30,000-Foot View
I expect future readers will never have experienced this, because I don't think it will ever come back, at least not in the form in which I am about to explain, but… let me tell you a story. Once upon a time—probably for the first 22-23 years I was a member of the Church—whenever we sang hymns in General Conference, the lyrics would appear on the screen so everyone could sing along. Sometime in the last few years, this practice stopped. At first I thought it was a fluke, but it’s clear that this is now the new normal. So, I asked around online, wondering why. The answer I got was simple: in a worldwide church, it doesn't make sense to superimpose the English lyrics to a hymn that everyone is singing. (Of course, I seem to remember that when I was a full-time missionary in Spain, they superimposed Castilian subtitles over the English words, but that could just be a false memory.) Regardless, it makes sense: for people who are watching Conference in a meetinghouse, a hy