“The face of sin today often wears the Halloween mask of tolerance. Do not be deceived. Behind that facade is heartache, unhappiness, and pain. You know what is right and what is wrong, and no disguise, however appealing, can change that truth. The character of transgression remains the same. If your so called friends urge you to do anything you know to be wrong, you be the one to make a stand for right, even if you stand alone. Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow. There’s no friendship more valuable than your own clear conscience, your own moral cleanliness…”

President Thomas S. Monson
Priesthood Session, April 2008 Conference
In his first address as President of the LDS Church

This weekend we are holding the annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Every year I try to post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available. This conference will include the sustaining of Thomas S. Monson as the President of the High Priesthood and Prophet.

MP3 Audio
These are links to the earliest available audio I can find. They will be replaced by links to the MP3s at the church website as they are posted.

Saturday Morning Session
Entire Session
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Elder Russell M. Nelson
Elder Ronald A. Rasband
Sister Cheryl C. Lant
Elder Kenneth Johnson
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin
President Henry B. Eyring

Saturday Afternoon Session

Sunday Morning Session

Sunday Afternoon Session

Streaming Video
Live Video, streamed over the Internet, as well as archived recordings of completed sessions is available on demand through BYU and KSL. We have been watching conference through BYU.tv for several years now and love it. The video player only works on Windows or Mac OS X (Sorry Linux Users!). This year KSL appears to be using the same player as BYU.tv, so they may be actually the same source. Also, the church is officially providing a Video Podcast for the first time this year (see the podcast section below).

The LDS Church is now offering official audio and video Podcasts of general conference! Now you can receive individual talks in your feedreader, iTunes, or podcatcher (I use Google Reader).

Official Audio Feed
Official Video Feed

During recent sessions of conference I have been linking to the Podcast available through KSL.com.

UPDATE: MP3s of most sessions, as wells as MP3s of each individual discourse in the sessions are now available from the official church website.

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Once again we are enjoying the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each conference, I try to post links to MP3 audio and other resources as quickly as they become available. Not everyone can listen to or watch the conference as it is broadcast, but internet technology has progressed to the point that anyone can participate and listen to the words of the living Prophet, Twelve Apostles, and other general authorities of the church regardless of their schedule.

MP3 Audio

The links below are to the earliest available MP3 Audio files. They are often available shortly after each session ends through the podcast. As MP3 files are made available on the official church website, the links will be changed to point there.

Saturday Morning Session

Saturday Morning Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Saturday Morning Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)

Saturday Afternoon Session

Saturday Afternoon Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Saturday Afternoon Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)

Sunday Morning Session

Sunday Morning Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Morning Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)

Sunday Afternoon Session

Sunday Afternoon Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Afternoon Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)

Video

Streaming Video at byu.tv (Spanish, Portuguese)

Today my company has arranged for me to attend the first Utah Open Source Conference .

I will be posting my notes on the sessions I attend in a subsequent post when I get a moment. However, it may have to wait until after the Weird Al Yankovic concert at the State Fair tonight.

White and Nerdy
:)

This weekend we are watching the April General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each conference, I try to post links to MP3 audio and other resources as they become available for those who were unable to listen or watch.

As a father of two intelligent and beautiful daughters, I have pondered at times the need to inoculate our young girls against the false ideas of beauty that are emphasized so much in our culture.

Perhaps one way to combat the social virus is by exposing the lie in a very visual way. I think that the following video does just that in a short but stunning 1 minute 15 seconds:

Watch it at the Google Video website

I suggest viewing the video more than once and paying close attention to the manipulations made after the photographs are taken.

If you missed a talk or two, or even a whole session of the Semi-Annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this past weekend, each public session is available for download in mp3 format from KSL . They also offer a podcast that you can subscribe to with iTunes or a similar program.

The mp3s for a session usually become available within an hour or two of the end of the session, but this year they had some technical difficulties and they are only becoming available now.

If you weren’t able to listen during the broadcast, or if you would like to review a certain talk, you can download and listen to the whole thing at your own convenience.

I will update this post to link directly to the mp3 files as they become available:

Saturday Morning Session

Saturday Afternoon Session

Sunday Morning Session

Sunday Afternoon Session

The mp3s of last April’s Conference are available here

UPDATE: mp3s of each session as well as mp3s of each individual talk in the conference are now available from the church’s official website. They are available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese . I have changed the links above to point to these urls instead of KSL.

If you missed one or more of the sessions of the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints this weekend, each session is available for download in mp3 format for free from KSL . The mp3s for a session usually become available within a half an hour after the session ends. So if you weren’t able to listen during the broadcast, you can still listen to the whole thing at your own convenience.

I will update this post to link directly to the mp3 files as they become available:

Saturday Morning Session, First Hour
Saturday Morning Session, Second Hour

Saturday Afternoon Session, First Hour
Saturday Afternoon Session, Second Hour

Sunday Morning Session, First Hour
Sunday Morning Session, Second Hour

Sunday Afternoon Session, First Hour
Sunday Afternoon Session, Second Hour