My wife fed the sister missionaries last night. They mentioned watching this and they laughed about an "awkward moment" when the two moderators/people sitting on the stage with the leader couple didn't say anything. They were just looking at each other. Apparently it was quite amusing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-E2LOqDTtA

I tried but I just can't stomach this crap. I hate to miss out on the funny.

Maybe it was edited out?

It's a big ask, EB. I can't sit through an hour of it.

Do you mean you listened to it and didn't see/hear anything funny?

So far I've heard a lot of grateful, wonderful, humble and testify. And a few pauses to choke back tears. So familiar.

The Rasbands have 28 grandchildren, so far. Wow. And a grandchild. Her husband jokes that she doesn't look like a great-grandmother. Uh, what does a great-grandmother look like? Old, I guess. But if you're Mormon and you start young and have a huge brood it's not such a feat I guess.

One plus: At least they're socially distancing, it looks like.



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Nightingale Wrote:
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> Do you mean you listened to it and didn't see/hear
> anything funny?

I saw some very funny things like how the male moderator claimed to read his scriptures an hour a day and Rasband commented that with his busy schedule how did he fit it in? Talk about corny. It showed me how out of touch these old people are. They need some "cool" apostle to do this stuff. Rasband was a wet blanket and his wife seemed like the doormat that blanket was left lying on top of.

I tried but I "bear my witness" that I just can't do it, even for you EB. Sorry...

Thank you for trying NG. You always got me. Thanks again. Sorry to put you through that.

My choice. I could have taken a pass. :)

All I could think of, on reflection, is that the male youth perhaps stated a part of the intro that the female youth was supposed to say. She gave a questioning frown while they stared at each other for a few seconds, then they both laughed, then she repeated his words exactly. Maybe that would be funny to a youth audience?

Follow the link. It lasts about 20 seconds. I didn't find it funny, but then I make my own mirth.

https://youtu.be/D-E2LOqDTtA?t=482

It looks like a flub, or a very weak joke, or both. Nothing to see here.

That is it! Thanks! It amazes me that 4 20 year olds thought that was hilarious. It was the only thing they said about it. They asked if we had watched it? Huh? Here are two almost 50 year old people one clearly not wanting anything to do with the church and one only interested in them because she likes to think she is helping her girls who asked us to feed them and we are going to be interested in a devotional for young single adults?

Thank you.

Oh wait--you weren't talking about the insipid singers eating their microphones and the pianist's dramatic gesture at the end of the first song?

I have to admit the music was entertaining. It was like a highly produced boring devotional with the same level of everything Mormon - not quite there in inspirational tone. But wow! Goshen Utah's Jerusalem recreation set. Nothing like The Holyland for one of these things! How apostolic.

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That's funny - grave instead of grace. I think it's a typo?



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Yes typo I laughed at it too and left it.

The church is the grave for your cash...

Mormonism is a belief system of saved by grave.

Love it.

I didn't want to watch it, so I read some comments, trying to see if there were any significant timestamps mentioned. There was this one:

"14:25 When your comp forgets what to say during the lesson and you have to finish it for him."

That could be a different moment than what they meant, but it's all I could find.

I didn't see it. Just Rasband droning on about Jesus.

I didn't watch much of it, as I said, but I got the impression he was trying to sound evangelical. If so, that is misleading, to say the least. I could have been mistaken in my impression though. Although I note there seems to be a decided effort to appear more mainstream, if not EV, in the recent past. I would respect a religious group more if they would present their true selves, not try to fuzz things up to appeal to a wider audience. That is one major explanation for the amazing fall-off rate of LDS converts - what you see is NOT what you get. That's dishonest, to say the least.

Even if I'm mistaken about the speech and manner of Rasband in this video, surely the removal of JS pictures to the back of beyond and the promotion of JC to the foreground in Mormonism is not honest, given the underlying and actual beliefs of the Mormon Church. Or are they really and honestly evolving to that degree?