Summary: <br> <br> [dropcap]S[/dropcap]top whatever you are doing and listen to this podcast. Why? WHY?! Because Kurt Francom of <a href="https://leadingsaints.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leading Saints</a> is here to discuss the news with the one, the only, G-Off. It's going to be lit, as the youths might say.<br> <br> Plenty of news this week pertaining to youth. For starters, <a href="https://www.thechurchnews.com/members/2019-07-19/church-announces-conferences-modeled-after-efy-for-stakes-in-us-canada-as-part-of-new-children-and-youth-program-50345" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Especially for Youth, or EFY, is basically on the outs</a>. Gone will be the annual hajj to Provo to spend a week basking in the glory of the 801, to be replaced by a biennial For the Strength of Youth, or FSY, program. FSY will be more local and run by young single adults. The Church hasn't released tons of other details, but here we are. At least this will stop people from trekking every other year.<br> <br> In other youth news, the Church continues its slow tease of upcoming changes to the children and youth programs. But wait! There's a name - <a href="https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/church-leaders-receive-information-new-global-youth-initiative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Children and Youth</a>. Err, so there's that. We're still waiting until September 29 to find out what all of this will be about, but now we at least know that the programs will seem to let youth make their own goals as opposed to adhering to a specific program or predetermined goal set. We are living in the correlated era of less correlation.<br> <br> President Russell M. Nelson <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/07/22/naacp-convention-lds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave a speech at the NAACP's annual convention this week,</a> and his remarks were received warmly by those in attendance and across the interwebs. However, many still wish for a full repudiation of the Church's past racist policies. Don't hold your breath for that. Still, that desire was once realized many years ago, when <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-18-mn-51047-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">some members, including a Seventy, actually worked on an apology for previous policies</a>.<br> <br> <br> <br> Kurt has a brilliant, if out there, idea for how to bring temple work to others. You have to hear this!<br> <br> You know how people want to storm Area 51 and see what the government does with 1 million folks overrunning a top secret installation? Well, <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/07/19/theres-utah-version-area/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">some Utah folk want to do the same</a> - to the Church's famed granite mountain vault that holds genealogical records. And there are no guards!<br> <br> Layton, Utah no longer has to wonder where its temple will be located. <a href="http://thisweekinmormons.com/2019/07/layton-utah-temple-site-announced">Now it knows</a>. IT KNOWS.<br> <br> Apparently <a href="https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900079709/mormon-church-ball-utah-supreme-court-latter-day-saints.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">you can't sue someone over injuries sustained during church basketball</a>, per the Utah Supreme Court. Utah is stupid.<br> <br> President M. Russell Ballard dedicated a new children's memorial at This Is the Place park in Utah, recognizing the over 600 children that died en route to the Salt Lake Valley. Church leaders also used the opportunity to remind the public that we, as Latter-day Saints, <a href="https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/faith/lds-church-unveils-memorial-to-pioneer-children-leaders-point-to/article_fcd51eb4-9fa2-5723-822d-d7a68b29ada6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believe in being pluralistic and inviting immigrants into our communities</a>.<br> <br> <a href="https://www.patreon."></a>
