So as many of you know the prophet has asked us to stop calling ourselves
Mormons and to stop referring to the church as the Mormon Church. Did you just say the
M-word twice?? Sinner!!!
It isn't a change. We've
never been called the Mormon Church. Our name our name is the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and we are latter-day saints. That's the name
that the Lord gave us in the Doctrine and Covenants. He named this church. We
have to remember his name and so we're not called the Mormon Church and we're
not Mormons so yes, we will be changing our name. We do want to preface that
you need patience. Like there's a reason we haven't changed it the moment
the president said this because things take time. And he told you to have
patience so all you haters out there... Not haters, I feel like there are
people with good intentions but there are nice ways of saying things.
An example of a not nice way of saying things is, "3 Mormons? More like 3 victories for Satan."
Like that is not a nice way to go about it. So thank you for your concern. We took it into consideration
and yes we're changing our name. Well I think people people want immediate satisfaction.
Mormon Newsroom hasn't even changed the name yet. A lot of like-- Mormon.org-- I
don't think any of the official Church sites have changed. The Mormon Tabernacle
Choir is now the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square so give people time Tabby CATS.
"No more nicknames." We'll see about that! Things take time so we appreciate you fans who
have stuck with us and have understood that we have been in this name
change process. Can I? Okay. "So... um... guys... when are you guys gonna stop
helping out Satan? Smiley face." Okay I think this is important because a lot
of people like-- so they're playing off something that the Prophet said and he
said that it's a victory for Satan when we fail to use the name of Christ in
the name of Christ's Church. Yes. A lot of people take that and
slightly twist it to mean whenever you say the word Mormon, Satan
wins. Like it's a sin to say Mormon, which is slightly different. The weirdest common
saying is like, "So you're gonna call it The Book of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter day Saints?" First of all, reading comprehension. Like the nicknames is Mormons because of
the Book of Mormon. He's not saying to change the name of the Book of Mormon,
Mormon is the author, you keep that name but we do not take upon the name of
Mormon to refer to ourselves, we take upon the name of Christ. Prophets before
have told us to be proud of the fact that we are Latter-day Saints and they
would say Mormons because we are set apart from the world, we are the true
church, we are the people who are in the Covenant today. So the world refers to us
as Mormons, be proud of that. And so President Nelson saying still be proud
of that but let's correct the name. The thing is if we just continue to call
ourselves that and more and more forget the name of Jesus Christ, that is the
victory for Satan because he doesn't want people knowing about Jesus Christ.
He doesn't want us, he doesn't want people associating Jesus Christ with us because
we're Jesus Christ's Church so people often want to pit the prophets against each
other and be like, "Well your prophet before said be proud of the name Mormon and
now your prophet's saying not to." You gotta understand the context. What I
think is really cool too is like when you see in - you know missionaries
walking on the street, right now the culture is "Oh Mormons. Weird." How cool
would it be to see two missionaries down the street and be like, "Ah,
representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ." To that be what's come to
people's mind. I think that's the goal is that's what people think about but
that's like the culture because it's what it should be. And right before we
say the name of the church, I know some people have, I've seen a lot on social
media about how people don't feel comfortable calling us that because they
don't think it's fair that that they have to call us the Church of Jesus
Christ. They don't believe we're the Church of Jesus Christ.
You know Jehovah's Witnesses? I still call them Jehovah's Witnesses, I don't
believe they're the true witnesses of Jehovah but I call them that because
social literacy, right? So I can call them that. I still called it the Holy Roman
Catholic Church but you know what, I don't necessarily think it's like the
holy true church. So you can be socially literate. It's Roman though. I do believe that.
And here's the thing, if you feel like it hurts your religion to call us by the
name that we prefer then, a little harsh for saying it, you might just have a
very insecure and weak foundation of faith. I know that's harsh but it's true. So
President Nelson is a very smart man and the people in church headquarters
are very smart people and I'm sure they understand that the world is not all of
a sudden going to drop the term Mormon and stop calling us that but us as
latter-day saints and as members of this church, it's our responsibility to do our
part even if we believe that other people aren't going to join in too.
That's okay. Not every single person needs to call us what we call ourselves
but we can still be proud of what we do. Yeah. PS because changing our name,
renaming the show is such like an urgent thing for us because we do want to
follow the Prophet, a lot of the episodes coming out after you see this episode were
filmed before we filmed this episode so if we refer to ourselves as Mormons in
the future still understand that those were probably filmed well before
conference so please give us a little slack. That's why David's beard is so long.
A lot of these episodes were filmed like months in advance so...
I just love the beard-- he always comments, "The beard is back!" He's a good guy. Love that guy.
Can you just imagine though if Mimi gets pregnant soon and we keep filming?
Don't worry, not gonna happen. It's gonna be awesome. So how are we gonna reveal the name?
On a one and a two and a one, two, three:
Saints Unscripted!
It took a lot of brainstorming to come up with a name that all of us agreed on,
we were all very-- I didn't like the name at first, okay? But we love this name
because Saints, that's what followers of Jesus Christ are called and unscripted,
because we are not like official church headquarters people. Like this is not run
by the church. We are voicing our own opinions and it's unscripted, we just
have little outlines with scriptures and stuff that we want to use. Emphasis on
outlines. These are talking points. You probably notice how many
times we say things that are really dumb. Unscripted. Well guess what?
Mormons remove the second m and you have morons! That's actually a good one!
So in fact we are so unscripted that sometimes we make plenty of mistakes in
an episode and we have to film another episode kind of correcting the mistakes
that we made in the previous episode. We don't really delete episodes, do we?
I don't think so. Did we ever delete an episode? No. We just kinda correct and-- but we've had some wrong ones.
We say stuff wrong all the time. We've had some wrong ones.
Believe me, you guys send me the Twitter links. Something...
K this is interesting because it comes from the show
The Walking Dead. One of the characters approaches the leader of a group and
they're disagreeing about something and the leader says, "You disagree with me." And the
character responds, "I think you're a good person and good people can disagree" and
I feel like that is a principle that like needs to shine through this show
that even though you might disagree with us and even though we might disagree
with each other we can still be good people and it's fine. You can be Catholic
watching the show, you can be a Jehovah's Witness, you can be an atheist
and you can disagree with us but we can still be good people to each other.
You probably won't be Amish watching our show though because they can't have computers.
Jack Amish, is that a thing?
They're Amish but they're like, "I'm Amish but I'm Am-ish."
I like the Office and Parks and Rec but I also like to churn my own butter. I
don't know. Am-ish. It's kind of good that we're changing our name too because so many people are
like, 3 Mormons, there are 4 of you. Which one of you isn't Mormon? And
like make jokes like that but there are four of us so it's good that we're
getting rid of this. You know that means?We get to be in more
episodes together now! All 4 of us! That would be cool! Well we hope you like our name, we're really excited
about it. I'm getting rid of everything that says Mormon, okay? We're still filming!
I know! Just ignore him. Justin is taking out anything with the word Mormon off of our set.
We hope you really like our name, we're really
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