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 5, 1968, at 10 o'clock a. m., with President David O. McKay present and presiding. President Hugh B. Brown, first counselor in the First Presidency, conducted the services.

The Combined Brigham Young University Choruses, under the direction of Ralph Woodward, furnished the choral music for this session. Robert Cundick was at the organ console.

President Brown extended the following greeting to the conference: