A call to arms

From the More Good Foundation blog, I found this e-mail from Larry Richman. He’s the project manager for LDS.org. Excellent. :)

I have started a blog at http://ldswebguy.com to share information with Webmasters of LDS sites and other interested people about changes on Church Web sites. It will also contain general information about the Web and ideas on how individuals can appropriately use the Internet to share the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I intend to blog about technology as well as practical examples of how to use the Web.

This blog is not an official publication of the Church. I bear sole responsibility for the information and opinions expressed in this blog.

I welcome you to visit the blog, leave your comments on the various posts, subscribe to it, or link to its posts.

Larry Richman, Director
Internet Coordination Group

On his post Why Use The Internet?, Larry raises some good questions that all members should be asking themselves. How are we using the Internet to further the work of the Lord? I’ve been asking myself that for several years now. Sure, I’ve done various things to help, but I’m sure there’s more. I want there to be more.

One girl found my testimony on Blank Slate several years ago and started investigating the gospel. After corresponding with me for a few months, she started meeting with the missionaries and got baptized about six months later. I left on my mission a while after that and didn’t hear from her for some time, until one day I got her wedding invitation — she was getting married in the Cardston Temple. :)

There’s so much filth out there on the Internet, but each of us can build on the mountain of good, standing for truth and goodness and love and hope and everything we cherish.

This is a great story about a success on the Internet. I’d love to hear more of those from around the world.

I remember back in the days when AOL was king, I was in a San Diego chat room (am I really admitting this? I was 18, leave me alone!) and started talking to a girl. As it turned out, she had just taken the first discussion, and so I was able to answer a bunch of her questions and guide her along the path towards conversion.

Non-happy ending: she didn’t get baptized. But it just goes to show that in random, weird places you can still have a chance to share the gospel.

And of course there are plenty of seeds to plant, even if we don’t watch them sprout. And there are those who’ve already had the seed planted, and we nourish it, give it a little light and water, and then they move on and sprout elsewhere.