Imagine Monty Python and the Holy Grail LDS style!
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You represent their own darkest fears that the church really is a sham and they fear you. The LDS testimony really is a fragile thing when you stop to think about it. They have to keep getting up every month trying to convince each other its all true. The GA's devote so much of their time and energy trying to shore up the sagging testimonies of its members. Its not you personally they are afrai
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Penny for the Guy?
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Growth in my suburban ward but its from a large amount of move ins from the morridor. Convert growth is slow to non existent.
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I wasn't there when it happened, I was in England several years later but saw the results. American missionaries would teach the British boys how to play American baseball. Apparently it was quite popular. The missionaires would play a while and then give a discussion or lesson and then herd the kids off to the chapel to be baptized. The ward rosters were full of names of people who had be
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I'm semi active for family reasons. On a recent Sunday after sacrament meeting a former member of the bishopric (who I actually like and see around town from time to time and enjoy speaking with) walked up to me in the foyer and just went on and on about my shirt running his hand along my shoulder and back. As it was happening I thought it was wierd because it was just your standard everyday oxfo
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was a great "haunted house in space" film. Lots of action, thrills and spills with a shocking gore factor thrown in for good measure. James Cameron was able to catch lightening in a bottle with the first sequel which was, IMHO, an even better movie than the original. Aliens 3 is when the franchise went off the rails and jumped the shark. I thought Prometheus was OK. Not as good as
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I hated garments. I dreaded the day I had to start wearing them like death. As a missionary I looked foward to P-days where we'd play basketball so I could take the damn things off - if even for just a few hours. One time while a missionary, I chose not to wear the garment bottoms one day - what I thought of at the time as tempting fate - just to try to feel normal again for once and as a test
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In fact, LDS doctrine, if you can call it that, suggests that there would be worlds without number with life on it. Neal Maxwell spoke often about it. If some alien landed on earth, popped the hatch and wasn't wearing garments - maybe THEN there might be some impact on the LDS church.
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was insinuating that Christ's main concern during his ministry was LOYALTY. Holland was oh-so-not-so-gently trying to hammer in the new LDS doctrine of loyalty and it now apparently is a new prerequisite for entering the kingdom of God. I actually got the creepy shivers when I heard him say that. Did anyone else catch that?
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the possibility that this age change is to accomodate a coming demographic slump in mission age youth. The church can NOT show decreasing numbers of missionaries so they are mortgaging some numbers for the next year or two to keep the number of missionaries steady or increasing. I was an 18 monther in the early 80's. I still believe that the reason behind that change was NOT the recession as t
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I think I would actually start crying with joy if the church ditched the G's
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if Harry Reid is supposed to be the face of mormonism!
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If the church was really that paranoid about Romney bashing from its own members then you'd think they would have muzzled Harry Reid after repeated accusations that Bro Romney, former Stake President, is a liar and cheat. I'm not defending the LDS church for their elephant like grace in this affair but this may not all be about Romney. Just an opinion from Nascaristan.
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I learned not to forget to drink my Ovaltine.
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He's probably just PO'd that he didnt' get selected to be one of the elite invited to the temple site dedication next weekend so he's taking his anger out on you.
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I think McKays tenure was the golden years of Mormonism. Everything that has come after him has just been one big clusterf***.
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innoculation.
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And it came to pass that KooKoo4Kokaubeam did remove his garments and put on the undergarment of the gentile. And it came to pass that in time when his father did appear that the father did place his hands upon kookoo4kokaubeam's shirt and did move his fingers around in circular motions. And it came to pass that the spirit descended upon kookoo and his mind was made aware that his father was f
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Hell no. I never liked them. Hated boxers, hated garments, hate boxer briefs. Blech. Guess i'm stuck in the 70's.
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"Work hard and have fun." Despite all the BS and guilt inducing crap that I discovered was part of an LDS mission I made it a priority - if only for mental health reasons - to find ways to enjoy my mission and have fun. My family were convents, btw, so we were still pretty naive and not even close to being the nazi TBM's that seem to be so prevalent in the church.
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But what pisses me off is that they will look at you straight in the eyes and deny that anything has ever changed. I think that the overwhelming majority of the church thinks that the church as it currently is formed is pretty much the exact church that hatched out of Joseph Smith's Palmyra egg.
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with the wave of their hand and say it was just folklore. Hey, they've done it before!
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that actually didn't even have a bath or shower. It had a flush toilet but you had to get to go outside the house to get to it. We would wash up in the kitchen and 2-3 times a week go down to a public bath where we could rent private showers that had great water pressure and unlimited - and uninterrupted - hot water.
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I never grow tired of reading others experiences on their mission. To be sure, the experience a missionary has is largely influenced by the type of Mission President they have. Is he a GA wannabe? Is he a TBM sphincter? Or is he a pretty normal average kinda guy? I had two MP's. The first was hard to get to know. I thought he was pretty cold and aloof. Any interaction I had with him was pretty
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attending a Church of England Easter Vigil service at a cathedral (AS AT TBM MISSIONARY) than I ever did in a temple endowment session. That was one item on my shelf I could never reconcile.
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And a whole lot of pissed off.
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North Stake is in charge and they are trying to get a choir together to sing at the groundbreaking. Thats all I know at this point.
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They've announced groundbreaking on September 29th. No word yet as to who will come out from SLC for it.
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