Stokes Sounds Off: BREAKING NEWS: English Transcripts of October 2020 General Conference Now Availaable; A Look at Updated Documents Relevant to General Conference

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

BREAKING NEWS: English Transcripts of October 2020 General Conference Now Availaable; A Look at Updated Documents Relevant to General Conference

Hello again, everyone! I am pleased to report more breaking news on this Tuesday night: the English version of transcripts from last weekend's General Conference are now available online. I have again been impressed by how quickly the Church has been able to get those published every six months following General Conference. Since those are now available, I was also able to update a few personal documents as a result. Those documents include a comparative look at the length of each address given by our apostles last weekend, an updated breakdown in the number of addresses given by our current apostles, both prior to and during their apostolic ministries, and, based on the released transcripts (which note the title of each address), what the table of contents for the November 2020 Ensign might potentially look like.

With reference to the latter document, I do not have any inside information whatsoever about what determines the layout of each General Conference magazine, but in similarity to the predictions I provide for each General Conference, they are based solely on using patterns of the past, which are subject to change, in order to predict the potential future. As a result of that, I will be providing a revised version of that table of contents once I have compared it to the actual page in that Ensign. And as far as my predictions for last General Coference are concerned, I am still in the process of analyzing them to determine the scoring and accuracy I will assign thereunto. So stay tuned for those.

In the meantime, I continue to monitor all Church news and temple updates, and will be sure to provide all such updates as I become aware of them. That does it for now. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly added content, please feel free to subscribe. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

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3 comments:

  1. James G. StokesOctober 6, 2020 at 9:42 PM

    Hello again, everyone! The Church News has shared two additional reports:

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2020-10-06/women-priesthood-covenant-yvonne-hubert-power-recieve-193098

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2020-10-06/latter-day-saints-unity-jesus-christ-differences-politics-politices-culture-195133

    My thanks once again to you all.

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  2. James G. StokesOctober 7, 2020 at 7:03 PM

    Hello again, everyone! The following additional Church News reports have been provided:

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2020-10-07/october-general-conference-covid-19-pandemic-messages-trials-195163

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/global/2020-10-07/october-general-conference-tv-radio-broadcasts-brazil-mexico-covid-19-195134

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2020-10-07/hurricane-delta-mexico-yucatan-missionaries-safe-195204

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2020-10-07/october-general-conference-president-nelson-amen-onward-boyd-matheson-195177

    https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2020-10-07/rootstech-connect-2021-global-participants-family-history-195202

    Temple updates may follow. My thanks once again to you all.

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  3. James G. StokesOctober 7, 2020 at 7:48 PM

    Another update has been provided by the Church's official Newsroom:

    https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/photo-essay-reflections-of-october-2020-general-conference

    And updates have been provided on several new temples now under construction (namely: the Praia Cabo Verde, Pocatello Idaho, Layton Utah, Orem Utah, and Puebla Mexico Temples):

    https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/praia-cabo-verde-temple/

    https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/pocatello-idaho-temple/

    https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/layton-utah-temple/

    https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/orem-utah-temple/

    https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/puebla-mexico-temple/

    My thanks once again to you all.

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