President Russell M. Nelson delivered two General Conference addresses Sunday — the first, praising Latter-day Saints for looking outside themselves and helping those in need around the world and, the second, urging members to peer inside their souls to ready themselves spiritually for temple worship.
He then encouraged them to prepare for a big celebration next year to mark the 200th anniversary of church founder Joseph Smith’s “First Vision,” in which the then-14-year-old boy said he was visited by God the Father and Jesus Christ, giving birth to the Mormon movement
“The year 2020 will be designated as a bicentennial year,” Nelson said in Sunday’s concluding sermon of the 189th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.