[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t's finally happened! Geoff and Josie successfully recorded a show without and technological hiccups! Praise the day!
How can we create more inclusion at church? A new piece by, well, the church discusses how to recognize those that might feel left out and what behavior we can engage in to make our wards a more inviting, thoughtful place. It's good stuff.
Josie has our international news roundup, including:
The Church is growing massively in Mozambique with three new stakes predicted by the end of the year/
The Southeast Africa Area, which covers the lion's share of Africa, is going to be divided, which makes a ton of sense given the amount of membership growth in recent years.
Mongolia will be taken out of the Asia Area and moved to the Asia North Area. So yeah.
It's not all bad in Venezuela. The country held its first young single adult conference!
Indonesia held its first ever youth conference! Cool!
Prince Ata of Tonga visits Utah and spends an inordinate amount of time in Provo.
The Church opens a new family history center in downtown Paris.
The best story of the week: some saints in New Zealand flip out about seeing rare crane on the local meetinghouse's property wall.
Activist Sam Young will hold a new rally in Salt Lake City as he continues his push to prevent youth from sitting in unnecessarily invasive bishop's interviews.
A Latter-day Saint state senator from Arizona falls into some hot water for warning us that America is being, uh, infested by "brown" people. Neat.
What would the electoral college look like if the State of Deseret had become a reality? It would be the largest in the country!
The Interpreter has a review of Michael Quinn's new book on church finances has , and it's a doozy.
Living stipends! Who cares?