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The ACTUAL garden tomb.
A new You Tube, An Apostle's Easter Thoughts on Christ, has only been on the Church Media website for a couple of days, and already it is popping up everywhere, and it has received thousands of hits. Beautiful graphics have been added to an excerpt of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's wonderful sermon, given last Sunday at General Conference, None Were with Him. I've noticed that this You Tube has been posted on several of the blogs that I follow, and I think that is great! The more the better. Let's get the Word out there! ***
This Easter Sunday was a beautiful day in Las Vegas. After attending a wonderful Sacrament Meeting in my ward, I headed over to hold baby Conley, and listen to Sarah give her Relief Society lesson. The lesson was: Living with Others in Peace and Harmony. Instructors are to teach the scheduled lessons, so giving a lesson on Easter, was not an option. However, Sarah who is a gifted teacher, was able to teach the scheduled lesson, and focus on the events of the resurrection. The spirit in the classroom was wonderful. Later in the day, we enjoyed a simple Easter dinner, and then headed to the cemetery. There we placed some Easter flowers on baby Jack's grave, from his mother and father and sister. Whenever I go to the cemetery, I am saddened to see the sorrow. There are so many who live without the knowledge of the Great Plan of Happiness. I haven't a clue why I was chosen to be handed the Gospel on a silver platter, so to speak. I have always known where to find the answers to life's important questions.
I will forever be grateful.
So Happy Easter. The Savior lives, and because of the Savior of the World, and His atoning sacrifice, we will all live again. 
***SALT LAKE CITY 13 April 2009 A short Easter video from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quickly spread over the weekend to become the top “viral” video on the Internet, according to the Viral Video Chart. The four-and-a- half-minute video was extracted from an address delivered by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, of the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, at the faith’s general conference on April 4–5, in which he spoke of the final moments in the life of Jesus Christ and talked directly to those who feel alone or abandoned.
The video was placed Friday evening on LDS.org, the Church’s Web site designed primarily for its own members, and simultaneously linked to the “Mormon Messages” channel on YouTube.
Traffic began to build immediately. Mormons spontaneously posted the YouTube video on Facebook, discussed it on Twitter and sent it by e-mail to thousands of others, including their friends. By Saturday, the number of views passed 100,000 and kept climbing. By Sunday, it was noted as the number 1 video in the Internet “nonprofit” category in Brazil, India and other countries.
On Monday morning, views had reached close to a quarter million and reached the top of the Viral Video Chart, which identifies the most popular “viral” videos — those that spread rapidly due to public dissemination.
Church spokesperson Kim Farah said that the reaction to the video seemed to reflect a “perfect alignment” of factors — a powerful Christ-centered message in language that is familiar and understood by everyone, the topicality of Easter, the use of the short video format that is most popular on the Internet, and the enthusiasm of Latter-day Saints to share their faith.
Other videos on Mormon Messages have been watched hundreds of thousands of times since the channel was recently launched to complement two other official Church channels: LDS Public Affairs and Mormon New Era Messages. The Mormon Messages YouTube channel features uplifting videos that explain and share doctrines of the Church.
Church leaders in recent months have encouraged Church members to engage in conversations about the Church on the Internet rather than let mass media stories define their faith.
At the general conference early this month, many Mormons used Twitter, the popular microblogging Web site, to share their favorite quotes or thoughts from the conference. The topic of general conference was the top discussion on Twitter for much of the weekend.
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