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Christmas Service Project

Clint — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:15:57 +0000

My Dad has had a charity organization for many years called Charity Anywhere Foundation. Every year he schedules a service project to Mexico during the Christmas break. Each year I look at my schedule and my vacation days to see if I can make the trip and take my kids down. Each year it seems that it just doesn’t work out. However, this year was different. The stars aligned, the planets were in sync so it was time to go to Mexico. I was able to get off work, I had the vacation days, my kids were old enough and I had some cheap tickets for flights into San Diego. So, I loaded up 3 of my kids and we went to Tijuana Mexico over Christmas Break. Below is a video of what we did, both working and playing. We had a great time, we worked hard, we played hard, and we learned a little about what it means to live in the United States of America.

I’ll probably blog about some more stuff that I learned while serving in Mexico over the next few days so stay tuned.

Christmas Videos

Clint — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:51:00 +0000

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has put out of bunch of Christmas Video on their YouTube channel this year. Below is one of them. I’ll put a link to the Mormon Messages Channel below. Enjoy

Mormon Channel

Return Missionary

Clint — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:05:48 +0000

This month Blake Wight returned from his mission to Moscow Russia. Many of our family was able to come and listen to his talk in Sacrament Meeting. Blake is a good example of how to server the Lord by completing an honorable full time mission. The night before his talk in church, we sat down as a family and had a change to ask him questions about his mission and had him share his testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Blake served 2 years for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The video below is the little unofficial reception after church.

I’m almost famous now

Clint — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:29:41 +0000

My video made it on the Deseretnews.com website. The reference to my video is towards the end of the article labeled “Priesthood Session”. I’m pretty sure that I’m almost famous now.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705391851/Conference-reactions-and-videos.html

Priesthood Session October 1st 2011

Clint — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:11:01 +0000

I saw that the church requested people to submit videos that show what we do to prepare for General Conference. The invitation is on this link. http://lds.org/church/news/members-invited-to-submit-video-of-general-conference-experiences?lang=eng

So, I decided to take my flip video along with me to the Priesthood Session of General Conference. After putting it all together I submitted it. We will see if they actually use it somewhere. There are a number of problems with my video so lets see if you can find all of the “legal” issues I might encounter.

Here is the video:

Any Question

Clint — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:16:01 +0000

When watching this video, is there any question that there is a God that created this incredible earth? The scripture that comes to mind when watching this video would be Alma 30:44.

Mormon Channel on YouTube

Clint — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:19:31 +0000

As I was reading some articles from the Back Bench of the Bloggernacle, I came across an interesting piece of information I thought I would share on this website. I discovered that the LDS Church has updated all of the New Testament Stories. You can find all of these videos at this website address. http://www.youtube.com/user/MormonMessages#g/c/299A568C7EF6A6CB. The video’s are not high quality action videos but I think they are good enough to keep kids interested in the stories of the Bible. In fact, this article talked about using one of these videos for their nursery lesson. What a great idea. Use your resources (as the scouts always say) and show a quick little video about a story from the New Testament. This is also a great resource for FHE (Family Home Evening). Below is the video that the article was talking about.

Martin’s Cove Trek

Clint — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:47:00 +0000

This summer out Stake took all of the youth on a Pioneer Trek. We loaded buses and traveled to Wyoming and visited Martin’s Cove. We hope that through this experience the youth will learn several things. They will learn that they can do hard things, they will have an appreciation for their ancestors, they will gain a stronger testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, they will bond with other youth in the stake so they will be stronger against temptation, they will rub shoulders with other stake adult leaders and learn from them, etc. Below is a little video I put together of this trek.

Temple Trip

Clint — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:59:13 +0000

Last week we went on vacation. We jumped in the car and headed down to Southern California. We decided to break up the long drive by stopping in Primm Nevada and stay overnight. We like staying in Primm because of the really inexpensive hotel rooms but nice accommodations. However, if we did this, we would have to stay all day Sunday in Las Vegas, Sin City. So, we tried to make the best of it. We got up early, got our Sunday clothes and tracked down the nearest Mormon Church that we could find. We attended Sacrament Meeting and then loaded back up in the car and tried to find the Las Vegas Temple. The weather was scorching hot. A blistering 111 degrees so we didn’t want to spend too much time out side. Nevertheless, I did take along my flip video and captured our visit.

Martin’s Cove Trek

Clint — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:00:19 +0000

On Tuesday our Stake will be taking our youth to Martin’s Cove to participate in a Hand Cart Trek. Below is a wonderful video by President Hinkley.