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We had a bishop who asked a bunch of elders to give a how-to-consecrated-oil demonstion in sacrament meeting. They stood in a circle and held the olive oil bottle in their right hands while each placed his left hand on the shoulder of the next guy. Then while one of them said the magic words, for ...

I have been through this twice and have another one coming up this fall (and two more after that a few years down the road). Around the time my first was approaching 8, I was coming to acceptance that mormon priesthood isn't really what it's claimed to be, and I didn't feel comfortable participating ...

This interest in Missouri is only to keep up a presence because the CoC and the Temple Lot group are there. Well, that and the fact of the many prophecies made by Joseph Smith about events that have taken place, and supposedly will take place in Missouri and environs. It would be difficult to write ...

Linked wrote: ↑Tue Jul 03, 2018 1:05 pm I hope so. She seems like the kind of person that really prefers to have things her way. Or maybe I'm projecting my mother onto her...

Most accurate thread subject ever. We didn't go to church on Mother's day because my TBM wife wanted to sleep in and have breakfast in bed. But when it came to Father's day, she insisted we be at church. And the talks were just as to be expected. "My dad is so great because we have the priesthood in ...

Dude, that's not how you told it the first time. You said it was just Corsair surrounded by scripts and glory, whatever that means, and that he forgave you for hanging out on mormondialogue.org. You need to be careful so you don't give people a faithless crisis. And what about Capn' Salty??? Each ...

3) Stay on the covenant path - self-assess how you are doing, repent and come back on it. The "covenant path"... Do they really think these stupid little catch-phrases and buzzwords actually accomplish anything? Seriously, how much of their billions are they paying some marketing schmuck to come up ...

Hagoth wrote: ↑Fri May 11, 2018 11:40 am you have to be prepared to either keep your situation secret or be villainized by the people who reside in states 1 and 2 who will reinvent your hard-earned humility as a particularly nasty form of pride.

This rings so true. Admitting that I was wrong is somehow prideful. Ugh.

The non-believer will not be welcomed any time soon. :( I've wondered how much of this is intentional. I mean, the church teaches that happiness comes from membership in the church and adherence to the gospel. If apostates aren't happy, that proves their point. They don't acknowledge that the ...

So funny! :lol: I have to remember the phrase priesthood antennae. It was hard for me to stop wearing garments. I took the covenants seriously and even as my belief began to wither away, I still felt supersticious about taking them off. I was legitimately afraid of what would happen if I did. The ...

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lds.org%2Fbc%2Fcontent%2Fldsorg%2Fchurch%2Fnews%2F580-Nelson%2520MTC.jpg&f=1 Here you go, he's uh.. Happier? in this one? Nope. I'm looking at his eyes. His mouth and lines show smile, but his eyes, way in there, don't. This smile is shallow and ...

c) Things to note: - if you do not believe in God, you die, & there is no God - then you no longer exist & it is over - if you believe in God, you die, & there is no God - then you no longer exist & it is over, but you lived a good life Wow! So it's impossible to live a good life if you don't ...

I struggle with this one. I'm not opposed to helping clean the building since my family uses it. However, I am opposed to the method of assigning my family a week without asking for volunteers or for any input on which week might work, and then announcing it from the pulpit to compel with peer ...

I was not expecting a "trust the process" reference in the middle of that. Well done. It's actually a really good analogy. I haven't worn garments in a couple years, but it was a process to get to that point. I can definitely empathize with Graey's comment. Before my disaffection, the garment ...

If this follows the familiar pattern, then this new program won't last long. When I was an EQP, we were also supposed to conduct quarterly PPI's, which is basically the same thing. We would talk about home teaching, yada, yada, yada, that's nice but do more. No one was ever available for these ...

He's been giving tribes/gathering of Israel talks for the longest time. He came to my mission at the beginning of this millenium and gave basically the same talk he's given in conference in the almost 20 years since. (On a related note, my mission happens to be one of the new temple announcements. I ...

The hits keep coming. She reported it to her bishop in 1987. Any guesses as to what he told her? But the bishop, who asked not to be named, said in an interview with The Tribune that he didn’t believe her, nor did he tell any superiors. ”I felt the allegations were groundless,” he recalled this week ...

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900013479/woman-levels-accusations-against-former-mtc-president.html This Deseret News article is schizophrenic. They are more than happy to paint the victim as not credible, but the quote from the County attorney is quite strong. I'm frankly surprised it made it ...

My favorite thing about this story is that I came across it completely outside of the DAMU. So, I guess it's not just BYU sports that make a good missionary.

The church definitely doesn't allow abuse, right?
https://www.sltrib.com/pb/news/politics ... ere-abused