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

Tonight I listened to our Church's worldwide broadcast that featured a discussion with Elder Ronald A. Rasband of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles; Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson, general Young Women president; and Brother Stephen W. Owen, general Young Men president.  Even through the program was for the youth, all ages can benefit from listening to the discussion.

I made clips of the highlights that I enjoyed.

Brother Owen served as mission president of Arcadia Mission.

I remember him telling this story to our seminary class.

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Sister Oscarson advises how to raise a family in a wicked world.

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Elder Rasband bears a powerful testimony at the end of the program

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The closing song, Savior, Redeemer of My Soul, was performed beautifully.

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Click here to listen to the whole program.  You'll probably get answers to questions you didn't even know that you had.

Piano Tuner

Meet Carl. 

He's been my piano tuner for the past 20 years and he just tuned my piano.   He does a great job.  If you need your piano tuned, I highly recommend him.  Give him a call.

Christmas Song Guessing Games

Here are a couple of games that involves guessing Christmas songs.  I got these years ago from  a PTA social.  Download the images and print up a copy for each person who wants to play.  

Name the Christmas song:

answers:

Game #2

Answers:  

Christmas greetings through the years! With love, The Magpad

"We find the real joy of Christmas when we make 

the Savior the focus of the season."  

~Thomas S. Monson

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Merry Christmas! 

With love,  The Magpad

Face to Face with The Piano Guys

On Tuesday night I watched Face to Face with The Piano Guys.  

You can enjoy watching a couple of clips from the program.

The program opener was the group playing, What Makes You Beautiful.

  
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Impromptu Jaz piece with The Piano Guys and a couple of people from the audience

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Jon Schmidt is playing the piano upside down and backwards

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Deseret News explains what The Piano Guys did during the Face to Face program:

The Piano Guys answered youths' questions about maintaining their standards in the music industry, finding happiness, keeping the Sabbath day holy and many other topics. They also performed several songs, including an arrangement of "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "I Need Thee Every Hour" that they created specifically for this event.

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