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Episode #111 – There’s No Apostrophe There!

 

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Scotty Renner!

Geoff gives us a recap of his trip to Palmyra, NY, replete with some updates on Bottgate.

Al does some investigative reporting on how to pay one’s tithing online.

Have you seen YSACentral.com? You can PAY to have a site created that replicates Facebook!

The Mormon Bachelor is starting up again. Do we get involved?

Various: President Uchtdorf flies with the Blue Angels! A Volunteering infographic! Church-wide email about temple baptisms! The Church does Facebook Timeline! Provo sells 100. S to the Church! Gladys gets interviewed by BET! A nine-story MTC building!

And on a serious note, a missionary in Brazil was hit by a bus. Our thoughts are with him and his family.

Links:

  1. YSACentral will change social media forever
  2. Volunteerism in the Church
  3. Uchtdorf goes flying
  4. 100 S. goes to the Church
  5. Church-wide email about temple baptisms
  6. Huge MTC building
  7. The Mormon Bachelor finalists!
  8. Gladys interviewed on BET
  9. New, good book about the Church
  10. Embrace the Church’s Facebook timeline
  11. Missionary hit by bus in Brazil

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10 Comments

  1. Betsy Grant Lonergan
    March 21, 2012

    I WAS expecting to find your video submissions on the Mormon Bachelor youtube page…

    • TWiM
      March 21, 2012

      Yeah, we failed. You know they never would have posted them, anyway.

  2. Hails
    March 21, 2012

    wait, are you saying you can't do internet bpay for tithing yet?

  3. Tevya
    March 21, 2012

    Hey, Mormon Life Hacker is very much still active, and there's a new post as recently as last Sunday: http://mormonlifehacker.com/learn-about-share-opp… (by me, but we do have other authors that post).

    • Kurt
      March 21, 2012

      I follow Mormon Life Hacker and love it. Check out their posts since the tithing posts and I think you will find other things to talk about on your show.

      Get on the MLH train with the rest of Mormondom!

      • TWiM
        March 21, 2012

        Yes sir!

  4. Justin
    March 23, 2012

    Does anyone thing Chelsea is still married to her husband after his little stunt? Just curious…doesn't seem to be the best marriage strengthening move right there…

  5. Brittany Plothow
    March 23, 2012

    AL!!!!!!!!!!!!! my name is pronounced Plo-tho!!!!!! For the love. Thanks for the awkward shout out….

  6. Roxanne
    April 1, 2012

    I like the show downs, even when it involved me.

    • TWiM
      April 2, 2012

      And we support your quest for True Mormon Love™.

      How has the post-MoBach world been for you, Roxanne? Still wooing men over jazz?

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