Focus on helping others rather than on material things

Alma 4 describes how the members of the Church sinned because they
focused on riches and material things and forgot the poor and needy.
Things became so bad that Alma gave up the judgment seat so he could
devote full-time to teaching the people.

Alma 4, verses 8-10 states:

8 For they saw and beheld with great sorrow that the people of the
church began to be lifted up in the pride of their eyes, and to set
their hearts upon riches and upon the vain things of the world, that
they began to be scornful, one towards another, and they began to
persecute those that did not believe according to their own will and
pleasure.

9 And thus, in this eighth year of the reign of the judges, there
began to be great contentions among the people of the church; yea,
there were envyings, and strife, and malice, and persecutions, and
pride, even to exceed the pride of those who did not belong to the
church of God.

10 And thus ended the eighth year of the reign of the judges; and the
wickedness of the church was a great stumbling-block to those who did
not belong to the church; and thus the church began to fail in its
progress.

Read more at:http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/4

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Documentary

Final General Conference

By John Fisher

My cousin, Bruce Seely, will be singing at his last LDS General Conference before he retires from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on April 25th. LDS General Conference is broadcast by KBYU TV on Dish Network at 10 a.m and 2 p.m. MDT Saturday, April 3 and 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. MDT Sunday, April 4, 2010. (Bruce stands at the spot marked ME in the photo above. He sings bass.)

You might want to see a new documentary made by BYU Broadcasting last summer during the Choir Concert Tour. It is called"One Voice". It will be on BYU Television (www.byutv.org) Sunday, April 4th at noon (MDT), April 6th at 9:30 pm, April 13th at 1:30 pm and 7:30 pm and April 17th at 11:00 pm.  If you subscribe to the Dish Network you can watch it there or check your local cable...otherwise you will have to see it online if your set up will allow it. If you click on this link (http://byutv.org/onevoice) you can see a short trailer about the documentary.

BYU Broadcasting also recorded the final concert of that tour at Red Rocks amphitheatre just outside of Denver.  It will be broadcast April 4th at 5:30 pm MDT, the 6th at 8:00 pm, the 10th at 9:00 pm, and April
13th at Noon and 6:00 pm.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), general conferences are a semiannual meeting where general authorities and other church leaders preach sermons and give guidance to the members of the church. Changes to church leadership are also proposed and sustained through the principle of common consent. General conferences are held on the weekends containing the first Sunday in April and the first Sunday in October. http://tinyurl.com/yea9n4a

An Easter Message