Got this email from RS Pres...

Hi,

Sunday we had a great third hour conducted by Bishop ***** combined with the Priesthood and YMYW regarding Missionary Work and The Priesthood & family. Many of you were traveling or serving in Primary or just unable to be with us. So I am sharing a link with you of a video that we watched that would be well worth your time to watch. Please share this message with those you visit teach, your family or others.

Here is the link to the video we watched: https://www.lds.org/training/wwlt/2013/the-power-of-the-priesthood-in-the-family?lang=eng

thank you!

Didn't watch lol, I suggest everyone do the same :)

Just the first 4 seconds of Heartsell music are more than enough.

I really like how the exmormon YouTube channel does that for the videos they post. The irony is delicious.

Good Grief. Talk about Marketing & PR. There are more minorities shown in the 1st 4 minutes (as far as I could watch) than are in all the wards in Sandy combined.

Right? That is one of the things that bothers me the most about their marketing and PR. I'm a minority and with the exception of Hawaii, I was ALWAYS the lone brown face in EVERY ward I've ever attended. It's just total misrepresentation that there is diversity.

In fact, LDS casting just sent out a notice for testimony videos to be used in temple visitors centers. Seeking specifically, Hispanics and African Americans. Whities need not apply! They don't even need to be LDS, but they just want their testimonies of Jesus.

Oh vey.

Can we post that cast listing on fb or Mormonthink??

Aye cast listing complete with my stake president - marvellously ironic :s

They love putting people of other races as their face of Mormonism in their marketing now. I'd love for them to get the cojones to put a mixed race family though, like a black husband with his blonde white wife. They don't like that though.

Oh, that just Makes. Me. Nauseous!

Ok, I watched that whole damn thing. Only important cult leaders like theses guys can talk so much without saying anything.

The music at the beginning signals the brain to shut down, as nothing of import will be discussed by these bloviating old cows.

4 seconds of Heartsell oboe = hypnotic trance-like state.

The GAs do seemingly waffle more and more these days. You just get a bunch of repeated key words & phrases like 'Priesthood keys', 'magnifying our responsibility', 'power of the ward council' etc..... with a bit of filler inbetween.

I wonder if there's not some sort of secret word bingo game going on amongst GAs. If you're the first to complete your line of trite phrases, you win a promotion to Area President, a condo by the mall and a $1m bonus.

I lasted about 2 minutes in before the heartfelt music and droning voices started putting me to sleep. I can't believe just a few years ago, I would have been touched by these stories and thought being TBM was the only way to have a happy family as seen in this video.

Bloviating for 10 minutes about something made up. All package, no content.

"You need the priesthood to have a happy family. And we have it. Do what we (a bunch of old-fashioned, out-of-touch white guys) say if you want to be happy."

True story.

My cousin, while attending BYU, was contacted to see if she would be interested in appearing in some church films that recreated the new testament. She in no way sought this out. She was confused, and asked what piqued their interest in her. Apparently they needed people who "looked Jewish". She is 100% Caucasian. She declined. She still doesn't know how they found out about her and her "Jewish looks", but luckily she has a sense of humor, and it has become a funny family story.

I honestly don't know how people stay awake when the these people talk. That GA monotone is the same as a bottle of Nyquil.

Seriously. If I'm having trouble sleeping, I'll pull up a GC talk online...out in 2 secs flat.

Wow that made me wanna puke.... Heartsell music and that way of talking...! For all their talk about the importance of priesthood, I don't see that it makes any difference. Families outside the church, families inside the church.... The power of the mind....

This is precisely the kind of bullsh** that pi**es me off no end. I presume this was shown worldwide and all those TBM wives whose husbands do not attend would have been sitting there feeling hard done by because they do not have the benefit of the priesthood in the home.

If the priesthood was such a big deal, how come no mention of it in early publications.

Drives me mad.