"is there anyone in the ward that is usually up by 8am on a Saturday that could watch my kids while [husband] and I go help clean the church? it would be a big help"
if they don't want to put family first, have one parent stay home to be a parent while the one who drew the shorter straw goes to do the silly cleaning assignment.
Everyone here brings their kids with them to clean. The kids are given menial jobs to do like wiping the exterior doors, or they just run around the building like crazy.
Some day a bunch of people will get sick while cleaning for LDS Inc when some inexperienced person accidentally mixes the wrong chemicals and fumes fill the building.
You have to be friends with my sister, because she posted that exact same thing. Everyone but me in my family is TBM, and she used to be the only other person who was inactive. But now they are completely back in. It makes me sad.
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Haha!! Thanks! Every time I come on this site and see my screen name, I sing that song from Sons of Provo in my head... "Nourish and strengthen our bodies and do us the good that we need...to carry us through the rest of this day..." haha!!
Its okay. I was thinking about posting it here too. LOL. I feel bad for her because they used to be inactive but started going back to church to get help with money and now they are TBM again. Its annoying because now I'm the only "black sheep".
I was uber-TBM as a teenager. I got married at nineteen in the temple to a guy who was in and out of activity. After we got married, I started to go inactive too, but I went in and out for awhile. Then I started going to college when I was about 26 and took an Ethics and Values class when I started to learn how to think for myself and realized I didn't really need religion. Then when I found out about Prop 8 and the church's involvement in it, I was angry because I believed in marriage equality. I knew I didn't want to be a part of the church anymore for that reason. So I researched the internet about how to remove my name from the records (I had gotten a divorce and a guy I was chatting up told me about it), So I sent in my resignation. It wasn't until after the resignation that I started reading this board and finding out all the crap about the church. Then I knew I made the right decision. So really my education and Prop 8 initially led me out.
Your friend would let anyone in the ward babysit her kids?
That seems odd to me. Most people are particular about babysitters (must know the family well, come recommended by someone you trust, have experience, etc.).
This never ending cycle of watching friend's or family's children while members go visit teach, to the temple, canning, etc. etc. is a site to behold. Watching it unfold is enough to make you stay in bed for a month, so how do those who keep up the tempo not have a monthly nervous breakdown? When I was sort of going to mormoney church, this was all new to me. Did mormon moms not care that they were letting someone else raise their kids by spending so little time with them? The theme seemed to be, infact was even voiced, that if you do what Gawd calls you to do, your children will be watched over and protected,
I've lived enough years now (some would say too many) to see that a lot of trouble and heartache resulted from some parents I watched who were not around over and over again.