ARJ–if you show my documentary (or rather our documentary), the teacher will undoubtedly have HIS recommend removed.

What qualifies as a crappy movie for EQ? I often show the youth short Church videos, because I’m always trying to find SOMETHING to keep their interest, and snickers bars last only so long. What kinds of movies have they been showing in your ward? The actual rules state that no media production should be played in a SS class which does not have the official Church logo on it. So that means we’ll mostly watch women with big hair and men in plaid suits when we put on a video. Unless it’s _Johnny Lingo_. But surely you’re not talking about _Johnny Lingo_.

Margaret,

The link was to the IMDB entry for the movie we watched, McKay, Million Dollar Missionary about a kid that played HS football and baseball, made a deal with God that if He repaired McKay’s torn ACL that he’d go on a mission. To make a long story short he faced some pressure to not go on a mission from baseball teams. He was drafted, went on a mission, came home and played some baseball. Most of it (30 minutes worth) was highlights from his high school football days. I’ll admit that it looks like he was a great football player. I just don’t know what that has to do with EQ.

Personally I think he’s crazy for not going to Stanford for free, but I’m sure that he came out ahead financially.

I really doubt that your documentary could be as offensive to me in the context of EQ as this movie was.

we NEVER get to watch movies, crappy or nice, in my EQ meeting. :(

It’s alright though, I’m now in the branch presidency, so I have a somewhat justifiable excuse to not be there. :)

On a similar vein, I used to end up in EQ meetings where the instructor pulled a general conference talk on video, and under the excuse of “Elder X says this so much better than I could,” entirely avoided teaching any lesson at all. The entire class consisted of watching an old conference talk. Not to dispairage the brethren giving the original talks, but this is a ridiculous use of EQ lesson time. It’s a mere cop-out by an instructor who’s too lazy to actually prepare a lesson.

Johnny Lingo was a ploy by the diamond industry to convince young LDS women that their self esteem should be determined by the size of the engagement diamond, and a marketing technique to convince young LDS males that you show your betrothed how much you love her by paying a lot for her ring.

hehehe…. I’m only kidding of course. The diamond industry probably wasn’t very involved.

“I certainly won’t think it would be an appropriate film to show in the temple these days,”

Notwithstanding the quality or subject matter of the film, my largest shock was that they were playing any movie at all in there. If there must be a film shown inside temples (ahem…) I’d expect it to be educational and important, not just something popped in for entertainment of people sitting around waiting. Furthermore, it seems if the process must involve long waits, they would be used for quiet reflection, scripture reading, and prayer. Can’t do that much with any movie playing.

KyleM,

We have more than one person called as an instructor. Also members of the EQ are occasionally called on to teach, usually on the 4th Sunday. I volunteered myself to the EQ president about a year ago to teach if they needed someone on short notice. I’ve probably taught about half a dozen times since then, enough that the new EQP thought I was a regular instructor.

Candleman,

So are you saying that I’m fault finding or that the guy who gave the “lesson” is idle?

I like when they show movies because they turn off the lights and I can nap, or play tetris, or read.

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