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Sistas in Zion Radio! - Today's Youth, Tomorrow's Future

Want to know what our future holds? You've got to ask the youth of today. Sistas in Zion welcomes our special guest panel made up of the Class of 2012! Plus we're  talking with MTC bound Stormy Sheppard, who had his LDS missionary farewell today. Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen live <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sistasinzion/2012/05/20/todays-youth-tomorrows-future" target="_blank">here</a> ! Call in at (646) 478-3671.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKJPsuqozYrLTjj2HxukWaHOUvTQFf2wQpPFkFu_rcM7oX9SI7DC55uK9XUYIoXDVvGw84H5ZaJ4ny_PIDsWY5cD2aR-ozZEKoiT06Wirjv7wYwsvu9h8C30L790fzqGOMT9tcb0LZGT8/s1600/s3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKJPsuqozYrLTjj2HxukWaHOUvTQFf2wQpPFkFu_rcM7oX9SI7DC55uK9XUYIoXDVvGw84H5ZaJ4ny_PIDsWY5cD2aR-ozZEKoiT06Wirjv7wYwsvu9h8C30L790fzqGOMT9tcb0LZGT8/s1600/s3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />

Sistas in Zion Radio! - Today's Youth, Tomorrow's Future

Want to know what our future holds? You've got to ask the youth of today. Sistas in Zion welcomes our special guest panel made up of the...

Sistas in Zion Radio! - BYU Women's Conference Review + Kendra Bybee

Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen live <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sistasinzion/2012/04/29/sistas-in-zion-radio--byu-womens-conference-review-etc" target="_blank">here</a>! Call in at (646) 478-3671.<br /><br />Sunday, April 29, 2012:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjK3YpUlSrzEMz6sG4F9dDg-09r0HHmBykx5g3VJTfWfwz_W3PUgc4ltoZEPgha3PAh_8oBTe13g5AUPX53woHsR7DvlXnPGhnTg2_0zrcswJ_WqFj8DLTE0tsoKYbVEPF9C-nFDeoB7M/s1600/legacy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjK3YpUlSrzEMz6sG4F9dDg-09r0HHmBykx5g3VJTfWfwz_W3PUgc4ltoZEPgha3PAh_8oBTe13g5AUPX53woHsR7DvlXnPGhnTg2_0zrcswJ_WqFj8DLTE0tsoKYbVEPF9C-nFDeoB7M/s200/legacy.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Sista Beehive and Sista Laurel participated in the "We are the Legacy" musical concert presented by Deseret Book at BYU Women's Conference they'll share their experiences.<br /><br />They'll also be talking with special guest Millie Dadson who attended the conference as well:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF46yHC23R6ovdUaZAbTOaM6mwJ2U0mT9GGqkxXzCvwMcwE9tD2Vg1I5jUqXhB_0XmMeE9yQL8kn4NqB6pEj2geEBsQiT4uyT7R6_DilsMOqA9jAlocj9gc29WwOMfud3-W9NDE1N8TC0/s1600/MD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF46yHC23R6ovdUaZAbTOaM6mwJ2U0mT9GGqkxXzCvwMcwE9tD2Vg1I5jUqXhB_0XmMeE9yQL8kn4NqB6pEj2geEBsQiT4uyT7R6_DilsMOqA9jAlocj9gc29WwOMfud3-W9NDE1N8TC0/s200/MD.jpg" width="173" /></a></div>Millie Dadson - Wife, mother; graduate of Utah Valley University; born and raised in Ghana.<br /><br />2012 BYU Women's Conference Presenter: <b><i>Avoiding the Entitlement Trap</i></b><br /><br />"Entitlement is generally selfish. It demands much, and it gives little or nothing. It's very concept causes us to seek to elevate ourselves above those around us." (Elder Dallin H. Oaks)<br /><br />Sistas in Zion Radio feels blessed and highly favored to be speaking with special guest Kendra Bybee on today's show also.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSsxy-T7w66l5HBi0nHXNVBnOQNycWLk8uyTK-GabGM34nRP5-P6PBtSrsPgq8doHCcm6lrCwH6mf8G2D5c2ZivsVO0GgAVKcu9GDDqshYuMi4_IZOYtelL7xB0e8S_5oXmtE-kRdVyWE/s1600/kendra.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSsxy-T7w66l5HBi0nHXNVBnOQNycWLk8uyTK-GabGM34nRP5-P6PBtSrsPgq8doHCcm6lrCwH6mf8G2D5c2ZivsVO0GgAVKcu9GDDqshYuMi4_IZOYtelL7xB0e8S_5oXmtE-kRdVyWE/s200/kendra.jpeg" width="200" /></a><br />At the age of 25 Kendra Bybee became a young stroke survivor. She'll talk about how her stroke has given her a new lease on life, the role her faith plays as she tries to savor each and every experience and her work on her blog <a href="http://strokedtolife.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Stroked to Life</a>.<br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="105" id="87282" name="87282" width="210"><param name="movie" value="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogtalkradio.com%2Fsistasinzion%2F2012%2F04%2F29%2Fsistas-in-zion-radio--byu-womens-conference-review-etc%2Fplaylist.xml&autostart=false&bufferlength=5&volume=80&corner=rounded&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flashplayercallback.aspx" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blogtalkradio.com%2Fsistasinzion%2F2012%2F04%2F29%2Fsistas-in-zion-radio--byu-womens-conference-review-etc%2fplaylist.xml&autostart=false&shuffle=false&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx&width=210&height=105&volume=80&corner=rounded" width="210" height="105" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" wmode="transparent" menu="false" name="87282" id="87282" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object><br /><div style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center; width: 220px;">Listen to <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/">internet radio</a> with <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sistasinzion">As Sistas In Zion</a> on Blog Talk Radio</div>

Sistas in Zion Radio! - BYU Women's Conference Review + Kendra Bybee

Sistas in Zion Radio! Every Sunday 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Listen live here ! Call in at (646) 478-3671. Sunday, April 29, 20...

What would you do if this were true?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgybBjl5WfMoDp30cqOKemNK3rBSdksq1PmQkmnMwJIkcge97P2yf-uhG1OWRt8lww46bWFSitNz6du-9P1eELxTLyDjgQilUTqhet9STNKwKdhO3nJtO4apWE2E1pkkIuz-hWzCilrr_c/s1600/3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgybBjl5WfMoDp30cqOKemNK3rBSdksq1PmQkmnMwJIkcge97P2yf-uhG1OWRt8lww46bWFSitNz6du-9P1eELxTLyDjgQilUTqhet9STNKwKdhO3nJtO4apWE2E1pkkIuz-hWzCilrr_c/s400/3.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Limited space, get your family in before all spots are taken! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Seats are moving faster than tickets to David Archuleta's mission farewell!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Hallelujah Holla Back,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Sista Beehive & Sista Laurel</div><br />

What would you do if this were true?

Limited space, get your family in before all spots are taken! Seats are moving faster than tickets to David Archuleta's mission farewel...

As Sistas in Zion Radio

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0aOnjIIqrjC-eWHoe8BvWOpAqevPLJx51YhoFBH15rSEqh2Tyrk-KBgSWhvLyvR1gjk4oeIX-beetw-xkkwkaoe7-R7_zM4OPk2XW6ezZEOJVGxo2iPp5qFIPCTh6M9fTwoAjNIOf6M/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0aOnjIIqrjC-eWHoe8BvWOpAqevPLJx51YhoFBH15rSEqh2Tyrk-KBgSWhvLyvR1gjk4oeIX-beetw-xkkwkaoe7-R7_zM4OPk2XW6ezZEOJVGxo2iPp5qFIPCTh6M9fTwoAjNIOf6M/s200/3.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>You're prayers have been answered! Now you don't have to just read our words, you can hear the sound of our voices! (Aren't ya'll blessed!) We'll be coming to you live this Sunday and every Sunday, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (MST). If you're in Utah's Wasatch Front area you can hear us on 860 AM, and all are invited to listen online at <a href="http://www.utahsbigtalker.com/">www.utahsbigtalker.com</a>.We're taking your calls too, so Hallelujah Holla Back! Keep your Sabbath day holy with the Sistas!<br /><br />What topics would you like to hear us speak on? What guests would be your dream guests for us to chat with?<br /><br />Hallelujah Holla Back,<br />Sista Beehive & Sista Laurel<br /><br />

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You're prayers have been answered! Now you don't have to just read our words, you can hear the sound of our voices! (Aren't ya...

Mormon Gang Rivalry

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9suhtMYeFaPFHA0wT4jhh0pMpLCo6AD1UHoYTr_IIfwsWHPxDIAiMvMgBrR33_AmG6UvgjxiLSrDr2xrcHX90Eh0yl9kwP3A4YJ5i88Ff81DVx9kAxa76v-wW38QvIm-BjVy9AjmUTA/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9suhtMYeFaPFHA0wT4jhh0pMpLCo6AD1UHoYTr_IIfwsWHPxDIAiMvMgBrR33_AmG6UvgjxiLSrDr2xrcHX90Eh0yl9kwP3A4YJ5i88Ff81DVx9kAxa76v-wW38QvIm-BjVy9AjmUTA/s320/4.jpg" width="286" /></a></div>With all this talk about the "<a href="http://www.mormon.org/" target="_blank">Mormon</a> Moment," don't be surprised when you see Mormons on the next episode of <i>American Gangster</i>. When it comes to the blue and red rivalry, other gangs might be fighting for turf, but we act like we're fighting for testimonies. Brothas and sistas along the Wasatch Front are losing their minds and if you step onto <a href="http://www.lds.org/placestovisit/eng/historical-sites/salt-lake-city-temple-square" target="_blank">Temple Square</a> wearing the wrong colors your life could be in danger and you won't even know it.<br /><br />You might think you know all about this <a href="http://lds.org/" target="_blank">LDS</a> mess just because you're a sports fans or because you've heard about it, but believe us when we say, you have to see it to believe it. They don't call it the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_War_(Utah_vs._BYU)" target="_blank">Holy War</a> for nothing. Even though we weren't called to serve, we accepted the mission and went undercover at a football game to find out what's the big to do about red and blue.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1s9Rns1euV8zlUZaVYxZKTPE8f8Aa9F72LP95-oxEpYFRJzfVeVbNLntCIzWJIM1wurmOcTkXciGl0zr_bVAInybqxPlKZVIPKPKlRS2MqubQ9E0xXuRqVL8326AVAhstxrtW9B_OaZY/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1s9Rns1euV8zlUZaVYxZKTPE8f8Aa9F72LP95-oxEpYFRJzfVeVbNLntCIzWJIM1wurmOcTkXciGl0zr_bVAInybqxPlKZVIPKPKlRS2MqubQ9E0xXuRqVL8326AVAhstxrtW9B_OaZY/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>We cast lots and Sista Beehive ended up in blue and Sista Laurel in red. Our cover story was that we were sisters who came from a long line of U graduates, Sista Beehive couldn't get into the U and <i>had</i> to attend the Y, thus becoming the blue sheep of the family. It was only fair since it was a home game for BYU and Sista Laurel had to sit in the heart of Cougar Club country...she stuck out like a missionary in a bar.<br /><br />Things we heard:<br /><ul><li>Hey ladies, one of you is wearing the wrong color.</li><li>What kind of parents are upset that their kid got into BYU?</li><li>Are you guys Mormon?</li><li>So are you two related to any of the players? (You know they thought we were somebody's baby mama!)</li><li>Last time I checked, the church accepted red tithing checks.</li><li>The U of U is the school of the Prophets.</li><li>You two aren't LDS, are you?</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFSNfmWTfvs8W8uQ2BMdzHvaQUfG3pqss1go-Q-Lu8HKfZKa5UVGo4WJWBG3f08uvpYDTbdGfjfOsSdSUwS4p264ej9ZwcOSFe4YK14otOPm98eqd2mJUbml-NbBgz4qcLC9ZiUpyG3g/s1600/Desktop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFSNfmWTfvs8W8uQ2BMdzHvaQUfG3pqss1go-Q-Lu8HKfZKa5UVGo4WJWBG3f08uvpYDTbdGfjfOsSdSUwS4p264ej9ZwcOSFe4YK14otOPm98eqd2mJUbml-NbBgz4qcLC9ZiUpyG3g/s400/Desktop.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><ul><li>To Sista Beehive: You look so nice in that heavenly blue, you should've helped your sister pick her outfit.</li><li>To Sista Laurel: Don't be a afraid to cheer, we're not like U fans, we're nice. </li><li>Are you guys twins? (We said, "yes.") Well how the heck did this [pointing at our outfits] happen!</li><li>To Sista Beehive: Are you the only member in your family? </li><li>Boy, those refs must be on the U's payroll!</li><li>It's obvious that the refs work for blue!</li><li>Hey, are ya'll Mormon?</li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvwl5joDDXPtegfRjbkRRZVwwLNzIJWzG80CnR_3lTgOlYks_A68lQHQ5EvlJl8XI58keVPUt_mKBc50AqWSAAags4tjiiMYitvoaiCLUcSACmMa3sjjmJjBoS-JrtIM7GWwKESIzgnRc/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvwl5joDDXPtegfRjbkRRZVwwLNzIJWzG80CnR_3lTgOlYks_A68lQHQ5EvlJl8XI58keVPUt_mKBc50AqWSAAags4tjiiMYitvoaiCLUcSACmMa3sjjmJjBoS-JrtIM7GWwKESIzgnRc/s400/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Well brothas and sistas, in the end somebody has to eat crow...well kiss crow in this case.<br /><br />What color are you down with? Do you even care? Got any crazy rivalry stories?<br /><br />Jesus Said Love Everyone,<br />Sista Beehive & Sista Laurel</div>

Mormon Gang Rivalry

With all this talk about the " Mormon Moment," don't be surprised when you see Mormons on the next episode of American Gangst...

Mormon on Drugs

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgri4XVChgc4qKQwB6sUSIHAwCE4vm4rSB6hhVFT36WbCmkOO-lQ8n9OZlurJw0vHt4gUbcl8o8Q0MQvAxMsJ-TEKcLEZaB3-683Z7FoV_3wMwLkjRULufC_87EP2vrCnioNPlKOUa2I50/s1600/facebook_pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgri4XVChgc4qKQwB6sUSIHAwCE4vm4rSB6hhVFT36WbCmkOO-lQ8n9OZlurJw0vHt4gUbcl8o8Q0MQvAxMsJ-TEKcLEZaB3-683Z7FoV_3wMwLkjRULufC_87EP2vrCnioNPlKOUa2I50/s320/facebook_pic.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><a href="http://tylanglines.com/" target="_blank">Tylan Glines</a>, self proclaimed “Mormon on Drugs.” At first glance he may seem like the boy next door, but when his family decides to film his trip to the oral surgeon to have his wisdom teeth removed, the world finds out he’s so much more. With over 150,000 views in its first week, Tylan’s <a href="http://youtu.be/GhvcauQCEVs" target="_blank">Mormon on Drugs</a> YouTube video seems on its way to viral victory. While medicated, Tylan supplies viewers with a plethora of opinions and laughs. He’s a fan of Limbaugh and Justin Beiber. Likes Mitt Romney, dislikes President Obama, but not because he’s black. He cries almost as much as Glen Beck. Has a wee bit of a caffeine addiction, and yes he’s a <a href="http://mormon.org/" target="_blank">Mormon</a>. This Mormon on drugs had us intrigued, so we decided to have a chat with his sober self.<br /><br /><b>Before we get started, did you have any questions for us, or about our blog?</b><br />No, I didn’t even know about you guys until I got your email.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive and Sista Laurel at the same time</span></b>: You didn’t know about us!<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: We’re kind of a big deal.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: No, no, you are. I’ve been telling everybody to check Sistas in Zion out.<br /><br /><span style="color: magenta;">We’re just kidding of course, now that he knows that we are two sarcastic chicks the interview can begin.</span>   <br /><br /><b>Where did you come up with the title “Mormon on Drugs?”</b><br />I was at my aunt’s house, watching the video with all my cousins and we just came up with it because we thought it would be a catchy title, and it sure was.<br /><br /><span style="color: magenta;">We've</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: magenta;"> got a list of quotes from Tylan’s video and we are dying to pick his brain about them. Here goes:  </span></span><br /><br /><b>“Why am I crying?”</b><br />Since I don’t remember any of my thought process, I only remember arriving back at my house after the operation. I’m just assuming my subconscious was wondering why I was crying, for no reason too. I don’t know.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: Are you Mormon?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Yes.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: We hear Mormons cry a lot.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: It’s true, we’re just kind of tender people, you know.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaiCMclY2e-9T20EcB953ZRvjP9XimkvTM8jiGQ4vTY9MiZOKfYnGziTyDJPLcFLQHioud_uKx-ACjQC1IDi0BnlTTUpOdenDLmmh0Yu2ySmIADHrU_5432EwOMsnNAys3Te29qj4dAJQ/s1600/197410_10150228098574657_584889656_8800781_707623_n+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaiCMclY2e-9T20EcB953ZRvjP9XimkvTM8jiGQ4vTY9MiZOKfYnGziTyDJPLcFLQHioud_uKx-ACjQC1IDi0BnlTTUpOdenDLmmh0Yu2ySmIADHrU_5432EwOMsnNAys3Te29qj4dAJQ/s320/197410_10150228098574657_584889656_8800781_707623_n+%25281%2529.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><b>"I just want a normal Diet Coke." </b><br />[Laughs] This seems to be the greatest quote; I am actually working on some t-shirts to disburse around because this seems to be everybody’s favorite quote. When I got home from Christmas break my dad and I challenged each other to stay away from soda and caffeine. I guess I had a headache and just really wanted a normal diet coke with caffeine. <br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: And you specifically prefer Coke over Pepsi?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Yeah, absolutely Diet Coke all the way.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: I’m assuming you’re a BYU student.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Yeah.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: So can you get any caffeine on campus?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Nope, not on campus, but I even think there’s some kind of booth set up right off campus where they sell caffeinated beverages for the students. But I mean you can drink them, your fine, they just don’t participate in selling them. I guess to prevent students from becoming dependant on substances.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: Can you bring caffeine on campus?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Oh yeah, totally, absolutely. That’s kind of the Mormon style party, is Diet Coke right.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: So would an underground, on campus, caffeine selling venture be profitable?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: I think it would be, I actually wrote a paper on selling caffeine on campus and kind of figured out the numbers. I mean its a billion dollar industry and a lot of college campuses around the country make quite a bit of money from selling caffeinated beverages. And a lot of students depend on caffeine, so I think it would be really successful. It sounds like a Mormon drug deal.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: Well when you look at the dollars and cents it seems like something we Sistas might want to look into. Plus it’s not too dangerous, if the police pull us over we won't go to jail for having a trunk full of caffeine. And we’d pay tithing on our profits.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: I want to go on the record saying that I would not do that, because BYU security is serious.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Oh, they are. I got kicked out of the library once because I had a Jamba Juice and they said it wasn’t sealed sufficiently. Apparently the styrofoam cup and plastic lid it came in wasn’t good enough.<br /><br /><b>What was Jesus like when you met him? </b><br />Like I said, I don’t know my thought process or what was going on in my mind, but apparently I was walking down the yellow brick road with my pal Jesus.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: What was he wearing, was he dressed normal, were you wearing a dress and some sandals?  <br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: [Laughing] I have no idea.<br /><b><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: So I guess you’re not going to be able to tell us if Jesus wears socks with sandals.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86IlHwXQxeHIktKJGtgZr8af6tNybByMqRJjwNCzsmcP_zVqlcyBhEsF3HKf4JuHuTJU4ia4oQWdNO6VZy53ALaLRiMmFtvyfbAnTY4m7W8c-0tbpGEOOlujrxJ5BoKHY-4EincwQWq4/s1600/386564_10150713394504657_584889656_11779311_450112016_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj86IlHwXQxeHIktKJGtgZr8af6tNybByMqRJjwNCzsmcP_zVqlcyBhEsF3HKf4JuHuTJU4ia4oQWdNO6VZy53ALaLRiMmFtvyfbAnTY4m7W8c-0tbpGEOOlujrxJ5BoKHY-4EincwQWq4/s320/386564_10150713394504657_584889656_11779311_450112016_n.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><b>What made your family decide to film you?</b><br />I’m a typically bubbly, happy, outgoing person. I think they just figured that me hopped up on anesthesia would be quite interesting. We went through the doctor and made sure it was ok, and he okayed it as long as other patients weren’t on camera. And they just decided to film me. My brother actually watched the operation cause the Oral Surgeon’s our neighbor and he said I talked for about 10 minutes before he realized that he had his phone with him. That’s when he took out the cell phone camera and started recording in the operation room.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: Ah, so he realized there was going to be some interesting stuff said?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: Or did he just not trust your neighbor?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: I think he just liked seeing my mouth get ripped open.<br /><br /><b>You said that your legs felt like Jell-o, was that green Jell-o?</b><br />I’m assuming with my Mormon background and growing up in Utah it was probably green Jell-o.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: With carrots?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Yup, with shredded carrots.<br /><br /><b>“I have a testimony and they never thought I had a testimony, ever!”</b><br />When I watch that back I don’t know what I was thinking, but I’m just assuming that I was declaring to the world that I have a testimony so any doubters would understand that I have a testimony.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: Do you have a lot of haters in your life?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: No, I don’t, that’s why I don’t know why I said that in the testimony part. I’ve always been involved in a lot of leadership positions. I don’t think I have any haters, maybe I do, now I kind of do.<br /><br /><b>You might have some haters out there because you said, “I don’t want to go to BYU anymore, those Mormons…some are so nice, [whispers] but some are just so rude.”</b><br />That part makes me laugh really hard. Just cause, you know, you get your typical self righteous individuals that are sometimes hard to deal with and bear. So when I watch that back I was just assuming I was referring to those individuals.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: The BYU bullies?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: [Chuckles] Yes, the BYU bullies.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: You’ve got 14 more minutes of fame, name some names, who is it?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>:  I don’t have any names.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: Don’t say President Monson, don’t say him, but like who, Samuelson, Cecil, is it Cecil?  <br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: No, I love the administration; BYU’s administration is absolutely fantastic.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: Vern Heperi is he one of em?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Nope, I love all, I love the whole administration.<br /><br /><span style="color: magenta;">Smart man, we’ll have to ask him who they are the next time he’s under anesthesia.</span><br /><br /><b>Speaking of people you love there was this quote: [In regards to disliking President Obama] “…And it's not because he's black. They are my kind of people because they are so wonderful to me, and I really appreciate it. In my Multi Cultural America class I learn that everyone is so beautiful.”</b><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: Ok, we’ll have to break it down cause it was a long quote, but let’s start with how “we” are your kind of people, I mean we were really excited to hear that, so we were just wondering about it.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: I really wish I could go back and go through my thought process like I’ve mentioned, just to know what I was thinking about.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: It’s ok, you don’t have to answer the questions as your high self. You can answer them as your sober self.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: I mean, I just recently finished a class, Multi-cultural America and just learned a lot. It really kind of opened my eyes just to the kind of problems we are dealing with and have dealt with in America. So I’m assuming I clarified that after the Obama part, just to clarify that it’s not because he’s black. I come from a conservative background and I’m political, but I just really wish I could understand what I was thinking. I’m just assuming it was from the class that I took.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: So we really aren’t that wonderful to you?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: No, no, you are, and my professor was actually of African American decent, and she was really amazing; I’m just assuming that’s what linked everything together. And the part, “everyone is so beautiful,” that line, it cracks me up.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: It brought tears to your eyes.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: Literally.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: It did, and so to the people that think I’m faking it, I really wish I could cry on demand like that, it’s pretty amazing.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: Have people accused you of faking it?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Oh yeah, I get a lot of comments on YouTube. You’re always gonna have that, but just people saying; I took acting lessons and I’m faking. And I told them, you know, if I could act like that, and fake it like that, I would be making a lot of money in the acting industry.<br /><br /><b>What are you studying in school?</b><br />I’m still undeclared major, but I’m thinking somewhere in the business field or political field.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: Well how are you going to become a rich doctor and give all your money away?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Well that was another thing, political science, premed, or business those are the three venues I’m thinking of.<br /><br /><span style="color: magenta;">We are definitely hoping that Tylan’s dreams come true. When he’s a rich doctor, business man or politician and gives all his money away to live in a “dirt box,” we hope he remembers us Sistas and cuts us in on the cash too. We’d pay tithing on it of course!</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8EoqcaxxYx5PMgGcqhNFtyKxGRY-DNO6IVI7Al2Z1r0zFtg06Br6tc5oCDF6Fcur5p9EsocCGteSvE1u0aLJYusQn_CHl7CqE7PGNiSCGfmVGorNS-HU7VPrAs4Hn_8v1kISI6LZVYE/s1600/315532_10150536670669657_584889656_11080844_910653550_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8EoqcaxxYx5PMgGcqhNFtyKxGRY-DNO6IVI7Al2Z1r0zFtg06Br6tc5oCDF6Fcur5p9EsocCGteSvE1u0aLJYusQn_CHl7CqE7PGNiSCGfmVGorNS-HU7VPrAs4Hn_8v1kISI6LZVYE/s320/315532_10150536670669657_584889656_11080844_910653550_n.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><b>It might be hard for people to tell, but you are a huge Justin Beiber fan.</b><br />I love Justin Beiber! And to all the people that are such haters on JB, they need to see his movie and they just need to understand that everyone is an individual. Cause the Beibs really is a cool guy, not that I’ve met him, But I’m going to one day.<br /><br /><span style="color: magenta;">We hope that when that happens his family is there with the video camera too!</span><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel:</span></b>  Do you like his music, his dance moves, his girlfriend?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan:</span></b> I do like his girlfriend, I think it’s a great choice, and I just appreciate the hard work he’s put into how far he’s come.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: [After talking politics for a few] …Now we are going to get to the serious question.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Perfect.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: The bad word.<br /><br /><b>Holy BLEEP I just feel like...Did I just say a bad word, no I didn't, I never swear before, that’s ok, I’m tough…”</b><br />When I went back and watched it, I came to the conclusion that most of it was all truth. In fact, like almost everything, I think the only part was saying that I’ve never sworn before because I have. I’m not like a crazy sailor swearer, but I have sworn before. So I don’t know why I said that. Maybe my subconscious was afraid because I was with my family and so I felt bad. But yeah, I think that’s what’s gotten a lot of people, in mostly a good way, just because it’s hysterical. But I obviously was sincere in feeling bad that I was swearing, but I guess later on blamed it on my mom.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: And your grandpa.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: So your mom, is she a sailor?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan:</span></b> No, she’s not. I think growing up just like I’m not perfect, she’s not perfect, maybe I’ve heard her say some swear words so that’s just what maybe came to my head. And my grandpa did have a mouth every once in a while.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: I noticed how your dad threw your mom under the bus, letting everybody know it was the mother you heard swearing and not the father.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: Yeah, that was pretty great, because it’s pretty even.<br /><br /><span style="color: magenta;">We just want to point out to all the women leaving comments about how cute Tylan’s dad is, the man is married. And despite popular belief Mormons do not practice polygamy. We got ya back Tylan’s mama.</span><br /><br /><b> You said, “Crap’s a good word, it’s a really good word.” Do you still feel that way?</b><br />Yeah I do, it’s a good substitute, especially for what I meant and growing up that was always the substitute word.<br /><br /><b>Is this your first year at BYU?</b><br />Yeah, I’m just starting my second semester.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: What made you choose BYU?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: You couldn’t get into the U of U? <br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: No it’d be vice versa. I toured six universities and loved two. I was kind of torn between BYU and Utah State, but I just kind of had a feeling I was supposed to be at BYU.  And even if stuff bugs me while I’m here, I just say I’m supposed to be here so it will all just work out.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: Even though you said you don’t want to go to BYU anymore?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: I do though; I think I was just frustrated.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: How’d you do last semester?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan:</span></b> I did pretty good for my first semester, so I don’t think it had to do with anything academically. Maybe something was just rolling through my head, that I wish I could grasp.<br /><br /><b>What’s the response been on campus, have students seen it [the video], have they not seen it?</b><br />It’s been really fun to watch it grow, actually today when I was going to class I saw some girls pounding on a window and I looked up and they said, “You’re the Mormon on drugs.” I’ve taken pictures with a few people. It’s kind of hard for people to recognize me though because I was a little under the weather and my eyes were closed. But we’ve seen people in the library watching the video and a professor showed it in class today supposedly.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Beehive</span></b>: Have you been called in yet by the dean of students?<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan</span></b>: I haven’t and I’m hoping that they would enjoy it. The marketing director of BYU contacted me and they wanted to play clips. I don’t know what they’ll play, but they wanted to play clips this upcoming basketball game and bring me on the floor.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: It’s kind of like you’re the new Jimmer.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Tylan:</span></b> I don’t think I’m gonna be as big as Jimmer, but its funny when people recognize me or put two and two together.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrb-IeP5UmgEoS7tg_UNLAkps1spv9Q9mtCEDF2uLiNHmjUEizPcUyYimIi0FCeNk1K0DgQp3ZxWTT5I6_o4VrUS8N9l0y5Vq4uSTo3CbKcS9BLpfImmAOVmjwunQMbZDlZ4GdJ4758mU/s1600/408811_10150698427174657_584889656_11731070_2131345809_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrb-IeP5UmgEoS7tg_UNLAkps1spv9Q9mtCEDF2uLiNHmjUEizPcUyYimIi0FCeNk1K0DgQp3ZxWTT5I6_o4VrUS8N9l0y5Vq4uSTo3CbKcS9BLpfImmAOVmjwunQMbZDlZ4GdJ4758mU/s320/408811_10150698427174657_584889656_11731070_2131345809_n.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><b>So let’s get to what all the girls want us to ask you, are you single?</b><br />Am I single? I am.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: #666666;">Sista Laurel</span></b>: So you’re single. The ladies will be happy to know that. Now that Jimmer’s gotta girlfriend, they can move on to you.<br /><br /><span style="color: magenta;">Ladies don’t get too excited; Tylan turns nineteen this summer and plans to serve an <a href="http://lds.org/" target="_blank">LDS</a> mission.</span><br /><br /><b>What’s the craziest thing to happen since you've done the video?</b><br />Probably when people, mainly girls, freak out and want to take pictures with me. I just think it’s crazy, obviously I enjoy it, who wouldn’t. Obviously it’s a lot of fun, somebody recognizing you. That and probably that BYU wants to play it at the basketball game. I thought that was kind of a big deal. I’m curious to see what they will play seeing that some of it could cause a little bit of controversy.<br /><br /><b>You said in the video that you wanted to be famous. Is that truly a goal of yours, or just something your subconscious said?</b><br />I mean if I happen to stumble upon it, which it’s kind of going in that direction, you know I mean, nothing crazy, but like I said in high school I did a lot of leadership and I enjoy being involved and being a part of the community. So I think when I refer back to that part in the video; it’s kind of talking more or less being involved and just kind of helping change people’s lives.<br /><br /><span style="color: magenta;">Well Tylan, don’t get too famous, some people say the church told Steve Young and Jimmer that they couldn't serve missions  because they were too famous. If you get too big you might end up serving a cannery mission with David Archuleta. We hear that’s where they send missionaries that are so famous they’ll get recognized anywhere they go. Best of luck in your endeavors Brother Glines</span>.<br /><br />Have you seen Mormon on Drugs, what do you think of Tylan’s creation? Would you wear an “I just want a normal Diet Coke t-shirt? Is YouTube good for the Mormons, or bad for the Mormons?

Mormon on Drugs

Tylan Glines , self proclaimed “Mormon on Drugs.” At first glance he may seem like the boy next door, but when his family decides to film hi...

Mormon Happy Feet

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7OsRcD9so3qbHEamfIql-z62YLHO4uztC_oAafJvvuG78OVc838FR3h1oTlk0O2oakmokqHWnD1ChhkMU4gqDFpM9VJekpTTbb3vofKMcVOyoOY6G1tBMmgrbi8W0fGThyphenhyphenHds-gZ848/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw7OsRcD9so3qbHEamfIql-z62YLHO4uztC_oAafJvvuG78OVc838FR3h1oTlk0O2oakmokqHWnD1ChhkMU4gqDFpM9VJekpTTbb3vofKMcVOyoOY6G1tBMmgrbi8W0fGThyphenhyphenHds-gZ848/s320/4.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sista Beehive, Richard Elliot (Motab Organist) & Sista Laurel</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping_(African-American)" target="_blank">Stepping</a> is something that we Sistas learned at a young age and still love to this very day. At some churches step teams are used to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. (<a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/ot/ps/98.4?lang=eng#3" target="_blank">Psalms 98:4</a>) Often when we think of making a joyful noise, we think of singing, but singing is not the only way to praise.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nM7zRQ9y9bI?rel=0" width="420"></iframe></div><br />Remember that one penguin that couldn't sing and all the other penguins said, "Oh heaven no!" And then he learned how to step and then the other penguins changed their minds and said, "That's tight, he's with us!" (We're paraphrasing of course.)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipgPbgliPEAkVoFEK6dozpXGpusvFeEfNcULI6KQCnwkOH6NpsNto3dkk5iAZfTyb5w0VQGpPQRBsjTtTKd6pxWkxFbSVQ38pns0GF8cm-Krx9WZtfntED97veDuC7DUDTobwq6X-OtI8/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipgPbgliPEAkVoFEK6dozpXGpusvFeEfNcULI6KQCnwkOH6NpsNto3dkk5iAZfTyb5w0VQGpPQRBsjTtTKd6pxWkxFbSVQ38pns0GF8cm-Krx9WZtfntED97veDuC7DUDTobwq6X-OtI8/s1600/6.jpg" /></a></div><br />If you know us, you know we are all about <a href="http://mormontabernaclechoir.org/" target="_blank">Motab</a>. The choir is phenomenal, but we want to focus on the stepper in the choir today. Yup, the <a href="http://mormon.org/" target="_blank">Mormon's</a> gotta stepper. It's Brother <a href="http://mormontabernaclechoir.org/info/person?person_id=17" target="_blank">Richard Elliot</a>, take a look at his fancy foot work and you'll understand why the Sistas want him on our step team.<br /><br />*Side note: We not tryna start a choir war, but we would love to see a step off between Brotha <a href="http://www.sistasinzion.com/2010/01/alex-boye-wants-jesus-to-walk-with-him.html" target="_blank">Alex Boye</a> and Brotha Elliot. Who's your money on? (Monopoly money of course, cause we <a href="http://lds.org/" target="_blank">LDS</a> aren't supposed to be gambling.)<br /><br />   <iframe width="500" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/m_HdrywerGE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />Make a joyful noise,<br />Sista Beehive & Sista Laurel

Mormon Happy Feet

Sista Beehive, Richard Elliot (Motab Organist) & Sista Laurel Stepping is something that we Sistas learned at a young age and still lov...

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Don't Pray About the Book of Mormon

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I pity the fool...who doesn't "Choose The Right!"

J. Golden Kimball, A Very Funny Mormon

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghB9xs7zCyil6pyoiVgBRcAYEt4cO654ZBSCo4PHKvr6CrGUL00EAMj30I7QxuXGr42EjfefKFklpgbj3EUwVnEfTsfflLVCU0IkPLLhddTWGpvgF_1S1H6QwnPX-ne2rTH4_baT_8bck/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghB9xs7zCyil6pyoiVgBRcAYEt4cO654ZBSCo4PHKvr6CrGUL00EAMj30I7QxuXGr42EjfefKFklpgbj3EUwVnEfTsfflLVCU0IkPLLhddTWGpvgF_1S1H6QwnPX-ne2rTH4_baT_8bck/s200/3.jpg" width="132" /></a>Our non-LDS readers may not know this, but <a href="http://www.lds.org/">LDS</a> Church leaders are actually known to have keen senses of humor. One of the funniest in our opinion is <a href="http://www.gapages.com/kimbajg1.htm">J. Golden Kimball</a>. There are many funny stories and quotes attributed to him and we don't know which stories are 100% accurate and which are <a href="http://www.mormon.org/">Mormon</a> folklore but we do know they are hilarious, here are a few:<br /><br />There was to be an impressive tour given to some dignitaries from other lands. J. Golden Kimball was assigned to the tour as a guide. They first took a bus trip to the important historical sites in and around Salt Lake City. Brother Kimball would constantly remind the visitors how fast buildings were put up by the industrious Mormons. Every time he would say so, one of the dignitaries on the tour would say, "Oh, is that right? In our country we could do it in half the time." J. Golden began to get madder and madder as the dignitary persisted to offer such comments. The tour was to end by having the bus drive around Temple Square. Then this dignitary asked, "What is that building there?" as he pointed at the Temple. "Damned if I know," said J. Golden. "It wasn't there yesterday." (<a href="http://wabei4.tripod.com/kimball/golden02.htm">http://wabei4.tripod.com/kimball/golden02.htm</a>)<br /><br />The story is told that someone stopped Elder J. Golden Kimball on the street on one occasion. There had been a little difficulty in Elder Kimball's family that had become publicly known, and whoever it was who stopped him, no doubt with a mind to injure, said, ' Brother Kimball, I understand you're having some problems with one of your children.' His answer was, ' Yes, and the Lord is having some problems with some of his, too.' (<a href="http://wabei4.tripod.com/kimball/golden12.htm">http://wabei4.tripod.com/kimball/golden12.htm</a>)<br /><br />President Grant sent a note to Golden. The note read that there was a member of the stake presidency from Coalville, who had passed away. His wife had requested Golden speak at the funeral. Golden didn’t get the note until he returned from a Church assignment in Southern California. By then the funeral was in an hour, and Coalville was almost two hours away He hopped in his Model T and drove as fast as he could. When he arrived, the funeral was almost over. The bishop saw Golden walk in. "Brother Kimball, come forward. We’d like to hear from you." <br /><br />He went up and said, "I’m very happy to be here. I’m sorry I’m late. I want to tell you what a wonderful person this man was. I knew him, I’ve stayed in his home. He was an inspiration to me. He was a good father, he was a good husband. He goes to a great reward." As he started to hit his stride, he looked out in the audience. About the eighth row back, there sat the man he thought was dead! So he looked down in the casket. He did not recognize the man lying there. Confused, he turned and said, "Say Bishop, who the hell’s dead around here anyway?" (<a href="http://wabei4.tripod.com/kimball/golden14.htm">http://wabei4.tripod.com/kimball/golden14.htm</a>)<br /><br />Be Blessed and Highly Favored, <br />Sista Beehive & Sista Laurel

J. Golden Kimball, A Very Funny Mormon

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Diary of a Mad Black Mormon

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYyXrg5xIxPaVTfYKhZfWYqZ-nhXbtHvSeQYV2v0zi1n3r7RnEnPapr659XRf5rwzehDHW71qfPavXd0W7rXqZnlczlZix1S-wnU5ezRgiKTJojLOz1bmZ4mq_vFqBbq9QEb-Wwx-5MVY/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYyXrg5xIxPaVTfYKhZfWYqZ-nhXbtHvSeQYV2v0zi1n3r7RnEnPapr659XRf5rwzehDHW71qfPavXd0W7rXqZnlczlZix1S-wnU5ezRgiKTJojLOz1bmZ4mq_vFqBbq9QEb-Wwx-5MVY/s400/1.jpg" width="283px" /></a>Dear Diary, today I was chased in an <a href="http://lds.org/temples/">LDS Temple</a>. It startled me because the temple is a very reverent place where people aren't usually speed walking. I didn't recognize the woman at all, so I picked up my pace and I tried to get to where I was going as fast as I could. When the out of breath woman finally caught up to me she said, "How do you say welcome in Ghana?" You know that song, I Stand All Amazed...well I was standing there...in the temple... looking at her... all kinds of amazed! "I don't know," I finally said. She started telling me a story about somebody in her family, who is or was going on a <a href="http://mormon.org/missionaries?gclid=CLmytsXAsKgCFQU6gwodrAGHHA">mission</a> to Africa, I'm not really sure because I was too stunned to process correctly. What made this probably nice and usually sane lady ask me that?<br /><br />Dear Diary, today I attended an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_(LDS_Church)#Singles_wards">LDS singles</a> ward dance. I was doing my thang and having a great time when this overly confident young man approached me and asked me to dance. While we were dancing he said, "You know why I asked you to dance?" "Because I'm one of the few girls here with rhythm," I said. "No," he said "I want to touch your hair." Now, I know that Mormon guys can be awkward, but this dude was way past that. "Excuse me," I said. "Oh no, it's cool," he said "One of my mission companions was black and he had the coolest hair, I use to rub his head all the time, but I've never touched a black girls hair, and I..." That’s all I heard, as I was walking away.<br /><br />Dear Diary, today I was at the swimming pool and this man kept staring at me. Finally he came over to me and said "Where are you from?" I named a city and state, but then he said, "No, I mean where are your people from?" "Oh," I said and then told him the state my people were from. "No, I mean before that," he said. Now I was getting frustrated so I said, "Before that they were probably on somebody’s plantation, and before that they were on a boat, before that they were probably somewhere in Africa, before that the <a href="http://lds.org/study/topics/plan-of-salvation?lang=eng">pre-existence</a>, look what's it to you.” You’re from Nigeria,” he said, “I served my mission there, and you look just like the people there." He was grinning from ear to ear, and I was picturing myself pushing him into the pool.<br /><br />Dear Diary, today I attended <a href="http://lds.org/general-conference?lang=eng">General Conference</a> at the <a href="http://lds.org/placestovisit/eng/visitors-centers/conference-center">Conference Center</a> with my family. An older couple walked up to us and the wife said, "Can I please give you a hug?" Before I could answer she wrapped her arms around me and started crying. She then began hugging each of my family members in turn. We were very scared and hoped some of the men walking around in black suits were secret service agents. Her husband said that they had just returned home from serving as <a href="http://lds.org/service/missionary-service/senior-missionaries?lang=eng">senior missionaries</a> in St. Louis. They had served in the poor areas and seeing our family had caused them to be overcome with great joy because we reminded them of the people in St. Louis who they had come to know and love.<br /><br />Brothas and Sistas, we aren’t really mad, and we know that people from all cultures have experiences like these with missionaries who have served in their neck of the woods. Usually after the initial shock and embarrassment wear off, we get a really good kick out of it. We were just wondering is there a class they could teach in the <a href="http://www.mtc.byu.edu/">MTC</a> (Missionary Training Center) that would cover what not to do, say or ask people who look like they could be from where you served your mission…lol!<br /><br />Have a blessed day,<br />Sista Beehive & Sista Laurel

Diary of a Mad Black Mormon

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Stake Dance Wars

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9apbwKJvI7cFqfNqPMIgzIsWEO-hQVKKFpYclWFBnl3eFnbDzIQFwOcH94kxyKJeh1jlAAq5j-FCwU0wbkaTVXvzTkl5RhAtwEQv3d8XmDqsojIPkutGS_gkLEnkW0wytXEiywOQJew/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9apbwKJvI7cFqfNqPMIgzIsWEO-hQVKKFpYclWFBnl3eFnbDzIQFwOcH94kxyKJeh1jlAAq5j-FCwU0wbkaTVXvzTkl5RhAtwEQv3d8XmDqsojIPkutGS_gkLEnkW0wytXEiywOQJew/s1600/4.jpg" /></a>I attended a very diverse <a href="http://www.lds.org/">LDS</a> <a href="http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Stake">stake</a> where I was <a href="http://lds.about.com/od/organizationsauxiliaries/p/church_callings.htm">called</a> to work with the <a href="http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Youth">youth</a>. Our stake was diverse in age, racially, culturally, economically, socially, you name it. Many blessings come from being surrounded by people who are different from you, yet all having common ground as brothas and sistas in the Gospel.<br /><br />Minus the out-of-whack hormones, I enjoy working with the youth. However, there is one youth activity that can get a little crazy when working with a diverse group...a stake <a href="http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Dance">dance</a>. Somehow I always find myself on music duty, which means sitting next to the DJ, keeping the girls from flirting with him and maintaining the requests list. If you think that sounds easy, you don't know how wrong you are.<br /><br />First issue, age, there could be a ninety year old sister serving punch and cookies and the youngest teens at an LDS dance are usually fourteen. What happens is: dear sweet Sister 1920's shuffles over to let me know that she finds the music too loud. Then Brother So-and-so wants me to translate every rap song because he can't understand what they're saying. Another sister comes by and asks that we try not to play so much rock music, it makes the boys jump in to each other and it's dangerous.<br /><br />Then there are the kids. The black kids inform me they came to the dance to get crunk (have a good time), but they can’t because the music is whack (bad). The DJ plays a hip-hop track. The Hispanic kids stop by to let me know that they want to <em>really</em> dance, and you can't <em>really</em> dance to what the DJ is playing, please, please, play some Bachata (a form of music and dance that originated in the Dominican Republic). The DJ obliges. <br /><br />Some of the Asian kids want to get a break dance battle going, so could the DJ hit’em with a tight (cool, hip, amazing) beat. The Polynesian kids would like to chill (hang out, relax) to something mellow. The DJ plays a little something-something with ukulele in it. A group of white kids come over, like (a word spoken in between each word in a sentence, usually used by teenage girls) do you like have any like High School Musical.<br /><br />By now the DJ officially thinks <a href="http://www.mormon.org/">Mormons</a> are crazy (there goes any chance of converting this dude) and he can't wait to get out of here. Play some Beach Boys and the leaders are on the dance floor, but the kids are a united front and clearly on strike. The girls say there are not enough slow dances the boys say there are way too many.<br /><br />It’s the end of the night, there are no satisfied customers. I tell the DJ to put a <a href="http://www.michaeljackson.com/">Michael Jackson</a> song on. The dance floor fills up. Leaders know his music; the kids are poppin’ n lockin’ (urban dance style associated with breakdancing). Finally everyone is happy. Brother so-and-so is boogieing this way (what now, he can’t possibly need me to translate Michael Jackson). In between his spazmatic dance moves, he tells me that he likes Jackson 5, but The <a href="http://www.osmonds.com/">Osmonds</a> are better. <br /><br />Now I’ve had it, the DJ announces last song and asks me what he should play. Everyone seems to be pretty happy with Michael Jackson, so I figure we stick with Michael and end the night on an up swing. “How about <em>"Beat It"</em>,” I say. Here’s to hoping they all get the hint. ;-)<br /><br />God is Good,<br />Sista Laurel

Stake Dance Wars

I attended a very diverse LDS stake where I was called to work with the youth . Our stake was diverse in age, racially, culturally, econo...

A Different Kind of Saint

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtABfnTysTYgEtct74boFzAqNVgdZRXq-y8zXh-wSBo5OddaxtPT4OfEnFugL71VFf0rVNZEiOdXqVhZEmQV24fqo2jOfjTrh_14J6nXYL256jFzTXFsw5dztL_myhbr2O6I8lRnSCTcI/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtABfnTysTYgEtct74boFzAqNVgdZRXq-y8zXh-wSBo5OddaxtPT4OfEnFugL71VFf0rVNZEiOdXqVhZEmQV24fqo2jOfjTrh_14J6nXYL256jFzTXFsw5dztL_myhbr2O6I8lRnSCTcI/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a>Being a convert to the <a href="http://www.lds.org/">LDS</a> faith, I am very blessed to have had the opportunity to develop a love for His word. While I have a firm testimony in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I really enjoy going back to my family church, the Pentecostal church, to listen to the preachers and to allow the music to fill my soul and testify to my spirit. I love gospel music and one of my favorite artists is Ms. <a href="http://cecewinans.com/"><span style="color: purple;">CeCe Winans</span></a>. One of her songs <em>"Alabaster Box"</em> is a story that I think many of us can relate to:<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"The room grew still</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>As she made her way to Jesus</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>She stumbles through the tears that made her blind</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>She felt such pain</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Some spoke in anger</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Heard folks whisper</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>There's no place here for her kind</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Still on she came</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Through the shame that flushed her face</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Until at last, she knelt before his feet</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>And though she spoke no words</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Everything she said was heard</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>As she poured her love for the Master</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>From her box of alabaster"</em></div><br />As a teenager I was given a beautiful cross necklace by one of my relatives. I had no idea that wearing it to the LDS church would create such a frenzy. The reaction that I received from other members especially the adults was very hurtful, and if I didn't have a steadfast testimony in the Gospel, I might have left the church. I couldn't understand why they continued to tell me "We don't wear crosses." Who was "we?" And why don't "we" wear crosses? Umm, when I got baptized that wasn't one of the things that the missionaries said we couldn't do.<br /><br />For those members who have a long family history in the Church, who come from what some members like to call “Pioneer stock” it must be difficult to deal with converts that march to the beat of their own drum. Yet, still manage to stay in rhythm with the rest of the saints. Does it really matter if some people take the Sacrament with their left hand?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"And I've come to pour </em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>My praise on Him</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Like oil from Mary's alabaster box</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Don't be angry if I wash his feet with my tears</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>And I dry them with my hair</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>You weren't there the night He found me</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>You did not feel what I felt</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>When he wrapped his love all around me and</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>You don't know the cost of the oil</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>In my alabaster box"</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />We all at some point find ourselves searching for His image in our countenance. A few years ago, I was wandering through a store in an area with a predominantly white demographic, and noticed a picture of Jesus Christ. It was an image of Jesus portrayed as a black man. I grabbed the picture and found myself in the longest line ever. Being short on time I put the picture back with the intention of returning for it when I had more time. </div><br />When I returned I found that all of the copies of that particular image were gone. I inquired as to how I could order a copy of the image only to have the sales clerk disappear to the back room and return with a copy. I inquired about why the picture was in the back and was told that the image of Christ was offensive to some of the customers so they were told to pull it.<br /><br />It doesn’t shock me that white people tend to gravitate toward images of Christ that favor them, just as people of color may gravitate to the images of Him that look the most like them. We all want to feel that we were indeed created in His image.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"I can't forget the way life used to be </em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>I was a prisoner to the sin that had me bound</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>And I spent my days </em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Poured my life without measure</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Into a little treasure box</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>I'd thought I'd found</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>Until the day when Jesus came to me</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>And healed my soul</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>With the wonder of His touch</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>So now I'm giving back to Him</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>All the praise He's worthy of</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>I've been forgiven </em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>And that's why</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>I love Him so much"</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The message is: My relationship with the Savior is personal. The way I choose to worship and show gratitude for what the Savior has done for me may be different than what you were taught, but that doesn't place less value on me in the eyes of my Savior, does it? I'm really grateful that as a youth I was taught in a church that encouraged and pushed me to figure out for myself the type of relationship that I wanted to have with God, Jesus Christ and my earthly brothas and sistas. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm happy for the example of the <a href="http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Following_the_Brethren">Brethren</a> and the way they LOVE people. All people. They seem to embrace the people and the cultures they come in contact with. I've even witnessed them singing and clapping along while they listen to a gospel song, Negro spiritual, or giving an Amen, and I often wonder...what is it that they know that the rest of us don't. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><em>"You don't know the cost of the oil in my Alabaster Box"</em></div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kfVwIARBZW8?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" width="425"></iframe><br /><br />Your Sista in the Gospel,<br />Sista Beehive

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Lions and Tigers and Bedlamites, Oh My!

<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7vi0J0Ln0pIiI-eG66R0MMELboVbrmfbuHjTaWp0IAl9v_v80Bmk1jzyFSXlBFT7B3bRtpLTigdoN0N6IM0Xg05yDnEklWFzExDawU9TitT6fZ9URbMhu7z6DLFIrhImLlufZaU8o_4/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7vi0J0Ln0pIiI-eG66R0MMELboVbrmfbuHjTaWp0IAl9v_v80Bmk1jzyFSXlBFT7B3bRtpLTigdoN0N6IM0Xg05yDnEklWFzExDawU9TitT6fZ9URbMhu7z6DLFIrhImLlufZaU8o_4/s1600/1.jpg" /></a>First things first, we can’t say enough about how wonderful April 2011 <a href="http://lds.org/general-conference?lang=eng">General Conference</a> was this past weekend, we felt saved, sanctified and Holy Ghost filled! Now let’s get to <a href="http://lds.org/church/leader/jeffrey-r-holland?lang=eng&query=elder+holland">Elder Jeffrey R. Holland</a>! When Elder Holland made that hilarous remark about trying to hold <a href="http://lds.org/hf/fhe/welcome/0,16785,4210-1,00.html">Family Home Evening</a> inspite of the bedlam in a house reigned by little "bedlamlites," he had us rolling (urban translation, rolling: laughing extremely hard). The word Bedlamites is definitely getting added to the Mormon dictionary, right next to Nephites and Lamanites. </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;">Bedlamites will now be the beloved word used to reference rambunctious children; it will be the loving way Primary teachers refer to their unruly pupils. Sunbeams and Bedlamites will probably now be interchangeable. We can see the t-shirts that Desert Book will start selling; “My Bedlamite is cuter than your Bedlamite,” “Lions and Tigers and Bedlamites, Oh My!” “Todays’ Bedlamite’s are tomorrow’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_thousand_stripling_warriors">Stripling Warriors</a>.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now, when we looked up bedlamite on Dictionary.com, (we were checking to see if the Church had copyrighted it yet, LDS folk get things done quick, fast and in a hurry) it said, and we quote “Bedlamite: an insane person; lunatic.” Yup, Elder Holland just politely called ya kids crazy!</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Is there anyone out there who knows the art of politely telling it like it is better than the <a href="http://www.mormon.org/">Mormons</a> do? If you aren’t <a href="http://www.lds.org/">LDS</a> and a young man was to tell you that you’re daughter has a sweet spirit, you would probably be so flattered. Well don’t be, cause that means that boy thinks her personality is nice and all, but he’s not really feelin' her in the looks department. I know you can’t believe it, but that is what that sugar-coated comment actually means.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">ESPN writer, <a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/rick-reilly-go-fish/post/_/id/869/rick-reilly-mailbag">Rick Reilly</a> recently wrote an <a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/rick-reilly-go-fish/post/_/id/869/rick-reilly-mailbag">article</a> about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmer_Fredette">Jimmer Fredette</a> that some Mormons were upset about, this is what Rick had to say about the hate mail: “The best hate mail in America comes from <a href="http://www.byu.edu/">BYU</a> fans. Even when they're spitting 20-penny nails, they're still incurably nice. Alabama fans will write hoping you die a slow, painful death, staked to an anthill while your mom watches, but the worst a BYU fan will say to you is that you're not going to heaven.”</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">That’s how we roll. We LDS like to L-D-S (Let’em Down Sensitively). Rick Reilly, take a lesson from the Mormons next time you’re talking about Jimmer’s fans say something like, "I can’t believe all the Bedlam those BYU Bedlamites are causing", it may go over a little better. On the real, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's talk was excellent, you can catch it <a href="http://lds.org/general-conference/watch/2011/04?lang=eng&vid=883477018001&cid=10">here</a>. And just in case some of you still don’t believe us about the phrase “sweet spirit,” here’s the lyrics to the song “Sweet Spirit” by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Provo">Sons of Provo</a>.</div><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gJp9e0bFHQU?rel=0" title="YouTube video player" width="425"></iframe><br /><br />God Bless,<br />Sista Beehive & Sista Laurel

Lions and Tigers and Bedlamites, Oh My!

First things first, we can’t say enough about how wonderful April 2011 General Conference was this past weekend, we felt saved, sanctified ...

Mahana You Ugly!

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJPMPc0h39D2s7IJxtSim2K_ISn2SmD2XQX0I1p8jPC_oj0nUGRxPHrQZdo8TKKxnYqWVvocrrKqQw-xUZKR2a2_r22p-W4SqrY4pnVO6OHIEwoAEYqHYElfUW6azMUB0L6L6GKdIm4OI/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430792008255720034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJPMPc0h39D2s7IJxtSim2K_ISn2SmD2XQX0I1p8jPC_oj0nUGRxPHrQZdo8TKKxnYqWVvocrrKqQw-xUZKR2a2_r22p-W4SqrY4pnVO6OHIEwoAEYqHYElfUW6azMUB0L6L6GKdIm4OI/s320/1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 183px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 154px;" /></a>"Mahana You Ugly!" The first time someone said that to me, I was not laughing. In fact, I was preparing to open up a can of whoop-fast. Luckily just before his face hit the pavement, someone mentioned something about a movie (assault charge averted). The first time someone called me an 8-cow woman, they had 8 seconds to explain to me why they had just called me a heifer. Something was said about "Johnny Lingo" and I think they took off running. About 5 years ago I finally saw the movie Johnny Lingo, and that person had it twisted, I am a million-cow woman! For all of you who learned the hard way that not everyone has seen this movie, I feel for you. For those of you out there who have never seen this movie, please know that if you ever find yourself trying to figure out if a Mormon has just referred to you as an ugly cow, they may have actually been trying to give you a compliment.<br /><br />Johnny Lingo is a 1969 LDS film. In Johnny Lingo, Mahana is a young woman who is constantly told she is ugly, she believes she is ugly and she appears to be ugly. Once her suitor is willing to pay an unprecedented 8 cows for her to become his bride, she becomes beautiful in appearance.<br /><br />The argument has been made that the story of Johnny Lingo focuses on physical beauty and the idea that a woman can only see herself as a beautiful woman once a man finds her attractive. I often think of self-worth as something that you define for yourself, people shouldn’t need to tell you that you’re amazing, you should already know and believe that you are. However, as I contemplate the story of Johnny Lingo, I actually find a message of power. The power we have to change attitudes, responses, how others feel about us, and yes, how others may feel about themselves.<br /><br />One school year my Mother had the ludicrous idea to send us to our non-uniform wearing public school in uniforms. She sewed us 4 hideous uniforms. One for each day of the week and then we could repeat one on Fridays. Most of the Uniforms were skirts, which we wore knickers under so we could go to P.E. and not have to the change. (If you don’t know what knickers are don’t feel bad, I think only my family and pioneers do.) The collection wasn’t even cohesive (I've been watching too much Project Runway). There was a pink and black polka-dotted skirt, which was just a poodle shy of needing saddle shoes to go with it. I don’t know what "General Store" my Mother found the fabric for the other uniforms in, but if you ever catch a rerun of Little House on the Prairie, you’ll see Laura Ingalls Wilder wearing the jumper-dress she sewed us. Oh, and yes, of course mine and my sister’s uniforms were matching, what’s that you ask, are we twins? Nope! My sister and I were seriously traumatized!<br /><br />The first week of school our classmates just thought that we were shopping at the ugly store, but by the third week of school they began to see a pattern. I didn’t attend one of those schools where the other kids whispered and made fun of you behind your back. I attended the kind of school where kids just shouted at you from across a crowded lunchroom, “Girl, why you wearing the same ooglay (worse than ugly, so ugly it’s ooglay) outfit every day.” Although I felt like someone should report my Mother to Child Protective Services, I had made up my mind that I was going to own those ooglay uniforms. “Why you wearing that same ooglay face every day,” I replied. I wasn't being mean, that’s just how you nip it in the bud where I come from.<br /><br />I told my friends that I was wearing uniforms this year because I didn’t want to take the time to pick out something new every day. Plus, I got way more sleep since I didn’t need to wake up and pick something to wear. “It was my idea but, you know the lil’ Sis has to copy everything I do. Told my Mom not to make us the same uniforms, but the lil’ Sis was buggin, so I was like, it’s cool.” Of course my BFF knew what was up and she had my back. She’d say, “Girl that skirt is bomb, where’d you buy that, I need to get me one.” I would say, “Thanks girl, my Mama made it, it’s an original, you can’t just get this off the rack.” She bought a plaid skirt and she would wear hers to school. Of course hers was name brand, short and cute, but I really appreciated it.<br /><br />So although I still can’t believe my Mother did that to me, the school year didn’t turn out to be a complete disaster because I realized that I GOT THE POWER! So the next time you’re in a situation where you can effect positive change in your attitude, the attitude of others, how someone else perceives themself or how others perceive you, do it, cause YOU GOT THE POWER!<br /><br />For those of you who have never seen Johnny Lingo, here you go!<br /><br />God is Love,<br />Sista Laurel<br /><div align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/x-PLyy0XM3Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/x-PLyy0XM3Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><div align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4KDi4Oii0Es&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4KDi4Oii0Es&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><div align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BuyBwR7p-iY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BuyBwR7p-iY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div><br /><div align="left"><a href="http://www.myfreecopyright.com/registered_mcn/BT8QW_3GY41_YKT8E" title="MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected"><img alt="MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected" border="0" height="38" src="http://storage.myfreecopyright.com/mfc_protected.png" title="MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected" width="145" /></a></div>

Mahana You Ugly!

"Mahana You Ugly!" The first time someone said that to me, I was not laughing. In fact, I was preparing to open up a can of whoop-...

Alex Boye Wants Jesus to Walk With Him - Part 2

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCX5vbH673fJZ1O1xgraaDUIDGJ-dqbJiG6voUPHJGJMQvIqIZo7VOZ92taZ7JM0VI8vlUsVq85tcV162ea7Af5DnTP-7F4B-09nNELbICB1rnKsN1aInyfCdqLt87Vg5nDef_DoCeN1E/s1600-h/1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427324911541288482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCX5vbH673fJZ1O1xgraaDUIDGJ-dqbJiG6voUPHJGJMQvIqIZo7VOZ92taZ7JM0VI8vlUsVq85tcV162ea7Af5DnTP-7F4B-09nNELbICB1rnKsN1aInyfCdqLt87Vg5nDef_DoCeN1E/s320/1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 213px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a><a href="http://www.sistasinzion.com/2010/01/alex-boye-wants-jesus-to-walk-with-him.html">Read Part 1</a><br />I’m thinking, there's only two reasons an Apostle calls someone....<br /><br />to make them an Apostle or to kick them out of the Church. Which one do you think I thought? Elder Ballard says, I want you to come on assignment with me. I want you to be the singer and I want you to sing three songs. Do you have a pen and a paper? Yes Sir, I say as I’m scrambling to get a pen and paper. Elder Ballard says, first song, <em>There is a Green Hill Far Away</em>, do you know it? Yes Sir. Second song, <em>I Know That My Redeemer Lives</em>, do you know it? Yes Sir. Third song, I<em> Walked Today Where Jesus Walked</em>, do you know it? Yes Sir. I lied. I had never heard the third song before. As soon as I hung up with him I start searching everywhere, I’m all over Google, I finally found it on Youtube.<br /><br />So I went on assignment with Elder Ballard and I had to get up to sing three times. I get up to sing the first song, and the Spirit just thrashes. Second song, I’m just thrashed. Third song, I get up and the Spirit just thrashes me again and finally it hit me, there was my answer. Those were the three songs I needed to finish the hymns album. So I went in and recorded the three songs, finish the album, and I get a call from Deseret Book. We want you to do a hymns album. I’m just like SHUT UP! I just recorded one I say. <a href="http://deseretbook.com/item/5026276/Be_Still_My_Soul_Classic_Hymns_and_Folk_Songs">Be Still, My Soul: Classic Hymns and Folk Songs </a>went to Deseret Book’s top 10 on the first day it was released. Months later it’s still there. It was such a testimony to me. I have had such a great response because of that album. Someone just wrote me on Facebook and said that her friend was going to commit suicide and heard one of the songs on the album and decided not to.<br /><br />Sista Beehive asks, how is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir received by other religions and other Christian denominations? When the choir was going out to Oklahoma I was asked to go out some days before to do radio and TV spots. I went with Scott Barrick the choir’s General Manager. So we’re out there doing these promotions and the entire time I was thinking why did they ask me to do this? The questions were about the history of the choir and so on and you know there are so many people that could answer these questions better than me, I was just winging it.<br /><br />So for one spot we had to split up, I had to go on my own and Scott Barrick was going elsewhere. I get dropped off at this radio station and I immediately realize it’s a black radio station. I start to get nervous. I’m thinking of course this where they leave me to go by myself, they just drove off and left me here. I’m just nervous and my head is spinning trying to think of all the controversial questions that they might ask me, Man I just knew they were gonna eat me up and spit me out. I was looking around like where are those Sistas in Zion when you need them.<br /><br />So I walk in and sit in the reception area and I’m hearing Lil Wayne and Beyonce playing. Are you kidding me! This is where I’m gonna go and talk about the choir. It wasn’t even a Gospel station, straight up Hip Hop. I’m supposed to go in there and tell people to come to the choir. I start sweating, I didn’t know what to do, and I just start praying. I literally got on my knees in the reception area and I’m praying. The receptionist is just doing her nails or whatever and glaring at me. So, I can hear the radio personalities segment and they’re talking about things that get on their nerves and they are just all riled up. So one of the DJs comes out and he says, you the one that’s here with the choir? Yes Sir. You been in a radio station before? Yes Sir. Ok here’s the mic, come on and have a seat.<br /><br />We get on air and the DJ says, what’s up I’m here with Alex Boye, tell me about the choir. So I nervously start to talk about the history of the choir and all of a sudden the DJ goes silent. There’s this long pause and then he says; I’ve been listening to that choir since I was seven years old. I remember the LPs, my Grandma use to listen to them. Then he starts praising the choir…on a Hip Hop station. The DJ says, let’s open up the lines. I said no, please don’t do that, come on guys. The first caller is on and he says, yeah, I wanna ask you something…I’m thinking here it goes…how can I get tickets for the concert? People are calling and asking great questions about the choir and the DJs are having a great time and they turn to me and they say, sing something. So I sing, I want Jesus to Walk With Me…in a Hip Hop station…brothas in the background saying Amen…in a Hip Hop station. I thought WOW!<br /><br />I walked out of there, and you know what Sistas, I had to repent. I was called to be there. The Lord wanted me to be there. I had doubts, but those doubts were because of my limitations, what I thought I was going to get asked, and if I could do it because I was on my own. The Lord had my back, he sent me there for a reason. I was thinking of me, me, me.<br /><br />Prior to us going to do the spots there was something like 75% of the tickets that still needed to be sold for that concert. I was there doing the promoting three days before the concert, the concert was sold out. One of the top ten experiences of my lifetime thus far. Oklahoma was incredible.<br /><br />So tell us about this Sunday, says Sista Laurel. This Sunday, January 17, 2010, I will be a performing Negro Spirituals as a featured soloist with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir for Music and the Spoken. I had the blessing of doing it last year, and they asked me to perform again this year. We thank Alex for taking time out of his busy schedule to chat with us. He hangs up… Girl, please remind me not to stand next to that man in a lightning storm? Why? If Santa Claus knows when you’re asleep or awake, you know Elder Ballard knows Alex fibbed about knowing that song!<br /><br />Music and the Spoken Word, Sunday, January 17, 2010. To find out more about how you can attend, watch, or listen to this broadcast visit: <a href="http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/info/matsw">http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/info/matsw</a>.<br /><br />To Learn more about Alex Boye visit: <a href="http://www.alexboye.com/">http://www.alexboye.com/</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/alexboye.music">http://www.facebook.com/alexboye.music</a><br /><br /><br />Your Sistas in the Gospel, <br />Sista Beehive and Sista Laurel<br /><br /><a href="http://www.myfreecopyright.com/registered_mcn/BT8QW_3GY41_YKT8E" title="MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected"><img alt="MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected" border="0" height="38" src="http://storage.myfreecopyright.com/mfc_protected.png" title="MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected" width="145" /></a>

Alex Boye Wants Jesus to Walk With Him - Part 2

Read Part 1 I’m thinking, there's only two reasons an Apostle calls someone.... to make them an Apostle or to kick them out of the Churc...

Alex Boye Wants Jesus to Walk With Him - Part 1

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizheq6e-u48M6UEHWfA6MqB48ysfdDOBIfkoemHCSumMss0RUJfcmvbbbhaq5WcK1keWBkwlvMHEaEJCI9dg-_maY56D6KGJukrjnn2Ps2b_sI41_LKyE4yt-TpKM4SV5VAomfQOrXPrY/s1600-h/ab.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426690691008016642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizheq6e-u48M6UEHWfA6MqB48ysfdDOBIfkoemHCSumMss0RUJfcmvbbbhaq5WcK1keWBkwlvMHEaEJCI9dg-_maY56D6KGJukrjnn2Ps2b_sI41_LKyE4yt-TpKM4SV5VAomfQOrXPrY/s320/ab.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 214px;" /></a> Are you there? Yes, I’m here. The phone begins to ring. Hi Alex, It’s Sista Beehive and Sista Laurel. What’s up, how are you, he says. Wait a minute Sistas, he says in that smooth British accent, just let me turn down the M.J. I got blastin. He’s in the car; no doubt on his way to a meeting or a rehearsal, <a href="http://alexboye.com/">Alex Boye </a>is a busy man! The three of us casually chat for a few minutes and do some catching up.<br /><br />So Alex how long have you been with Motab (<a href="http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/">Mormon Tabernacle Choir</a>), Sista Beehive asks. Three years now, I did the auditions and they asked me to report on January 6th. They said there are only two reasons you shouldn’t be there: either you're dead or on your honeymoon. I was neither so I showed up. That’s where I did the orientation of the choir school. You can’t miss it, if you do, you’re done, it’s over. So I did that, then it’s the exam, I was admitted into the choir and off to choir school. Choir school is about three months long. Man, it was hard-core, intense, but a good experience for me. It’s three nights a week, something like 12 hours a week. Choir school is where you are prepared to be in the choir. There’s one starting now, with about seventy-five new members.<br /><br />What did you do before the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Sista Laurel asks. Hustle around trying to get girls, just being an idiot, you don't want to know! Oh really, we say, he has us intrigued. So can you share a pick up line you used to use back in the day? He does…it’s bad. We’re not gonna do a Brotha like that and tell you what it was…furthermore we suggest he stop telling people he ever said it. Fortunately, someone was nice enough not to hold it against him. We know his wife; she’s great. Sista Beehive for some reason suggests that he start a dating school. Sista Laurel knows that he would have to issue everyone refunds.<br /><br />I was watching the video of you singing Rocka My Soul, says Sista Beehive. I could have sworn I saw you poppin and trying to break it down. Alex is laughing hysterically. Some one once bet me that I couldn’t moon walk across the Tabernacle stage he says. We think he was trying to reverently take on that bet. But we’ll let you be the judge.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NcIK5tQOq3Y?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="left">I saw a couple of choir members getting into it and bobbing a little says Sista Laurel. You know they like to move, he says. Any time we sing a spiritual or anything a little more ruckus, the other members always say to me, it makes us want to move. I think the choir is trying to appeal to a larger audience, a younger and bigger market. One of the managers said to me that they want to sell millions of records, they don’t want to just sell thousands. Speaking of the choir’s appeal, how does Motab fare with the Grammys, asks Sista Laurel. I know they have a Grammy, she says, how many?<br /><br />Just the one he says, in 1959 for Battle Hymn of the Republic. We are shocked. Does the choir submit all their albums for nomination we ask? Yes they do he says. They actually submitted I Want Jesus to Walk with Me, which was one of the songs I did with the choir. That was heart warming to me. It was evident that they do want to appeal to a larger audience, of all the songs they could submit they sent a Negro Spiritual. We didn’t win anything for it, but it really meant something to me even though nothing happened.<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jrVTuskdCgo?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="left">Tell us some of your experiences traveling with the choir, Sista Beehive asks. You know there are people who come twenty to thirty miles with their families, some half-broke just to see the choir. There was a family who did that and then they drove to the next place we were performing. Many people do it. The choir’s response outside the State of Utah is very different, people turn up, and the closest they can get to the choir they will drive or fly to get there.<br /><br />When I was a little older than sixteen I saw them in England. I only went because someone hooked me up with a ticket. I just didn’t think that me a kid who listened to Hip Hop and Motown would even connect with this music. Prior to seeing the choir my Bishop and everybody at church had been asking, Alex, are you going to go on a mission? I just couldn’t say yes to them, I had one foot in that world and one foot in the secular world. Well anyways, I went to the concert. And it changed me, I felt the spirit so strong, and I knew I was going on a mission. That’s why I tell people, don’t sweat, you’ll feel the spirit. It truly is the Lord’s choir. I’ve had the Spirit testify of that on many, many occasions. That’s why I’m still here. I have ADHD, I don’t stick to things for too long. Even my Mother says, Alex it has been three years and you are still in the choir. That’s a great testimony, says Sista Beehive, especially for those who say Mormons don’t musically sound like us, it lets them know that the spirit can still speak to you even through the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.<br /><br />Who is in charge of teaching Motab rhythm and how to clap, asks Sista Laurel. No one he says laughing, it’s a free for all. Some get it and some don’t. So tell us, what is happening with your solo career, Sista Laurel says. Well, I like the way Sister Gladys Knight said it, “I want to bring a little more chocolate to the vanilla.” As members of the Church we deserve to have every style. If you go to an ice cream store you would be mad if you go in and they only serve one flavor. You would say I’m going to Baskin Robins where they have pistachio and rocky road, bubble gum, all that. We do deserve variety, that’s what I look forward to. I want to be a part of that store. I just want there to be some of my flavor. I’m not saying that I’m the answer. You know when I realized that, that I wasn’t the answer and started trying to be a part of the team, I felt the spirit more in my music and people felt the spirit more through my music. </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><br />Anyways, I love that Motown flavor Smokey Robinson and the Temptations, Motown that’s where I developed a love for music. So I did a Motown album, my original songs, just with that style and feel to it. Cause I get sick of the stuff that’s out there today. I wanted to do some good solid music, but the strangest thing happened to me when I was working on this album. I had a really strong impression to do a hymns album, I wasn't interested and I kept fighting the feeling. I thought I don’t want to do that, nobody has asked me to. I was doing the Motown album and I kept getting a feeling of guilt, so I finally went to the studio and chose some hymns. I had eight songs and I needed three more and I couldn’t think of what songs to do. I was just stuck there. I get a phone call from Elder Ballard. His secretary says, he wants to speak to you. I’m thinking, there's only two reasons an Apostle calls someone.... (<strong><em>to be continued</em></strong>) <a href="http://www.sistasinzion.com/2010/01/alex-boye-wants-jesus-to-walk-with-him_16.html" target="_blank">READ PART 2 HERE</a><br /><br />The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will be singing Negro Spirituals during Music and the Spoken Word on Sunday, January 17, 2010. To find out more about how you can attend or listen to this broadcast visit: <a href="http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/info/matsw">http://www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/info/matsw</a>. </div><div align="left"><br />To Learn more about Alex Boye visit: <a href="http://www.alexboye.com/">http://www.alexboye.com/</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/alexboye.music">http://www.facebook.com/alexboye.music</a></div><div align="left"><br /><br />Your Sistas in the Gospel, </div><div align="left">Sista Beehive and Sista Laurel<br /><br /><a href="http://www.myfreecopyright.com/registered_mcn/BT8QW_3GY41_YKT8E" title="MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected"><img alt="MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected" border="0" height="38" src="http://storage.myfreecopyright.com/mfc_protected.png" title="MyFreeCopyright.com Registered & Protected" width="145" /></a> </div>

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