wow, MEP must have really had a problem himself!
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Jimmer Fredette, BYU basketball player, is in the running to win the Wooden award for best college basketball player this year. Back when I was the young wife of a bishop in the SF Bay area, we had a ward mission leader who was so full of himself it was breathtaking. He worked at the airport. One night, he really outdid himself in a stake priesthood meeting by stating that he was instrumental
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reclaim my weekends. I used to HATE weekends but now I love 'em! Oh, plus live with my fiance' and not care who knows it!
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I'll chime in. There has been a construction crew right outside my office window since 7 a.m. making gawd-awful noise and we are all on our last nerve! I am ready to punch all of THEM!
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Hey, Stunted....Paul Rolly mentioned this same billboard in his column today....see link (last story in his comments) http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/51569822-90/car-lot-rolly-towed.html.csp#
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Jacobson and Oklund are a couple of the big ones. Are they unionized? What kind of wages do the construction workers make? I ask this because there seems to be an overwhelming number of them who don't speak English.
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I've heard they are having a really hard time with the single wards and even making older single adults go back to the family wards....so maybe he things getting every young person married off the problem will be solved.
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I go with the idea of handing the garments off to some member of the local ward. You have then disposed of them and no longer have to worry about how they will ultimately get thrown awa.
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See, Deb, they just don't want to let go of a "golden contact". That's what you were and unless you tell them firmly to leave you alone, this will continue to drag out for weeks or months. It almost feels like stalking at this point.
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Ok, so this morning we are talking about stuff and my never-mo fiance mentions about the local church parking lot being open for traffic. I tell him that people aren't at church today. Him: "why not, it's Sunday" Me: "It's conference and they are supposed to stay home and watch it" Him: " Oh, it's like the super bowl? The super bowl of gawd......" hahaha
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Well, that's all they have, isn't it? The leadership HAS to keep telling the members that people only leave the church because they were offended. They could never admit that there could be any other reason like the church is a fraud started by a con man. It has always been easier to blame everything on the weakness of those who leave.
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ahhh, Elder Ballard. I should have recognized his voice. Well, he sounded silly to me.
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I was driving to Costco to buy coffee...hehe...and I just unmuted KSL radio for a moment. I almost started laughing because whoever was talking seemed so childish. He said that converting people will not happen by a bunch of missionaries knocking on strangers' doors. Ahhh, an admission that that business model stopped working long ago?? Nooooo, he said that the church won't fill the whole ear
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His brother, Joseph Cook, was my stake president in the late 70's (Bay Area). I was a very depressed young wife of a bishop who was never home. When he interviewed me for a temple recommend, he asked me how I was handling being a bishop's wife. I burst into tears. He, being a doctor, told me to be in his medical office the next morning, and he reamed out my DH. His instructions to DH? Get a
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I was a wife who wanted sex...a lot. I had a husband who NEVER initiated things and if it was going to happen, I had to get things going. There was never any after cuddling and I was often left just at the edge...very frustrating. Of course, everyone here knows the end of that story. Now I am in a relationship with a man who wants it as much as I do and I have finally found what a normal em
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I just can't bring myself to do so. But, I really like when someone reports on the drivel that is spewed forth.
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I agree with "hello", it is a great place to learn how to lie skillfully. One of the BYU professors even wrote a letter to the editor of the Provo Daily Herald when it was announced that employees had to have a current temple recommend in order to work there. In the letter he basically said it would just make skillful liars out of the employees.
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Oh, yes, there is a reason he is unemployed...he is lazy.
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Do you have something that helps with the cravings? My fiance keeps telling me is he going to quit smoking cold turkey. But, I don't think a person can have success doing it that way. I've never been with a smoker so I don't know how to help him. I just want him around for a long time and I worry about it. Congrats on your week smoke free!
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My Son in law has been unemployed for nearly 2 years. His unemployement ran out months ago. My daughter has an income but they have 4 kids, lots of debt and are struggling. I have some work that I want to have him do...manual labor I am willing to pay generously for the hours it will take him. I don't like to give them handouts but I want my grandkids to eat. So, he tells me he just won
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I just watched a long segment on NBC news just now about a religious group that is still in Louisiana helping build houses and other things long long after Katrina. They didn't want to stand out, be prideful, or bring any undue attention to themselves. They just believe in helping where it's needed. The Mormons? Nah....the Mennonites. No yellow shirts proclaiming who they are, no press conf
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Yeah...prayed about marrying my husband...felt good about it. Married him. Had kids with him...but something was not right with our relationship and I blamed myself...I'd gotten the spiritual confirmation doncha know...turns out he was gay. That didn't work out so well.
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For me, once I realized it was all balony and made up by JS, I HAD to leave. I couldn't stand it. I was furious at all the time, money and guilt I had surrendered to that cult for so many years. Don't even get me started on the hold it has on my adults kids, their spouses and their own children. I wish joseph smith had never been born.
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You all are the best! I think I can really do this and not make a complete and utter fool of myself. He is already amazed that I only started drinking coffee 3 years ago.
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My sweetie is always asking for "sweet tea" when we go out but they never seem to have it here (Salt Lake). So, I am thinking I should make the tea fairly sweet. How much should I make at a time? Does it keep ok for a few days or should I only make enough for a day or so? I really am a novice with tea!
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I can count on one finger the number or people from my ward of 27 years who still even speak to me....the assigned friends you get in a ward are just that...superficial ones who will tattle on you at the drop of a hat and who can never be trusted with anything negative that might be going on in your life. As for community.....I quite like NOT having to be a joiner anymore. I hang out with fam
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My then husband dressed my father for burial with the temple robes. He said that freaked him out horribly and he would never do any such thing again. I sure hope my sister does this for my own elderly mother who will likely pass in the next couple of years. And can I rant about the veil a little? It is DEMEANING that the women have to wear it over their face. I hated it in the temple and
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Isn't it pathetic that I don't even know how to do that? My sweetie wants me to make a big pitcher of it for him to have when he comes home from work. I have NO idea where to begin. Thanks
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We had one when I was growing up. She was the loudest singer in the choir, not blending in at all. Problem was, she couldn't carry a tune and was off pitch ALL the time. Poor choir director couldn't bring herself to tell the woman to pipe down. Whenever the choir performed in meetings, we knew it would be awful!
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Apatheist is a term I heard some time ago and decided that is what I am.
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