Comments on: Bloggernacle Summit

By: B.Russ

B.Russ — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:48:42 +0000

The answer is 42.

Hitchhiker reference. Awesome.

I’m north of Salt Lake, up in Layton. Would love to meet some ‘naclers sometime. Just sayin’.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:04:56 +0000

Oh, and I agree with Ardis. I rarely follow through on goals set for me by the ward. I set my own goals and try to meet those. I know best what things I need to work on most.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:02:22 +0000

Re: #7

MCQ, I think that’s a great idea. I hope you do better than I did.

By: Ben S

Ben S — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:31:54 +0000

I’ve enjoyed every IRL meetup I’ve been to. The mismatch between how we imagine people based solely off text and how they actually look, sound, and act often surprises.

Steve, maybe we can coerce Rusty to host something. And Shake Shack burgers are overrated (but their frozen custard is divine.)

By: Researcher

Researcher — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 11:47:16 +0000

Most of the convert members of my ward joined the church when Pres. Kimball was the prophet. I’m a bit too young to remember what happened then, but didn’t he encourage the members to spread the gospel? Every member a missionary? Praying that the door of the nations would be opened? Evidently something was being done correctly back then. Perhaps it was his blend of practicality and kindness. He was very sincere and focused on ministering to “the one.”

In my experience, the thing that works better than anything is inviting non-members to quality activities. Neighborhood parties, missionary farewell open houses, baby blessings, ward Christmas dinners, Relief Society weekday meetings, etc.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:28:23 +0000

I knew it!

Ardis and Marjorie, you are unquestionably welcome to our next convocation. You can bring the beer.

And thanks for the pointers. I will avoid all talks and lessons on missionary work like the plague. To me, missionary work is best when no one knows that’s what they’re doing.

By: Steve Evans

Steve Evans — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:47:24 +0000

I’m coming to NYC weekend after next, if anyone’s going to be there. Rusty, you owe me a Shake Shack burger. As you know, I am ten feet tall and I breathe fire.

By: CJ Douglass

CJ Douglass — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:28:58 +0000

Unfortunately, the place for these kinds of summits tends to be Utah. Although I have relatives in ID, it seems I make it out less and less.

By: Marjorie Conder

Marjorie Conder — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:15:10 +0000

I would love to meet more than the half dozen or so residents of the Bloggernacle who I have already met. I would love to be invited, but since I’m an old lady I don’t hike or bike, etc. but I could come to the Church Library and help all of you glare at the cell phone users.

I would also ditto everything Ardis has already said so well about member missionary efforts and guilt trips. i guess the only real difference in Ardis approach and mine, is I will “talk back”. (One of the perks of being an “old lady.”)

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:45:14 +0000

I’d be humbly grateful for an invitation to the next summit. I could meet you-all somewhere, or you could come and help me glare at all the cell phone users in the library if there’s a session on passive aggression.

Re the Ward Mission Leader thing: As a ward member, I don’t like having missionary goals set for me by somebody else. I won’t say so, but I won’t work for that imposed goal, either. (See above re passive aggression.)

Also, if you ever do a Sunday School class or Sacrament meeting harangue on member-missionary work, don’t spend 35 minutes outlining — or dragging out of class members — every imaginable or unimaginable excuse for not sharing the gospel, long after everybody has lost any vestige of interest, and then spend the last five minutes lecturing us on how to overcome the most trivial of those excuses.

Sorry. I don’t know what works. I know a few things that don’t work, though.