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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

The reason I have postponed publishing the results of my General Conference predictions

Long-time followers of my blog know that in addition to posting my General Conference predictions every six months, I usually post after General Conference to share the results of those predictions and to give myself a percentage of accuracy on them. Generally that percentage falls between 60-80%. I still plan on doing that for this last conference. But between the sheer volume of Church and temple news that has needed to be shared more urgently, and because my wife and I have spent the last few days not feeling well, I have spent considerably more of my time over the last couple of days resting and regrouping. We are sure we will be fine. We have just needed a few days to focus on our recuperation. I will hopefully be able to get that up on this blog before too much longer. Thank you for understanding, and especially for your interest and support. Thanks as well, as always, for the privilege of your time, and may the Lord bless you all in all that you do.

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In addition to my life-long love for the subjects which I cover in the posts of this blog, I have long held the belief that we can disagree without becoming disagreeable. Differences of opinion are natural, while being disagreeable in expressing those differences is not. And in that sense, I have no desire to close the door on anyone who earnestly desires to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on subjects covered in the posts on this blog.

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