Hello again, everyone! In between awaiting the yet-to-be-announced 2024 area leadership assignments and dealing with some ongoing personal health issues, I have not yet published my analysis of documents related to the April 2024 General Conference. It is time to remedy that now. So hang on to your hats! It's going to be a wild ride!
By way of review, I'm linking to the documents showing my predictions for the speaker lineup, changes in general Church leadership and the statistical report, and potential new temple locations. I have taken the opportunity to score these predictions. If any of you need clarification on how I score those predictions, I gave a detailed explanation about that last October.
Obviously this time around, I could not have projected that members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles would conduct 3 of the 5 sessions, so for elements I couldn't have predicted, I allowed myself a small margin of error. For example, I had theorized a few days before the April General Conference weekend that the Sustaining of General Authorities, Area Seventies, and General Officers could take place at the beginning of the conference. I gave myself half-credit for that.
As the scorecard shows, my accuracy rate this time around was roughly 60.9%. But given all that happened this conference that I had no way to predict, I will happily take that, as it is on the lower end of my usual accuracy rate (60-80%). If any of you have more particular questions about any elements of these predictions or how I scored them, I will be happy to address those in the comments. After the conference weekend, I updated a few other documents as well. Let's turn our attention to those:
First, I have noted the duration of each address given by each of our current apostles (16 total, including the Sustaining). Those 16 talks have also been added to the document showing individual and group totals of addresses given by our apostles in General Conference. And although I don't know how soon it might be available, I have also put together a possible table of contents for the May 2024 Liahona, which may be made available online in the next week or so.
These are projects I have maintained on my end for several years now. It is a privilege and an honor to share them with you every six months after each General Conference concludes. I hope they are as fun and interesting to you to read as they are for me to maintain and compile them. I anticipate that area leadership assignments might be announced at some point tomorrow, or else early next week, and I of course also anticipate the next major temple news to be released on Monday.
I continue to monitor any and all Church News, Newsroom, and Church of Jesus Christ Temples updates and will be sure to pass word of those along to you all as they cross my radar. In the meantime, that does it for now. All comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated on any post at any time, as long as the offered feedback is made per the established guidelines.
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