BYU-Idaho Online Learning
Video Transcript
[Throughout the whole video, several videos are displayed showing families, couples, friends and individuals engaged in very normal events of life, like watching the rain falling down, a kid losing control and dropping a bowl of spaghetti on the floor. These videos were presented in slow motion to emphasize the message that these normal moments matter.]
[Happy music plays.]
[A little girl is swinging and smiling the quote “Moments are the molecules that make up eternity, Elder Neal A. Maxwell” is shown on screen with her.]
[A bowl of spaghetti is knocked onto the floor and the father cringes as he sees it fall. The little boy looks up at his father smiling with spaghetti all over his face while slurping up a noodle. Portions of a quote appear on screen as the text, “It is not so much the major events … ”.]
[A teenage girl is standing on the bleachers with a group of people and drops her phone. Her phone falls onto the cement and breaks. The girl finds her broken phone and looks sad, when she looks up she sees another younger girl leaning against the fence who also looks very sad. The text “...as the small day-to-day decisions..” appear on screen next to her.]
[A mother is typing on her laptop as rain falls outside, she looks up and her children are shown playing in the rain. With the text , “...that map the course of our living.Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley”.]
[A soccer game is shown with a teenage girl going in to kick a goal. Her parents jump, clap and cheer.]
[A bride and a groom are shown coming out of a church in the evening while the crowd is waving sparklers to say goodbye and congratulations.]
[A mother is shown embracing her son who has arrived home with luggage.]
[A baby boy is learning to walk while his mom is holding his hands to help keep him up, and his father is standing a little bit away with his hands outstretched.]
[A teenage boy is jumping hurdles on the track, but his foot catches on it bringing it down.]
[A male doctor is shown looking distraught.]
[A woman is looking at a gravestone, bowing her head and clasping her hands together, in mourning.]
[A middle-aged man is sitting in his car, smiling as he admires the sun.]
Elder Uchtdorf: We would do well to slow down a little, focus on the significant, lift up our eyes, and truly see the things that matter most.
[A family is shown having a pillow fight. The girl is hanging around her father’s neck whilst her brother hits their father with a pillow.]
[A mother is reading to her son.]
[Children are splashing in the rain puddles and jumping on a trampoline.]
[A father is playing with his baby boy and is tossing him playfully up into the air and catching him.]
[The teenage girl that played soccer is celebrating by raising her arms and jumping.]
[The children are playing in the rain.]
[The bride and groom are smiling.]
[The man in his car is smiling.]
Strength comes not from frantic activity, but from being settled on a firm foundation of truth and light. It comes from paying attention to the divine things that matter most.
[An elderly couple is smiling at a family dinner.]
[A little boy sitting on the stairs stops playing his game, and his eyes get really big.]
[The elderly man kisses his wife on the cheek and holds her hand.]
[The little boy breaks into a small smile.]
[The bride and groom continue to walk from church while their family smiles at them.]
[The little girl swinging is smiling and shouting.]
[A family is in the kitchen, laughing as the father is twirling the mom around.]
[The teenage boy that knocked over the hurdle is on the ground getting up.]
[The family having a pillow fight is smiling.]
[The mother reading to her son is smiling bigger.]
[The mother embracing her son is smiling, holding him as she looks at him.]
[The parents teaching their child to walk get excited as he gets closer to his father.]
[The child that spilled the spaghetti is being picked up by his father who is smiling as the little boy rubs his hands, covered in spaghetti sauce, on his father’s face.]
[The mother that was on her laptop is now playing outside with her kids in the rain, with a smile on her face.]
[The smiling boy is with his grandfather, eating a treat.]
[The girl who dropped her phone is talking and laughing with the younger girl who looked really sad.]
Diligently doing the things that matter most will lead us to to the Savior of the world.
[The father covered in spaghetti is shown smiling.]
[The mother in the rain is looking up and smiling.]
[Music.]
[The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints www.mormon.org.]
[End of video.]