WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:03.919 - Hey. How about a random short episode here? 2 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.679 - I mean, we're we're just sharing ideas. I 3 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:07.859 - wanted to jump on here and share some, 4 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:10.500 - man, just gold content that's happening 5 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:12.639 - over at Zion Lab. This is like the 6 00:00:12.639 --> 00:00:13.619 - perfect example 7 00:00:14.234 --> 00:00:17.434 - is is this this live stream with Todd 8 00:00:17.434 --> 00:00:17.934 - Hilliard. 9 00:00:18.554 --> 00:00:20.015 - This is the perfect example 10 00:00:20.394 --> 00:00:22.554 - of why you've gotta be in the Zion 11 00:00:22.554 --> 00:00:24.234 - Lab app. And I get it. You're like, 12 00:00:24.234 --> 00:00:26.634 - listen to the podcast. You're busy. You're in 13 00:00:26.634 --> 00:00:28.920 - your commutes. But once you get the it 14 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:30.359 - all dialed in and it's not hard to 15 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:30.859 - do, 16 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:32.140 - your commutes, 17 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:34.920 - you're mowing the lawn, you're doing the dishes, 18 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:37.320 - you're on the go learning and listening through 19 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.039 - Zion Lab is just gonna make life so 20 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:41.640 - much better, and you'll get a ton more 21 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:42.140 - content. 22 00:00:42.465 --> 00:00:44.545 - So, one thing we do are these live 23 00:00:44.545 --> 00:00:47.505 - streams. And so, Todd Hilliard, who is actually 24 00:00:47.505 --> 00:00:49.364 - the husband of Julie Hilliard, 25 00:00:49.825 --> 00:00:52.645 - who does the, teaching restored podcast. 26 00:00:53.265 --> 00:00:56.325 - I can't recommend that enough. And, anyways, 27 00:00:57.260 --> 00:00:59.020 - Todd is the bishop of their word in 28 00:00:59.020 --> 00:01:00.880 - Vancouver, Washington, and, 29 00:01:01.820 --> 00:01:03.579 - I got I got word that he's doing 30 00:01:03.579 --> 00:01:06.780 - some interesting things with involving the youth as 31 00:01:06.780 --> 00:01:09.280 - far as allowing the youth to influence 32 00:01:10.105 --> 00:01:12.444 - how their sacrament meetings go. 33 00:01:12.984 --> 00:01:15.144 - And I'm just gonna stream together this isn't 34 00:01:15.144 --> 00:01:15.805 - the whole 35 00:01:16.185 --> 00:01:18.424 - interview. You'll have to come to DesignLab to, 36 00:01:18.665 --> 00:01:21.325 - benefit from the entire interview for now. 37 00:01:21.704 --> 00:01:23.325 - But this is just a I've just, 38 00:01:23.625 --> 00:01:25.840 - you know, streamed together a bunch of different 39 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:27.519 - ideas that we went over. So there's gonna 40 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:29.759 - be a bunch of cuts here, but you'll 41 00:01:29.759 --> 00:01:32.560 - get the sense of just how impactful, how 42 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:33.700 - dynamic they're 43 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:37.039 - they're taking with their, their sacrament meetings. And 44 00:01:37.039 --> 00:01:39.060 - I just love their principle that they're focused 45 00:01:39.119 --> 00:01:41.354 - or no. No. They're they're, like, involved 46 00:01:41.814 --> 00:01:45.034 - they've involved the youth in their planning and 47 00:01:45.174 --> 00:01:46.234 - the sculpting 48 00:01:46.534 --> 00:01:48.935 - sacrament meeting experience, but it doesn't mean it's, 49 00:01:48.935 --> 00:01:51.254 - like, always focused on the youth. But by 50 00:01:51.254 --> 00:01:53.834 - keeping the youth in mind, it really does 51 00:01:53.894 --> 00:01:55.435 - a remarkable job to 52 00:01:56.030 --> 00:01:58.670 - make sacramine just better for everybody. So you're 53 00:01:58.670 --> 00:02:01.569 - gonna love just so many concepts in this. 54 00:02:01.950 --> 00:02:03.790 - Why am I continue to talk and waste 55 00:02:03.790 --> 00:02:05.229 - your time here? Let's jump into it. Here's 56 00:02:05.229 --> 00:02:07.409 - some clips from the Todd Hilliard 57 00:02:08.044 --> 00:02:09.724 - livestream that we did a few days ago. 58 00:02:09.724 --> 00:02:12.044 - Jump on over to Zion Lab. You can 59 00:02:12.044 --> 00:02:14.705 - go to leadingsaints.org/zion 60 00:02:15.004 --> 00:02:16.764 - to jump in, but the easiest way is 61 00:02:16.764 --> 00:02:19.405 - to download the app and get moving. So 62 00:02:19.405 --> 00:02:21.025 - we'll see you over in the lab. 63 00:02:22.710 --> 00:02:25.990 - Sunday, sacrament, especially sacrament meeting is really boring 64 00:02:25.990 --> 00:02:27.590 - for most as a kid. I mean, I 65 00:02:27.590 --> 00:02:29.349 - know for me, you know, there's a lot 66 00:02:29.349 --> 00:02:30.629 - of times where they just go on and 67 00:02:30.629 --> 00:02:31.990 - on and on and the speakers. I mean, 68 00:02:31.990 --> 00:02:33.669 - we're there for the sacrament, which by far 69 00:02:33.669 --> 00:02:36.084 - is the most important reason we're there. But 70 00:02:36.084 --> 00:02:37.844 - the youth were really clear what they didn't 71 00:02:37.844 --> 00:02:39.764 - like and how they felt about sacrament meeting, 72 00:02:39.764 --> 00:02:40.905 - which was pretty eye opening. 73 00:02:42.004 --> 00:02:44.084 - They're they're interested. So music became one of 74 00:02:44.084 --> 00:02:45.465 - the big focuses. Right? 75 00:02:45.844 --> 00:02:48.724 - The the everyone said we love music. We 76 00:02:48.724 --> 00:02:50.745 - don't like congregational boring hymns. 77 00:02:51.139 --> 00:02:53.459 - We love music. So that's where we started. 78 00:02:53.459 --> 00:02:55.620 - So we've from day one, one of the 79 00:02:55.620 --> 00:02:58.280 - things I kinda made as a personal personal, 80 00:02:59.060 --> 00:03:00.739 - goal was to never get over the pulpit 81 00:03:00.739 --> 00:03:02.340 - and say, will everyone please sit down and 82 00:03:02.340 --> 00:03:03.939 - be quiet, and will everyone please be on 83 00:03:03.939 --> 00:03:05.800 - time? Because every no one's ever on time. 84 00:03:06.085 --> 00:03:08.724 - So we, we started doing prelude music right 85 00:03:08.724 --> 00:03:10.485 - at the very beginning. So we start with 86 00:03:10.485 --> 00:03:11.385 - a prelude music, 87 00:03:11.844 --> 00:03:14.805 - and we've actually called now I think we 88 00:03:14.805 --> 00:03:17.205 - have seven prelude specialists from the youth. They're 89 00:03:17.205 --> 00:03:20.659 - all youth, and they are responsible every week. 90 00:03:20.659 --> 00:03:22.620 - We have a different youth that's responsible either 91 00:03:22.620 --> 00:03:23.240 - to play 92 00:03:23.939 --> 00:03:26.180 - an instrument that's they're working on. I mean, 93 00:03:26.180 --> 00:03:28.099 - obviously, within the guidelines of what the church 94 00:03:28.099 --> 00:03:30.680 - has, you know, the piano or string instrument 95 00:03:30.740 --> 00:03:33.245 - or sing, or they're responsible to get one. 96 00:03:33.245 --> 00:03:34.625 - And so every week, 97 00:03:34.925 --> 00:03:36.605 - one of the youth is they rotate between 98 00:03:36.605 --> 00:03:38.605 - them all. And they're basically, every other month, 99 00:03:38.605 --> 00:03:39.825 - they do a a prelude. 100 00:03:41.405 --> 00:03:42.865 - And just a point of clarification, 101 00:03:43.485 --> 00:03:46.500 - Todd references that, they didn't in this next 102 00:03:46.580 --> 00:03:48.740 - clip, he references that they didn't wanna have 103 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:51.639 - any congregational hymns, but he's referring to the 104 00:03:51.699 --> 00:03:54.360 - intermediate hymns. So just a point of clarification. 105 00:03:55.699 --> 00:03:57.300 - Second of all, we'd just back to still 106 00:03:57.300 --> 00:03:58.979 - stay with music, but we never wanted to 107 00:03:58.979 --> 00:04:00.995 - have a congregational hymn if we could help 108 00:04:00.995 --> 00:04:03.075 - it. I know there's beauty in everyone singing, 109 00:04:03.075 --> 00:04:04.935 - but I'll tell you most people don't sing. 110 00:04:04.995 --> 00:04:06.915 - No matter how great the organist is, most 111 00:04:06.915 --> 00:04:07.655 - people just, 112 00:04:08.754 --> 00:04:10.675 - And so we really have worked really hard. 113 00:04:10.675 --> 00:04:11.955 - And the youth, that's one of the things 114 00:04:11.955 --> 00:04:13.155 - they said to us. They said, we don't 115 00:04:13.155 --> 00:04:13.655 - want 116 00:04:14.030 --> 00:04:16.670 - congregational hymns. We want special music. We want 117 00:04:16.670 --> 00:04:18.990 - musical numbers. We want we we feel like 118 00:04:18.990 --> 00:04:21.949 - when we have music in our sacrament meetings, 119 00:04:21.949 --> 00:04:24.189 - especially for that the second part of the 120 00:04:24.189 --> 00:04:26.350 - program, it's it's just the meetings are just 121 00:04:26.350 --> 00:04:28.350 - so much better. So we do a lot 122 00:04:28.350 --> 00:04:28.814 - of that. 123 00:04:29.855 --> 00:04:31.935 - I'll never forget actually when the young young 124 00:04:31.935 --> 00:04:34.175 - woman said, you know, I I don't really 125 00:04:34.175 --> 00:04:36.254 - feel a spirit when people are talking, but 126 00:04:36.254 --> 00:04:37.935 - when the music goes, that's how I feel 127 00:04:37.935 --> 00:04:39.855 - the spirit. So for me, I need please, 128 00:04:39.855 --> 00:04:41.535 - please, we need way more music. And we 129 00:04:41.535 --> 00:04:43.790 - went from never having we have a musical 130 00:04:43.930 --> 00:04:45.709 - number, like, once or twice to having 131 00:04:46.009 --> 00:04:48.089 - tons, including we have a, you know, a 132 00:04:48.089 --> 00:04:50.490 - choir that just impromptu choir even. Just they 133 00:04:50.490 --> 00:04:52.509 - do all sorts of musical numbers. So 134 00:04:53.930 --> 00:04:56.089 - first thing they said, we do not like 135 00:04:56.089 --> 00:04:56.910 - long talks. 136 00:04:57.254 --> 00:04:59.014 - Right? When someone gets going, like, we lose 137 00:04:59.014 --> 00:05:01.014 - it. Everybody I mean, the study show, like, 138 00:05:01.014 --> 00:05:03.814 - your attention span with everything already happening, which 139 00:05:03.814 --> 00:05:05.975 - we talk about with phones and dopamine and 140 00:05:05.975 --> 00:05:07.735 - how we how short, but they just said, 141 00:05:07.735 --> 00:05:09.675 - we can't stand these long talks. So 142 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:12.839 - we do so many meetings with four or 143 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.339 - five talks, six talks. We do short talks. 144 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:18.519 - So came up with this, right, working with 145 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:20.199 - them, but we wanted everybody to bear all 146 00:05:20.199 --> 00:05:22.040 - the youth to bear their testimony over the 147 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:24.345 - pulpit that year, this year. And I'll tell 148 00:05:24.345 --> 00:05:26.824 - you, like, it absolutely changed our testimony meetings 149 00:05:26.824 --> 00:05:28.685 - this year. Having all the youth, like, 150 00:05:29.384 --> 00:05:30.904 - when it got closer to the end, like, 151 00:05:30.904 --> 00:05:33.305 - one one Sunday, like, it was awesome. One 152 00:05:33.305 --> 00:05:35.144 - of the state presidency members was there and 153 00:05:35.144 --> 00:05:37.290 - they we invited everyone to come up and 154 00:05:37.370 --> 00:05:39.529 - it was like this rush of, like, all 155 00:05:39.529 --> 00:05:41.290 - of these young men and they came rushing 156 00:05:41.290 --> 00:05:43.129 - up to the and he's like, what is 157 00:05:43.129 --> 00:05:44.029 - happening here? 158 00:05:44.410 --> 00:05:46.410 - But it's, it's pretty awesome. And the youth 159 00:05:46.410 --> 00:05:48.330 - actually even acknowledge that they're like, when we 160 00:05:48.330 --> 00:05:50.785 - bear the testimony, it's a much, much better 161 00:05:50.785 --> 00:05:53.185 - meeting. And so we encourage them. We I 162 00:05:53.185 --> 00:05:54.705 - remind them all the time, you guys, this 163 00:05:54.705 --> 00:05:57.185 - is not the adult testimony meeting. This is 164 00:05:57.185 --> 00:05:59.045 - for you. This is for all of us. 165 00:05:59.504 --> 00:06:01.205 - So that's been really awesome. 166 00:06:02.145 --> 00:06:03.519 - The other thing I was gonna say is 167 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:04.800 - I I don't know if I know if 168 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.720 - I mentioned, but with the high council, the 169 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:07.939 - stake the stake leaders, 170 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:10.000 - they, I think they dread coming to our 171 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:11.759 - award a little bit. Not dread, but I 172 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:13.040 - make it a point as soon as the 173 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:14.959 - assignment's made as I call them and I 174 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:16.345 - call their office. I I mean, I call 175 00:06:16.345 --> 00:06:17.785 - their not yeah. I'm at the office. I 176 00:06:17.785 --> 00:06:19.545 - call their their cell phone and I talk 177 00:06:19.545 --> 00:06:20.585 - to them and I just say, I want 178 00:06:20.585 --> 00:06:21.625 - you to let you know we're excited to 179 00:06:21.625 --> 00:06:24.105 - have you come. And what I need what 180 00:06:24.105 --> 00:06:25.225 - we need from our ward is I need 181 00:06:25.225 --> 00:06:27.225 - you to speak to the youth. Speak to 182 00:06:27.225 --> 00:06:28.585 - the youth. This is to the you need 183 00:06:28.585 --> 00:06:30.264 - to make this interesting. They don't know you. 184 00:06:30.264 --> 00:06:32.560 - No one knows you. Everyone connect turns off 185 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:33.840 - when you start talking because they don't know 186 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:35.680 - you. So connect with you. I mean, and 187 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:37.600 - it has been so such a game changer 188 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:39.360 - for our dry council because it's not dry 189 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:41.040 - anymore. The last time they were talking about 190 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:42.879 - k pop demon hunters, and they're, like, throwing 191 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:44.180 - all sorts of stuff out. 192 00:06:44.665 --> 00:06:46.665 - Okay. So that's I I love that for 193 00:06:46.665 --> 00:06:48.585 - many reasons. Because you're not saying we want 194 00:06:48.585 --> 00:06:51.004 - this to only be relevant to the youth. 195 00:06:51.064 --> 00:06:53.705 - You're saying keeping the youth in mind makes 196 00:06:53.705 --> 00:06:56.264 - it easier for the whole room to digest 197 00:06:56.264 --> 00:06:56.925 - and consume. 198 00:06:57.465 --> 00:07:00.000 - Yeah. Yeah. That's really good. That's really good. 199 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:01.199 - No. I think that's been you know, I 200 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:02.319 - said it. Let me tell you, if you 201 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:03.139 - go off rogue, 202 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:04.800 - I'm gonna sit you down. I tell them 203 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:06.800 - that. I'll sit you down. I I don't 204 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:08.160 - want yeah. I don't know if you've been 205 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:09.839 - in those meetings and they're just going on 206 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:11.439 - and on, and they're reading from a piece 207 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:13.120 - of paper and, like, no one is listening 208 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:15.355 - and everyone's I mean, you might as well 209 00:07:15.355 --> 00:07:16.875 - throw a paper airplane across the room. I'm 210 00:07:16.875 --> 00:07:18.715 - like, this is we're here to worship. Like, 211 00:07:18.715 --> 00:07:21.275 - we're here to fill the spirit, so bring 212 00:07:21.275 --> 00:07:21.775 - it. 213 00:07:22.875 --> 00:07:24.715 - Alright. Wasn't that great? Again, you go over 214 00:07:24.715 --> 00:07:27.514 - to DesignLab app to, enjoy the full. I 215 00:07:27.514 --> 00:07:29.455 - bet I think we went about fifty minutes 216 00:07:29.539 --> 00:07:31.379 - with that one. He really gets into details 217 00:07:31.379 --> 00:07:32.759 - and shares more 218 00:07:33.139 --> 00:07:35.560 - of his great ideas that how they're transforming 219 00:07:35.860 --> 00:07:39.220 - sacramenting and making it a richer worship experience. 220 00:07:39.220 --> 00:07:41.620 - Now before you, buzz off here, I wanted 221 00:07:41.620 --> 00:07:42.120 - to 222 00:07:42.675 --> 00:07:45.074 - reference this partnership we have with a company 223 00:07:45.074 --> 00:07:45.975 - called FullPond. 224 00:07:46.595 --> 00:07:49.714 - Now FullPond does a remarkable job with reaching 225 00:07:49.714 --> 00:07:52.915 - out to BYU pathway graduates and students and 226 00:07:52.915 --> 00:07:55.235 - helping them find work. You know, BYU pathway 227 00:07:55.235 --> 00:07:56.949 - is is having huge success 228 00:07:57.330 --> 00:07:58.149 - with educating 229 00:07:58.610 --> 00:08:00.470 - Latter day Saints and non Latter day Saints 230 00:08:00.529 --> 00:08:03.170 - around the world. However, this has created another 231 00:08:03.170 --> 00:08:03.670 - problem, 232 00:08:04.529 --> 00:08:06.689 - which is finding work. How do we get 233 00:08:06.689 --> 00:08:08.069 - them employed? And so, 234 00:08:08.610 --> 00:08:11.654 - they have gathered a group of Latter day 235 00:08:11.654 --> 00:08:13.274 - Saint these are return missionaries 236 00:08:13.894 --> 00:08:16.154 - looking for work that can work remotely, 237 00:08:16.935 --> 00:08:18.535 - and we got one working for us as 238 00:08:18.535 --> 00:08:20.555 - well. Shout out to Emily Munoz 239 00:08:21.014 --> 00:08:23.675 - in the Dominican Republic who does a phenomenal 240 00:08:24.055 --> 00:08:26.050 - job helping us out. 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