I used to hate emojis; I thought they were immature and childish. But the past year of using them I’ve had a lot of fun and I have to admit my emoji game is on point. Last week on twitter I ran into “Mormojis” that an internet genius made (who I later found out was Annie Kershisnik Blake and her friend Zina Bennion).
Her Mormojis inspired me, and really convinced me that emojis are the future of communication. Since I’ve never had much of a gif game, I decided to bring you highlights from #ldsconf in emojis. I think I’ve seen other sites do wordles; so this is kind of like that, but for Millennials.
Here’s how to play: in your comment guess the correct speaker and/or translate the emoji sentence/phrase/story.
Winner gets awarded this emoji trophy: 🏆. I’ll fill in correct answers below as they are guessed.
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- Elder Clark: Eyes to See and Ears to Hear
- Elder Lawrence: the Holy Ghost is the ideal traveling companion
- Sis. Stephens: Sister Stephens explained to Chloe that the seat belt was there to protect her. If she didn’t wear it, she wouldn’t be safe. After thinking it over, Chloe responded, “Grandma, you want me to wear my seat belt because you love me!”
- Elder Maynes: Center your life/discipleship on Christ
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- Elder Uchtdorf: If Church isn’t working very well for you, focus on the basics
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- Elder Holland: Behold thy Mother
- Elder Ballard: His great and powerful ship flows toward salvation and exaltation. Remember we cannot reach there by jumping out of the boat and trying to swim there by ourselves.
- Elder Bednar: My interpretation: The three brethren who have passed were my friends, they are not incapacitated because of their age. Quit talking smack about them.
- Elder Christofferson: Why Church?
- Elder Haynie: when he was a young boy and had been playing with his brothers outside in a large, muddy hole they dug themselves. When it came time for him to go inside his home his grandmother wouldn’t let him in the house, which she had just cleaned, until he had completely washed the mud off himself.
- Elder Schwitzer: If ever there was a time when the world needs disciples of Christ who can communicate the message of the gospel with clarity and from the heart, it is now. We need the clarion call of the trumpet.
- Sis. Reeves: “What are some of his tools? Seductive romance novels, TV soap operas, married women and old boyfriends connecting on social media, and pornography. We must be so careful, dear sisters! We cannot play with Satan’s fiery darts and not get burned”
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- Elder Nelson: A Plea to the Sisters
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- Elder Keetch: Just beyond the barrier, large waves, perfect for surfing, were breaking out of reach. As they grew more animated, an older local man approached the group and offered them the use of his binoculars. When Elder Keetch’s turn came, he spotted the dorsal fins of many large sharks feeding just outside the barrier.
p.s. This post took entirely too much time. It would have really helped if iOS had included any number of helpful religious emojis; all I’ve got is a church and two angels. Not even a cross – I used a wingding for that one! And no shark??!
Wheat & Tares 
I would have read the “modest is hottest” the other way around “hottest is modest”. Wear long pants in Arizona in the summer and you are going to be HOT in a way that creates no impure thoughts (other than wanting to take ALL your clothes off and jump in a pool).
12. The High Priests group reported 100%, but then found out some of the members had passed away a few months ago and the HP Group Leader was speachless at church.
21. Someone has a lot of time on their hands!
Also, is the general conference Emoji correct? I don’t see the silver fox (all the guys are shown as bald). Which brings up a question I have always had. How do all those old guys stay awake on the stand at conference? Do the chairs have a mild shock just before the lights come back up. As someone that has crossed the 50 year yard line, I have a hard time staying awake even when I am giving a prayer. I do remember hearing that in the tabernacle a few years back one of the camera operators up on a boom fell asleep. And we all know that there are plenty of zzz’s for those watching sitting on the couch at home. Those red seats look just too comfortable for there not to be some logs getting sawed.
HappyHubby: nice try!
Yes, these are stories or phrases from 20 general conference talks turned into emojis. I’ll give a hint that the Silver Fox did make the cut for one of his talks; unfortunately it’s wasn’t the one about the stalker cat.
HINT: Many of these are just summaries of the titles of the talks. So if you go look at LDS.org’s General Conference Summaries it should help.
#16 must be Sister Reeves. I can’t forget her very intense uttering of “romance novels.”
#16 must be Sister Reeves. I can’t forget her very intense uttering of “romance novels.”
Yes! That’s what made that one easy. I knew I had to include it.
15 has to be the “clarion call of the trumpet”.
The emphasis on the necessity for trumpets was my favourite quote from conference ;-), though the rest of the talk left me fairly cold with all the last days stuff.
Hedgehog: Yes! Trumpet the word of God to all the peoples, etc. . . . and since the rest of the talk was about the evilness of the world I made sure to use “world going to hell” but I thought if I added a “in a handbasket” it might have just been confusing.
You rock, Kristine! I think you’re ready to translate the sealed portion!! Who knew a woman could read and write reformed Egyptian??? 😜👌🎆🗿📖🔑
Thanks Rockies Gma! Ha – I do have the spiritual gift of translation, huh. I really would have preferred my RS chastity lesson had been given in emoji. 🚹🚺💥🚼 There was a really weird moment when a sister was talking about having “your husband discover your true beauty” and I think it was a sexual/climax reference but I couldn’t really tell. It freaked me out.
#4 has to be Carole M. Stephens
And is #2 Eyes to See and Ears to Hear?
#18 A Plea to My Sisters?
14 is Elder Haynie bathing in mud and being hosed down by his grandmother before being allowed into the house likened to the cleansing power of the atonement, no unclean thing being allowed into heaven. We listened to that one for our FHE lesson this week.
#10 is Elder Hollands talk on mother’s.
18 made me LOL. These are awesome.
Is 17 Elder Ballard talking about his deceased grandchildren?
“With each grandchild’s passing, we as a family held on to the gospel truths with both hands. Our questions were answered with comfort and assurance through the Atonement of the Savior. Although we miss our grandchildren, we know they live, and we know we will see them again. How grateful we are for this spiritual understanding in times of personal and familial turbulence.”
Or is he
“God is at the helm” for 7?
Is 11 Elder Cook with his shipshape bristol fashion and temple worthy?
Last one is Elder Keetch
13 is Elder Christofferson?
#12 Don’t speak evil of the Lord’s anointed 3 white guys with no diversity? 🙂
18 is President Nelson, we need women’s voices.
Whoah, I just got back from lunch; let me catch up:
EBK: Yes on 4, 2, & 18. I’ll give you 12 bc I used my interpretation of Bednar’s talk of 12 old guys, including the 3 that passed away are amazing and are his friends. So we should stop saying they are too old to serve.
Hedgehog: Yes on 14 & 18.
Paul: Yes on 13 & 20
Here are some hints of some of the phrases I used:
“the holy ghost is the ideal traveling companion”
“Center your life on Christ”
“Ponderize”
“If the church is not working for you, focus on the basics of the gospel”
“you were sent to this earth to discover the seeds of divine nature that lie within you”
“Stay on the old ship Zion, jumping off to swim in the waves is spiritual death”
“It is never too late or too soon to have your family hear the word of the Lord and to avoid listening to the world”
11 must be Elder Ballard and the old ship Zion then.
3 the Holy Ghost as travelling companion.
8 church isn’t working focus on basics of gospel
Hedge, you have Ballard’s talk. But do you know who gave the talks of #3 & #8?
8 is Uchtdorf, it works!
Is 7 Maynes centred on Christ?
3 is Elder Lawrence.
Hedgehog: Yes to all 3 🙂 My answer sheet only has their last names listed so I’m trying to remember how to match these up.
Maybe I’ll try this next time I tweet an LDSconf, to emoji each one afterwards. It’s a lot harder than it looks.
PS – Wait, Maynes is actually #5. #7 is just a Christian Cross.
Let’s see if I can remember the rest of the phrases:
1: In a choice between the Light of Christ and eternal darkness, “Choose the Light, choose the light of our Savior”
6: ponderize
7: the Atonement
9: “you were sent to this earth to discover the seeds of divine nature that lie within you”
17: When we are yielded and still, our minds can be directed to something more we may need to change—something limiting our capacity to receive spiritual guidance or even healing and help. …When we offer our broken heart to Jesus Christ, He accepts our offering. He takes us back.
19: It is never too early or too late for parents to teach their children the word of God and to ignore the world.
Do you really have Elder Haynie wallowing in, um, poop? 🙂
Um, Yep.