jjrogers

As a woman, I would be livid with my husband. I would yell, scream and threaten divorce BECAUSE of how hurt, devistated and betrayed I would feel. For the sake of my children I would stay. But our marriage would be in serious trouble and I would have great difficulty in ever trusting him again. On top of that to find out he hadn't talked to the Bishop would make me even madder that he did priesthood duties he wasn't worthy to do. And to know that God was not important enough in his life to at least face God even if he didn't want to face me.

I hold onto the fact that God would never ask me to go through something that was so hard unless it was truly for my good. Now, having said that, it doesn't cover consequences from my sins.

I also like The Coming of the Lord by Gerald Lund.

dang and I was hoping this was a place I could put telling my BIL and SIL not to buy a house 19 months ago in Mesa Arizona because home prices were coming down. (They ignored me and bought a house they couldn't affor and are paying 1600 a month on an interest only loan.) Oh and the house is now worth 40,000 less than what they paid for it. I was suprised that 1 in 100 carry that gene. It would be interesting to see how much of central american and south america have this gene.

Actually cell phones work off of radio technology.

I actually bought it in the last couple of years. THey have reprinted it.

never ever say maybe when you mean no. you should only say maybe if it is leaning to the heavily yes area. It isn't fair to say maybe to someone if you mean no. How would you feel if you had asked your dad to do something that was super important to you and he said maybe and then no? Saying maybe with no intention of saying yes is actually cowardly. It means that you are going to do what you want to do, but you don't want to have to deal with the consequences of telling someone no. I REALLY hate it when parents or grandparents tell children maybe when they mean no.

I would check out NACD. The National Association for Child Development I have seen good success with my brother who has down syndrom. And with some of my friends children.

I found this quote in a book called The Coming of The Lord by Gerald Lund. It is talking about what we need physically to build zion. The quote is from David O McKay in 1935 "If we have in mind the physical Zion, then we must strive for more fertile acres; bring from the mountains gold and silver in abundance; found factories to furnish more employment; extend in length and width our concrete public highways; build banks to protect, or to dissipate, as has been the case recently, the wealth we accumulate; transform our vast coal fields into electricity that will furnish light, heat and power to eavery family; improve the means of communication until with radio in our pockets we may communicate with friends and loved ones from any point at any given moment." Can I just say Cell phones. I love prophets.

When I was on my mission, I taught a girl that was told in her gift of the holy ghost blessing that she had been promised in the pre mortal life that she would be able to have the gosple and that the sisters who made those promises had kept them. So I know that being a convert can mean that you were promised the gosple. Second, I think that we have an equal ability when it come to being wicked or righteous. So when I think of evil dictators, I think about how righteous they could have been if they had chosen that. I don't think there were fence sitters. I think the fight was bad enough that everyone chose sides. I think everyone cared about the fight. I think satan would like us to think that we were fence sitters so that he make us feel down and depressed. I truly think it is actually an attack from satan.

I think the oil in the lamps represents our personal worthiness. That is what God is going to look at, at judgement time. And it is the only thing we can't share. I heard that with President Benson he would be sleeping in the meetings and the meetings would reach a point where a decision would need to be made and he would wake up and say what should be done.

Okay, I have totaly issues in this area as well. At this time I am not having to take care of my parents. However it is getting really old to have my mother tell me that we owe it to her and my dad to take care of them and that the church says we have to. Please understand that she was abusive and neglectful growing up and does not respect boundries. I don't feel like I owe her anything. I definately don't need her in my home, making my life hell. My siblings and I have talked. We will either all chip in and pay for her to be in a home, or one of my brothers has offered to take her in when the time comes and we will send him money. I don't think we owe our parents to take care of them. Especially when my mother has made no effort to set things up to take care of herself. She wants us to all chip in and pay 3800 dollars for new hearing aids for my dad, while she is still buying stuff she doesn't need off of ebay.

There are 3 kinds of trials. 1)the kind that come from sin or bad choices we make 2)those that come from having a physical body. (like your bi-polar) 3) those that God allows to happen for us to grow. with number three, which you are exsperienceing some of are an opportunity to grow. I think when it comes to your daughter you need to support her in charging him. I think another thing to remember is that when we pay the price for other people's sins we actually recieve an understanding of the atonement and the price that Christ paid for our own sins. I second the person that suggested councling.

My mom and I actually had a huge argument about this. I feel that the choice he made was not the choice I would have made. Having said that, I feel like I have way too many things in my own life that I need to change to worry about what someone else is doing. Maybe it is bad of me, but other than my dh and children, I really don't care what other people are doing. They are responsible for their choices to God, just as I am responsible for my choices to God. And someday we have to account for them. I am teaching my children that we live a certain way, regarldess of how others live. And that quite frankly the way we live is going to be very different from others. I also told my mom that if you watch entertainment that makes alcohol, or other things we don't participate look fun and good, how are you any different than the actor? Much of entertainment actually makes alcohol use look more enticing than the commercials for it. But my mom is the type that loves to critisize how everyone lives and the choices they are making. People like this are usually the most unable to accept any critisizm about their life. I am sure the actor knew when he took this job that he would get flack for it.

Smoking pot does have effects many people don't realize. If a pre teen girl smokes pot it can actually halt puberty. If a man smokes it he can grow breasts. I had a drug brain and behavior class in college. when the professor made the statemnet that a man can grow breasts, the guy behind me said, that can't really happen can it? We all knew who was smoking too much pot. So just because pot may not make you violent like crystal meth does not mean it is not affecting your body.