Brett Nordquist, a member from Seattle, is good at carving pumpkins. He even carved one of Gordon B. Hinckley:

Visit Brett’s site to see a larger version of that carving, and others that he has done.

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The LDS Media Talk blog recently posted about some excellent Flash-based scripture mastery pages. I assumed this would be on the LDS-CES.org site. I As I followed the link, I found that it had its own Seminary.LDS.org sub-domain. Not only is there information about scripture mastery, but there are links to the manuals, scriptures, and [...]

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I’m not sure where my wife got the idea from, but recently she did a Family Home Evening lesson about Samuel the Lamanite. She made a “wall” out of Rice Krispie Squares and had a bunch of the kids toys standing on the table in front of the “wall”. A “Lamanite warrior” figure that my [...]

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In conjunction with a broadcast to California last night (about Proposition , the Church has started a new official web site called Preserving the Divine Institution of Marriage.

As you can tell, it is currently aimed at California residents. Once that vote is done, I would assume the Church would keep the site and make [...]

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Like we did yesterday afternoon, we watched conference at home. Unfortunately, unlike yesterday, the video feed was pretty bad. Yesterday everything loaded perfectly right from the start. Today, I couldn’t get anything to play until about 15 minutes after the session started. Even the audio stream from the Church web site would cut out. BYU.tv [...]

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President Monson conducted
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir was excellent
There were about 100 people at church for this
President Henry B. Eyring * might be used as a 4th Sunday lesson *

a great day of unity is coming
unity will be needed more in the days ahead
the reason we pray for unity is the same reason why God grants [...]

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It has been a tradition in our ward for quite some time now to have a “sub-sational” before the priesthood session of General Conference. This is a submarine sandwich dinner for the YM and their fathers.

President Monson was conducting
there was a choir from the MTC. There is a member from a neighbouring ward who is [...]

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As we’ve done the last few conferences, we watched the afternoon session at home. It was awesome! The Church has a new video player that performed incredibly. When you visit http://lds.org/move/ you can see a video that is about 640 x 360 pixels. There is a full screen option, which actually does go to a [...]

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My postings from the April General Conference sessions brought a lot of visitors (although no comments), so I figured I’d do the same this time. I already take notes anyway and include them in my journal, so this is just an extension of that.

When I first got to the church, there was only 1 person [...]

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