Gordon Smith was defeated in 2008. As an Oregonian, I don't give a rat's patootie where he works now.
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Oh, yes, it will and it is. This was posted on a missionary's blog I happened upon (http://www.missionsite.net/elderbrycegrantham/viewletter/297950): "And yes I have had new experiences and they sucked. I cannot stand leadership out here they piss me, the eff off. Most of the leaders now are younger ones and they have no flipping common sense it's ridiculous. They are setting up meetings
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About as well as you'd expect of bored, frustrated, inexperienced teens. http://tjorginportland.blogspot.com/ May 10 Also, yesterday, during lunch, we got kinda bored. Aunt Heather sent me a slingshot for christmas... we live on the 3rd floor and there is a cat that hangs out kind of at the bottom of the stairs, but aways a bit. So we started shooting advils at it from our balcony.... we
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The Hosannah Shout is explained and demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waRS5DXh3F0
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From another missionary blog in the Portland mission: "This week was a very interesting week. Tons of emotions and secrets and things to learn about others. [...] This ward is nothing like any of the other wards that I have served in. This week was crazy just trying to learn all the people and all the drama that goes on in it. [...] I think that the missionaries are the ones holding t
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First, a quick intro. I’m a long-time lurker who was nearly a hormonal convert in the early 70s until I learned about the priesthood ban. I’ve had a number of Mormon friends (who were very nice people but who never really had time to just be friends). I enjoy genealogy and was doing some online research when I came across this site several years ago. I’ve been visiting the Family
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