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Finally we got to endure a thick helping of pre-guilting members over not using their extra free hour from 2-hour church properly. Apparently it is not to be used for football watching or sleeping. I expect these guilting talks will fade away as 2-hour church becomes the new normal, but for now it ...

I've seen a few older couples that have specific stake callings wear name badges to church on Sunday but I see far more RMs that have their mission name badges attached to their scriptures or something... and they've been home for over a decade.

deacon blues wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 04, 2019 8:07 pm

Is it time for the Church to get realistic about it's membership numbers?

SM attendance is a number every unit submits in a quarterly report. Someone has their finger right on the pulse of the trends in actual membership.

I'm also thinking that we're leading up to a change to the WoW. I'm not chomping at the bit to drink tea or coffee, if they are taken off the list I'll in all likelihood continue to not drink them. That's my disclaimer stating I don't have skin in the game. But banning coffee and tea really makes us...

Church statement on temple changes: "Whenever the Lord has had a people on the earth who will obey His word, they have been commanded to build temples." The temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by Rome in 70 a.d. I wonder why the existing Christian church wasn't commanded to build another, smaller tem...

I'm likely remembering wrong but I half remember hearing that some kids going out on missions were reporting directly to the field. They didn't go a MTC.

Anyone else hear something similar?

wtfluff wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:15 am

... The funny thought of going in disguise has crossed my mind also...

The same priesthood power that created worlds, galaxies, and the universe can and should be part of our lives. Here's a brush, go scrub a toilet.

Come on guys. They likely merged into a rapid moving ocean current like on finding nemo and made it to the Americas in a few days. No need for magic or fantastic explanations. It's easy... Except for that pesky Ether 6:11: And thus they were driven forth, three hundred and forty and four days upon ...

I think if you resigned there'd be a greater chance of well meaning members showing up in an effort to get you to rejoin. If you are ex'ed then people would probably try to avoid you.

Didn't she join another church?

From the CHI1 under the section "When a disciplinary council is mandatory"

Apostasy
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5. Formally join another church and advocate its teachings.

I don’t like using the word lazy because it has so many negative connotations, but I’ve come to the conclusion maybe being lazy isn’t always a bad thing. With as much that is expected of members of the church there's probably a way to label everyone as "lazy." I know that when I was more orthodox I...

Palerider wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 15, 2018 3:58 pm

Red Ryder wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 15, 2018 2:00 pm

What happens if he does record it?

Would they go after him?

Might make them look even worse, but legally I think they could sue him.

Sue him for what? Damages?

They sure do like to waste a lot of people's time. Sam, the SP, and the former BP.

I guess they didn't want to pay for the postage for a letter on official letterhead that said:

No.

P.S. - Go away.

In their reality he really did deceive her, even if he had good intentions in doing so. He led her to believe he had a testimony by his actions over YEARS. Dating, temple marriage, starting and raising a family. It wasn't until she forced the issue that he admitted he was just going through empty m...

I've been to a few funerals in recent years. A stake president presided. A lesson on the Mormon version of the plan of salvation was taught and framed as, "This is what [the deceased] believed." The, "This is what [the deceased] believed." was the phrase that stuck with me. If you are a TR holding M...

Eat your vitamin pills and take a nap. Be sure to hit up the early bird specials. If the second coming happens after 5:00PM you can go out on a full stomach. Be sure you're wearing clean underwear. You look so much better with long hair. How can you read with the light so dim? Let me turn on a light...

I wonder if this influenced DFU's October 2013 talk, Come, join with us.

To be completely cynical about the experience of a missionary returning home. Yes,when a child returns home from a mission the joy experienced during the reunion crowds out rocks in a hats, policies that are hard to swallow, culturally enforced allegiance to church leaders, overburdening expectation...