Attendees are seated throughout the Sunday afternoon session of the 191st Semiannual Common Convention of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints within the Convention Heart in Salt Lake Metropolis on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret Information
Welcome again.
For the primary time in 30 months, the Convention Heart doorways are open once more Saturday morning for the general public to attend a common convention of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in downtown Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah.
Tens of millions extra will watch and hear as President Russell M. Nelson and different leaders converse throughout the religion’s 192nd Annual Common Convention.
What it means
Latter-day Saints contemplate President Nelson and the remainder of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to be prophets, seers and revelators.
- Tens of millions world wide watch and take heed to the church’s semiannual common conferences every spring and fall searching for counsel, encouragement and private revelation as they hear talks from the church’s common authorities and common officers.
Who will converse?
President Nelson has delivered three or 4 talks at every of the eight common conferences since he turned the church president initially of 2018.
Common conferences often embody a complete of 30-35 talks delivered by common authorities and common officers of the church.
Venue and attendance
The church restricted attendance to 10,000 for every of this weekend’s 5 periods of common convention. That's about half the Convention Heart’s capability. Masks are elective for many who attend the convention.
- Attendance is being restricted resulting from considerations about parking and entry resulting from development on and round Temple Sq. with the renovation of the Salt Lake Temple.
- Most of the people hadn’t attended a convention session since October 2019.
- In October 2021, the households and visitors of the audio system have been allowed to attend, which amounted to a number of hundred folks per session.
Ladies’s session
A session for Latter-day Saint ladies will return to common convention this weekend.
“We invite all ladies and younger ladies (together with those that flip 12 in 2022) to take part in a ‘Ladies’s Session of Common Convention,’ which can be held the night of Saturday, April 2,” the First Presidency introduced in a February letter.
Temples
President Nelson has introduced 83 temples in eight common conferences since he turned church president in early 2018.
At the moment, the church had a complete of 159 working temples. One other 23 had been introduced or have been underneath development.
Now, the church has 170 working temples with 46 underneath development. One other 49 have been introduced and are in numerous levels of planning.
Tabernacle Choir at Temple Sq.
The famed choir will carry out dwell once more at a number of periods this weekend.
Dwell music by the Tabernacle Choir and others returned to common convention in October. The omicron variant prompted one other hiatus for the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Sq. in mid-December, however the choir returned to rehearsals on March 3 and dwell performances on March 6.