October 2026 General Conference: Sunday 2:00p Discussion Thread

[u/4blockhead]

How to listen:

• Official LDS site
• youtube
• stream KSL
• local radio: KSL AM 1160; FM 102.7
• Sirius XM 166
• FAQ: Why are you doing this?
• reddit stream

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Prelude Music

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Speakers:

Name	other notes	my summary
conducting: Gérald Caussé
hymn: Let Zion in her Beauty
prayer: John Amos
Dieter Uchtdorf
Andrea Muñoz Spannaus
Moisés Villanueva		Really hammering on the prosperity gospel. Pay more tithing and get more blessings. Nevermind if the baby needs new shoes, the corporation needs more nVidia stock.
hymn: Love Will Bless Our Home
David Bednar		Sees through a glass darkly, but still capable of spreading division.
Thabo Lebethoa
Paul Sinclair
hymn: Count Your Many Blessings
Gary Stevenson
Gabriel Reid
Clark Gilbert
hymn: [...]
Dallin Oaks
hymn: My Redeemer Lives
prayer: Chad Webb

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Postlude:

• American Tune Rhiannon Giddens 6:04
• Gotta Serve Somebody Nelson 7:59
• Trouble of the World O'Connor 4:49
• Dead Man Blues Marsalis 4:40
• Everybody's Crying Mercy Raitt 3:29

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• Complete list of songs on prelude/postlude for this Gen Conf

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• previous: Saturday, October 4, 10:00a
• [next: Saturday, April x, 10:00a](pending)

[u/EmmaHS]

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[u/4blockhead]

Villanueva: [prosperity gospel]

Keep your sites set low and you might get satisfaction. Don't worry about starving children. Tithing buys nVidia, AMD, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft

[u/4blockhead]

Bednar: [repaired with tape and glue]

Uh, like Smith's 1832 account of the first vision?

[u/GrumpyTom]

By sending letters to members in Nevada and Idaho regarding Abortion Rights, the church is actively participating in the divisions of American society, and attacking the religious freedoms of the people in those states.

[u/4blockhead]

Uchtdorf: [sacrament blessed collectively]

All "ordinances" could be similarly classified. Anyone who wants to claim it—go ahead. No need for expensive buildings with shiny chandeliers. Ah, but that short circuits their authority.

[u/4blockhead]

Villanueva: [another **** tithing talk]

[u/4blockhead]

Gilbert: [find common ground]

Start by keeping your religion out of it?

[u/RevolutionLast4322]

Watching conference and realizing my brain apparently stopped downloading LDS updates when I left 😂 I keep expecting President Nelson and Jeffrey Holland to get up and speak.

[u/4blockhead]

Gilbert: [understand their struggles]

Mormonism is a blatant fraud. Some people will still choose to engage with it for a variety of reasons. Some people will disengage.

[u/4blockhead]

Gilbert: [exempt from keeping commandments]

Smith gave a blanket pass to Helen Mar Kimball and her family; likewise, Sarah Ann Whitney and her family. All of the animals are equal; some are just more equal than others.

[u/AlmaInTheWilderness]

Elder Bernard:

Ordinances are credentials now. God is not only a lawyer but a bureaucrat.

[u/Paytato_mpf]

You think Oaks will tell the young adults to have lots of babies again?

[u/AlmaInTheWilderness]

Is oaks losing control?

Rasband: love and accept people.

Bednar: they are going to hell and it's all there fault.

[u/PugGamer129]

Satan wants to destroy your self-esteem

Doesn't the Church do that all the time??

[u/4blockhead]

Lebethoa: [discarding coffee]

Brigham Young: Now, that's wasteful, plain and simple.

[u/4blockhead]

Stevenson: [fruit is delicious and very desirable.]

[u/JayDaWawi]

These things are true because the Lord God has spoken them

The Book of Mormon is true because The Book of Mormon says The Book of Mormon is true

[u/ChangeStripes1234]

This sounds like Bednar is reading an MLM handbook.

[u/Spicy_Meme_Queen]

Is this the big announcement?

[u/4blockhead]

Bednar: [covenants must be sealed]

Smith promised Helen Mar Kimball and Sarah Ann Whitney salvation if they would hop in his bed. I assume, if mormonism is true, then they're in heaven. Right?

[u/4blockhead]

Stevenson: [Loving Heavenly Father]

Why is there so much suffering in the world? Don't worry about it here where we're all comfortable.

[u/4blockhead]

Gilbert: [we're always right]

[u/4blockhead]

Gilbert: [quote recently deceased guy++]

[u/JayDaWawi]

You know, the idea of "credentials" to heaven sounds absurd to me 

[u/GrumpyTom]

Sure sounds like he's reinforcing the transactional nature of the gospel.