Missionary Media.

Gideon Burton, an English professor at BYU, who has been acting as a mentor to missionaries who work online, inspired me to create a new blog for posting media created by full-time missionaries and member missionaries working to share the message.  

On Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Brother Burton posted O, That I Were an Angel!: Publishing Media as a Missionary.  He challenged missionaries to use and create personal media for their teaching. Since then missionaries serving online has responded by creating a variety of videos and presentations for explaining our beliefs in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Missionary Media is now a great place to find homemade and official media about the Church and a starting place for sharing it with friends.

Keeping a Friend

Many people who don’t understand our beliefs, feel that our emphasis on doing all we can to keep the commandments, means we believe we are saved by our works.  Elder Bednar corrected this by stating one of the real reasons for keeping commandments.  We keep the commandments to invite the Holy Ghost into our lives.  All of the outward ordinances and other efforts to follow the commandments invite the spirit if we do it for the right reasons.  “Thus everything the Savior’s gospel teaches us to do and become is intended to bless us with the companionship of the Holy Ghost”.  

Really a Plan of Happiness

Last November while I was serving as a missionary Slovenia, my mission president called me to let me know that my grandmother had died the night before.

"If the bible is the word of god, why wasnt it given to man the minute he was created, if god knew all things?" (sic)

Because since the beginning, God has revealed things little by little as the world at large is willing to listen to more of what he has to say. It is known historically, that the Bible was not given to us by God in one lump sum. Instead, starting with Adam, each prophet wrote things down, and they were compiled together by prophets and leaders that came later.

All About Mormons

This is an awesome series for getting the basics down or some review about what we believe.  I just put it together as a playlist on youtube, so it's easier to watch straight through.  My thanks for AllAboutMormons.com for making these.