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Mormons Made Simple
While browsing around YouTube, I came across some short videos called Mormons Made Simple. I watched the two videos they had and I loved them. I think I even created a post on my old blog. Humm, maybe not.
I loved those little videos so I added them to my “Subscriptions” list on my YouTube account. Today, I checked the Mormons Made Simple Channel and found that they had posted 3 or 4 new little videos. I watched them all and liked them all. I really like how they put them together. They truly are simple and well written explanations, plus, they are presented in a cartoon like fashion that just makes it all kind of fun to watch.
The video I’m posting today is about Mormon Myths. There are many myths out there about the Mormon church. This short video doesn’t cover them all, but it does some of the most popular ones.
Treasure Box
When I was young, my mother gave each of the kids an orange box. (Not a box that was the color orange but a box that usually came with oranges in it, you know, the ones with handles on the sides?). This box was then labeled “Treasure Box”. The box was used to hold all of your important documents and personal items. For example, after each school year, our report cards would be stored in our Treasure Box. Other items in our treasure boxes would be our baptismal certificate when we were baptized, our pictures taking during the year and any other important award we had won.
I loved my treasure box. I probably put more stuff in there than I needed to. I think I had some old post cards in there from some trip I went on. I have pictures of when we went to universal studios and was scared by the Incredible Hulk that ran into the audience. I really should go through my treasure box and pull out the stuff that doesn’t really mean anything to me. Now that I think about it, there is probably a Japanese or Chinese newspaper in there that my Grandpa gave me. I don’t know why he gave it to me, I just remember that it had really funny writing on it. It doesn’t mean much to me except that my Grandpa gave it to me.
Over the years, my treasure box has multiplied. I now have three treasure boxes. When I was over at my Mom’s house the other night, my mom gave me some pictures of me when I was little. She asked me, “Do you still have a Treasure Box?” “Of course I do”, I replied. When I got home, I ran downstairs and plopped my pictures into my box. The box has now matured and grown into a nice tupperware box with a sealed top. My two other boxes are simple boxes with mission stuff from when I served an LDS mission in Cali Colombia and Quito Ecuador. Another box has stuff from when I attended BYU and Utah State. It is always hard to get in and clean it out because all sorts of memories come flooding back to my mind and I end up wasting hours just looking through old pictures.
I guess in the mormon church we talk about keeping a journal, but I think it is also nice to have a box full of your favorite memories and pictures. Maybe I should take out the stuff in my treasure box every once in a while and show it to my kids. Maybe they will learn something from it. Maybe I’ll do it in a Family Home Evening.
