LDS conference is this weekend

The 179th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints convenes this weekend.

The Saturday general sessions will be at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Mountain time. Sunday sessions will be at 9:30 a.m. (which includes the "Music and the Spoken Word" program) and at 2 p.m. The general priesthood meeting is 6 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are required for admission to all Conference Center sessions.

The Utah Transit Authority will offer expanded TRAX service for conference. However, there is no FrontRunner service on Sunday.

For the Salt Lake area, all four general sessions will be broadcast live on KSL-Ch. 5 and on cable/satellite channel BYU TV. KBYU-Ch. 11 will repeat the morning sessions at noon and the afternoon sessions at 4 p.m.

On the radio, KSL (AM-1160/FM-102.7) and KBYU (FM-89.1/89.5) will broadcast all four general sessions live. On the Web, live video streams will be available at www.lds.org in English, Spanish, Portuguese and American Sign Language.

KSL-TV Ch. 5 will broadcast eight special programs in between conference sessions and afterward.

Saturday: "Saints of the Friendly Islands" (noon); "The World Report of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" (1 p.m.); "Love Letters of Joseph and Emma" (4 p.m.); and "The Making of 'Forever Strong' " (4:30 p.m.)

Sunday: A special production on the new Draper Temple (noon); "A Beacon Above the Seas: The Panama City Temple" (1 p.m.); "Footprints of Faith" (4 p.m.); and "Reflections of Christ" (4:30 p.m.).