This was the message repeated by several speakers on Sunday at the 177th annual LDS General Conference, held in the 21,000-seat Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City and beamed via satellite to Mormon chapels across the globe.

Before delving into doctrine, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints President Gordon B. Hinckley reassured the Mormon faithful that his health is good, "despite all the rumors to the contrary." Hinckley, 96, had a cancerous tumor removed from his colon a year ago, then underwent chemotherapy. ...