First Day-Morning Meeting

First Session

The opening session of the conference convened in the Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City on Friday morning April 4, 1969, at 10 o'clock a. m., with President David O. McKay presiding. President Hugh B. Brown, first counselor in the First Presidency, conducted the services.

The Ogden Institute of Religion Chorus, under the direction of Ladd R. Cropper, furnished the choral music for this session. Alexander Schreiner was at the organ console.

President Hugh B. Brown extended the following greeting to the conference: