Hundreds of Latter-day Saints will take to their keyboards to entertain, uplift, offer commentary and share the gospel on the Internet during the weekend’s 183rd Annual General Conference. Memes like this, as well as LDS blog posts, tweets and Facebook posts become common during general conference. (Courtesy memegenerator.com) In the April 2011 General Conference, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency, told a worldwide audience that sharing the gospel is easier than ever before because of social media.
“Perhaps the Lord’s encouragement to ‘open (your) mouths’ might today include ‘use your hands’ to blog and text message the gospel to all the world!” he said. “But please remember, all at the right time and at the right place.”