Church Increases Focus on Four Daytime Sessions of General Conference. Saturday evening session will no longer be held
The First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has decided that beginning in April 2026, general conference will no longer include a Saturday evening session.
The decision by the First Presidency Church President Dallin H. Oaks and his counselors, President Henry B. Eyring and President D. Todd Christofferson was published on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
Originating from the Conference Center on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, general conferences are held twice a year the first Sunday of April and October and the preceding Saturday and are an opportunity for general authorities and officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to testify of the Savior and His gospel.
Conferences began with the organization of the Church almost 200 years ago. Latter-day Saint scripture records in Doctrine and Covenants 20 that the Lord instructed the Prophet Joseph Smith that “several elders composing this church of Christ are to meet in conference … from time to time
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