NOM

2bizE wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:54 pm

I have so much faith that I no longer pay tithing nor ask for priesthood blessings to be healed.

Wow! You are like Joseph Smith, who after a while no longer needed his stone to know what God wanted him to do! Me, I still need my stone.

The message was that BECAUSE they were on their mission none of their family left the church or got divorced. BECAUSE they were on their mission, two of their grandchildren were just missed by a car that certainly would have hit and killed them without the added blessing of grandparents on a missio...

Counter point: Don't pay tithes and offerings, live better because you have money to do the things you never could. Don't attend the temple more, live better because you have so many more weekends to do things you actually want to do. I actually believe in the last one... love and serve others and y...

They are anxious that their entire lives are going to fall apart because they are not receiving an answer, and then when their minds grasp onto this idea, "You already knew it was true" they feel a huge sense of relief because this "testimony" is required for them to have any hope of getting married...

Welcome back AstroNOM!!

I love the "Meet with a Salesman" popups!

Mormorrisey wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:22 am

A recent convert piped up and suggested we let them pass the sacrament. My old friend the former HPGL was there and looked at me and said quite clearly, "be careful!" So I said, "no, I don't think I'll be careful,"

Love this! Wish I had the cahones to this kind of thing a little more often.

I really love this part: Today, Sam is being judged by a handbook, not by his heart, his righteous desires, or his good fruits. But on the final judgment day I am not worried about Sam standing before the Lord . Whatever decision you make today can and will be overruled by our Savior. I loved that ...

It was great to meet you yesterday!

If they REALLY BELIEVE what they teach, The Brethren are about to do the most cruel, brutal, and vengeful thing that they can imagine: the are going to delete a man's baptism of Jesus and eradicate his ability to make the atonement effective in his live via the sacrament, they are going to remove h...

Red Ryder wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 04, 2018 11:25 am

Here's the thing with resignation. It means more to you than it does to the church, ex wife, or bishop. Will anyone care if you resign? No. You're already out of the fold so many expect and hope you would to make their life easier.

If it brings closure than do it.

Yes.

At one time I was the Secretary in the mission office because I can type like a bat out of hell. Anyway, by tradition the Secretary was also the District Leader of the mission office district, so I had to put together a bullspit meeting every Monday. I hated my mission and seeing all the mission of...

The Tribune articles made me feel sadness and disappointment. To quote one paragraph: "the church is trying to guard against the "youthful idea" that missionaries have special protection, (Elder Brent) Nielson says, and "let them know they're not invincible." Such a "youthful idea" has been encoura...

A recent article was published about two sister missionaries who were sexually assaulted on their missions and how missions can be unsafe places and things the church needs to do to make them safer: https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2018/08/30/lds-church-says-it-wasnt/#gallery-carousel-1963020 One of ...

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Emower wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 23, 2018 9:17 pm

In the middle of me expressing this I heard her inhale sharply and say "You're gay aren't you?"

Sigh. No mom, I'm not gay...

Hahahahaha!!!

Just This Guy wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 26, 2018 10:38 am

Feels like both a weight off my shoulders, but nervous what the fallout with our families will be.

I hear ya.

Here's hoping you can move on in life without much baggage.

The priesthood is just nothing. So it doesn't really matter if you do it or not. What I don't like is that the man's advice is considered sacred, while their mother's advice holds less water.

I can just share what I did, which was to be passive aggressive for a while. Just don't answer phone calls, ignore texts and emails, be wishy washy, if he corners you just kind of shrug your shoulders. Or you can go visit people for a while or call them on the phone and see how they are doing. There...

We baptized my daughter at home in the creek in our back yard. Myself and my inactive, atheist stepfather gave her the gift of the holy ghost. She was happy about it and that is all that matters.