By Holly Bluemlein
BYU students, both male and female, are preparing for the general Relief Society meeting this Saturday.
The theme for the conference is “We are Instruments in the Hands of the Lord.”
President Gordon B. Hinckley will be speaking, as well as all three members of the Relief Society general presidency — Mary Ellen Smoot, Virginia U. Jensen and Sheri L. Dew.
With the meeting being broadcast live to the Marriott Center and rebroadcast at 8 p.m. on KBYU, women students can more easily arrange their schedule.
Toni Rogers, a junior from Chico, Calif. studying biology teaching is planning on watching it at the Marriott Center.
When asked how the meeting will affect her weekend social life, Roger shrugs.
“My boyfriend supports my going. We’ll do something later. As women, that is where we receive counsel specially for us, which makes it important to me.”
Men are also arranging their schedules around the meeting.
“My elders quorum is organizing a service project to safe walk the women home,” said Daniel Jones, a junior from Enterprise, Utah who is studying family history and genealogy.
“It should be a good experience. I’m expecting to meet some righteous women,” Jones said.
Lauren Thompson, an elementary education student from Carlsbad, Calif. was not aware that the meeting was this weekend, but is now planning to go.
“Saturday is my only day off, so I would think ‘Why would I want to go?’ But I really feel like I would miss out if I didn’t,” she said.
The meeting, which will originate from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, will be broadcast live to more than 3,000 meeting houses.
It will be translated simultaneously into 12 languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Tongan, Samoan, Laotian, Cambodian, Hmong, Vietnamese, Korean and Navajo.
All above languages can be accessed live at the church Web site www.lds.org.
The broadcast will also be streaming English for the hearing impaired.
