What’s Most Likely to be Announced in GC

[On Own Now]

For April 2014 General Conference, how would you order the following items from most likely to least likely to be announced:

A. New temple in Utah

B. Women can serve 24-month missions

C. Women to be ordained to the priesthood

D. Shortening the 3-hour block

E. Elimination of the 1-year waiting period for temple sealings

F. Renaming of the Priesthood Session to the General Men’s Meeting

G. A reiteration of the 1970 FP Letter on tithing, of which most members are still unaware, 44 years later

H. Opening a new BYU campus

[On Own Now]

The way I’d order it is:

B

A

F

E

D

H

G

C

[DarkJedi]

Honestly I don’t think any of them are likely except another temple in Utah, but I’ll play along.

Here’s my order most likely to least

A E G B D H F C

What would I like to see (in order of most to least)

D E B G H F A C

[nibbler]

I know we recently had the women can serve at 19 announcement, but is it all that common for *gasp* announcements to occur during GC? I could hear some of those being quietly mentioned in a FP letter that the BP reads over the pulpit.

My order:

A – announcing temples is the sort of thing they do in GC all the time.

E

B – probably in one of the talks that will be devoted to HtW.

H

G

D – lol. I know that a while back they made the announcement to cut down on meetings, especially on Sunday, to let people be with family but here in the last few months the amount of meetings I go to has skyrocketed. If anything it’s going in the other direction. Sunday, 3 hours? That would be shortening the meetings.

F

C

P.S. Please, pretty please… have a talk on missionary work WITHOUT saying HtW!!! Sorry, I should get to the point where I’m loving it. I do need to get past my issues with HtW, but how? Just do it. Oh, what a feeling that would be. Get to the point where I can hear a talk about HtW and come out thinking they’re great!

[Old-Timer]

Decent chance of A. Maybe F and/or G.

Nothing else.

[Cadence]

I like E for purely selfish reasons.

[hawkgrrrl]

My wish list: D E F B C G H A

Probable list: A H E (Hell freezing over) B G (Hell thawing out then freezing over again) C F D

[opentofreedom]

Quote:

Hawkgrrl:

My wish list: D E F B C G H A

Probable list: A H E (Hell freezing over) B G (Hell thawing out then freezing over again) C F D

I have to second Hawkgrrls! This is exactly my thoughts, well, I am not sure they will take the one year waiting list YET… hopefully soon, but I think it is too soon for them.

My wish of all of these things, as it effects me more often at this time in my life is D! I really wish for this one ASAP! All of these things would be awesome!

For your reference:

A. New temple in Utah

B. Women can serve 24-month missions

C. Women to be ordained to the priesthood

D. Shortening the 3-hour block

E. Elimination of the 1-year waiting period for temple sealings

F. Renaming of the Priesthood Session to the General Men’s Meeting

G. A reiteration of the 1970 FP Letter on tithing, of which most members are still unaware, 44 years later

H. Opening a new BYU campus

[Joni]

This thread made my day. That is all 😆

[On Own Now]

If we talk about which ones we HOPE for, I’d say the one for me would be:

B. Women can serve 24-month missions

I think that would help with the equality issue. I think men/women should be called at the same age (20) and have the choice (both men and women) to serve 18 or 24 months.

D. Shortening the 3-hour block

This one would be cool, and all, but I already have a 70-minute block for my own church attendance.

[Ann]

On Own Now wrote:

If we talk about which ones we HOPE for, I’d say the one for me would be:

B. Women can serve 24-month missions

I think that would help with the equality issue. I think men/women should be called at the same age (20) and have the choice (both men and women) to serve 18 or 24 months.

I agree. I’ve never heard anything about why the 18-month missions for men back in the 80’s (or whenever it was) were discontinued. I thought lowering to 18 for men was about allowing them more freedom to schedule their military service in countries that require it.

[mackay11]

I think very few of these are actually likely (other than ‘A’).

If they extend BYU I’ll be disappointed. It’s become one of my bug-bears. The church already spends $millions subsidising the education of American Mormons while expecting second/third world Mormons to borrow money from the church to complete even the most basic of educations. The rest of mormanity in the middle are offered nothing at all.

Overall, I have tried to lower my expectations. 2013 had some special moments (Uchtdorf’s talk in Oct and Holland’s in April and October). I wonder whether anything can ever top the ‘Join with us’ talk.

[DarkJedi]

Ann wrote:

On Own Now wrote:

If we talk about which ones we HOPE for, I’d say the one for me would be:

B. Women can serve 24-month missions

I think that would help with the equality issue. I think men/women should be called at the same age (20) and have the choice (both men and women) to serve 18 or 24 months.

I agree. I’ve never heard anything about why the 18-month missions for men back in the 80’s (or whenever it was) were discontinued. I thought lowering to 18 for men was about allowing them more freedom to schedule their military service in countries that require it.

I was actually in the field when the 18 month missions ended – I had 2 months to go. We were all given the choice of going home at the end of our 18 months as planned or extending to 24 months. I was out of money and came home – but even if I had money I would have come home. They told us the reason for ending the 18 month missions had to do with feedback from the mission presidents who believed they were losing their most effective missionaries in their prime, and that the idea had not panned out in that there were not more missionaries serving. From my own perspective, I hadn’t considered going before the missions changed to 18 months and probably wouldn’t have if that never happened ( I was in the army when I converted). So from a very TBM point of view, God probably did that just for me.

[Old-Timer]

The mission change was for effectiveness of foreign-speaking missionaries, almost entirely. In that regard, I could see women serving for 24 months, since more and more are serving in foreign missions.

[Roadrunner]

Frankly I wonder if it’s more likely that men’s missionary service time will be reduced to 18 months. From what I can see, there are almost too many missionaries for some stakes and wards to handle, not too few. Reducing service time would for men slightly reduce the number of missionaries – if that truly is a problem – and would eliminate another inequality between the sexes.

About BYU, in my opinion the church education system helps keep the church strong and growing, for many reasons which I won’t go into here. I would love for another BYU to be opened somewhere. Maybe Europe, Mexico, or South America. I don’t think this is likely since operating a university is very expensive.

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