Dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for this most wonderful day, for any day within your light of love is a most wonderful day indeed. Please bless everyone that we may come in contact with both directly and indirectly. Please protect us all and keep us safe this holiday season and thank you for sharing your love with us. Thank you for your many blessings that you have bestowed on us. Thank you for the prophets Joseph Smith and Gordon B. Hinckley and all that have followed your message and teachings. Our love for you is so great that words cannot do it justice and we are thankful for
December 27, 2007 at 4:53 pm |
You may have seen this, but Elder Ballard (one of the 12 apostles) spoke to a graduating class at BYU Hawaii Dec 15, and told them how important it was
“to use the Internet — including blogs and other forms of “new media” — to contribute to a national conversation about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
“Elder M. Russell Ballard, an apostle in the Church, told the mostly Mormon student body that conversations about the Church would take place whether or not Church members decided to participate in them.
“We cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what the Church teaches,” he said.
“While some conversations have audiences in the thousands or even millions, most are much, much smaller. But all conversations have an impact on those who participate in them. Perceptions of the Church are established one conversation at a time.”
Along the same note, BYU just released the diaries of 115 previous missionaries online. The URL is
http://lib.byu.edu/dlib/mmd/
I think your web site is definitely ahead of the curve in following this counsel. If you are interested in looking at the entire article, go to LDS.ORG.
Fondly–Sister Morejon
December 27, 2007 at 6:02 pm |
Thank you so much Sister Morejon, I will have to find the time to read some of the diaries – I imagine they could be fascinating especially some of the older ones. I also enjoy some of the history shows that are on byu.tv here on the internet they have had some great ones. One of my favorites so far has been the life story of Gordon B. Hinckley.