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It’s here! Aaron Herd has made an updated video of the stake growth to include 2005 and he says we’re the first outside the church office building to receive it. Thanks Aaron, we love it!

Download the video with this link.
(*Again, this video is about 10 MB so it may take a while to download)

A comment made in one of Brandon’s posts posed the question, “is a fetus a person?” (I’ll make the assumption that a “person” is a human being with both spirit and body.) I believe so. Why? I think my belief spawns from the Bible. Take a look at Luke 1:41, 44:
41 And [...]

This is an entertaining video!
www.runmittrun.org/website/media/TheStrategist1.html
Check out RunMittRun.org for more videos.
Deseret News has an interesting article on the background of this website.

The LDS Newsroom reported yesterday that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the second fastest growing church in America in 2005.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the second-fastest growing church in the United States, according to the 2006 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, published [...]

To gratify Connor, I’ve given us the green Jell-O flavor he so desired

*Thanks Brandon for the quick photoshop help.

Here is an interesting thought about repentace.
When we sin, we naturally feel bad. But it isn’t the sin that we should feel bad about (condemning ourselves), but rather we should feel bad about what Christ went through for our sins and how we caused him to suffer. That is godly sorrow and will keep us [...]

Did anyone tell the sharks the we have dominion?

Lorenzo Snow once stated:
“As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be.”
I’ve heard this often growing up as a child. To a youthful boy this sounds wonderful. “God was once a man? I can become like God if I live worthy?” Going on a mission, you would think this [...]

My heart goes out to the sister missionaries who were attacked in Durban. Having served in South Africa I know how dangerous and scary it can be at times.
I was reading an article on DeseretNews.com this morning. I found the last paragraph interesting:
A Deseret Morning News analysis in January showed that LDS missionaries are [...]