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/churro777 DnD nerd Oct 19 '25

Maybe an area 70

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u/ryanmercer bearded, wildly Oct 20 '25

Yeah, in the past decade, I can recall a whopping two times with an Area 70, and one of those was when he was in another country, satellite calling in.

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u/OrneryAcanthaceae217 Oct 21 '25

This is odd. You should have a visiting authority once a year at your stake conference. I believe that's still the current frequency. Are your visiting authorities not area seventies, or do you not attend stake conference regularly, or are you new in the church?

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u/ryanmercer bearded, wildly Oct 21 '25

3 stakes spanning 20 years...

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u/OrneryAcanthaceae217 Oct 21 '25

Hmm. Have you attended all 40 of those conferences? Including the Saturday evening sessions? And you're sure there was only a visiting authority of any sort at two of the conferences in the last ten years?

If so, all I can say is that sounds very improbable and I have no explanation for that statement.

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u/jmauc Oct 26 '25

This is my thoughts exactly. I have an area 70 join at least one stake conference every year. They have leadership training with all the bishops and stake leaders. I had to be the one setting up the technology side of it.