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Mesa 12th Ward Primary Talent Show
November 8th, 2009 | 
Author: Oliver Truschke breakdancing to a Cory Dew song
Our Bishopric Playing “Three Blind Mice” and Primary Songs on the Trumpet.
Of Course the cute girl in the blue shirt wth the US Flag is one of my lovely daughters
Andi showed a stuffed animal that she made.
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“Mormon” video from Harvard
“…A 20-year-old Harvard junior from Idaho has captured the attention of Mormondom with the slow viral spread of a six-month-old video (above) in which she explains her faith to journalist Sally Quinn.”
Small Boat Sailing Class
I’m doing a small boat sailing class for the Scouts in our Ward (about 5-6 of them).
First night was this PowerPoint presentation I did (includes some videos).
The second night I towed the boat over to the Church and we carried the Hull, spars, sheets, sails and rigging into the Cultural Hall with the idea of rigging the boat in there since it was dark outside and not having to worry about any wind grabbing the sail. Ended up that the ceiling in there was not tall enough to allow the mast to be raised! Missed it by about 3′. Did as much as we could in there then hauled it all back outside and fully rigged the boat on the trailer under the parking lot lights and there was no wind to speak of.
This afternoon the Scouts are coming over here to the house and we are going to put the boat in the pool and have them practice capsizing and righting the boat. Figure the controlled environment here along with close proximity to “shore” with towels, our firepit and glasses of Hot Chocolate will make for an easier time.
Then when we go to the Lake to actually sail we won’t have to work on that exercise and can just sail the boat instead.
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Joseph Smith, The Prophet of the Restoration
Good morning Brothers and Sisters.
As you can tell from the talks by my daughter Allison and my wife Lori – twenty years married as of yesterday afternoon – we were asked to speak on the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith. As a predicate and in preparation to our talks we were asked to view the film “Joseph Smith, The Prophet of the Restoration” at the Temple Visitors Center. The film gives a very broad overview of the Prophets life, as would be expected in a film that is just an hour long. The film attempts to cover the Prophets life from a small child to his death at Carthage.
For me the entire scope of the film and the role that Joseph played in the Restoration of the Gospel of Christ was outlined in a quote from an 1838 speech to the Harvard Divinity College shown at the very beginning of the film from the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Coincidentally, 1838 is the same year that construction of the temple in Kirtland commenced.
“Men have come to speak of revelation as long ago given and done, as if God were dead. It is the office of a true teacher to show us that God is, not was, that he speaketh, not spake… The need was never greater of new revelation than now.”
