Sunday February 12, 2012
If you have youth in the Church's
seminary program don't miss these fabulous
Scripture Mastery Scripture Songs. Even if you aren't a seminary student you can use these songs to easily memorize the wonderful scriptures, just download and listen to each song until you can sing it too.
The Scripture Mastery Scripture Songs were written by a group that call themselves the Sons of Ammon. There are songs for the Scripture Mastery Scriptures from all four
books of scripture:
The Doctrine and Covenants page even has an excellent video song of the
First Presidency and Twelve Apostles.
One site visitor
recently shared how these songs have helped her and her sons:
"A sincere thanks to the Sons of Ammon for offering their time and their musical talent and creativity to put out these songs. My sons (I have 4) have learned so many of the scriptures because of them. Plus, the little jingles stay in my head so I work over the scriptures all day and the wording sinks deep into my mind and heart, so I have learned not only the scripture words better, but also pondered their meaning. Even my littlest guy knows many of the seminary scriptures. Just wanted to say thank you, and that your contribution is really benefiting our family."
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Scripture Mastery Scripture Songs helped you? Share your story with us in the comments!
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Finding
clean videos and other types of humor to watch, listen to, or read is difficult in a world in which crude humor runs rampant and little- if anything- is respected. My husband (who's my own personal comedian) and I have found some excellent clean videos with clean humor that we really enjoy watching- often repeatedly.
Below is a list of our favorite clean video sources, most of which were created by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of the productions are more professional than others, but the humor is spot on- at least it vibes with my quirky sense of humor.
Clean Videos
Kid History by BoredShortsTV
If you haven't yet heard of Kid History then you've been missing out! Fortunately, all of these clean videos (there are currently seven episodes with number eight coming out next month) are available to watch for free online. These videos are only a few minutes long each and are of children telling a funny family story while the adults act it out. They are hilarious! And very quotable. Join the ranks of worldwide fans of these wonderful, clean videos.
BYU Divine Comedy
These clean videos were created by Brigham Young University's comedic troupe, BYU Divine Comedy. Some of the clean videos are music videos that parody a popular song with their own twist. My personal favorites are
Good (parody of "Bad" by Michael Jackson) and
Firebolt (parody of "Firework" by Katy Perry).
There are a ton of clean videos from BYU Divine Comedy's actual shows, some recorded by their troupe and others by fans in the audience, which effects the quality of each clip's video/sound. One of my favorite skits is
Shoulder Angel.
Humor U
I hadn't actually heard of Humor U until I read about them on
LDSMediaTalk's website which states that "Humor U is the largest comedy club between New York and Los Angeles, and the cleanest in the world. Humor U is made up of over two dozen stand-up comedians who are all BYU students or alumni." The site also lets us know that one of Humor U's comedians is Stephen Jones, the main guy in the clean video,
New Spice Study Like a Scholar, which I
have seen and agree that it's hilarious.
Misc Clean Videos
What clean videos and other clean humor have you found? Please share them with us in the comments- we love clean videos/humor!
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LDSMediaTalk recently posted a link to an article from the
LDSTECH wiki called
Android Sideloading which explains how to install LDS apps onto mobile devices such as the Kindle Fire and Nook. This personally caught my attention because I have a new Kindle Fire (which I really enjoy) and of course I wanted to have all the church apps on it.
The
LDS Gospel Library is available on the Amazon market, so I already had that app on my Kindle Fire and use it daily to read and mark my scriptures, but the other LDS Church apps aren't in the Amazon market so this article was extremely useful since it has links to download the following LDS app files:
- Gospel Library
- LDS Tools
- Mormon Channel
- LDS Youth
First, I checked my version of the Gospel Library app and found that it was current with the one on the Church website. Next, I sideloaded the other LDS apps, installed them, and tested them out. Now I don't have to use my husband's android phone to access these apps. They work great and I'm really excited to regularly use them on my Kindle Fire.
The sync feature of the Gospel Library app is great. Just setup your LDS Church account (username and password) and all notes, highlighted references, etc that you make in your scriptures or the other Church manuals will be available when you login to the Church's online
Study Notebook or from the Gospel Library app on another device.
Having already sideloaded other apps I already knew how to do it, but if you haven't yet sideloaded apps onto your Kindle Fire, Nook, or other Android tablet this article gives simple step-by-step instructions on how to sideload the LDS apps onto your device.
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Thursday February 2, 2012
Valentine's Day is a Day of Love and although it is traditionally seen as a day that couples celebrate their love for each other it can also be a day that we express love to others through
acts of service and kindness. Not only does serving others show our
service to God but it brings joy into our own lives. As we focus on helping others we stop focusing on ourselves and as we give of ourselves we are bringing joy into the world in small and simple ways.
Let's make this entire month a "Month of Love" by serving and helping others (including our spouse and family members) each day. Also, here are some Valentine's Day resources to help you as you love and serve others.
Valentine's Day Resources
How have others served you? Share your experiences or
read these stories of service submitted by others.
Poll:
Do You Like Valentine's Day?
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