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Robert Kirby: The last days? Words of warning about next spring’s ‘different’ General Conference.

Some changes occurred in the recent General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Even if it’s sometimes onerous, change can be good or at least interesting.

My personal favorite was seeing a genuine, no-doubt-about-it African American general authority speaking at conference.

Yup, Peter M. Johnson, a member of the Seventy, told a predominantly white congregation that we needed to shape up and stop being fooled by Satan. He didn’t specifically mention past racist policies as being fooled, but I confess it crossed my mind.

Mostly, what I thought about was time travel, how I would love to venture back to Salt Lake City sometime around 1870, crash a Quorum of the Twelve meeting, and give the apostles a shocking heads-ups.