So last night right before I went to bed my wife said that they have a surprise stake conference on Fathers day.

I said "Didn't you just have one a few weeks ago." And she said yes, this was a surprise one.


I thought I had seen other stakes having surprise conference's shortly after they had their regular ones. What have these been about? It's seems like the church is freaking out a bit, and doing a lot of surprise conferences and what not.

Soon they will do one every month to keep their finger on the members.

"Special" stake conferences are un-calendared stake conferences where a stake boundary change or stake presidency change will be taking place.

Well they just got a new SP a year or so ago. But with the way this guy acts, they may be moving him to 70's already lol.

We had one recently after stake conference...it was referred to as a "special stake conference". It ended up being a regional multi-stake broadcast from salt lake. With "hasten the work" theme. The wards did their own opening/closing for it.

That was what their last stake conference was. One broadcast from SLC.

I wonder if they are changing boundaries.

So they ARE still pushing the failed "hastening the work" foolishness?

Conference..............how much conferring goes on?

How about calling it "Speechifying"?

Your stake is being called to repentance. Numbers are down.

Please return and report

father's day. what a special day!

If your stake would just tow the line they wouldn't need all those conferences...

It sounds as bad as my stake's upcoming conference. We just had before general conference and now we've got another Stake conference Memorial Day weekend!! Stupid cult!!

1. Place new signage on the front of every stake center, but re-spell it...STEAK CENTER.

2. Have a chimney spouting out Mesquite and Hickory charred Angus beef, atop each Steak Center.

3. Invite one and all, including motorcycle gangs, vegetarians and even mixed racial couples.

4. Require that every Steak President wear a body-cam, an apron and be wielding a large spatula, to keep things safe.

5. Place grease on the bathroom floors, and have baptismal fonts lining the perimeter of these rooms.

6. Pray for the wind direction to change, so that all may partake, given enough time.

http://www.spencersforsteaksandchops.com/

When all else fails, have another meeting.

The title "Special" - as employed by the Mormon leaders - is a social strategy used to generate the feelings of expectation and excitement necessary to maintain the illusion of continuous revelation.

Exactly what I was thinking. It hints at some big news that is SO important and susceptible to wild speculation that it can only be released under specially authorized conditions. If you want to be "in the know", DO NOT miss this meeting!

Spot on. Every single time I've heard of a "special" conference it ends of being the same old thing.

Exactly! Always the same old bore-fest.

I'm hoping for a commandment for them to all go back to Missouri. That one thing would make the morridor a much nicer place to live.

A spatial conference is one with a lot of empty seats.



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They might be having a special conference to spill the beans on the whole thing. They'll start softly, revealing the BoA hoax. Then they'll bring out all of the evidence of the BoM's forgery. They'll air all of Joe's dirty cum-stained laundry. Finally, a cult exit counselor will top it all off with a "why cults are bad for you" speech.

Well, I can dream, can't I?

I like your use of pronoun!

We recent had a special stake conference. It was a "Porn is the new drug" presentation.

Well I think your stake got it wrong. Porn is not a drug, it's a sickness. Just ask Bloomington Stake.
*Must not be infected with Pornography



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The last "special" stake conference I attended was 10 years ago. It was listed for age 18 and above adult members only, and started at 6pm on a Saturday, and was advertised for two weeks prior.
Of course, this intrigued me to the point of ending my 40th birthday party and barbeque early so I, my wife, and our friends could attend.
Everyone was speculating about some big groundbreaking announcment from the church.

Holy Cow!!! The frickin meeting was 4 talks by the stake presidency on the stake members responsibility of attending our new temple regularly, the importance of keeping our temple covenants, wearing the temple garment properly, and keeping ourselves worthy recommend holders.

15 minutes into the meeting, I was beginning to realize there was no "big" announcment. I had been duped into another snooze-fest of a meeting. What a waste of a Saturday evening, and giving up celebrating my birthday with family and friends around our barbeque pit was more than upsetting.

Last month's featured cloned clown Dave A-Zzz Bedmar.

All chills and no thrills.

Learn more wisdom from bathroom paper.

These types just want to wipe and go.

Yeah, they were all going to stay home with me because it's fathers day and I have to leave on a week long trip that afternoon. But now at least the wife is going, probably older 2 children as well.


I will return and report if my wife tells me what its about, I'm sure as hell not going. :D

The surprise is....there's no surprise.

It's about Missionary work, it's always about missionary work.

I think they pull the occasional 'surprise' when they want to maximize the attendance. i don't think it means anything more than that. Otherwise you will know that it is just more nagging about temple attendance and tithing, and you find something else to do that day.

Nothing new. We went to a "special meeting" about 30 years ago. Turned out to be about missionary work. The special part was the missionaries were there and passed around clipboards for us to write down all of the people that we knew, complete with addresses and phone numbers.

I turned mine back in blank......sorry, don't know anybody.

lvskeptic Wrote:
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> Nothing new. We went to a "special meeting"...

> I turned mine back in blank......sorry, don't know anybody.

THAT'S RIGHT! (hey I don't know a worthy soul)

At least in Cracker-Jack's you knew you'd get a surprise every time. About the only surprise sometimes in these regional headbangers is who will be giving the opening or closing prayer (which can sometimes be found in the bulletin, on the occasion one is available, usually provided at the expense of a volunteer).