Here is a fun family game to review some highlights of the October 2024 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, held October5-6. The photos in this post are from our weekend celebration of General Conference, which I aim to make feel as special as Christmas and Easter. Go here to read more about all my efforts and musings on that. I’m not there yet, it’s a work in progress. Here is my recap of favorite moments of this past conference.

I call this game “Fun Facts General Conference.” It is based on the tabletop game below, which is simply called Fun Facts, by Repos Games. This is such a great party game! You can read my review of it here. You can read the rules here. I highly recommend you buy a copy of the game as soon as you can, then use my questions below to turn your Fun Facts game into a General Conference-themed Fun Facts.

OK, here goes. Use the questions below to play the game. If you read the rules linked above, you can probably come up with a DIY version of the game, with small colored index cards cut in half or colored post-it notes or even just scratch paper with each person’s name on the paper so people know whose guess is whose.

1. Sister Emily Belle Freeman spoke of her husband going through treatment for cancer and being hospitalized. She said that as she visited with her husband in his hospital room, they got to partake of the sacrament. She felt the power of the ordinance despite not being in a chapel, where she usually partakes of the sacrament. How many times have you been hospitalized?

2. Elder Renlund wore a necktie with a yellow background and purple paisley shapes. How many paisley items do you currently have in your closet?

3. Elder Renlund spoke of the amazing combination of nitroglyecerin with kieselguhr, to form dynamite. The kieselguhr stabilizes the nitroglycerin so it doesn’t explode. He compared this combination to the combination of Christ’s gospel with Christ’s restored church. He said that this spiritual dynamite can shatter obstacles in our path. What combinations can you think of that you love because they are so amazing? (for example, movies and popcorn, ice cream and toppings, Luke and Leia, Buzz and Woody, ham and cheese, bacon and eggs, cinnamon and sugar, Donny and Marie, pie and whipped cream, Batman and Robin, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett, etc. Write them all down if you need to and count them up for your answer.)

4. How many people do you know have ever sung in a choir for General Conference? If you think the answer for all or most of the group will be zero, then use this question, “How many people do you currently know sing in a choir for church?”

5. Elder D. Martin Goury spoke of playing football behind a church as a 5-year-old boy in Cote d’Ivoire. He heard the preacher of the church call out that it was time for the people to to get ready for the coming of the Savior by cleansing their clothes. Young Martin took this message literally. He interrupted his game, went home, and asked his mother to wash his clothes so he could be ready for the Savior’s coming the next day at church. He was disappointed when the Savior did not arrive. Years later, when he took lessons from the missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he read this verse in the Book of Mormon: “And no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom; therefore nothing entereth into his rest save it be those who have washed their garments in my blood, because of their faith, and the repentance of all their sins, and their faithfulness unto the end.” He learned of the importance of spiritual cleansing, aka, repentance to prepare for the Second Coming of the Savior.

It’s easy to get clothes dirty when playing football. On a scale of 1-100, how much do you like to play football (specify which one: American football or football as the rest of the world calls it, soccer)?

6. Elder Ulisses A. Soares wore a red necktie with a gray floral pattern. How many items of red clothing do you own?

7. Sister Kristen Yee spoke of her experience as an artist, making a portrait painting of the Savior Jesus Christ. On a scale of 1-100, how much you desire to take art lessons if they were free and you had all the time in the world to do it?

8. Elder Jorge M. Alvarado shared a story of a guy who robbed a woman of her purse. The purse contained a copy of the Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It was wrapped up in pretty paper to be given away as a gift. This man was disappointed initially to unwrap the gift and not find an expensive worldly item. His heart was changed as he read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it. He wrote a letter to the woman apologizing for stealing her items. In the letter, he wrote that he felt that he had come to learn that the book was a holy book, that he was a changed man for reading the book, and that the woman had a light emanating from her. This story is amazing! You can read the talk with the story contained therein here.

The question for #8 is: “How many names for Christ are mentioned in the Book of Mormon?” Answer: 117. (The point with this question is not to get the right answer but as a group see if you can put your guesses in order, which takes guessing as to who is the most likely to know, and if that person is likely to guess low or high.)

9. Another question, regarding #8, “How many questions does Jesus Christ ask in the Book of Mormon?” Answer: 35.

10. Elder L. Todd Budge told a story of his friend who does calligraphy in Japanese characters. On a scale of 1-100, if the lessons were free and you had all the time in the world to practice, how interested are you in taking calligraphy lessons?

11. Elder Stevenson spoke about the four divine responsibilities involved in making the next ten years “days never to be forgotten.” They are the following: 1. Live the gospel 2. Serve others 3. Share the gospel and 4. Unite families for eternity on both sides of the veil. He spoke of a boy who served his community by spearheading a food drive to collect jars of peanut butter and jelly for a local food bank. On a scale of 1-100, how much do you like eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?

12. Brother Brad Wilcox spoke to the youth, addressing the question, “Why does God command us to live differently?” He compared our mortal journey to a voyage on a cruise ship. “On a scale of 1-100, how much do you desire to go on a cruise?”

13. Regarding #12 above, “How many people do you know personally have been on a cruise?”

14. Regarding #12 above, Brother Wilcox compared covenant people to lifeguards on a crew. “How many people do you know personally who have ever been or is currently a lifeguard”? Alternate question: “On a scale of 1-100, how much do you desire to be a lifeguard?”

15. Regarding #12 above, Brother Wilcox spoke of the children’s book, Children’s Letters to God. “On a scale of 1-100, how many children’s books have you read in the past year?” (Estimate if needed. Of course, I had to get a mention of children’s books in this list of questions 🙂 ).

16. President Henry B. Eyring wore a navy tie with small white polka dots. “How many navy items of clothing do you own?”

17. Regarding #16, “How many items of clothing with polka dots do you own?”

18. Regarding #16, “On a scale of 1-100, how likely are you to wear a clothing item with polka dots out in public?”

19. President Eyring spoke of his ancestor, Mary Bommeli, who practiced civil disobedience by preaching the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in Germany where it was illegal at the time, in the 1800s. She was put in jail for doing so. She spent all night in jail writing a letter to the judge who would be at her hearing, preaching the restored gospel, including the doctrine of the resurrection, and calling him to repentance. “How many times have you pulled an ‘all-nighter’?”

20. 17 new temples were announced! See the list here. “How many different temples have you visited, including visits as a patron and visits as a guest to open houses before the temple was dedicated, in your whole life?”

21. Regarding #20, “On a scale of 1-100, how likely are you to visit the temple open house for at least one of these temples when they are finished?”

22. Sister Tracy Browing spoke of the solar system, and how scientists used to call Pluto the thing at the very edge of the solar system. Then they learned of things beyond and put Pluto in a different region of space, beyond our solar system. On a scale of 1-100, how much do you desire to take a trip to outer space?

23. Elder Dallin H. Oaks spoke about flying kites. He said that our lives are like kites, which can soar, and the strings are like the commandments of God. On a scale of 1-100, how much do you enjoy flying kites?

If you want more inspiration from General Conference, watch the videos and read talk summaries here. Sessions without summaries from this past Conference and other sessions are here.

If you want more General Conference fun, check out my General Conference Wits and Wagers here.

Here are more gospel-themed Wits and Wagers games. Book of Mormon Wits and Wagers is here, and Gospel Wits and Wagers is here.

Do you have any Fun Facts October 2024 General Conference questions? Please share below in the comments box if you do! I’d love to hear them! Please make the questions relevant to a talk from the October 2024 General Conference. In your question, please refer to which talk your question relates to.

Here is a particularly wonderful talk from an long gone session of General Conference with Elder LeGrand Richards. Enjoy!