NOM

They were told that the population has become too aware of the missionary uniform which allows people to consciously avoid the missionaries. The new relaxed mission clothing requirements will allow people to have more natural conversations with missionaries. Seems the white shirts and ties have bec...

It’s done. DW and I wrote out everything and agreed on it beforehand so there were no surprises. All the details of my beliefs and story were removed, but I’ve got a lifetime to share that if my son cares. He seemed to understand but wasn’t too shocked. He got bored and wanted to get back to the vid...

Link, hey we've got NOM right? I guess I do have a "co-worker" at church that I have become "friends" with. But when my calling ends, the relationship probably will too. I like my co-workers but I don't really hang out with them after work, except once in awhile. I guess it could be fun to join a b...

Years ago the people living on 90th South in Sandy, Utah did not know their neighbors on the other side of the street. Why? Because the middle of the street was the dividing line between the LDS Stakes. Same for Highland Drive. Boyd K. Packer used to live just across Highland from me and we never h...

The position of the Church regarding the Negro may be understood when another doctrine of the Church is kept in mind, namely, that the conduct of spirits in the premortal existence has some determining effect upon the conditions and circumstances under which these spirits take on mortality and that...

Please pardon my ramblings... The way the church is setup, people's friendships are often determined by ward boundaries and callings. One year you are in the YM presidency and meet with Brother X weekly working closely together on something you both think is important; sharing jokes and discussing f...

This kind of thing stresses me out too sparky, you are not alone. I try to answer with short, objectively true responses. "Those are temples for the mormon church." Maybe add "That's where we were married." and leave it at that. I took an hour-long Uber ride with my wife and kids and the driver was ...

When I was little, I LOVED looking at the facsimiles. I would make up stories for them Like in this one^^ I would imagine they were all a group of friends hanging out. The two people holding hands were boyfriend and girlfriend and the boyfriend's guy friend was trying to pull him away and get him t...

Marking scriptures has a long tradition. I remember it most in seminary with scripture mastery. On my mission, I had color coding based on connecting certain scriptures to certain discussions we would teach. It's usually a way of proof texting in religion. It can be worthwhile when it is based on i...

I'm sorry your mom can't/won't understand, accept, and love you. That's so hard. How has the shooting in Colorado made it worse? Is she celebrating it? I would think that such an obviously terrible act would get bigots to rethink their bigotry rather than double down. On a personal note, I'm glad to...

I really liked this graphic from a FiveThirtyEight article . It shows how each House district voted relative to the FiveThirtyEight model expectations. Florida was redder than expected, especially southern Florida. New York City too. Maryland, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, and Arizona w...

This sounds a lot like my situation. My DW similarly does not like to talk openly about me not being a TBM. She's accepted that I don't wear garments, drink coffee, etc, but she does not want to talk about it. I just listened to the book "Hold me Tight" which was pretty good. Apparently it's quite c...

There are parallels with the change in 1978 regarding Black people and the priesthood. - The change was a significant shift in the institutional treatment of Black people. The shift was good, but what about the many years of bad? And in the case of marriage equality, "practicing" LGBTQ+ people still...

My son's primary teacher has started having the kids mark their scriptures in class. Is that problematic? All growing up I was told which scriptures were important and what they meant and told to mark them. It's so common I am prone to think it harmless and normal, but there's a little voice in the ...

It is difficult to take the church's support at face value after their history of fighting against gay marriage. And their continued harmful rhetoric against LGBTQ+ people. But the support is probably helpful to get the legislation passed. That throws up some red flags about the legislation more tha...

I get really discouraged about the state of our country but there are some bright spots. Overall, the red wave failed and that actually is historic in a midterm where the President's party usually does quite badly. Certainly in deep red states like Idaho and Utah it is going to be much more difficu...

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Sun Nov 13, 2022 4:14 pm

So I guess we're in calling purgatory at the moment. Meanwhile I'm gaining the confidence to turn down any additional callings they offer, hooray.

"calling purgatory", that's a great way to put it. Enjoy the foyer!

One of the biggest things you can do to make them happen, is to know your partners love language. Thanks Alas, this is a great point. Those were my top 4 romantic-feeling moments, but for my DW it's probably something else. Her keys are probably a different list, but there is some overlap. I'll hav...

Definitely discouraged. I was visiting with my elderly parents yesterday. My dad is an enthusiastic Trump, and Lee, supporter and my mom holds her nose and votes for Trump and his ilk even though she doesn't like Trump's style. To them the libs and lib-adjacent are the ones causing all the issues, n...