Archive for May, 2008

Photos of General Conference

We have posted online additional photos from general conference. There is a link to them on the Ensign home page, where you’ll also find a link to experiences from people who attended conference.

With the next upgrade to the magazines site and the general conference site, these additional photos and user-contributed conference experiences will be more integrated.

PDF Versions of Preach My Gospel

PDF versions (showing the full graphic layout) of the manual Preach My Gospel are now available online in the LDS.org Gospel Library in the following languages:

Albanian, Armenian, Bislama, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Fijian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kiribati, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tongan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Because of the complex layout of the Preach My Gospel manual, we have not yet placed the XML text online, pending an upgrade to a newer XML schema. Therefore, you must access this manual temporarily on a special English page or on the individual language pages.

Normally, you can access PDF versions of many items in the Gospel Library in two ways:

  1. Visit the Gospel Library > Additional Media Formats > PDF index page.
  2. When viewing an item, click View on the format bar above the text, either at the chapter/article level (to see a PDF of just that chapter/article) or on the table of contents (to see a PDF of the entire item).

Preach My Gospel Audio Recording

An English audio recording of the manual Preach My Gospel is now available in MP3 format in English on LDS.org.

You can access all the Church’s audio files from the LDS.org audio page.

Joseph Smith Manual in Audio in 11 Languages

The Church is now beginning to provide audio recordings in various languages for the manual Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, Jr. The following are the languages and the scheduled dates for posting the last of the MP3 audio files on LDS.org. Files for many of the chapters are already online.

English: completed (We also have a podcast for the English audio files at webfeeds.lds.org.)
Spanish, Russian, Korean, Mandarin: May 30, 2008
Portuguese, French, Cantonese, German, Italian: June 5, 2008
Japanese: June 12, 2008

You can access all the audio files from the LDS.org audio page. You can also access them from the individual chapters in the manual by clicking Listen on the format bar above the chapter text.

Richman Ramblings

My new blog RichmanRamblings.blogspot.com is where I post stuff that doesn’t fit on ldsWebguy.com or any of my other sites.

General Conference Ensigns

The General Conference Ensigns are on their way to subscribers this week.

Elder Paul V. Johnson counsels us to “Decide now to make general conference a priority in your life. Decide to listen carefully and follow the teachings that are given. Listen to or read the talks more than once to better understand and follow the counsel. By doing these things, the gates of hell will not prevail against you, the powers of darkness will be dispersed from before you, and the heavens will shake for your good.” (Paul V. Johnson, “The Blessings of General Conference,” Ensign, Nov. 2005, 52)

If you don’t have a subscription to the Ensign, you can order one at LDScatalog.com. You can even get a subscription with 2 copies of each conference issue. You can also get audio and video files at generalconference.lds.org.