The LDS Church will shut down — for the most part — its hulking Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City for a year to gear up for the reopening of the neighboring Salt Lake Temple.

In the latest LDS news, we learn which notable members readers would like to hear speak at General Conference and reveal the prospects of new apostle Clark Gilbert becoming church president someday.

EASTERN IDAHO (KIFI) — "From the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, this is the one hundred ninety-fifth semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints." ...