Well, alrighty then. How do they explain away the way RS was run for years and years...their own magazine, dues to be a "member", bazaars, rummage sales, bake sales and other fund raising activities to fund the organization and most of all, autonomy. It only got put under the priesthood in when, the 60's(?) or so when the correlation program was implemented. They now just want to rew
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I was a young married with two children and a husband in graduate school, transplanted recently from BYU to St. Louis in the mid 70's. Illinois was in the final stages of ratifying the Equal Rights amendment and the LDS church was in full battle mode. Weeks and weeks of relief society meetings were devoted to making signs and getting whipped up about the terrible things that would happen if it w
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So, I'm off today and tomorrow. I make an appt with my doc to get my prescriptions renewed. Nurse takes my BP and it's a little high. Doc decides my BP has been all over the map in the last year so has me wearing a BP monitor for 24 hours. It takes a reading every 15 minutes! I have one question: How am I supposed to sleep tonight with this thing squeezing the life out of my arm and beepi
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My heartfelt gratitude for this day coming because then the days will start getting longer. I want winter to be over!
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I have fond memories of that building. It had character.
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I would not have followed your advice about finding a good man who would support me so I wouldn't have to worry about working. I would not have listened when you told me a college education wasn't important for a woman. Though this was not just a mormon dynamic, the emphasis on mormon women staying home to raise the family certainly played into it.
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Well, well, well...so the LDS church is calling home the missionaries from the Ivory Coast because it's too dangerous...The Swiss want to ban all missionaries who aren't from the EU and 13 senators have protested....looks like the missionary program isn't rolling forward as much as the COB mucky mucks would like it to....tsk tsk
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I was on 9th East and approx 4200 S. in Salt Lake.
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My TBM son lives there. Wonder if any of you might know him from your past activity.
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Ok, driving home from Christmas shopping in Salt Lake. Passed a couple of missionaries walking out of an apartment complex, probably knocking doors. One of the missionaries is talking on a cell phone. After I passed by, it suddenly dawned on me...he was talking on a cell phone! Ok, are they allowed to have their own? Who pays the bill? Is it monitored in any way? Can they text their girlfr
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I am the same in my office right here in Salt Lake. Some of the gals started reading "The 19th Wife" and they just could not believe some of what they were reading. I'd fill them in on temple stuff and it was just amazing to them that several of the people they work with participate in and believe the stuff that goes on in the temple among other things. It is quite funny at times.
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should make TBM's have major cog dis as it discusses mental illnesses that include visions, etc. It mentions several religions that were started because people claimed this and mentions Joseph Smith among others. Here is the link.... http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/50836237-80/says-god-religious-person.html.csp
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My father had gone down to Long Beach, CA in Oct. 1941 to attend ship building school. When the attack on Pearl Harbor happened, the students were all put immediately to work building ships, so he had to learn on the job. He sent for my mother and my older sister and they lived in Long Beach for the duration of the war. His birthday was the day after Pearl Harbor and tomorrow he would have been
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The commercials come on often as I am driving to and from work in SLC. Get this or that book written by some LDS person..GA or not...the perfect Christmas gift...blah blah. I don't think I have ever heard of this type of marketing to any other religious group like the LDS do it. The latest books I have heard advertised include a book about LDS dads and their extraordinary feats and another b
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I heard a blurb on the local news this morning that said he was going to testify about reading Mitchel's writings. His credentials were his knowledge of Ababic and Middle Eastern stuff. So? I do not get it.
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What makes me sick is the amount of tithing people donate. I see it up close and personal in my job. What a colossal waste of money.
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Ok, I see the sticky from Susan at the top that says not to link to the CHI. I guess I thought that was some pirated copy someone had someplace, not an official website.
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The Salt Lake Tribune gave a thumbs up to the fact that it is now online. Really? If this has been discussed here, I didn't see the thread. Why in the world would they do that? Isn't it supposed to be reserved for only the mucky mucks to know and the great unwashed never to find out? I need answers.
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Even when I was an active member, I thought about this and secretly wished I would be one of those who got to hear the gospel in the next life...for all the reasons you pointed out!
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I did. Had to. We got engaged in college after being together for so many years in the dating game. As the wedding date got closer, he panicked. He told me none of his brothers had gone on missions and it would make his mother so happy if he did. Well, being the little molly that I was, I thought he was so so righteous, and I vowed to wait for him. We got married 3 weeks(!) after he got hom
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I know I would have probably had sex in high school. That would have probably led to either pregnancy or marrying someone other than my husband who turned out to be gay. I likely would have finished college instead of working while waiting for my missionary. I likely would not have had as many children
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That I could have my own world someday (with my god-husband and lots of sister wives, of course)
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my fiance and lover my children and grandchildren microwave ovens my old reliable 12 year old car a job that pays well even tho I didn't graduate from college
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Yes, we are older. I am older by several years, so Yeah, I am a cougar...haha. He is probably a little less healthy than I am so the age difference seems less of an issue as we go forward. I will retire years before he does.
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Thanks everyone. You've all given me lots to think about and share with my fiance. Utahnomo, your reasons for marrying are wonderful and special.
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I hadn't been to church in a couple of years by that time. The bishop was a friend. He asked me how I felt about giving "remarks from the mother" at the end of the farewell. I told him I would. I told the congregation I wasn't going to give a talk but that I was going to tell them about my son...which I did, with some anecdotes from his life that showed what an amazing person he w
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I got engaged in June. We moved in together in July. Bought a house and have been living there for a few months. We are both divorced (me-twice) and are both gun-shy about moving forward with a wedding. Things are good now just like they are. I know there are tax/health insurance/etc benefits to being married. I also like the idea of the committment of marriage, but with the high divorce r
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It is like mourning a death. Everyone grieves at their own pace. I had the same mixed feelings when my former husband told me he was gay in 1992. Some days I wished he had never told me but in the long run, it was the best for both of us to move on. When I figured out the church was bogus in about 1995, I didn't have those same mixed feelings, so go figure. Maybe I had already had my biggest
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Anyone here who served in that mission?
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I would really like Steve Benson's take on how this article portrays his grandfather while he was in Eisenhower's cabinet, his interactions with J. Edgar Hoover, and his association with the John Birch Society. I found the article very interesting. Here's the link: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/50349153-78/benson-hoover-fbi-society.html.csp
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