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New Mormon Meetinghouse locator

URL: maps.lds.org In case you haven’t noticed, the church has been rapidly building and deploying all kinds of exciting new technologies. I intend to cover a few of these over the next little while (as infatuated as I am with technology).

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President Monson’s Birthday Request

Two weeks ago today (Aug 21), Thomas S. Monson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a prophet, seer, and revelator, celebrated his 81st birthday. Reflecting a life lived in service, and his genuine love for mankind, when ask

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Video - The standard of truth has been erected

Yesterday I posted a video presentation “The spirit of god”, presenting in fast-form-fashion the story of the prophet Joseph Smith and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. Reflecting on the humble beginnings of the Church of Jesus Chri

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The spirit of God

A beautiful presentation of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon. For more information about Joseph Smith, visit www.josephsmith.com. Subscribe to Ongofu | Get Ongofu by Email If you’ve enjoyed this

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If - by Rudyard Kipling

Today I wanted to share with you what has come to be my all-time favorite poem. If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their

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What if Mormons are right?

There’s an interesting article that I would recommend: “What if Mormons are right, and Catholics and Protestants are wrong?” The full article (and well worth the read) can be found here. The author asks the important question R

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God grant me wisdom

This quote by Reinhold Niebuhr has long been a favorite in our neverending quest to find balance in life. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the diff

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Strengthened by adversity

We all face adversity within our lives. Some, far more than others. But it’s not the adversity that matters, but how we deal with it (life is what we make of it). The following is an inspiring story of Horatio Spafford who did just that, wh

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Straining toward achievement

This morning I was at the gym, sweating, hurting, thinking I was an idiot, and wondering what in the world I was doing. I’ve got a goal to bench-press 400 lbs, which is about 25 lbs over my prior max. Now I know 25 lbs doesn’t sound l

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USS New York - Made from the World Trade Center

Built with 7 1/2 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center, the USS New York is the fifth in a new class of warship. It’s designed specifically for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of

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Conceptual Distillation - is Mormonism true?

Let’s face it, life is full of gray. It’s complex. Everything we do simply entails so much. Every decision we make can lead to a dizzying number of unforeseen outcomes. In fact, there’s so much complexity around the decisions

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La Envoi, by Rudyard Kipling

La Envoi Rudyard Kipling When Earths last picture is painted And the tubes are twisted and dried When the oldest colors have faded And the youngest critics have died Then faith, we shall need it Lie down for an eon or two Till the master of all goo

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Understanding the Plan of Salvation

For those of you who follow my blog and the comments closely, you know that I’ve mentioned a couple of times a project that I’m working on, a full-blown online presentation of the Plan of Salvation. In so many of the doctrinal discussions

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Two changes in my life - Leaving WordPress

Leaving WordPress - Moving to TypePad Speaking of change, my experience on Wednesday encouraged me to make some changes I’ve been avoiding. One of those is to move my Blog from WordPress to TypePad. WordPress has been great, it’s free

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The approach of fall - hints of change

Wednesday morning, I was walking out to my car to go to the gym, when suddenly I was stopped dead in my tracks. There were leaves on the ground. There were no leaves on the ground Tuesday night, when I went to bed, I was sure of it. But this mo

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The sufficiency paradox, understanding the atonement

The atonement is the single greatest event in history, nothing else even compares, and as the single most important and relevant event in each of our own individual lives, it deserves our attention. Unfortunately, amongst the various Christian denomi

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Ongofu on Twitter!

For those of you who don’t know what twitter is - it’s a micro-blogging platform. Whereas with a blog you post fewer, but longer articles, on Twitter you post a lot more frequent (and vastly smaller) ideas, thoughts, and ramblings throu

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The sleeping sickness, a spiritual plague

Between 1915 and 1926, but especially in 1920, a plague swept the world. They called it “Encephalitis lethargica”, also called “sleepy sickness” or “sleeping sickness”. Those who contracted the disease would, amo

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Ongofu in China - blogging in Chinese!

Several years ago I had the opportunity to serve two years as a full-time LDS (Mormon) missionary in Sydney Australia, speaking Mandarin Chinese. It was the most amazing experience of my life. During that time I developed a great love and appreciat

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Michael Phelps – setting and achieving goals

Last week when we were on the Oregon coast, after freezing in the Pacific Ocean for a bit, I decided to warm up on the beach and make a sand sculptor. Since all of our family had been cheering on the great Phelps, I decided to do two sculptors of h

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Two lessons from Michael Phelps

Friday night, Michael Phelps fought to win his 7th straight gold medal in the 2008 Summer Beijing Olympics, allowing him to officially tie the prior record from former Olympian Mark Spitz. With all that was riding on the race, and in spite of having

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Scriptures for the iPhone

For all of you iPhone fans (like myself), you’ll be happy to know that on August 6th, Michael Jensen (who brought us www.ReadScriptures.com - the free, web-based app) released a full-fledged (natively installed) scriptures app for the iPhone.

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Finding your own personal sweet spot

In the world of business there’s this little thing called the COP model. COP is an acronym where each letter stands for “Competency”, “Opportunity”, and “Passion”, respectively. Opportunity means there

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Family Time

The last 7 days we’ve been on vacation at the Oregon Coast (which, by the way, is why I haven’t posted much). Today we’re flying home, and all the parents are going through withdrawal as we pack our bags and prepare to leave. Mean

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Celebrating 50,000 page views

Speaking of setting goals, in January of this year, inspired by a call by Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles, wherein he encouraged Mormons to take a more active role in building a voice online, I had set a goal to build a blog

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Michael Phelps – Making your dreams come true

Tonight I watched the incredible men’s 4×100 freestyle relay, as the United States Olympic team put to bed the taunting from the French team, destroying the prior world record, and taking home the Gold, all in one fell swoop. The entir

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A Christian call to action

Fighting has broken out between Georgia and Russia, and is taking place right in the Georgian capital. CNN is reporting that heavy casualties have been reported on both sides. Lyudmila Ostayeva, who lives in the capital, said “I saw bodies ly

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Little Lin Hao - a survivor, hero, and example

Watching the Olympics is always inspirational to me. But tonight I found a bit of extra inspiration from little Lin Hao, who walked aside the giant Yao Ming as the Chinese athletes toured the great National Stadium in the 2008 Olympic Opening Cerem

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How to tell if it’s the spirit, or yourself?

Someone typed this phrase into a search engine the other day, and ended up at my Blog. First, I love seeing that people are out there asking such important questions. For indeed, the ability to discern the promptings of the Holy Ghost is one of the

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The grand panorama of scripture

Once upon a time there was a man who was given a map, and was told that if he followed the instructions on this map, he would find treasure untold. Excited by the prospect of this treasure map, he set out one day to find the buried treasure. The in

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Inspiring words for those who need them

Today as I was looking through the search phrases people have used over the past few days that led them to my blog, I found that two separate people had typed the identical phrase: “Inspiring words for someone having a hard time”. How hap

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An eternal perspective - what role will you play?

We are encompassed about by things of no eternal consequence, but which ceaselessly fill our lives, occupy our thoughts, and consume our time… the vain aspirations of man and the constant ongoing minutia of daily life. While all around us wages

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The touch of the master’s hand

‘Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer thought it was hardlyworth his while to waste much time with the old violin, but he held it up with a smile. “Give me a dollar, and who’ll make it two? Only two dollars. Who’ll make i

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Putting life into perspective

I absolutely love a freshly cut lawn. There’s just such a harmonious, orderly, and clean appearance to it. It looks, to the passerby, consistent and smooth, well tended. But have you ever looked closely at a freshly cut lawn? The closer

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Craig (from Craigslist) has faith in people

If you’re unfamiliar with the highly popular site “Craigslist” (www.craigslist.com), it’s a classified ads site where you can go and list and purchase things that are for sale. The site was founded by Craig Newmark (bio and hi

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Seeking for evidence

Recently the topic of evidence-seeking has come up frequently in comments on my posts, and I decided it warranted further exploration. Is it weakness or folly to believe without evidence as Larry suggests in the comments here? Or is it weakness or

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Earthquake in Los Angeles, California

My CNN Alert just notified me that there has been a magnitude 5.8 eartquake in Los Angeles, California. I’m searching for details, and will post more about possible ways to help as soon as I can. In the meantime, may all our prayers go out

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Suffering in silence

Last night I struggled through most of the night with a terrible recurring dream. In my dream, I had gone to the house of someone I knew to help them with something. I’m not sure who exactly this person was, only that I knew them. Once I go

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Picking the lock of salvation

For those of you who weren’t aware, last week was the national HOPE conference in New York. No, this isn’t a self-help conference teaching us how to increase our capacity to hope (I wish it were). Rather, it’s a gathering of som

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What religion can learn from science

Appetite. That’s what seems so prevalent in the world of science and so often lacking in religion, the appetite to constantly learn more, to not be satisfied with what we have, to continuously search, ponder, and strive to increase our knowle

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Your spiritual ecosystem

An ecosystem includes you and all that surrounds you. It’s the whole of your environment and the affect that it has on you. Ecosystems are powerful things, and they have a big impact on their inhabitants. Within any ecosystem you’ll f

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New, LDS News Source

Today I received an invitation to exchange banners with a new news site www.LDSNewsSource.com, as yet another response to Elder Ballard’s challenge to increased membership interaction online (see also “So many Mormon Blogs“). The

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Having a hard time feeling the spirit?

As I mentioned here (How often do you feel the spirit?), the frequency with which we feel the spirit can be an accurate measure of our spiritual “status” and regular measurement can help give us an idea of our spiritual progression over t

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How often do you feel the spirit?

I’m a big fan of measurement. I think that unless you frequently measure those things in your life that matter most to you, then you’re achieving less than you could. Simply the act of measuring brings you to consciousness, wakes you

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Gratitude, the key to righteous desire

Throughout my study of the scriptures, I often find recurring themes. One of those is the use of gratitude to instill righteous desire. One clear instance of this within the Book of Mormon is in the opening verses of 2 Nephi. It’s around 57

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Buying the iPhone 3G

Buying the iPhone 3G In case you wondered why there was no post on Friday, it’s because I spent all day standing in line to buy the new iPhone 3G - 10 hours to be exact, and the whole process taught me something I wanted to share. First, here&#

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Therefore I make a record

Note: This post is part of a series “What IS in the Book of Mormon“. A series dedicated to those who believe in the Book of Mormon and enjoy discussing its profound principles, and those who are simply interested in understanding what

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Faith - a poem

Faith Edgar A. Guest It is faith that bridges the land of breath To the realms of the souls departed, That comforts the living in days of death, And strengthens the heavy-hearted. It is faith in his dreams that keeps a man Face front to the odds abou

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Sister Hinckley’s Challenge

Sister Marjorie Hinckley described the condition in which she hoped to arrive in heaven, and in so doing, offers us a challenge…. I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, m

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Principle based leadership

We all are given opportunities to lead. Some lead vast organizations, others small teams, and still others, a family. A leader is one who is so clearly focused on the destination, that they’re able to direct the paths of others. A leader he

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