- September 4th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- September 3rd, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- September 2nd, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 28th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 27th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 26th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 25th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 22nd, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 19th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 18th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 17th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 16th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 15th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 14th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 13th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 11th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 9th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 5th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- August 4th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 31st, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 30th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
‘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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 29th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 28th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 22nd, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 21st, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 18th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 17th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 15th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 14th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 13th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 10th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 9th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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- July 8th, 2008
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rustylindquist has posted a new entry on: Ongofu - an LDS (Mormon) Blog
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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