On The Same Page

“Everybody is on the same page,” explained Leonys Martin, Detroit Tigers center fielder who hit a grand-slam home run to win the series-sweeping game yesterday.  – The Detroit News, 4/20/2018

(Life lessons from baseball – gotta love it.)

Reminds me of our team in Ogden, Utah.  They earned this alliterative headline: “Relentless Raptors Reach Pioneer Pinnacle”
– milb.com, 9/18/2017
(Having moved to Michigan, we missed that game.)
That is another example of teamwork leading to success, I’m sure.

What can a couple, family, congregation, district, mission, or worldwide church learn from that?

It helps to be on the same page.

Cannon Family at "Christ of the Mines Shrine"
overlooking the town of Silverton, Colorado 10 June 2017

Facebook Page

This week I'm taking a break from Facebook … to remind myself of life without it.  While eating breakfast, I'd like to comment about Facebook, which is a valuable tool often used by my (older) generation. 

Some leaders of our ward (congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) wisely use it here in Roseville, Michigan.  As full-time missionaries, my wife Kay and I recently started using it frequently to keep in touch with a few family members, friends, and Detroit mission associates.  Facebook is one of many ways we share the gospel of Jesus Christ.   Until last month, it was more like a quick look once every few weeks.  Now every week (except this week), I see at a glance what's happening in the ward, the Church worldwide, our society, and the marketplace (too many ads turn me off).  And not to be forgotten: extended family and old friends – like what they think, share, and do.

For those who aren’t yet familiar with it (haha), I found this: “Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  Founded: February 2004, Cambridge, MA”  – Wikipedia

Fourteen years later, we live in a different world.  Can you comment on how many of the younger generation have moved on to like other social media?

"Wish you were here!"  (Oregon Coast 31 July 2012)

Here we stayed on the southern coast of Maine
(a selfie, like not yet on Facebook) 

brothers sequestered with iPad, like in the far West