So I spoke in Church yesterday.<\/p>\n
Here are some comments I got after my talk.<\/p>\n
“Hillarious, as always!” – Teenager<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Do you do stand up, you should do stand up, your speech was just like a stand up routine.” – Sweet Old Widow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Dude, you are a great public speaker” – Guy who dressed as a whoopy cushion for Halloween.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Why didn’t you give the talk you wrote!?!” – Spouse<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
My talk was on the Book of Mormon being for our Day. I went a bit off of my topic, but I remember talking about:<\/p>\n
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- A brief comment that the children were not doing well with the switch to afternoon church, and missed their naps (as did their fathers) as an Ice breaker.<\/li>\n
- The Old Testmant not being written for our day, and being worse than an R or X rated movie<\/li>\n
- Jeffrey R. Holland’s Master Thesis on the over 3,000 textual changes in the different editions of the book of Mormon (including the change last year)<\/li>\n
- The Expansion Theory of Book of Mormon translation, and Alexander Campbell’s “delusions”<\/li>\n
- The Book of Mormon pointing to Modern Revelation, Jesus being the Christ, and Prophetic Authority<\/li>\n
- The Book of Mormon being a guide that points us to the value of the Church and the need to participate in the church community<\/li>\n
- A passionate argument my wife and I had while reading “3 Questions for a Frantic Family” where we decided that the core purpose of our family was “working together to be happy and become like God”, which I believe is also the purpose of our church family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Not sure what was funny about any of that in hindsight. \u00c2\u00a0Sometimes I worry about being funny.