even if we were some kind of crazy cold it's not a bad life it really isn't
i don't know who should talk foreign
oh that bothers me so much okay uh okay well today's episode we're going to talk about um
some of the temporal i don't like it when people say temporal have you ever heard temporary tempura
delicious oh yeah i've that's the way you fry the things in the sushi go game wait what there's a
game called sushi go and and one of those things but anyways we're gonna talk we're not gonna talk
we're not talking about video games we're talking about real life well board game oh it's a board
game so it's still real life okay but we're not talking about the tempura benefits of our faith
we're talking about the temporal benefits of our faith and as we do so these are kind of a
lot of social benefits and other things but like this isn't like uh like oh our church is true
because you can find community here that kind of thing like that you can find community and other
churches as well we just kind of wanted to point out some it's some cool stuff yeah it's because a
lot of people get mad at us because they're like your church is hard and mean and and like it's
you have to do callings which is stressful there's just a lot of things that people point out that
are negative about the church or that were some kind of crazy cult who follow a man who says
he saw god you know like there's just a lot of things that people point out which is really bad
but not like moses at all no but so so this episode we just want to point out that like
even if we were some kind of crazy cult it's not a bad life it really isn't like it's like we're
just gonna outline the things that like it's just it's just good you know like if you're a parent
that's worried about your kid who's interested in the church you could watch this episode and
be like well worst things could happen you know yeah it's true all right so we have a list here
i think we should just go through this list so so uh by joining our faith you get access
to an instant community worldwide community worldwide i mean it's obviously different
depending on which part of the world you're in right all the parts of the world i've lived in
mexico new zealand oregon utah like there's been a pretty like big latter-day saint community and
and like they're very kind yeah this is what i've noticed it's just like there's lots of love so
here's here's the cool part we're moving out of our apartment and it's third story and i'm like
oh man we have so much crap this is going to take a long time and then we just see missionaries come
around the corner and i'm like yeah elders and they're like hey i'm like do you want to help
and they're like yeah and then they leave and they come back and bring more elders oh yeah and they
help us move right so that was fantastic one of them was this huge football player like six foot
four and he carried our mattress all by himself wonderful so i was like that was an answer to
prayers because i did not know how you're gonna get all this stuff moved yeah and then we show
up to our new house our new neighborhood and this random couple is walking down the street and they
saw us moving stuff and like hey do you want help we're just down the street we're in the
ward and then this other guy neighbor came out he's like hey i'm your neighbor i'm in the ward
too can i help and that's so cool and i'm not saying you have to be a member of our church
to be a nice person and to help right but it was just like no questions asked you can
trust each other there's like it was really you you've had generally good experiences yeah and
i've also had generally i mean when you say like oh latter day saints are really nice like
obviously that's a generalization somebody in the comments is going to be like well deborah mckenzie
one time in 1987 said this to me and so you're wrong but her name's deborah mckenzie so so what
can you do that how are you judging but yeah like in my experience like all of the awards all the
congregations that i've been a part of have been really nice and supportive yeah which is cool like
it's actually kind of interesting because since my my wife and i we moved um and it's currently
covid era right right and so we haven't gone to church and so we haven't gotten to know our new
ward right and it's been different just because like i mean yeah like like for the first time in
a long time we're like without that community i mean they've reached out to us and like welcomed
us and and we can like join in on sundays via zoom and stuff but just like not knowing anybody
very well is different and i kind of miss it i'm an introvert yeah through a sense that like
people exhaust me right yeah and so i thought this is great i love kovan now i don't have to deal
with anybody and then after two months of like it was kind of like i just missed the the love
yeah and just like the support because like i think it's nice to be able to have like
names in your mind where you can be like oh if something crazy happens and we need help
like in on short notice i can call this person or this person or this person even if i don't
know them super well like oh i know that they're you know they they're supposed to minister to
me right yeah and you can just reach out to those people automatically and they'll come to your aid
which i think is cool yeah so like the community aspect is awesome and then on top of that like
for the youth like the programs the church has like um like weekly youth activities
leaders to support the youth um and then like the programs that like help you set goals
and help and then you get to meet people like like-minded aspirations which really that's a
huge difference because i feel like a majority of the trouble that you get into as like teenager and
under is who you are friends with like most of the stupid stuff people have ever done it's because
they had a friend who convinced them to do or you know or you're the crowd you're in yeah that's
why you get into a lot of bad stuff but if you get into a grout like a group of people who all
believe in christ or at least believe in trying to live the gospel and just being nice to it you know
you know it's just little things like that where you have that community of youth who all have
like similar goals and i had a great time as a youth in like the youth program we went camping
i learned how to crochet in you know youth stuff yeah mock it all you shouldn't join the church wow
we crocheted our own christmas stockings and they are the coolest thing but yeah just cool things
you learn and get to do and it's just nice to have a group of shared where values are shared uh and
that i mean other churches i've been to youth i went to youth groups of other churches and the
same thing applies there but it's just something cool yeah it's not an exception but it's good
so another temporal benefit so responsibilities as in like your ward calling that can be kind of a
good thing kind of can be taxing sometimes if it's sure if it's particularly particularly demanding
but you do learn how to handle responsibility well like when i remember being 12 year old beacon
my job i was in charge of making sure the sacrament happened every week
and like it's interesting because the sacrament is something the whole world
just like participates on like they they expect it to happen and have a 12 year old
be the one who has to call and make sure enough people are going to be there make sure their
bread and stuff was there make sure that everybody knows what route they're going like you learn how
to organize these things this is a pretty young age but you don't feel like it's weird yeah like
obviously it was like stressful but in a good way like yeah and then and then when you become
an adult when my boss comes to me and is like hey i need you to do something and it's something i've
never done before i'm not afraid yeah because i'm like i've organized things all the time at church
like it'll work out it's just something that's good for youth to be eased into like
being asked to do things right well and it's like giving talks public speaking
oh that was a huge help like i'm not a great one like members of the church just in general
there's got to be a study done or something but like just in general i feel like we're just more
comfortable with public speaking whether or not we like it or not that's yeah that's it but but
we know how to do it because from a young age you're going up there and giving a talk and
yeah it's good i think i think it's really important all right so focus on the family that's
that's something huge in our faith that we have the family a proclamation
to the world yeah so family's super important big emphasis on family and our faith and uh
that's kind of the building block of society i don't know i just heard that i don't think
anybody can look at that and be like that like that's a negative thing yeah right yes and so
that's important another and then so a huge thing that like self the church teaches self-reliance
and like and how to handle your money and your finances and like i see all these memes
where it's like at school they teach us how to do chemistry but i wish they would teach
me how to do my taxes right like people always talk about how public education isn't enough
and i feel like that was never i've never worried about that because the church honestly has so many
opportunities for you to learn about finances and how to be like fiscally responsible yeah that like
i didn't need the public to teach me that because the church did which is weird to think about you
know and these the church so the church does offer self-reliance classes i think you don't even have
to be a member to attend and they're like totally free so if that's something that interests you if
you want to learn how to like start a business or yeah finance is better and the people who put
these programs together like they're millionaires like they have successfully made like there's so
many people at the church who are very successful or successful very successful entrepreneurs
so it's not like that we just pulled this out of the air like these are really smart people
who created really um comprehensive programs that are free yeah all right health benefits obviously
word of wisdom we don't drink alcohol we don't do drugs uh therefore less alcohol abuse less
lung disease well you can't be a drunk driver if you don't get drunk
so if you're ever worried about that just become a member of the church keep the commandment and
then you'll never have to worry about being a drunk driver there you go i mean or you could
just not drink it all anyways but yes one of the benefits of being a member of the church is here
there they're actually i think there is a study showing that uh latter-day saints do
have longer lifespans in general because of their adherence to the word of wisdom
somebody fact-checked me and checked me on that because i don't want to be i wouldn't be surprised
another one we kind of we kind of talked about this with the self-reliance thing but uh financial
support i guess even more than financial we just have like a great humanitarian program right
so if you know something horrible happens to your family and you need food on the table we
can help you do that we have you know the bishops storehouse where i used to live we had a bishop
storehouse like a central storehouse like a distribution center center that we would go and
we would like clean it every once in a while yeah and um it was it's so cool it's just this massive
warehouse full of like food food and toilet paper and diapers and anything you could possibly need
water bottles and those things just go out to all of the smaller bishop storehouses which are used
to help people when they need food well some women in the church somewhere these old ladies
just decided that they were gonna make a bunch of blankets for people that would possibly need them
and when my family hit hard times the bishop just sent us a package from the bishop storehouse
where that gave me a new mattress because my mattress was like 20 million years old like and
a new mattress and this huge quilt that i still have to this day i've had it for like 15 years
and it's so warm and it's just like we just have x and like so if you're ever in trouble the church
you've got like they've got your back yeah i mean there's a process like there's also self-reliance
right like they're not just you know gonna be handing stuff out to you your whole life but
right but uh it's helpful and it's it's even just like mentally it's nice to know that that's there
because a lot of people you know don't have that support system and it's like if something happens
we're done you know like what are we gonna do right but like just to know that it's nice to
know that well like there'll be food on the table yeah whether or not you have a job and
you're making money like yeah there are resources there are resources like yeah the church is gonna
hand you money you know but they are like there is food and safety yeah and they might hand you
and they try and provide ways for you to work as well right like yeah it's not just a handout but
anyways go ahead well and then i was for the final one we're gonna list is the the sexual purity um
that that is like a physical benefit in the sense that like if you genuinely follow the commandments
of the church you're not going to have sex outside of marriage and that saves you from a lot
of things and we don't we don't have to go into it because it's just kind of
common this is kind of common sense but just like having a child outside of wedlock whether you're
a teenager or older that's always like we it's just the stress the money everything about that
it's just i can't even comprehend it yeah you know and then um there's so if you're a parent
you know and your kid wants is interested in the church that alone is something that i like i think
is very important for kid like if my kid didn't want to have sex until he was married i'd be like
please go for it um and every topic we've touched you know there's there's an episode so if you
if you want more detail let us know in the comments and we'll direct you
and this has been a fairly short list there are more things we could talk about we skipped over
some things but uh maybe if you're a member of the church or have benefited from our faith um let us
know in the comments uh what those even just temporal benefits are again like this isn't a
join our church because we'll pay your rent type thing it's just like it's just a nice
perk maybe it's a perk it's a perk just it's just a nice like when you level up and you get a list
which perks you want to add to your character i want self-reliance always a good one um
thanks for watching guys and we'll see you in the next episode