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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Lengths of Talks Given by Apostles During the October 2018 General Conference

Hello again, everyone! Given the high volume of things I have passed along here this month, particularly leading up to and following General Conference, with the ministry of our apostles, and the temple developments and Church news, I inadvertently neglected to pass along the compilation of data I had collected on the lengths of the General Conference addresses given by our apostles earlier this month.

That data follows below, and I hope it will interest at least some of you. So as not to disturb the flow of that information, I will end here and now as I always do. That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time.

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Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf—19:38
President Russell M. Nelson (GW)—16:18
Elder Quentin L. Cook—16:13
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland—16:12
President Henry B. Eyring (SUA)—15:59
President Dallin H. Oaks (SAM)—15:48
Elder David A. Bednar—15:45
Elder Ronald A. Rasband—15:41
Elder Neil L. Andersen—15:37
President Russell M. Nelson (SUM)—15:43
President M. Russell Ballard—15:19
Elder Gary E. Stevenson—15:10
Elder D. Todd Christofferson—15:09
Elder Gerrit W. Gong—14:46
Elder Ulisses Soares—14:35
President Henry B. Eyring (GW)—14:02
Elder Dale G. Renlund—13:48
President Dallin H. Oaks (GW)—13:14
President Russell M. Nelson (SUA)—8:02
President Russell M. Nelson (SAM)—6:37
President Henry B. Eyring (SAA; Sustaining of Church Officers)—5:39


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2 comments:

  1. CarolOctober 26, 2018 at 2:30 PM

    What about Elder Uchtdorf?

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  2. James G. StokesOctober 26, 2018 at 4:45 PM

    Thank you, Carol, for stopping by to comment. Well spotted! i did indeed omit Elder Uchtdorf's information from this post. What happened there was, at the time I assembled this information (during General Conference weekend), I gathered the data for the videos of talks given by apostles which were available.

    Often what happens is that the Church gets part or most of a session (including individual videos of talks) available online not long after the sessions conclude. But initially, at least one video per session is always missing (though it is generally put up later). With that in mind, at the time I had gathered the data about the talks given by apostles during the Saturday Afternoon Session, the video of Elder Uchtdorf's talk had not been made available yet. But I must have forgotten to add that data when it became available.

    Accordingly, I have tracked that information down today and added it to the post above. It turns out that Elder Uchtdorf had the longest talk of all the apostles at General Conference this go-round, with a length of 19:38.

    Just an additional note here: I am not sure exactly what (if any) system is used to figure out when and for how long each apostle speaks, but the fluctuating lengths of these talks may give some indication of that. I haven't put too much study into those kinds of questions. It is not unusual for a senior apostle to give the longest address each General Conference, and given that Elder Uchtdorf is the 3rd most senior among the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and the 6th most senior among the apostles overall, it is not surprising at all to me that he had the longest talk this go-round. My thanks again, Carol, for pointing out this omission, and for stopping by to comment.

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