Jeffery Smith · 1968 October General Conference · 1968-10-05
Transcribed from the official printed Conference Report of the One Hundred Thirty-eighth Semiannual (October 1968) General Conference, digitized by the Church History Library and hosted at the Internet Archive (item conferencereport1968sa), pp. 96-97. Reading order rebuilt from the item's DjVu OCR word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py). One of three short talks by young Aaronic Priesthood holders (this address, Dennis Spackman's, and Mark Peterson's) that President Alvin R. Dyer introduced together in the General Priesthood Meeting; none of the three had been ingested into the vault. Found while investigating an ambiguous "Peterson, Mark" back-of-book index entry (leaf n93, no subtopics) flagged by the prior heavyweight review, which turned out to be this same trio of youth speakers rather than Elder Mark E. Petersen of the Twelve. Running heads, page numbers, and leaf markers removed; de-hyphenated line breaks and reflowed paragraphs without altering wording.
No witness list recorded beyond the primary source.
Proofread against the source text.
Light review: in-context proofread against the heavyweight collation already on file; no additional wording changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Ingested from the conferencereport1968sa DjVu XML reading order (leaf 96-97) while resolving the ambiguous 'Peterson, Mark' index entry flagged in the prior heavyweight review pass (progress/reports/conference-reports/1968-10.md). Collated directly against the reconstructed page text; verbatim from opening to closing 'Amen' with only mechanical OCR/hyphenation cleanup, no paraphrase. Confirmed the boundary against the preceding Mark Peterson talk and the following Elder Robert L. Simpson talk (already in the vault).
This is a living critical edition. If you find a transcription, metadata, or sourcing error in this talk, report it to the editors →Reports are collated against the page scan and land as corrections in the vault.