. |
