JeanieV

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  1. Thank you! You too. I loved St. George. It was my first UT experience. The first dance I went to at Dixie I got flashed outside in the parking lot!! :huh: Really loved it, though. If I'd gone to BYU first it would've been total culture shock. My daughter use to play cello. (Husband is a professional guitar player). I play nothing but love music.
  2. Thank you. I still keep the commandments..... And I went Sunday. New year and later time. I'm determined. Its a little uncomfortable but going to hang in there....
  3. Sharpsburg!! : ) (Coweta County....)
  4. So are you Indian? My great great grandma was Cherokee which I am proud of. I have the bone structure : )
  5. Thank you. I love your little palerider image. Did I mention I too grew up in IL and also Missouri? Its where most of my family still is. None are members, though. I use to go to a singles ward in St. Louis when it was still legal to shoot a Mormon
  6. Hi TrueGrits! Thank you for your kind response. Sometimes you feel like as a Mormon we're not supposed to be depressed cause of what we know and understand about life after death and we do understand that, but grief is still completely normal and healthy, actually! I live in the metro Atlanta area - they include us with the weather : ) but its about 30 mins. from the airport off I-85.
  7. Hi, Isaiah in this chapter is speaking of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Old Testament Jehovah and is different than our Father in Heaven who was the OT "Elohim." We believe that the Godhead consists of 3 distinct beings, God the Father, Jesus the Christ and the Holy Ghost. That scripture is referring to Jesus coming to earth. It can seem confusing....
  8. I can't see the original post for this, but know what aspergers is. I think with members we are all very human and tend to put others down to feel good about ourselves. I avoid doing that like the plague, but am not above doing it either. I tend to stay away from cliques out of distrust of what I call "gang mentality" too. The point is, though, that if this question is about being judged which I have a problem with for no good reason either (just sensitive) you have to just know yourself you did or are doing your best. I have a pretty severe bad back. I am not in a wheelchair and don't LOOK disabled, but I am very limited and do not serve in Relief Society as a typical meal carrying server I serve in other ways that aren't visible in the same way and have felt one of our past RS presidents was judgmental. I think she had the same perception from me about other things herself, though. (She is not married in the temple). I didn't judge her, but she perceived me as doing it. So many times we just plain misunderstand or feel defensive when we don't do things the typically perfect way. I believe in the old Indian saying that you can't judge a man till you've walked a mile in his moccasins. Something we should all remember.
  9. I've always believed the flood happened as stated, but there are scientists who refute this. They also believe, however, that we evolved from lower beings instead of a literal creation. That gets you into how old the earth is, how long man has been on the earth, etc. etc. Personally I think we just don't have all the answers but they will come.
  10. I've been on a forum for a while that USE to have evolutionists on it till the owner booted them all off . (A rather anti-Mormon owner, too, who has tolerated me however). What was meant by the reply about it being known you can't inhabit the earth from one spot?? Sorry...still trying to learn how to navigate this site so not sure how to link to it. (Thought I had). I've always pretty much accepted things, but we know there are errors in the Bible, too. And things were explained a lot different due to their perspective and lack of technology.
  11. The records are showing I haven't posted on here, yet have 5 responses to whatever I had written in past months that I don't remember writing, so am kind of starting over. Anyway - live in GA now as my husband is military but grew up in Southern IL where I joined the church when I was 15. Just came back from visiting, in fact, and it is always like going back in time. I also lived in the St. Louis area as a kid. I went off to Dixie College in St. George when 19 before it was Dixie State. Got my associate's there and went to BYU a semester. Transferred to Steven's Henager Business college to another Assoc. program (dumb) to go into Administrative Med. Assisting instead of nursing. (Dumb again). Anyway - now I'm close to being an empty nester (and Grandma!!!! ) and have been subbing at my daughter's high school the past few years. Love it - fills a void - so am going to finally finish my degree in teaching - special ed - I believe. Have 2 daughters. One is married to an Idahoan who was just here. They both go to BYU-I and my baby is a SR so will go there, too, next year. That's the plan anyway. BTW, we've also lived in WA state, Virginia twice, Kansas, Alaska and now here. I married a fellow who was changing over from being a literal rock star. (Auditioned for KISS the year before we met). He also had played on a hit record in Skylark, "Wildflower" with David Foster, played with Ambrosia, a band in FL that later became Quiet Riot and played with Vince Gill's now drummer among many others. He gave it up and joined the army so now rocks the troops in a manner more becoming his age (most of the time...but its a worthy cause) and is about to retire from that and likely become a teacher. Not sure.... We've had a rocky past few years. I've never been inactive, but this past year is the closest I've come to it. Partly cause our ward shares a building with 2 other wards and we started going at 8:30 which was hard (now its afternoon) but its also been a couple of years of testing for me with husband also struggling, losing my kid to a guy we didn't even know till this past couple of weeks, my only LDS family (in-laws) issues and just plain old hurt feelings at times. I feel like this year is going to be a new fresh beginning though. I also lost my brother and grandmother literally a year to the day of eachother (off by one day - Grandma died 3-26-06 and then brother 3-27-07). Jeff was 48... I was depressed, I think, and my mom hasn't done well since so its been a lot of loss to deal with but I'm coming back all the way around and have much to be grateful for. Looking forward to a new year of doing much better spiritually and healthwise in every other area. I'm busy and just got a Facebook I'm enjoying but thought I'd look into this "community" too to help me feel more connected while I try to do it live with my ward as well.