This weekend, April 4th and 5th, 2009, is the annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where the modern Apostles and Prophets of Jesus Christ will speak. Every Conference I post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available.

MP3 Audio

This post will be updated with the earliest available mp3 audio files I can find as soon as they become available. If necessary, the links will be replaced by links to the official MP3s at the church website as they are posted.

Saturday Morning Session MP3s

Saturday Morning Session 1st Hour

Saturday Morning Session 2nd Hour

Complete Saturday Morning Session

President Thomas S. Monson

Elder Robert D. Hales

Margaret S. Lifferth

Michael A. Neider

Elder Allan F. Packer

Elder D. Todd Christofferson

President Henry B. Eyring

Saturday Afternoon Session MP3s

Saturday Afternoon 1st Hour

Saturday Afternoon 2nd Hour

Complete Saturday Afternoon Session

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Presented by Robert W. Cantwell

Presented by Brook P. Hales

Elder M. Russell Ballard

Elder Quentin L. Cook

Elder Kevin W. Pearson

Elder Rafael E. Pino

Elder Richard G. Scott

Elder Russell M. Nelson

Sunday Morning Session MP3s

Sunday Morning Session 1st Hour

Sunday Morning Session 2nd Hour

Complete Sunday Morning Session

President Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Elder Neil L. Andersen

Elder Steven E. Snow

Barbara Thompson

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

President Thomas S. Monson

Sunday Afternoon Session MP3s

Sunday Afternoon Session 1st Hour

Sunday Afternoon Session 2nd Hour

Complete Sunday Afternoon Session

Elder Dallin H. Oaks

Elder David A. Bednar

Elder Gary E. Stevenson

Elder José A. Teixeira

Elder F. Michael Watson

Elder L. Tom Perry

President Thomas S. Monson

Streaming Video

Live streaming video of the conference, as well as archived recordings of completed sessions will be available on demand through the official church website as well as through BYU TV and KSL.  Our family has been watching the conference through the official website and through byu.tv for the last several years and it has been great.  You can even pause the conference to go to the bathroom and come back without missing a thing.

Official Streaming Video on lds.org:

General Conference Video in English

General Conference Video in Spanish

General Conference Video in Portugues

General Conference Video in American Sign Language

BYU.tv:

General Conference Video in English

General Conference Video in Spanish

General Conference Video in Portuguese

KSL:

KSL.com General Conference Video

Podcasts

For the last couple of years, the church has provided official audio and video podcasts of the conference sessions. You can subscribe to the podcasts to receive conference on your iPod or in a podcast enabled feed reader like Google Reader. In past years KSL has also provided a podcast.

In my experience, the KSL podcast sessions often become available shortly after each session ends, but they have been very unreliable.  The official audio podcast has sometimes been posted remarkably fast after the sessions, but it has also been a little inconsistent. Understandably, the video podcast posts a few days later during the following week.

Official LDS.org Audio Podcast (MP3s of Individual Talks)
Official LDS.org Video Podcast (MP4s of Individual Talks)
KSL Audio Podcast (One MP3 per Session)

Twitter #ldsconf

Over the last couple of years, twitter.com has emerged as a powerful online tool for live, real-time commentary.  An article on the church’s official tech website described trends in twitter commentary during the last General Conference. This year, the official twitter page of the @LDSNewsr0om will be twittering the conference as well.  If you are a twitter user, you can post your conference comments using the #ldsconf hashtag.

View #ldsconf comments on twitter

An archive of #ldsconf comments will be available @LDSConf.

Links to the mp3 audio and mp4 video podcast files will be automatically tweeted through NothingWavering.org through @ldsconference.

Video/Twitter Mashup

Bryce Haymond will have a mashup of the live streaming video of the conference side-by-side with the twitter #ldsconf comments at his Temple Study blog .

LDS Blogs

To find LDS blog commentary on the conference, you can check the LDS Blog Portal at NothiningWavering.org which aggregates blog posts by mainstream and orthodox LDS bloggers as well as content from official LDS websites.  You can also check out LDS blog posts specifically tagged with ‘conference’. Nothing Wavering also tweets links to LDS blog posts and official content on twitter @ldsblogs, @ldsbloggers, and @ldsofficial, in addtion to the @ldsconference twitter page mentioned above.

Let me know if you have links to any other great conference resources.

Enjoy!