This weekend was filled with some great uses of media and technology. As a young women leader in my ward, I've had the opportunity and blessing of helping the youth practice and get ready for the Cultural Celebration for the dedication of the Provo City Center Temple. Saturday was the performance in the Marriott Center. It was so neat to see the use of technology as the youth were shown on the jumbo-tron and the performance was broadcast on lds.org which could be accessed all around the world. The next day, the dedication was broadcast to 600 buildings across Utah. A recently baptized friend that came with us commented, "It is so neat to see how many people are gathered for this dedication and how it's almost like we are all there." I realized in that moment how much I have taken for granted the other temple dedications I have seen, the many stake conferences that have been broadcast, CES firesides, and of course the biggest broadcast in the church, General Conference. If it wasn't for technology and the ability we have to broadcast to our church buildings around the world or even in our own homes, we would miss out on so many wonderful things. Technology and media really are a blessing and allow more of God's children the chance to participate in and hear the great messages of the Gospel. God uses media.
Click here for the recent Mormon Newsroom article on the dedication.
I was thinking the same thing today about how great it was to be able to watch the dedication and how media can be such a good thing and a blessing at times.
ReplyDeleteI just posted about this too! There are so many incredible experiences that we can participate in because of media. It can be such a blessing to us. It's a wonderful thing that we have agency and can use the media for good things. Thanks so much for sharing, this was awesome to read!
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