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| Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
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It is nice to see that some missions are willing to be flexible on Elders brining instruments. When I served it was not permitted for most of the time I was out. I was a college music major on hiatus and my first mission president felt it would be a distraction. This post is a nice illustration of the benefits to the work that can come with allowing full-time missionaries to bring their instruments with them when they serve. Thanks for sharing this. |
I want an mp3 for my ipod! Beautiful! |
Sweet! |
Awesome! Everything is always better with a Ukelele. |
If anyone knows how to create an mp3 from this video recording, I’d love to get a copy as well. I’m going to send this video to the parents of the elders who are doing this and I’m sure an mp3 would make their holiday as well. |
Love it! I too would want this as an mp3. Thanks for sharing this. |
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At the link above you can simply plug in a YouTube url and it will create an mp3 for download for you. Very simple to use. |
ED fails to mention that his instrument is the Tuba. |
@danithew, if you want to ask the missionaries to come over, I have a project studio where I can record a proper version. p-day activity? |
#6–Wow, it worked. That was almost too easy. Thanks! |
Mr. Abernathy, that sounds awesome – let me check with the elders to see if they are able to do that – I don’t know if they can leave their area for that or not. Can you give me an idea of how much time you think would be needed to do it right? Just curious. |
“It is nice to see that some missions are willing to be flexible on Elders brining instruments. When I served it was not permitted for most of the time I was out. I was a college music major on hiatus and my first mission president felt it would be a distraction. This post is a nice illustration of the benefits to the work that can come with allowing full-time missionaries to bring their instruments with them when they serve.” I’m not sure I disagree with this per se, but there are risks, and I’d certainly understand why a mission president might feel the way yours did. I had a friend who come back from his mission knowing how to play at least a dozen contemporary songs on the guitar that came out while he was in the field. This was true even though he didn’t know how to play the guitar prior to leaving. And I can recall thinking to myself as he was playing them, “How did you find the time for that?” |
11- You make a good point, and my first president felt strongly that having any instrument (large or small, Matt W.) represented a failure to completely let go of your life at home and dedicate yourself to the work. Certainly your friend’s case bears that out. |
I do not recall such a ban in my mission, but I can easily envision a few problems: |
Scenario “c” is particularly frightening. I had never even considered that possibility. It almost makes me think that any mission president that does allow a missionary to take an instrument needs to get some kind of legal disclaimer signed in advance specifying that the church cannot be held financially responsible if said instrument is lost, stolen, or damaged. |
I didn’t get the link for this, Daniel. It’s not showing. |
Got Vista? Or Windows 7. One of the Sidebar applets records whatever is playing (in this case through your speakers as you view this YouTube video) and then you can save this as a MP3 file. |
I have a younger sibling who is tremendously gifted musically (sings in an elite BYU chorus, plays the piano and half a dozen instruments, composes music, has released CDs, etc.). He spent a lot of his time in his mission basically singing at or playing at firesides (sometimes dragged around to them by his mission president). The way he talked about it was that the MP wanted to use his talents, so he was willing to do it. Beyond that, he found it to be a distraction. |
Brent, do you live down the street from me? |
Its amazing that you can get 20 year olds to sing a song like this in public. I was richly blessed to having served my mission with Hispanic comps from AZ and Polynesian elders from CA |
Wow, it worked,. Thanks! |
