My Projections for the May 2019 Enisign Table of Contets

Hello again, everyone, and Happy Easter Sunday. While I have no desire to detract from what should rightfully be our focus on this sacred and significant day, at the same time, I anticipate that the Church will make the PDF version of the May 2019 Enisign available within the next several days. And with that in mind, I have once again put together my projections for the likely layout of that magazine.

For those who are not familiar with what I do in that respect, one tradition I have always followed after each General Conference is to put together some preliminary estimated page numbers for each talk given or news item shared during General Conference. I base those estimates on past precedent, and also on the lengths of various talks. It has been traditional for most talks given by the First Presidency to fill roughly 4 pages (with the exception of the Sustaining of CHurch Officers and the opening and closing addresses given by the Church President), while the talks given by the apostles take up 3-4 pages, and all other General Authorities or General Officers of the Church usually give remarks that fill 2-3 pages.

Also, given that the Church has, for the most part, stopped including a regular "News of the Church" section at the end of each month's issue, the May and November issues feature promiment mentions of any Church news leading up to, during, and directly after General Conference. Since President Nelson has done each of the 3 General Conferences over which he has presided thus far slightly differently than what has typically been the pattern for most of the General Conferences since the mid-2000s or so, that has made putting this together that much more challenging.

But I welcomed the opportunity to put this together, and hope that many of you will find it interesting. I anticipate that within the next week or less, the full version of the actual May 2019 General Conference Ensign will be made available. Whenever that occurs, I will be posting about how the actual table of contents compared to what I put together. In order to not disturb the flow of that information, I will end here and now as I always do:

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Possible Table of Contents for the May 2019 Ensign

Session	Page	Title	Speaker
	2	Conference Summary for the 188th Annual General Conference
	4	Highlights from the 188th Annual General Conference
SAM	6	How Can I Understand?	Elder Ulisses Soares
	10	Careful vs. Casual	Becky Craven
	13	Answers to Prayer	Elder Brook P. Hales
	16	Missionary Work: Sharing What Is in Your Heart	Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
	21	Just as He Did	Bishop W. Christopher Waddell
	24	A Home Where the Spirit of the Lord Dwells	President Henry B. Eyring
SAA	28	The Sustaining of Church Officers	President Dallin H. Oaks
	29	Church Auditing Department Report, 2017	Kevin R. Jergensen
	30	The True, Pure, and Simple Gospel of Jesus Christ	President M. Russell Ballard
	34	Seeking Knowledge by the Spirit	Elder Mathias Held
	37	The Eye of Faith	Elder Neil L. Andersen
	41	Feasting upon the Words of Christ	Elder Takashi Wada
	43	Hearing His Voice	Elder David P. Homer
	46	Behold the Lamb of God	Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
SPH	50	Your Priesthood Playbook	Elder Gary E. Stevenson
	54	The Quorum: A Place of Belonging	Elder Carl B. Cook
	57	Look unto Jesus Christ	Elder Kim B. Clark
	60	The Power of Sustaining Faith	President Henry B. Eyring
	64	Where Will This Lead?	President Dallin H. Oaks
	68	Ministering with the Power and Authority of God	President Russell M. Nelson
SUM	75	Abound with Blessings	Elder Dale G. Renlund
	79	Christ, The Light That Shines in Darkness	Sharon Eubank
	82	Great Love for Our Father’s Children	Elder Quentin L. Cook
	86	Preparing for the Lord’s Return	Elder D. Todd Christofferson
	90	The Atonement of Jesus Christ	Tad R. Callister
	93	Come, Follow Me	President Russell M. Nelson
SUA	97	Cleansed by Repentance	President Dallin H. Oaks
	101	Exercising Our Spiritual Muscles	Elder Juan Pablo Villar
	104	Good Shepherd, Lamb of God	Elder Gerrit W. Gong
	107	Prepared to Obtain Every Needful Thing	Elder David A. Bednar
	111	The Immediate Goodness of God	Elder Kyle S. McKay
	114	Build a Fortress of Spirituality and Protection	Elder Ronald A. Rasband
	118	Closing Remarks	President Russell M. Nelson
	72	General Authorities and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
	119	Statistical Report
	120	Conference Story Index
	121	News of the Church, including new leader biographies, temple updates, scripture translations, etc.)
	137	Come Follow Me—For Elders’ Quorum and Relief Society
	144	Last Page of Conference Ensign