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The thread title put me in the mindset of coming up with the biggest change to the overall church experience on any given Sunday or activity night. I'd say the move from peppering church meetings throughout the day such that it consumed an entire Sunday to moving to block schedules and eventually ...

The challenge is that people can't tell truth from fiction. I think it's more obvious and in your face these days but people have always had that problem. No doubt there are bad actors that intentionally lie. Then you have misinformed people that lie unintentionally. Then there's the people with ...

It's not possible to earn MORmON god's love. No matter what you do, you're never good enough when it comes to MORmONism. This was my experience. I'm a convert so pre-mission experience with church culture is limited but this sentiment definitely started during my mission years and would continue ...

Funny, but why would Chick-fil-A set up shop for non-Christians?

People accurately predicted that he would announce 15 temples, bringing his total to 200.

Nelson holding up extremely well for a 100 year old. He's also the only one speaking to something semi-relevant to what's going on in the world today. Of course I'd appreciate more specifics but given the nothing that we've heard so far, at least dancing around the issues brings the issues closer to ...

I've got it narrowed down to the Bolivia Cochabamba Mission sometime between 1983-1987 so far.

The place and timeframe he served.

I found myself wanting to know more about what happened to the family of the person that was killed.

I get that it was his story, but he wasn't the true victim of that incident.

Irreverence isn't what is misleading the rising generation. The poor example of religious adherents is what is causing the rising generation to leave religion behind. But he ain't going to talk about that.

In other words, don't use chatgpt to write your boring talks.

Didn't he already give a talk? I know times change but historically the only apostles that gave two talks during the same general conference were members of the first presidency.

Still have Kearon to go so hopefully this session won't be a complete $#!+ show.

I thought I was done but here I go...

-50 to the guy who gave the prayer for saying "sit at the feet" of church leaders. I hate that phrase.

Another -250 for being a person that claims to speak for Jesus Christ telling people that don't agree with him to be humble.

He essentially said, "I'll tell you what your needs are."

-250 for not understanding why people go inactive. A person can get closer to Christ by getting off the "covenant path" church leaders have laid out before them.

Funny how there's little visible difference between:

• He knows.
• He's indifferent.
• His priorities are out of whack.

+1 for the tie. It's purple. That's kninda Eastery.

-10 for covenant path and sucking up to Nelson more than once in his talk.

RFM is gonna appreciate that part of the talk.

We've had a few talks that touched on perfectionism. There was also that recent BYU study that said that members are the least susceptible to perfectionism and the group that suffers most from perfectionism are the people that left the church because they didn't understand church teachings ...