$20 on the way.
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When my nephew got his missionary orders to Ghana, I took a trip there via Google Earth to check it out. The mormons are only one of many missionary churches in Accra. Pretty much one on every corner. With so many churches competing for the same customers there has to be a lot of poaching of converts.
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From the Kimball era. "Lengthen your Stride"
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I'm a few months short of my 64th birthday. I was angry for a while. Actually watched myself go through Kubler-Ross' five stages of grief. I got over it and life is very very good.
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My lame joke has been that you take your 72 hour kit when you stand in line for your FEMA payment.
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I live in Santa Barbara. How have I missed this?
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Brilliant!
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Wheat grass. Tommy is mixing smoothies during the break.
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Here's my response: "Is that judgement or jealousy? I can't really tell."
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"Sure, pay your tithing. The windows of heaven will open and you won't know what to do with all your blessings." The reality: I paid, with not a little difficulty. My money has to go a lot of directions. My blessings? Some sort of financial catastrophe. Car repair, dental bill, always high dollar and always unexpected. Then I started connecting the dots. rutabaga pays tithing=b
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AS long as you cover the mermaids shoulders you'll be safe.
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Central coast of CA checking in. We'll take all the rain we can get. The sound and light show is icing on the cake.
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It was in Africa. I forget where. The temple was shot up and looted. It looks like the article was scrubbed from Google, but a search of this site should turn it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aba_Nigeria_Temple I think it was this one.
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Many people in our ward have tablets so you see kids playing games, adults getting their lessons ready and general internet surfing. I'd say 50% is pretty close.
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Today we had a pre-stake conference consisting of a satellite broadcast. The keynote speaker was Renlund. His message was tolerance. We agree to disagree. I like you. I respect your considered opinion. I hope we can be friends. The way I heard it this referenced the current TBM/Gay dynamic. Without backing down on church policy, we are to be tolerant even though we disagree. Did
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I'm hearing Cat Stevens now.
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More like denial.
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A priceless quote from FB comments on this article. "I find it interesting that Elder Nelson now declares this latest policy change a "revelation" received by Pres. Monson, after being "clarified" by Church Public Relations, after explained by Elder Christofferson, after published by an apostate, after leaked by an anonymous source, after quietly published in a Handboo
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I have nephew who went to Africa. In six weeks he was back home. Stories ranged from medical/dietary problems to administrative. I still don't know the real story, but I'm guessing he just didn't like it there and had the fortitude to make up a story that would get him sent home. Now he's going to school, working, getting on with life. He talks about getting it together and going back to Afric
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I'm a boy named Kim. I like it!
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Very good!
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A certain hairstyle in a certain area.
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And women add their support with a landing strip.
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elijah, elijah, bo-belijah Banana-fana fo-felijah Fee-fi-mo-melijah elijah!
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My TBM friends and relatives brag about their cleanflix movies with violence and language edited out. I laugh and say "So its a silent movie ten minutes long?" They don't seem to get the humor.
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I didn't ask anyones opinion prior to enlisting in the Navy. Not even my parents. They were hurt and miffed, but in the end it was my decision to make and I have no regrets. I signed up for Navy Nuke, but washed out during boot camp because of math scores. My fall back was nuclear weapons, not so picky about high school math. It turned out to be great. No underway watches, 4 section liberty, s
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Not being able to take the tourist cruise ship to Mars.
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Al the ingredients for our hygeine kits come from the dollar store.
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When I met with SP a couple nights ago, I kept stressing that I didn't have the "religion gene" and thus had a lot of difficulty with the BoM. I called it an adventure story. SP ignored that and bore testimony of the BoM. If I were only to read it with pure intent I would discover the religion gene that was missing in my life. I didn't roll my eyes, but he couldn't have missed the
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Half of the photos have some sort of phallic symbol in the background. Flagpole, water tower, oil pump.
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