Mark Peterson · 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. 95-96. Reading order rebuilt from the item's DjVu OCR word coordinates (scripts/ingest/cr-reading-order.py). This speaker is a lay Aaronic Priesthood teacher, son of Edgar and Ethelyn Peterson of the Las Vegas 27th Ward -- distinct from Elder Mark E. Petersen of the Council of the Twelve, who spoke later in this same session. The back-of-book index lists him as "Peterson, Mark," which the prior heavyweight review flagged as ambiguous and unmatched to any file; this pass resolves the ambiguity and ingests his address (one of three short talks by young Aaronic Priesthood holders that President Alvin R. Dyer introduced together; the other two are Dennis Spackman's and Jeffery Smith's, also newly ingested this pass). Running heads, page numbers, and leaf markers removed; de-hyphenated line breaks and reflowed paragraphs; corrected an isolated OCR character error ("reminc led" for "reminded") 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 95-96), resolving the ambiguous 'Peterson, Mark' index entry (leaf n93) flagged in the prior heavyweight review pass (progress/reports/conference-reports/1968-10.md) as a lay Aaronic Priesthood teacher's address, not Elder Mark E. Petersen's. 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 Spackman talk and the following Jeffery Smith talk (both newly added to the vault this pass).
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