Mineral Wells

June 9, 1830, the first conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was held in New York with 27 members in attendance.  Thereafter, conferences were held wherever members were gathered – in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois. In 1940, the Church moved to a semiannual schedule. That same year conference was held in Great Britain; summaries of talks were published in the Millennial Star. No conference was held during the great exodus of 1846 and 1847. The first conference in Salt Lake took place in an open-air bowery. Later the pioneers built an adobe tabernacle and then moved to the Temple Square Tabernacle in 1867. The flu pandemic in 1919 postponed general conference by two months. Asian flu cancelled the October 1957 conference altogether. The Conference Center, built in 2000, seats 21,000 and fills for each of the five general sessions. Conference is viewed in 175 countries and territories and is translated into nearly 100 languages.