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I'm going to the Preston England Temple for the first time on the 7th June!! I'm so excited! This will be my first time ever at this or any Temple, so what are the do's and don't s for a first Temple visit?

My grandmother has decided that for her 85th birthday she wants to be sealed to her husband and children. This is a woman who converted to marry my LDS grandfather (who never went through the temple and was rather inactive his whole life), did church stuff for decades for "social reasons" and only got serious about her faith a few years ago. My poor dad, being the only living male in the family, has to apparently stand in for two other people besides himself. Anywho, I'm quite excited about this upcoming sealing.

I like the doctrine that you can have faith without your faith being perfect. That a mere desire to believe is a seed of faith that when nurtured can grow into a large tree of faith. Alma 32:26-43 https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/32?lang=eng#25

Hey I'm thinking about taking a road trip to Nauvoo in 2016. Can't go sooner with other trips/obligations this year and next. Want to go with me in 2016?

I know this one! Because the metric salespeople lie. Metric is supposed to be sooooo much easier, but those that have looked into it know it isn't. For length (in the standard system) I'm dealing with nice round numbers like 12, 3, 5280, etc. For volumes we get nice numbers like 2 and 4. Move over to metric and suddenly we're using 2.54 and 3.785. Yeah, that's so much easier. Also nature uses the Standard measurement for time with numbers like 12, 60, 7, and 30. Don't go against nature - abandon the metric system!

Who moved my cheese? Ah, it's in a better spot now. I am wondering if it will show up on my low res laptop now? Where is that dang laptop...

I am sure with a nice charitable donation you could get it moved where you want...

Was driving home last evening, and some guys with backpacks and white shirts! I thought "well, they're either Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons!" So I stopped in the middle of road and asked them. They looked really confused and said Mormon, so I just gave them a thumbs up..... As I was driving back I got a sudden urge to turn around and go talk to them. So long story short, I ran them down and we talked and they gave me a pamphlet and a Book of Mormon! Looking forward to reading them!

I used to clean carpets back in the day. What do you mean by spray on carpet cleaner? Is this something you want to do yourself? I would recommend a steam cleaner over the chemical ones. Chemical ones leave lots of junk, better to cook the dirt out of the carpet and suck it away. Then if you really love your carpet have them treat it with a scotch guard type treatment.

Sorry PC. I just had to change the spelling of "syndrome" in your title. Syndrom was driving me crazy. :)

Here are a couple of quotes that attempt to explain it: James E. Talmage "One may wonder why Jesus had forbidden Mary Magdalene to touch Him, and then, so soon after, had permitted other women to hold Him by the feet as they bowed in reverence. We may assume that Mary's emotional approach had been prompted more by a feeling of personal yet holy affection than by an impulse of devotional worship such as the other women evinced. Though the resurrected Christ manifested the same friendly and intimate regard as He had shown in the mortal state toward those with whom He had been closely associated, He was no longer one of them in the literal sense. There was about Him a divine dignity that forbade close personal familiarity. To Mary Magdalene Christ had said: 'Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father.' If the second clause was spoken in explanation of the first, we have to infer that no human hand was to be permitted to touch the Lord's resurrected and immortalized body until after He had presented Himself to the Father. It appears reasonable and probable that between Mary's impulsive attempt to touch the Lord, and the action of the other women who held Him by the feet as they bowed in worshipful reverence, Christ did ascend to the Father, and that later He returned to earth to continue His ministry in the resurrected state. (Jesus the Christ, p. 682.) Bruce R. McConkie "The seeming refusal of Jesus to permit Mary to touch him, followed almost immediately by the appearance in which the other women were permitted to hold his feet, has always been the source of some interpretative concern. The King James Version quotes Jesus as saying 'Touch me not.' The Joseph Smith Translation reads 'Hold me not.' Various translations from the Greek render the passage as 'Do not cling to me' or 'Do not hold me.' Some give the meaning as 'Do not cling to me any longer,' or 'Do not hold me any longer.' Some speak of ceasing to hold him or cling to him, leaving the inference that Mary was already holding him. There is valid reason for supposing that the thought conveyed to Mary by the Risen Lord was to this effect: 'You cannot hold me here, for I am going to ascend to my Father.'" (The Mortal Messiah: From Bethlehem to Calvary, 4 vols. [salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1979-1981], 4: 264.)

Those using their parents' copy of George Reynolds' commentaries must realize that they are based on very old scholarship. Lots has come out regarding the BoM since he wrote. It is a good thing to at least supplement his writings with newer scholarship that reviews many things he did not even conceive in his day. I suggest the same for those still quoting out of "Answers to Gospel Questions" or "Mormon Doctrine". A lot of revelation, research and science has occurred since they were written. We need to know what they understood, but also understand the new stuff, as well. Otherwise, we cannot grow.

This was in an article in the Ensign in 1988 by Stephen E. Robinson concerning this. Here is a brief quotation of what was written: LDS.org - Ensign Article - Warring against the Saints of God