"Hold to the Rod" (picture by James Christiansen)

Today in Sacrament Meeting, a lady gave a talk about doing things that Heavenly Father wants us to do.

She mentioned this picture.  She described it as a guy who was holding so many things that he couldn't hold onto the iron rod.  If he were to try to hold onto the iron rod, he would need to get rid of some of his things.

I had seen this picture before, but never understood the hoopla
about it.  I didn't get it.  I didn't know the name of the picture.  To me, it just looked like a colorful picture of a guy looking up!   : )

Now I understand what the story is.

Here is a link to a puzzle of the picture, sold by Deseret Book:

Hold to the Rod (Puzzle)

I Need Thee Every Hour -- Fernando Ortego

I like this version of the song and I like his voice.

The video is over 8 minutes.  Only the first 3 min. 48 seconds of the song are filled with the song, "I Need Thee Every Hour", then there are some other words and music:

Fernando Ortego

A song by Audrey Assad, called "Lead Kindly Light" (not the normal one from the Hymnal)

I like this version of her song the best.  You can hear it better and concentrate on the music:

Click on link below:

Song by Audrey Assad

"Through God's Eyes" -- Elder Renlund -- October 2015

I like his talk.

He testifies that he knows that Jesus lives and that the keys to the Gospel of Jesus Christ were restored to Joseph Smith.

Click on link below:

Through God's Eyes

What to Title This?..... I don't know.........

This is a story of a lady named Judy, and what happened in her life.

Click on link below:

Judy

Face to Face with Elder Rasband, Sister Oscarson and Brother Owen

I want to watch this later.

It's bound to be good.  Elder Rasband is a newly-called member of the 12 Apostles.

Click on link below:

Face to Face with Elder Rasband...

Glowing Waves

I think this is very cool.

Click on link below:

Glowing Waves

Disciplining and Rewarding Your Child

Here's a video I like.  I think she has some good suggestions:

Disciplining Suggestions

You Know Enough (Elder Neil L. Andersen -- October 2008 General Conference)

I like this talk.  He says, "You don't know everything, but you know enough.".   : )

Click on link below:

You Know Enough

Meet Me Halfway (Kenny Loggins)

Sometimes, we need to meet each other "half-way".

We need to compromise or make something work differently than we would consider optimum, but we need to do this without giving-up what is most important to us.

I like this song by Kenny Loggins.

Meet Me Halfway

Child of Light (written by Tyler Castleton and sung by Mindy Gledhill)

I love this song:

Child of Light

It was from the 2004 EFY soundtrack called, "Stand in the Light".

Here is where you can download an "iTunes" copy of any of the songs from the CD:

iTunes songs from Stand in the Light 

Online, at Deseret Book, you can buy a CD called, "Ultimate EFY Collection", which has her song listed as the second song!  Yay!  I'm so glad that I finally found it!!!

Ultimate EFY Collection 

Here's where you can download an "iTunes" copy of any of the songs from the CD:

iTunes songs from Ultimate EFY Collection 

You can get a copy of the sheet music here:

Sheet Music

Here are other copies of sheet music, written by Tyler Castleton, that you can also buy:

Tyler Castleton, Sheet Music

Here's Tyler's website:

Tyler Castleton Website

Newsies Medley by BYU Vocal Point

I like good entertainment.

Enjoy the video!

Newsies Medley

What Lack I Yet? -- Larry Lawrence (October 2015 General Conference)

I like his talk about improving ourselves.

I like how he mentions that Heavenly Father cares more about what direction we are moving in, than how fast we are progressing.

I do believe that He is happy when we are improving our lives.

If we want to progress at a faster rate than we are now, we can pray for help.  He can send us specific guidance, through the Holy Ghost.

What Lack I Yet?

Siblings Singing

I love hearing brothers and sisters singing together.

Here's a guy playing the guitar with his sister singing with him.

Enjoy!

Singing on YouTube

Mormon Scientist (Henry Eyring -- Father of Henry B. Eyring)

Click on link below to see the video shown by BYU-Idaho:

Mormon Scientist

Elder Hugo Montoya -- Tested and Tempted but Helped

This is his October 2015 General Conference talk.

I like how he says to Smile.   : )

Elder Montoya

Liftware -- for people with Parkinson's

Here's a website that sells utensils that can be used by people who have various kinds of tremors.

It stabilizes the spoon or fork so that the food stays on the utensil and the person can easily eat:

Liftware 

The Gift of Grace -- Elder Uchtdorf

I like this talk:

Grace

Saran Wrap (or Shrink Wrap) Ball!

(Note:  My sister asked a friend of hers what she used when she did it, and she said "Saran Wrap", and that "It was great!".  So I vote Saran Wrap, since it seems to work just fine.)

I think this would be a very fun family game or party game!

While the first person tries to un-wrap the ball, the person to their right is trying to roll doubles with the dice.

When they roll doubles, the dice get passed to the right of them, and they get the ball, to try to un-wrap.

There's candy (or money, or something) between almost every layer.

I'm going to attempt to share this video, however, sometimes, Facebook videos or pictures aren't accessible anymore after a period of time.

We'll see if this one is viewable by anyone at anytime..........

Even if the video disappears, I'll post the instructions here.

First, here's the Facebook link to the video:

Saran or Shrink Wrap Ball!

Here are the instructions (below) that one lady posted when someone asked about how to play the game and make the ball:

However -- as I read through it though, she says that the person to the left of the person with the ball rolls the dice.

In the video, the person to the RIGHT of the person with the ball is rolling the dice.  That makes more sense.

Also, it sounds like this person is someone other than the person who made the ball in the video because she says that it took about 20 minutes to play with 24 students.  There aren't 24 people playing the game in this video, and it looks like a family, not a bunch of students.  Plus -- you can do whatever you want!  The video and instructions are just for ideas.   : )

INSTRUCTIONS:

To make the candy ball:

I used about 75 pieces/ packages of candy. I used all sizes and types.
 
To start the ball, I used a large jingle bell elf as the center. (It was fun for the kids to hear the jingle inside as they pulled off layer after layer. The closer they got to the center, the louder the bell jingled)
 
I wrapped it in bubble wrap and taped it with packing tape.
 
Then I placed a piece of candy on the ball that was forming and wrapped it up with shrink wrap (the sturdy wrap used for packing and moving) I would not recommend saran wrap as it is not sturdy enough.
 
I continued this process of placing a candy on the wrapped ball until it was a little larger than a basketball.
 
Every few layers, I would use tape to seal up the recently wrapped layer (this made it a little more challenging and I recommend doing this)

To Play the game: 
A player hold the ball and starts removing the layers.
 
The player on their left is rolling 2 dice as fast as possible in an attempt to roll doubles
 
When the player to the left rolls doubles, they pass the pan and dice to their left and the ball is passed to them.
 
They tear as many layers as possible while the player to their left is rolling the dice and so forth.
 
As the layers are removed, the candy starts to come out.
 
Players keep any candy that comes out during their turn.
This took us about 20 minutes with 24 students playing.
This was fast moving and kept their total attention.
Everyone got at least 1 piece of candy.

To make this more challenging, have players wear gloves. If you plan on using gloves, you may not want to use as much tape when assembling the ball.

Lighted Musical Seesaws in Montreal Canada!

Cool idea.   : )  It'd be a fun family activity/vacation spot.

Seesaws