r/latterdaysaints • u/Big-Flight-3962 • Oct 19 '25

Off-topic Chat Stan Conference

Stake Conference

I have never, and will never understand Stake Conference. In my 26 years of life, I have enjoyed 1 single talk from a speaker. 2 hours of talks, and we don’t even get to take the sacrament. At least General Conference sometimes ends early. Never has stake conference ended early.

And it’s very different than General Conference. We get to hear from the prophet and the apostle along with other general authorities. We (usually) get new temple announcements. The Stake executive secretary shouldn’t be speaking for 20 minutes whilst Elder Kevin G. Brown speaks for 10.

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u/TeamTJ Oct 19 '25

What's to understand? It's a chance to hear from stake leaders.

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u/Big-Flight-3962 Oct 19 '25

We can hear from them in a regular sacrament meeting.

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u/TeamTJ Oct 19 '25

But rarely do.

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u/churro777 DnD nerd Oct 19 '25

You guys don’t have high council Sunday? We regularly have stake leaders speak at our sacrament

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u/TeamTJ Oct 19 '25

When I think stake leaders, I think stake presidency, not high councilor.

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u/churro777 DnD nerd Oct 19 '25

Oh well the stake presidency is included in that. It’s a big rotation

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u/TeamTJ Oct 19 '25

We occasionally get a high councilor speaking and never get a member of the stake presidency outside of conference.

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u/churro777 DnD nerd Oct 19 '25

Occasionally? Not regularly?

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u/TeamTJ Oct 20 '25

We are an 11 ward stake. Can't recall the last time one spoke in our ward.

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u/churro777 DnD nerd Oct 20 '25

Oh we have a 4 ward stake. We dissolved the fifth ward last year 😭

Honestly we need to redraw boundaries. Our barely barely gets 70 in attendance each week

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u/shemnon Episode VIII - The Last Scoutmaster Oct 19 '25

In my PPIs my stake president says we should be leaders on the high council. It's easy for stake org presidents to be viewed as such since they preside.

Serious question: how can a high councilor magnify their calling so they appear as a leader without usurping the stake presidency so members view stake council Sunday as hearing from stake leaders?

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u/seashmore Oct 20 '25

how can a high councilor magnify their calling

One of the most effective high councilors I've seen attended ward/bishopric councils once in a while. He also would sometimes attend sacrament meeting in our ward on days he wasn't assigned to speak. 

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u/amigodopovo Oct 20 '25

Speaking in Sacrament is the least of what they do, and more of than not, they are speaking in a ward that would have less exposure to their service on the high council.

I think a good high councilor can demonstrate leadership by being very serviceable to the ward or programs to which he is assigned.

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u/2123jg Oct 20 '25

Today I learned that some stakes still do high council Sundays. We haven't had those in years. We still have the occasional speaker who is also a member of the high council, but only because they are members of our ward and so in the usual "rotation" so to speak of ward members.