'Everyone is sick’ — A look back at when Spanish flu pushed back LDS General Conference

Alarming as it may be that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints canceled public attendance at the coming General Conference, it’s hardly the first time public health concerns have shut down events at Temple Square.Spring came late in 1919 — so, too, would April’s General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.After the outbreak of “Spanish influenza” the previous October fall, Utahns were just beginning to breathe easier as the inf