Thursday, April 11, 2013

What does my On Line Presence say about me?

What does my On Line Presence say about me? This question was brought to mind by a post I saw on Facebook as well as a story my Stake President shared several weeks ago with the High Council.
He told of how they were called into the office of the First Presidency to be interviewed to become Mission President. He told of the feelings he had has they asked if his affairs were in order.
At first he knew they meant his finances and such but then it quickly branched out in his mind to all that he does. His relationship with kids, parents etc.
His life in general.

The post on Facebook told the story of the new Young Women's President that was just called this past weekend. I include part of that post here: form http://www.latterdaysaintwoman.com/?p=187

At General Conference this weekend, a new General Young Women’s president was called. (This means she oversees the program for teen girls internationally.) She may be the first General Young Women’s president who is into social media. Bonnie Oscarson has a very active Pinterest page as well as a Facebook page. (I haven’t checked out the other social media sites yet.)

Now, here’s your homework: Wander around your social media sites and imagine you’ve just been called as the president of one of the Church auxiliaries. Before you’re called, the prophet is going to do a social media review on you. (I don’t really know if they do that, but just imagine.) You realize the prophet will know what is on all your sites. In a few weeks, the whole world will be rushing in to see as well.
Do you find yourself wanting to erase a few things?


Well I did go through my blogs and even my often neglected Pinterest and was grateful on what I found. My main problem was that I do not post enough but I am going to try to fix that.

What does your online presence say about who you are? Is it really the real you? We could add to the public sites the history list from your web browser...what does that say about you? Would you be uneasy if the prophet called you in and pulled up the history to talk to you about it. How about your Spouse or your kids?
Deep thoughts.........................

Sunday, April 7, 2013

A Twofer

Twice a year we get a "twofer" weekend.
I am not the first to use this title...Basically Church Meetings on Sunday do not happen we have Conference on Saturday and Sunday. Now there was a time I may have thought "great two Saturdays!!!" I would look forward to those times...Now I say somewhat the same but it is "Great two Sundays!!!"
I love conference weekend! This weekend we sat on the couch for all sessions, notebooks open, taking notes and talking about it (I love discussing the Gospel with my wife. Her insight is so refreshing to me.)
Another great part about it is hanging out in your PJ's all day!

I always look forward to several speakers and this time, as always, they did not disappoint.
Elder Holland Rocks!
Elder Perry looked great!
Pres Packer made me smile.
And after hearing Pres Monson I no longer fill as bad about the destruction I did as a kid....