Posted by:
pollythinks
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Date: December 03, 2016 08:35PM
We stopped getting a Christmas tree about 2 decades ago (too much work putting it up and taking it down, and irrelevant anyway). But this had more to do with age, not being LDS.
But LDS stuff I did take down were 4-or-5 framed pictures of muscle-men from the BofM "doing their thing" (which pictures were hanging in our hallway). (These were not only taken down by me, but gone forever.)
Being Christian, we do have a nativity set I put up on our piano top, and enjoy that very much. (Again, a Christian decoration, not "Mormon".) I bought this set sturdy (not delicate), so the kids could handle them without worry of breakage.
My handy husband built a Christian decoration for the porch: 4ft-tall candles (4 of them) with light bulbs for the "flame", and a curved wood "ribbon" sign over these with the word, "NOEL" on it. (And, with an automatic electric "on/off" switch for this, so we don't even have this chore to do.)
Again, my husband is still "active" (but stay-at home, due to his age), but our home teacher usually brings us a goodie at Christmas time that his wife makes for us.
In that my husband and I don't agree on Mormonism, we say very little along this line, but we are both Christians.
BTW: A man from church called us today to see about our setting a time to come in for "tithing settlement". I told him we were out of the running, as "We don't have transportation". Sounding embarrassed, he said this was "OK", and he understood. Took it well. (We live in CA, not Utah, so no door-to-door collections.)
Earlier, reg. monthly "tithing", I suggested to my husband that our being retired qualifies us more for the widow's mite donation, than the church's need for our money, and that we had already "taken our turn" when we able. So far, this seems to have satisfied him. We support ourselves, and the church will have to do the same without a contribution from us. The SLC church is RICH!!