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| Inside the Conference Center |
General Conference is only one week away! We are gearing up for one of our favorite weekends of the year by making sure we have everything in stock to carry on our semi-annual traditions:
* Creating a General Conference Wall (for children and one for teens)
* Baking Cinnamon Rolls while Dad is at the Priesthood session Saturday evening
* Bingo cards and General Conference Packets for the younger kids
* Note taking packets for the older ones and teens
In a first of its kind invitation, members are invited to share what General Conference means to them through video by filming your October 2011 General Conference experience. Do you watch with your family gathered around the television in your living room? Do you listen via the internet? Or do you make the trek to Salt Lake to attend one of the sessions in the Conference Center?
Whatever your experience the church wants to know! In an article announcing this invite we are told, “Submissions will become a part of Church history. Following the November 1 deadline, the Church Media Services Department will use the submissions to create a short film titled “Come, Listen to a Prophet’s Voice,” which will not only document the faith of Church members as they do just that, but will also serve as a digital invitation to the entire world to do so as well.”
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| Pres. Henry B. Eyring (1st Counselor), Pres. Thomas S. Monson (prophet), Pres. Dieter F. Uchtdorf (2nd counselor) |
Use the best video equipment you have, even if it’s just your phone. Keep the clip short (they’re not looking for movies!) and have fun recording how YOU listen to a Prophet’s voice.
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Wow, we’ve come a long way, baby! 🙂
LOVE IT!!! I am so excited to do this with my family this year. I’ve always wanted to do something fun for General Conference, but most things I have found are too complicated or too “cutesy.” The Conference Wall is the very thing we need! Thanks, Cocoa!
Hugs,
Mama Rachel
You know we kind of do a conference wall but it is after the fact where they have to study a talk, make a poster and hang it up in order to get FHE treats. During conference we lovingly call it “Our semi-annual junk food fest.” We also set up speakers around the house so you can’t go anywhere without hearing conference. I love conference! I look forward to seeing the video. But I doubt a bunch of kids sitting on blankets in a living room facing a computer with piles of paper and junk food is what they are looking for.
this is so cute.
Conference in australia always meant watching it at church. When I was growing up and the video tapes took a month or so to arrive by mail 😉 we would watch and I remember by then the Conference Ensign would have already arrived and my dad would watch and read the talks at the same time!
As time went on the tapes arrived faster etc. Now we watch the week after at our chapels with it on the big screen.
The last few years with increase in technology only NOW do some people stay at home and watch via internet. As my husband is often in charge of the computer/big screen/satellite dish of church we still usually watch there, the last few years we watch one or two sessions from home with the kids.
I love all the ideas I see on the internet for family traditions around conference because for us here there were no traditions or yummy food or comfy couches or PJ’s it was always just trek to the chapel to watch conference in the dark and fall asleep 😉
Wow! I did not know about this. What a great opportunity for members of the church. I will definitely be recording my family’s experience next week. Thanks so much for posting this.
What note taking packets for teens do you use?
I have trouble getting my teen to take ANY NOTES ever.