Church Video Was 62nd Most Watched on YouTube

Last weekend, the new Mormon Messages YouTube channel was identified as the #62 most-watched YouTube channel. This occurred largely because of the response to President Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s inspiring video "Create."

The new video for this week is from Elder Gary J. Coleman "Are We Christians?"

Obama Politics: Socialism, Marxism, Communism

Babies and SIDS

Studies show that when babies are sleeping in a room warmer than 70 degrees, having a fan in the room reduced the probability of SIDS by 94%. As babies breathe in and out, it forms little pockets of CO2 and the fan moves the air to dissipate the CO2.

Changing Tires Can be Dangerous

Soccer Flip Shot

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Surgeon Helping Children

Reader's Digest just posted an article about a high school friend of mine, plastic surgeon Geoff Williams, and his full-time philanthropic work in correcting facial deformities in children. He has performed almost 1,000 operations in 12 countries.

Learn more about his International Children's Surgical Foundation.

Stimulus Bill T-Shirts

Improv Everywhere

Improv Everywhere is a group that organizes interesting and funnny public pranks. See the Improv Everywhere site for a list of their pranks. My favorites are the following. (Somewhere on each page, you'll find a video of the pranks.)

• Food Court Musical


• Slow Motion Home Depot


• Frozen Grand Central


• Orlando City Freeze Walk


• Identical Twins on NYC Subway


• Free Snowcones

More Improv Everywhere videos are available on YouTube.

Buy Songs Online for 8 Cents

I just found WeRmp3, a site with some songs for $0.08 each.

Church Growth by Stake

Watch this video that shows the growth of stakes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1830 to 2007.

You can also download your own copy of the video.

Men Just Make Sense

NICKNAMES

• If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.


• If Mike , Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes.

EATING OUT

• When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave, and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.


• When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

MONEY

• A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.


• A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

BATHROOMS

• A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel.


• The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.

ARGUMENTS

• A woman has the last word in any argument.


• Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

FUTURE

• A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.


• A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

SUCCESS

• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.


• A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

MARRIAGE

• A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.


• A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

DRESSING UP

• A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.


• A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.

NATURAL

• Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.


• Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

OFFSPRING

• Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.


• A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing!

Church Videos for Blogs and Web Sites

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has established three official Church channels on YouTube to help share gospel messages. Find great videos to watch and share them with others You can also embed them in your blogs and Web sites.

• The Mormon Messages YouTube channel provides a simple way to watch and share brief, gospel-centered videos. The channel will be updated each week with new videos that teach basic beliefs of the LDS (”Mormon”) Church, including stories of hope and inspiration. This week’s video features Elder Jeffrey R. Holland talking about how to love other people. This is a nice message to think about with Valentine’s Day coming up on Saturday.
• The YouTube channel LDS Public Affairs features video clips posted by the Public Affairs office of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• The Mormon New Era Messages YouTube channel features videos from the New Era, a magazine for Mormon teens. Watch video messages based on New Era MormonAds, like the new one “Wish You Were Here.”

Learn about more sites with LDS videos.

Tithing

Now That's a Hunter

Back Side of Mount Rushmore

Details About the Draper LDS Temple

I just learned that once the temple is dedicated March 20, patrons will be required to call ahead and set up an appointment in order to attend a session or perform baptisms. This is because the Draper Temple has seats for only 50 people per session. (The Jordan River Temple seats 120 per session.) They don't want too many people to show up at one time and have to wait to get into a session.

Learn more with this MormonTimes article.

Restroom Sign

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What brought down the plane in the Hudson River

How to be Miserable

Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable. ~Ezra Taft Benson

Excellent advice from a blogger:

1. Believe That Things Will Never Change.
Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Tough times never last, but tough people do! ~Robert Schuller

2. Think About Your Problems
Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens. ~Thomas S. Monson

3. Worry About Things You Can't Control
He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over. ~Og Mandino


4. Complain About Your Blessings or compare them against things you have sacrificed.
I complained because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet. ~Sign in a shoe shop


5. Think About Yourself
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves: the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others. ~Gordon B. Hinckley


6. Put Yourself Down (and/or Compare Yourself To Others "Better Off")
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win... ~William Shakespeare


7. Hold Onto Grudges, Don't forgive, Don't give people chances to change
There is no peace in the nursing of a grudge. There is no happiness in living for the day when you can "get even." ~Gordon B. Hinckley


8. Put Deadlines On Your Happiness (i.e. "I won't be happy until __ happens.")
Happiness is a decision, not a destination. It's an attitude, not an event! ~John Bytheway


9. Always Want More
Remember that in the end, surely God will be looking only for clean hands, not full ones. ~Jeffrey R. Holland


10. Postpone Prayer
Ask and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. ~ Matthew 7:7


11. Recycle Regrets
The past is behind; learn from it. The future is ahead; prepare for it. The present is here; live in it! ~Thomas S. Monson