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What a great story! It's incredible how your conversations and interactions become more open, more real, and more connected. I'm so happy for you, and I hope child #8 soon joins you!

Sadly, showing up to teach primary with a tiny baby was less irritating and frustrating than having to find a sub to teach it for me. :( In hindsight, it seems like the least a ward could do to support a woman who just gave birth was taking care of lining up the subs, but what do I know? I guess I ...

This new policy illustrates even further how leaders ignore real data and focus only on staffing the PH positions when they adjust boundaries. I am certain there's rarely any consideration to how many people are single moms, or the ratio of very young children to adults (and can limit the available ...

Thoughts from a former primary president---Have fun staffing that. :D Primary callings are so hard to fill. I know. When I wasn't in the RSP, I was in the PP or teaching primary. Once, I had lined up my own sub because I didn't want to teach primary when I was 39 weeks pregnant. Someone else called ...

My understanding is this: 2 people were mandatory if one was a man. Husband + Wife = OK 1 Man + 1 Man = OK 1 Woman = OK Now it's mandatory to have 2 people: Husband + Wife = OK 1 Man + 1 Man = OK (if not gay lovers) 1 Woman + 1 Woman = OK (if not gay) Not ok: 1 Man 1 Woman 1 Man + 1 Woman (not ...

No success as a senior missionary can compensate for the years of your grandchildren's lives you will miss. Senior missions are nothing more than evidence than the Church will take everything it can get from you right up until the end of your life. I agree with this - I know people who are (even as ...

Well, I'd suggest swapping wives with some of the guys who want to serve missions but their DWs don't want to leave the grandkids, but that might sound like the way things ran in the early church. Yes, you are right about the "broke" part. I wonder if the church would let the devout wife in a mixed ...

One of the firm changes after my faith transition is that there is no way I am serving a senior mission. I suspect this realization was one of the biggest for my wife. She wants to spend her retirement years attending the temple and serving a mission. I can support her if she wants to spend her ...

You sound exhausted and stretched in too many directions. Here are some thoughts or ideas, for what it's worth: Definitely hire a housekeeper. Even twice a month will make you feel like a new person on the days when you come home to a clean house waiting for you. Don't even look back, just do it ...

I think of myself as a victim of having been all-in Mormon. When I was in the church (a convert) I self-identified as Mormon. I gave it my all, including my trust, my time, and my tithing. The shelf-crash was very damaging to me, and I am recovering from that, more so than from being Mormon. I do ...

Historically, where NOM sits between the ridge and the disbelievers has varied at different times. In the earliest times, LDSman tried to steer it right to the ridge, and maybe even where StayLDS ended up. But there were also some very vocal negative voices in some of those earlier years, who drove ...

I started replying to all on the to the "show up to clean" emails distribution lists with questions about why cleaning wasn't paid for with our tithing dollars. The a$$hat bishop commanded all families on each list to be "represented," so he didn't like it at all. But, word got out that I was a ...

I just lost about 10lbs from laughing so hard. You can market this post and make a lot of money.

Oh, man - I am sorry! Even when divorce is the thing that needs to happen (not saying that is the case here), it comes with a myriad of emotions. We've watched your journey for a few years now, and I remember when your DW also recognized the church wasn't the place to be. Maybe there will be some ...

Don't forget all the talk about underwear (new styles, etc.)

Mormorrisey wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:32 pm

ulmite wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:30 pm wow, High Priests just got more elite!

No joke, that's what it seems.

I haven't viewed it yet - how is it more (artificially) elite now? I thought it sounded like it diluted it, and it's a move to integrate EQ into HP to increase retention? That's just based on what I heard of it.

Of course he can't let a conference go by without a pilot talk! (I've always found Pontius Pilate one of the more interesting minor characters in the NT...) Actually, in mainstream Christianity, he is widely known (if not in detail). Most mainstream churches remember some form of the "Apostles ...

-100 for being far, far behind all other mainstream churches. You know - the ones that have clothing closets, free medical clinics, food pantries, regular outreach work in the community? You know, the ones that do ALL of that without carding the recipients to see if they're members? Very true ...

-100 for being far, far behind all other mainstream churches. You know - the ones that have clothing closets, free medical clinics, food pantries, regular outreach work in the community? You know, the ones that do ALL of that without carding the recipients to see if they're members?

MoPag wrote: ↑Sat Mar 31, 2018 1:38 pm Is HE really giving a talk about meekness?!?!?

I was gone for the first portion of the session (missed the screaming) - walking in while Bednar was speaking & I am amazed his tongue didn't turn black and fall out right on the podium!