Embark!!

This is great!!
(You may not get the first part and that's okay!)

 
For youth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this is our theme for 2015. (The video is the theme song1.) And isn't it wonderful?
This has to be my favorite theme.

em·bark

verb \im-ˈbärk\

: to begin a journey especially on a ship or airplane

intransitive verb

1

:  to go on board a vehicle for transportation <the troops embarked at noon>

2

:  to make a start <embarked on a new career>

transitive verb

1

:  to cause to go on board (as a boat or airplane)

2

:  to engage, enlist, or invest in an enterprise2

Embark. What a cool word.
I love how there are so many different things that embark can mean but still mean something closely related! I don't know if that really made any sense but I think it's just wonderful.

 In the video it was just amazing how many different ways youth were serving. They were embarking.
It's so awesome!! Not to mention, embark also means "to make a start." Embarking is doing something new, trying something out. In other words, beginning a journey.

So, what are you going to do to embark this year?

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1 This video can be found on lds.org/youth and YouTube
2 Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Service

Winter is a great time to serve. Especially during Christmas season.
Now, I know Christmas has rolled by (barely) but now you have a whole year to think about what service you want to give next Christmas. 

A friend on Facebook shared this video a while ago; it's...spectacular. There's not really a word to describe it correctly. It's just amazing.

So, no, you don't have to go around handing money out to people to do service. In fact, I'll bet that you serve people left and right everyday without realizing it.
There's two kinds of service. Big in-the-news type service and small day to day type service. Both are important. (Although the day to day type services are, for the lack of a better word, better, I think.)

-Challenge: Do an act of service, big or small, today-