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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.

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.

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.

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.

We have now registered podcasts of the April 2008 General Conference in the iTunes store. We need people to search for them, comment about them, and use them so that their in-store ranking will improve, making it easier for people to find them.

Access the MP4 video podcast

Access the MP3 audio podcast

When you click the links above, it will open iTunes on your computer to display the podcast.

More than 1,200 people responded to an LDS Gems call for reader responses to general conference. The Ensign and New Era have posted selected responses online.

We have now posted online the text, audio, and video from the April 2008 General Conference in up to 82 languages.

You can also subscribe to these conference materials by e-mail or iTunes or any other audio player or RSS feed aggregator. (The link to the Web feeds subscription page is in the footer of the LDS.org home page.)

A computer-animated video featuring the March 2008 special issue of the Ensign and Liahona is now available on the new Web page SpecialMagazine.lds.org.

The video testifies of the Savior Jesus Christ and visually outlines the contents of the March 2008 magazine issue, which is focused exclusively on Christ. It describes the messages and testimonies included in the magazine and emphasizes the central position of Jesus Christ. The video can be linked to or downloaded and e-mailed to those who may be interested in the message or in obtaining a copy of the magazine for themselves.

SpecialMagazine.lds.org provides information on accessing the magazine or its contents in several different ways. To obtain the special issue, visitors can download the issue in PDF format, order a copy or subscription at ldscatalog.com, or visit the Web site JesusChrist.lds.org, which includes the full text of many of the articles from the magazine.

After this initial focus on the March 2008 special magazine issue, we will use SpecialMagazine.lds.org to highlight the other special issues of the magazines.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released today the official portrait of the new First Presidency, consisting of President Thomas S. Monson, President Henry B. Eyring and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf.