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While wandering around the internet and through several pages of mormon magazines and mormon websites, I came across a link that told me that the LDS Church Website now offers a tracking system for Young Men to track their Duty to God.

As many of you know, the Mormon Church has recently re-tooled the DTG (Duty to God) program.  We used to use spreadsheets to keep track of the Aaronic Priesthood’s progress but with the new system, we really didn’t have an electronic way to keep track of their progress.

So, I’m happy to say, there is a new way to track DTG progress online.  Simply go to http://lds.org/young-men/duty-to-god?lang=eng and click on “Click here to get started” in the middle of the screen.  Now, you should know that you will need a login to the LDS.org website.  Well, actually, each young man that wants to manage their DTG progress online will have to have their own login.  To create a login you will need your membership number and date of birth.  Once this account is created, you can start using the “Interactive Version of Duty to God“.

Last Sunday we had a missionary in our LDS Ward return from his mission. He spoke in Sacrament Meeting and talked about his experiences while he served and LDS mission in Cambodia. What made this particular missionary important to us was that he was our neighbor. His family lives just across the cul-de-sac from our family. He had even helped coach my son’s baseball team a few years ago. I know that our boys look up to this young man as an example of what they want to be when they get older.

This return missionary gave a wonderful talk in church and really gave inspiring specific examples of how his testimony and the testimony of investigators grew. I could tell that my boys were soaking up this information and were interested in what he had to say. At the end of his talk, this return missionary bore his testimony in Cambodian. All of our kids were astonished that he could easily pronounce words in a foreign language.

While in Elders Quorum, I couldn’t help myself from commenting that this was a “big deal” in our family. We are so proud of this young man and his willingness to serve a mission and dedicate two years of his life to serve Jesus Christ and spreading the gospel around the world. We are blessed to have such a wonderful young man live next to our family so that he could show such a good example to our kids on how to live a righteous life.

I thought I would help get this video out there. It is a wonderful video by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Here is what was written about it.

“BYUtv is trying to promote good in the world by making this video go viral, and there is no better time than during the Christmas season! This month, BYUtv partnered with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to provide a unique way to celebrate the season with one of the world’s most beloved musical compositions, Handel’s Messiah.

After you watch the Choir’s video below, BYUtv challenges you to spread this unique Christmas message by sharing it! Post it on your Facebook wall, embed it in your blog, or send it in a holiday e-mail to help spread the spirit of the season.”