Use Google Translate to Break Down Language Barriers… in Church

Use Google Translate to Break Down Language Barriers… in Church

Today at church I had a wonderful experience with a member of our ward that would not have been possible with Google.  We have a new member that was baptized recently in our ward f ...

Use ‘Amazon Mom’ to Automate & Save on Diapers & Family Essentials

Use ‘Amazon Mom’ to Automate & Save on Diapers & Family Essentials

I just stumbled across Amazon Mom the other day. No, Amazon Mom is not a super-warrior mother of other warrior women, it's a program Amazon offer's targeted at mothers or anyone wh ...

The Power of Questions 1: Finding the Problem by Questioning the Basics

The Power of Questions 1: Finding the Problem by Questioning the Basics

Questions are powerful things. This is the 1st of several posts about how to use them to help other people. A primary doctrine of Mormonism is service and sacrifice: putting somebo ...

Using Mormon Words to Share the Gospel

Using Mormon Words to Share the Gospel

I remember, as a student at the University of Utah, being in a classroom where I noticed one of my fellow students wearing a University of Michigan t-shirt. This came as no surpris ...

DIY: Create Your Own Topical Guide

DIY: Create Your Own Topical Guide

Have you ever met anyone that has an amazing mind for retention? You can typically find these freaks of nature teaching LDS institute at your local college. Any topic can come up a ...

5 Ways PreparetoServe.com Makes Mission Prep Easier

5 Ways PreparetoServe.com Makes Mission Prep Easier

Guest post by Alex Balinski When I received my mission call to Argentina in 2008, I wish there had been a resource like PreparetoServe.com. When I received my call, I was ecstatic ...

Be a Church Hacker: Teach Your Children to Be Quiet in Sacrament Meeting

Be a Church Hacker: Teach Your Children to Be Quiet in Sacrament Meeting

Middle-aged Mormon Man has two excellent solutions for teaching children to behave and cooperate in Sacrament meeting and Church as a whole. One is focused around a punishment (gas ...

GEEK.Q.P. — Use tech to organize an Elders Quorum

Here's how we've organized our Elders Quorum: We have a Google Sites site, and it links to all the important documents people might need.   After the home page, we have a page for the sacrament. There's a Google Spreadsheet embedded in the page that can be edited by anyone on the web. So our Elders use that page to easily sign up for preparing, blessing, and passing the sacrament. Our Sacrament Coordin ...

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Tell Your Bishop Anything, Anonymously

TellYourBossAnything.com is a free service of Happiily, a company that specializes in software that helps companies and manager provide a safe, anonymous way for employees to provide feedback and thoughts on their work, work environment, boss, etc. Essentially they act as a buffer. If a company were to internally provide a solution that let their employees login to submit feedback "anonymously," employees w ...

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How to Absentee Vote, and Why it’s Awesome

Here's the deal: educated voting on a local level for judges, city and county officials, and even sometimes state-level representatives can be like taking a test. Sure it's open-book or open-smartphone, but who wants to be standing in a ballot box for 2hrs trying to make all the right decisions. Let's face it, most of us, especially life-hacker types, end up checking the "straight ticket" option for one par ...

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How To Remove the Annoying Footnote Letters From the LDS.org Scriptures

Ever get tired of having to go back and remove the little superscript a's, b's, and c's from scriptures you copied and pasted from LDS.org? Sure we know you can just click the link on the right to "Hide Footnotes," but then the links are gone too. Want the best of both? The website Mormon Liberals has created a Chrome Extension and a FireFox plugin called "No LDS Footnotes" that does just that. It removes t ...

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How to Get $250 of Classic Literature Audiobooks for FREE

Along with announcing the new Kindle Fire HD lineup, Amazon announced some enhancements to it's Kindle technology. One is called "Immersion Reading" where you can listen to an audiobook, and have the corresponding line highlighted onscreen at the same time. I assume the idea is to help people learning languages, where they can follow along with what they're hearing. The other is similar and called "Whispers ...

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How To Recognize When You Have the Spirit, and When You Don’t

I remember having a conversation about the Spirit, with my college roomate. He was 3-4 years younger than myself and preparing for a mission. He said something about how it’s not possible to have the Spirit with you all the time. I agreed, but called to his attention those days when everything just seems right. Though everything doesn’t go right, you’re not bothered by it. You’re just a little happier than ...

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How To Virtually Guarantee that Your Marriage Will Last

Remember this ratio: 5:1. Five positives. One negative. If you have 5 positive interactions for every 1 negative interaction you have with your spouse, you are nearly guaranteed to have a successful, lasting marriage. The book How Full is Your Bucket examines the effect of positive emotions on people. Rath and Clifton cite a study by John Gottman who filmed 15-minute conversations of 700 newlyweds. He then ...

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Cool Links: Free Parenting Books, ‘Household Hacker’ Videos, Automatic Journaling & More

Cool Links are stuff you might find interesting, but either weren't worthy of their own article (others have already covered it), or I didn't have time to get to it. Here's some for August 2012: Create an automatic journal in Evernote from Calendar events, Facebook status, & Instagram photos, using this guide from Lifehacker. Richard & Linda Eyre are well-known LDS experts on parenting, families, an ...

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10 Excellent Online Resources for Researching Political Candidates, Issues, & Following Elections

...join with people of all faiths who feel accountable to God in defending religious freedom so it can be a beacon for morality. We caution you to be civil and responsible as you defend religious liberty and moral values. We ask that you do this on the internet and in your personal interactions in the neighborhoods and communities where you live. Be an active participant, not a silent observer. —Elder Quent ...

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Listen To or Watch ‘Tech Savvy’ on the Mormon Channel

The Mormon Channel has a great new show that should be right up all you Mormon life-hacker's alley. It's called Tech Savvy. On it they discuss all kinds of ways to use technology in LDS life. Each episode has a theme, but so far they've been very broad, so there's many great little tips and tricks within each. It's filmed and available in video, but for the most part you won't miss anything if you just list ...

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