NOM

Wife went to the temple yesterday. She said it was much shorter, like an hour and 15 minutes (I think). She said that they cut out a lot of the repetition (wouldn't expound, but I think they cut out a lot of the "we will go down" repetition). Of course, not doing all the individual token giving stuf...

Yeah there's just no way to have this conversation that doesn't end poorly... and it's really frustrating because these are super nice people and I'm stuck in this rut where I can't really invite my wife to come with or it's so awkward it's not worth it, or I do invite her and have her mad at me fo...

RFM - god, if that ever happens I would love to listen to a recording of that council. The lengths that they went to to prevent Natasha from recording anything to me demonstrates just how damaging these recordings are and how fearful the church is of them. They know they don't have good answers. Nat...

It also means you can divide wards and create new ones and news stakes to artificially bloat the growth numbers. Wow, yeah, you're right about that. They have been doing this in our area with disastrous results. 7 wards that were semi-solid are now 10 struggling units, but on paper it looks great! ...

A huge chunk of convert baptisms each year is 9 year olds. A large chunk of member of record baptisms normally comes from inactive 8 year olds. These two groups where a lot of baptisms come from were affected by Covid. Yeah, totally agree with this. Most of our strategy on my mission was to baptize...

14/15. Forgot the Jewish sabbath actually started Friday at sundown.

DW and I got our first dose as soon as Phase 4 opened up last week. Ate a large 5 Guys burger afterward. Side effects have been a sore arm and mild stomach upset.

God that talk pissed me off. So I just had a 2+ hour post conference discussion with DW --again-- about my issues with the church and how it affects our kid. It is EXHAUSTING!!! I know so much more about the history and doctrines of the church from reading copious amounts of material but I'm the laz...

this does not bode well....

Mormorrisey wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:35 pm

Thanks again to Pres. Mopag for doing this.

Yup, Thanks President!! You make this so much more bearable!

so boring... ugh. I need some stuff to pick apart, like Joy's talk earlier or the abortion abomination.

blazerb wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:27 pm

To be clear, Mormorrisey is the author of that lovely line.

yeah, fixed it, that was great.

Mormorrisey wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:21 pm

Come on, Culper. Just stay on the covenant path to hasten the work in growing the Lord's Battalion.

LOL, sorry, too busy "Lighting the World" on "His Day".

-5 for "Hear Him"... so sick of these marketing tag lines constantly worked into talks.

OMG!!! He blessed someone and they lived!!!

-20 God, I've heard this "Only Deacon" in a small branch stuff SOOOO many times.

-20. I get a headache when I roll my eyes too much.

lostinmiddlemormonism wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:34 pm

Is that the piss program?

Yup. Just a bunch of nothing. It just irritates me when these guys sycophantically reference it like it's the greatest most inspired thing.

-10 the new youth program is a dumpster fire.

oh yeah, -30 for Cook for being boring and a crook. Also, I don't need DW engaging the bishop again to "straighten out her apostate husband and the effect my apostasy has on her daughter."