Show -- iwr I Crossword 20 Classifieds 22 The Heraki Journal Logan Utah Thursday March 30 2000 ' ‘t a meeting SALT LAKE CITY — The LDS Church's 170th annual General Conference is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in Salt Lake City General sessions will be conducted at 10 am and 2 pm The General Priesthood Meeting will be conducted Saturday at 6 pm All sessions will be held in the new Conference Center located just north of Temple Square While not fully completea construe tion has progressed far lough for meetings to be held in the building’s 210008eat auditorium r All general sessions of the confer ence will be relayed via satellite to Animals are sup posedty attracted to the mystical powers of the crystal skulls but Nyia Newman's cat seems skeptical Church gatherings throughout the United States Canada Europe the Caribbean and Latin America Sessions will' also be seen live in the Intermountain region on KSL-Trhannel 5 Salt Lake City Additionally more than 1500 other - V radio and television stations and cable systems will carry all or por- tions of conference proceedings The conference sessions will be presided over and conducted by Ptes- - ident Gordon B Hinckley world leader of the Church and his counselors in die First Presidency Presi- dent Thomas S Monson and President James E Faust Featured will be inspirational messages to the world’s more than 107 million Latter-da- y Saints from mem-be- n rtf the First Presidency the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and other general officen of the Church Salt Lake Mormon The Ihbemade Choir under the direction of Craig Jessop Mark Wilberg and Barlow Bradford will provide music for the Saturday morning Sunday morning and Sunday eftanooiltcs-sion- s of Conference Organists will be Richard Elliott Clay Christiansen and John LonghursL A combined choir from Brigham Young University will sing during the 325-voi- ce Whfrt aet- her crystal skulls and features edttor Saturday afternoon session with Ronald Staheli and Rosalind Hall ven if you don’t believe the crystal skulls have mystical powers you have to admit they’re impressive Beautifullycarved of various kinds of quartz they seem to glow Sane are e Just the fact that some nearly ancient culture took the trouble to carve sudi hard stone with primitive tods seems t$ show they attached some importance to them Three crystal skulls and their caretakers visited Logan last Wednesday and Thursday bringing the caretakers said a message of peace rad hope for humanity Joky Van Dieten who has a collection of the rirali and Joshua “Dlinois” Shapiro who has written a book on them (“Mysteries of the Crystal Skulls Revealed”) were in town at the invitation of Logan resident Nyla Newman who had seen an earlier presentation on the skulls in Salt Lake City Thirteen-peoplattended the Logan session last Wednesday and almost all signed up for private sessions with the skulls which their caretakers say have pealing and prophetic powers directing and Bonnie Goodliffe at the organ The men of the Tabernacle Choir joined by a special chorus of returned missionaries from along the Wasatch Front will sing at die Priesthood session on Saturday evening There are more than 3700 LDS stake centers and other Church build- ings throughout the United States CanaA' Puerto Rico Haiti Jamaica life-siz- $ and the ' Dominican Republic equipped with satellite receives Satellite transmissions to stake centers in these areas will be via Tdestar 3 satellite In Latin America ISO stake centers will receive the broadcast live over Satmex S satellite and Intelsat K satellite The broadcast will be sent to the following countries: Colombia Brazil Venezuela Paraguay Ecuador Uruguay e Bolivia Peru Costa RicaGuatemala Panama and Mexico Cable systems and home owners with analog dishes can receive the " general sessions of conference except the Priesthood session on Galhxy VH transponder 18 Home- owners with the EchoStar Dish Network can receive the general sessions of conference (not die Priesthood session) on Channel 462 General Conference sessions except Priesthood will be available on with the EchoStar system with no pay-per-vi- charge to the subscriber The general sessions will also be broadcast on a delayed basis over the BYU-TChannel 9403 using the EchoStar V Dish Natework 500 system The Saturday and Sunday sessions will be transmitted live to Europe The Priesthood and the Sat- urday afternoon sessions will be transmitted on a delayed basis on Sunday and the General Young Women meeting will be transmitted on a delayed basis on Saturday The Sunday morning Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir program "Music and the Spoken Wortf” will also be transmitted live All Europe transmissions will have audio available in 11 langnages on IntelSat K and Orion 1 There are more than 240 stake and ward buildings with downlink eornp-mein die United Kingdom Ireland Sweden Norway Denmark Finland Germany Fiance Netherlands Belgium Spain Portugal Italy Switzer- - - what can they tell us? By Cindy Yurth nt ' ' t Portal de Luz above is a mod-em skull while the Jesuit and - ? ET at left ‘i T T?: - 'ti y f : J r ’ e- - f 14S?V- — - : - V repre- sent the old and ancient periods respectively v i’ ' Wr Photos byS John Wilkin T S' ' ' ft date the skulls the Jesuit led is believed to while ET right is thought by its caretaker Joky Van be over 100 years old ' Dieten to be 7000 years oM Van Dieten thinks ET representi an alien skull Although there is no accurate way to See SKULLS on Page 28 What’s wrong with being average By Kenneth W Godfrey We live at a time of rather intense competition Everyone it scems-wantto be the best of the best If we do not achieve high enough test s scores we cannot enter die great universities and for many of us an average university idrjust not good enough After we amve at the college of our choice we must perform well (better than avenge) or lose all hope of going oa to graduate school or into medicine or law Even after leaving graduate school we all expect to reach the top of our profession No one wants to live out their days being average Recently educators have been accused of inflating students' grades It is apparent now that young people feel lute they have failed if teachers judge them avenge Parents are terribly upset if their offspring bring home grades Being avenge is a tr stoy Melville disgrace nowadays Where I wonder are the future presidents and millionaires who passthrough Harvard Yale and Hawthorne and Homer might cause a person to feel at least fairly successful Such a grade too might indicate an author of some promise Being avenge on a basketball team made up of Bill Russell Michael Jordan Jerry West John Stockton and Karl Malone would I think be quite an honor Why bring judged average in heaven might not be a reason for too much mourning Better avenge in heaven than an “A" student in bell How does God feel about average people? If only those in the 99th per- some oil is excellent as well as some ornaments Daniel's spirit was excellent and God showed Paul a more excellent way which was love There is apparently no average char- ity “Good" is used hundreds of times the in scriptures thus being a “B" student must be OK Many times we are instructed to do good set in good places find the good see the good and to heed the good However there are even some scriptures that seem to imply that good is a close kin to avenge The fruit on centile go to heaven who will the tree in Eden was viewed as receive the "A” grades after that? If good not sensational nor was it chilmy Biblical Concordance is accurate poor just about avenge Some die word “average" does not appear dren like Joseph were judged good in die Bible In fact die Bible seems There are even a few good trees and to imply that God alone is excellent tents Peacock wings are good but and no one else except Christ The probably no better than rest of us are just avenge I suppose Buffalo wings Pearls and stones Princetoq just barely earning the “gentlemans C and experiencing no trauma at all? Things must have been better when Franklin Delano Roosevelt went to school and George W Bush too It seems to me dial being judged avenge in a class taken with Plato Aristotle Augustine Thomas Aquinas Eireiw and Steven Hawking would not reflect too discouraging an effort Furthermore writing a manuscript judged avenge in com-rit- n Dickens Balsac Tol petition bar-be-c- ue However Abel’s sacrifice was judged excellent (given an “A") and See GODFREY on Page 28 I Features: Friday Outdoors: Be a safe sprockethead - V t4 5 - I— — - r ' — -- -- - - — n x murv or 752-21- 21 |