Cole Tandy

@IronRodWarrior Bentonville Arkansas, I was there for a year during Covid while the borders to my original assignment were closed (Uruguay)

@_ColeTandy_ No way! Awesome! Where was the mission?

This is fantastic information

@RykerJackson97 This is awesome

I'm working on a new temple project. It should be a lot of fun when it's completed.

@Latterdaytruth Faith: do you choose to believe in God, and live your life accordingly? Testimony: has that faith paid off in the form of a true relationship with the living God?

In Temple Recommend interviews, the first question is: Do you have faith in and a testimony of God, the Eternal Father; His Son, Jesus Christ; and the Holy Ghost? What is the difference between having “faith in” and having a “testimony of” the Father, Son, an Holy Ghost?

@TheCinesthetic Hollywood tricked everyone into hating this movie…

A movie that's in your top 25 list but unlikely to be in anyone else's?

@DarienMiskin @Latterdaytruth It’s Honolulu, Juneau, Olympia, Salem, Sacramento, and Carson city

@_ColeTandy_ @Latterdaytruth Is Boise west of LA?

Teach me something you've learned recently that blew your mind

@Latterdaytruth I’d say 10 great speakers is better for ME, but having everyone speak is better for the church. The act of writing a talk and then getting up in front of others to share it is one of God’s most powerful tools to build someone’s faith, courage, and testimony in my opinion

WOULD YOU RATHER Listen to the same 10 or so speakers at church over and over again at church who prepare diligently and prayerfully OR Listen to mainly people who don’t prepare diligently or prayerfully, with a few good ones occasionally.

@ThomasWayneRil1 Thank you, I’ll have to give it a listen! Ancient American history is fascinating, especially the peoples of the southwest.

@_ColeTandy_ Hello, Brother Tandy. I have an entire series on the ancient ones aka Anasazi. I recently did a five hour episode on them as well. The most recent is on this page but the rest are further back. It’s been a few years now. theamericansouthwest.com/podcast

Betatakin. I have a few answers.

@sarahsalviander I agree. While there are some good exceptions, the best Christian media is often not explicitly Christian. It’s as the saying goes: a Christian shoemaker glorifies God when they create beautiful, high quality shoes; not when they make average shoes and pin a cross to them

This may offend some of you, but I mostly dislike overtly Christian entertainment. I find most of it a betrayal of both art and witness. Instead, I'd love to see a return of movies like Project Hail Mary that are quietly, subtly Christian. So subtle that you sometimes don't even realize you're being witnessed to. As an atheist kid growing up in a secular country, the only theology I got was from Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. Star Wars introduced me to a tangible sort of spirituality (oh, how my heart ached for it) while The Lord of the Rings subtly poured the very soul of Christianity into my heart so that when I finally encountered the gospels it already felt familiar to me. There is great value in this kind of entertainment. It's almost paradoxical, but putting storytelling and art first produces a far more powerful Christian witness than putting the messaging front and center. (This is why so most "woke" entertainment fails.) Check out my article below if you wanna read my review of Project Hail Mary and how it's a Christian movie. open.substack.com/pub/sarahsalvi…

@ITalkOfChrist On first watch, I wished Grace had gone home. The second time though, I realized Grace gave up the world (still saved it, just didn’t go back lol) and followed Rocky, the one who rose again after essentially sacrificing himself for Grace. Very cool

Wife, reading Matthew 24: "And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened--" Me: "Astrophage!" Wife: "Oh my gosh, are you still on about Christian themes in Project Hail Mary? Come on. It's Easter!" Me: "Rocky was willing to die to extend Grace. Grace was saved when the rock rolled away. Rocky and Grace spent time practically but dead. Why do we Christians have hope? Life is reason! Life is reason!"

@TimelessTrvlr The suncity! It’s one of the top ten fastest growing cities in the US, so affordability is a dying sentiment lol. It’s a beautiful town though, I have a lot of childhood memories there. It’s my wife’s hometown too!

St. George, Utah is where red rock meets real affordability, Zion is a day trip, and the horizon is big enough to reset your perspective.

@NauvooSpice First Times, Ed Sheeran😁

I’m curious to the married friends I have on here. What was your wedding song?

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord⁠: 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children⁠, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse” (Malachi 4:5-6).

@TheGermanicist Which temple is this??

“One day you will see the finished product, and you will know that the Master Artist had a plan for those random dots all along. You will see that He was preparing you for opportunities and possibilities far more glorious than you ever could have imagined.” -Dieter F. Uchtdorf

@dustinharding These are excerpts from an article by Lance Weaver where he discusses similarities between the ≈0-300 AD archeological record in Mesoamerica with the post-Christ societies described in 4th Nephi. I like some of these ideas, and I could see them being true in the millennium.

How could daily life in the New Jerusalem actually differ from our lives today? We often talk about the spiritual shift, but what about the practicals? I’m curious how you envision: - Work & Vocation - Education & Travel - Entertainment & Leisure Drop your theories below. 👇

@MericaCulture @MoundLore Arby’s is top tier fast food and no one can change my mind

The Arby's in Knoxville deserves to be mentioned alongside the Colosseum and Acropolis. Looking at it you'd half expect Indiana Jones to emerge from the woods looking for some mythical religious relic. A testament to civilization conquering wilderness.

@jtlewis_arch @MoundLore My apologies. Feathers and cacao from Mesoamerica have been found in southwestern sites like Chaco Canyon, not the plains. Nonetheless, I’m curious as to whether there could have been political influence from Mesoamerica there or not. If so, how do archeologists determine that?

There is no evidence of feathers or cacao at Spiro. Shell was coming from the Gulf in southeastern United States. No Mesoamerican society had control of the Caddo Area. We see a direct link based on aDNA and continuation of cultural traditions that the people that became the Caddo during the Mississippian Period emerged from practices and people already in the area.

This is real and it matters more than people realize. Obsidian found at the Spiro Mounds has been chemically traced to volcanic sources in Mexico, showing long-distance exchange networks moving materials across thousands of miles centuries before European contact. North America was far more connected than textbooks ever suggested.