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The website Prophets and Apostles Speak Today (prophets.lds.org) released a new video titled “We Need Living Prophets,” highlighting a talk given by Elder D. Todd Christofferson on the importance of prophets. The video also includes testimonies of members from all over the world.

By guest blogger: Fernando Camilo

I recently had the opportunity to visit the Jerusalem Movie Set, the newest addition to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ film production sets. The set is located about 70 miles south of Salt Lake City, literally in the middle of nowhere. It was built to be the new filming spot for The Life of Jesus Christ: Bible Videos, a gift from the First Presidency of the Church to the world.

The Church-owned farm was carefully chosen by Media Services Department producers and approved by the First Presidency to be the home of the remarkable movie set. Initially, the production team had considered filming locations as far as Morocco, but after extensive search, Goshen turned out to be the ideal spot for the production.

The large set feels more like a miniature Jerusalem than an actual movie set. Everything in it was so carefully designed and crafted that at times I felt like I had not only been transported to the ancient land but also traveled 2,000 years back in time. Although the set was not dressed for shooting, it was still impressive. The unmistakable scent of manure was a constant reminder that you were certainly not in Jerusalem, but it definitely didn’t detract from the experience. Everything from doorknobs to staircases was masterfully built to reproduce the Holy Land perfectly. Wood columns made of Styrofoam and fiberglass-covered props easily fooled the eye. In fact, much of the set didn’t seem fake to the touch either. Everywhere you looked was picture perfect and undoubtedly a cinematographer’s dream.

Perhaps the most spiritually enlightening part of our tour was the walk down to “Gethsemane” and later on to “Golgotha” where the three infamous crosses still stood from last year’s filming of the Savior’s crucifixion. Although the grove wasn’t made of real olive trees and the crosses weren’t consecrated by the Master’s blood, the sense of reverence still permeated the spot.

Visiting that incredible movie set has been one of the highlights of my Church employment so far. Being a part of this project has been an incredible blessing and I sincerely hope more and more people will take advantage of these beautiful videos.

Shooting will resume this summer and Bible Videos will eventually become a large collection of vignettes about the life of the Savior, containing over 100 videos relating the story of his birth, ministry, death, and resurrection.

Below are pictures I took during my visit to the set, as well as pictures from the actual videos available at BibleVideos.org.

Note: The Church is looking for background actors for additional New Testament stories to be filmed during July and August of 2012.

If you haven’t been using the Church’s online Leadership Training Library at LeadershipLibrary.lds.org, you’re missing out.

This valuable training resource for leaders works hand in glove with Handbook 2: Administering the Church to illustrate specific sections with interactive video examples. The site exists to help leaders of the Church learn and apply leadership principles.

Learn more about the library in “New Leadership Training Library on LDS.org” and “Online library: Leading in the Savior’s way.”

A new Mormon Message for Youth titled Dare to Stand Alone has been released. In this video, President Thomas S. Monson shares an experience he had in the Navy in which he had to stand alone and reminds us that “we are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.”

The video is available through the Youth website or on YouTube.

Has there been a time when you have needed to stand alone in doing what you know is right? Who can you share your experience with?

Read, watch, or listen to President Monson’s address “Dare to Stand Alone” from the October 2011 LDS General Conference.

The prototype of the Ensign magazine for iPad has been updated, adding the magazine to the Newsstand and including two additional issues of the magazine: October 2011 and May 2012.

The tablet-friendly app is available for iOS and Android devices as a beta test.

A Liahona app with the English, Spanish, and Portuguese versions of the October 2011, November 2011, and May 2012 issues will be available in the following weeks.

Learn more in the article “Ensign Tablet App Available, Liahona App Being Produced.”

The Church provides getting-started guides for several of the functions on LDS.org, such as Maps, Youth, Personal Progress, Duty to God, and Store.lds.org. The newest guides are highlighted in red below.

When it comes to a personal God, I do not think there is a Mormon on the planet that would disagree.  We believe that God has a body of flesh and bone for crying out loud.  We believe that God cares, hears us, interacts with us, etc.  I feel that it would be hard to find a group of people that believes God is a person more so than members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Now when it comes to God being incorporeal, most of us would strongly disagree with this in any literal sense.  Again, for Mormons, God simply has a physical body.  Yet, in the lecture itself, the definition of incorporeal became less objectionable to me.  It had to do with God being able to know and control stuff directly other than indirectly.  It also had to do with God not being more present in one area than He is anywhere else.  While I still do not quite buy this in a literal way, I do not have a problem with God functionally being able to know and control stuff directly, and also functionally able to be as present in one location as He is in any other.  And the lecture  ended up concluding that perhaps transcendence may be a better word than incorporeal.  And as a Mormon I certainly am more comfortable with that term.

Similarly, God being literally omnipresent is something that I cannot accept in a literal way.  Yet the lecture eventually discussed this as God not being absent from anywhere.  Again, from a functional standpoint, I have no problem with this, just from a literal one.  And once again, the lecture ended up using another word for this that I am more comfortable with – the word it Immanence.   This would mean that there is no place where God is absent.

I do tend to be a stickler on an embodied God, but this lecture helped me to better understand that from a philosophical standpoint, I perhaps can have an embodied God, that is not literally incorporeal and omnipresent, yet is transcendent and immanent.   Which I think is functionally the same thing, just with a physical body.

Watch this video for tips on how to use features of the newly redesigned Mormon Channel website at MormonChannel.org.