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Yeah, but then if she's such a great actress she could feign shock and horror and actually hurt Rachel's position and credibility. . .

Others have mentioned the practicalities of the blessing. My advice is to then be continuously preparing for that through prayer and scripture study. You can even ask your Bishop for advice on how to prepare. He may even be inspired to give you some specific advice.

Those applications do take up far too much time. So, I would just ignore them. Make a note announcing to everyone that the applications take up too much of your time so you will be ignoring them from now on.

My first thought was "you'd better wear a bunch of leather or your an idiot, that's your armor!" LOL! I don't ride a motorcycle, but they are cool vehicles. Also, props to you. You're in my prayers Turkeyrun.

Smart drug dealers don't do, they only deal.

Thanks! I got my pumpkin from the pumpkin park near town, so I've no idea whether or not it was organic. My daughter's teacher says that every year she gets a kid who comes back talking about how they grew their own pumpkin, then again, I think they were only growing theirs for jack o lanterns. . .

I would be most concerned with your son. Be concerned about her church callings as well. If she gets put into primary. . . Also, people are nice and wonderful, which means they will give this woman all sorts of information, your number (how many times have I called someone from church and asked for a phone number?), your address, where you work, where your husband works, where your son goes while you're at work, his name, his favorite toys and things, etc. All under the guise of helping her "catch up." I am willing to bet that she knew you were on vacation and that was the time to move into the ward. She's chatting with the missionaries, they probably told her all sorts of stuff without realizing she's a problem. Not only this, but it is possible to track someone down. My mother received a letter from someone who had known her while she lived in Germany many years ago. My mother was tracked down using church records. For Mom this was positive. I am letting you know about this possibility because yeah, you could move to another state, but if you tell anyone where you are going in your ward someone is going to slip and tell her. And even if you don't, how simple it is to track you down through church records and asking nicely for the information... (I will admit I do not know the particulars of how such is down, but when it comes to my kids my paranoia meter would be up full bore.)

So I made pumpkin pie using a real pumpkin. My daughter and I want to plant a few of the seeds in a moderate sized tupperware bin (it has no top, and no worries I'll be making holes in the bottom) and so we saved a few of the seeds, they're on my counter right now (I tried doing this before with the first pumpkin this year but I put them in a plastic baggy and they all got moldy). I, having never done this before, went off to read about how to grow pumpkins. I came upon this website, http://www.pumpkinnook.com/growing.htm, which talked about making sure your seeds weren't old. How do you know if your seeds are too old? I have a few herbal seeds in packages (wasn't able to plant my herbs in time for this year, waiting till next year) as well that I got from the store. I don't want to plant nothin' but duds. What does a good seed look like? How does one avoid accelerating the age of the seeds?

With other situations suggesting professional help is not the only thing we say now is it? Where's the asking for more info, could you tell us what you've done already? Where are the prayers? Where are the you're a child of God with Heavenly Parents who love you?Where's the simple QUESTION of, are you talking to a professional yet? which is totally different than, go see a pro, as if our brother isn't worth the time of day. It's all in the approach, the tone. Would you tell a friend in real life right quick to go see a pro if they started to talk to you about this? No, you'd be patient and listen, and while listening you'd be praying on how best to help your friend and when to approach them about therapy, you wouldn't say, hey, I'm not a pro you can't talk to me about this.

How come we can't talk about it here? We talk about pornography, masturbation, we talk about failing marriages, we talk about same sex attraction, we talk about spanking kids and even physical abuse, and neglect, we talk about depression and suicide and other mental issues, we talked about the RLDS issue in Texas, but we can't talk about sexual abuse? Therapists are great and all but sometimes they're not the only people you wanna talk to. Sometimes you wanna talk to real people, and forums can be safe enough (after all, if you talk to friends about it face to face you're stuck with them knowing and have to deal with their whole shock, anger and getting over it thing they'll go through). We have managed to talk about every other subject, even sensitive subjects, without getting too graphic or porno graphic. Why can we not do the same with sexual abuse? Sexual abuse is a very serious thing and it happens to 1 in 3 girls, and 1 in 5 or 6 men (and probably more often than that because men tend not to talk about it unlike girls). I am appalled at the responses of go see a professional. We don't say that to those who are talking about their depression, we don't say that to people who are saying, "woe is me my marriage sucketh", but somehow it's okay to say "go see a pro" to someone asking what to do for more help with sex abuse recovery? That is not right. As long as site rules are being followed I see no problem in helping this young man overcome the pains of sexual abuse.

My daughter says, "I'm boring" when she really means "I'm bored." I'm working to break her of that using humor since she's five and a half and in school, but it's really funny. "Mommy, I'm boring." BIG DOEFUL EYES.

Talk to your Bishop. Your Bishop will be able to marry you. Whether or not you get married in the temple or in a chapel or on the beach, all the prerequisite marriage license stuff is still needed. What is read is something you and your Bishop can talk to you about. Basically think of it as a ring ceremony with the reception right afterwards. You can even have a nice musical number. Have you prayed about your decision? Too many people do not pray about who they are intending to marry and whether or not that's the right decision which leads to unhappiness later. This occurs whether or not you're marrying a nonmember or a member! My sister married a man who was not a member. The Spirit told her it was the right decision. She married him, she talked to him about her spiritual experiences when prompted by the Spirit and told him about eternal families. A few months later he was baptized. They have regular ups and downs but they are united. On the other hand I met a Mormon lady whose niece did NOT pray about who she was going to marry and she married in the Temple. It was miserable and even though she tried to make something of it, it ended in divorce.

Heya Twospiritdancer. My husband thinks I am bisexual because I have experienced physical attractions to females (which I believe stems from some unfortunate childhood experiences). However, I see myself as a straight person. Why define myself as something that I don't want to be? I am a daughter of God who works hard to stay worthy of my Temple Recommend. I am a daughter of God who wants to magnify my callings and to be a good person and to spread hope and joy and where ever possible the Good News that Jesus Christ lives, that He loves us, that He died for us so that no matter how awful our sins are we can always choose to make a change and follow Him on the path to Eternal Happiness. Our Heavenly Parents love you. Jesus Christ loves you and wants you to be happy. Ask and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. -Matthew 7:7 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. -Epistle of James 1:5 And again, my beloved brethren, I would speak unto you concerning hope. How is it that ye can attain unto faith, save ye shall have hope? And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the atonement of Christ and the power of his resurrection, to be raised unto life eternal, and this because of your faith in him according to the promise. -Moroni 7: 40-41 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested. - 1st Corinthians 4:9-10 You are in my prayers.

I always ask, I'm a truly feeling thankful to God for something? If not then I know I used his name in vein. But if something happened that really underneath it all I AM grateful for what God has done then it's all good. So, it just depends on the intent of the phrase.

Amen sistah!

Leak speak? Teehee, you are so cute. It's leet speak, alternate spelling being l33t or l337.

Have you all seen that yahoo video? It's a featured video when you go to yahoo.com right now. Someone wants to sue a fellow for helping her out because she was "treated like a rag doll" and that's why she became a paraplegic... Yahoo!

As opposed to what? Being incompletely honest? It's along the lines of, Honestly, I yadda yadda. As opposed to what? Dishonestly your yadda yadda?

I just typed first and foremost in an essay I'm writing for class. Am I doomed for failure? Ofttimes people say you know repeatedly when they are talking too fast or when they are trying to collect their thoughts or when they're nervous. It's another way of saying um or uh. What your step daughter in law needs is a speech class! My thing is I hear "okay?" all the time at the end of so many sentences. Teachers do it all the time! Even college professors!

I was telling my Mom about my first hydroplane experience (no one told me there didn't have to be much in the way of water on the road, and it hadn't been raining so I was like WAAAAGH). She asked me, "Did you enjoy it?"

Hey ceeboo. You can't do everything. I know that if I had been in your shoes I too would have felt bad. But if you keep doing the "just one more" thing soon enough you'd end up missing out on time with family and other necessary things. Maybe they won't even notice that one person was nice to five people and not them. After all, theirs really isn't the ONLY house you didn't do. There were lots of houses you did not do!

I think he meant, "you will need to be married in the eternities to do that."

Seriously. That Huh, I wonder what this is? gets me in trouble. I end up seeing all sorts of crap. I am finally learning that while inquisitiveness is a good thing one must be choosy about what to explore, or better yet, ask yourself, should I risk seeing something I wouldn't want to see. When I do that the spirit usually comes upon me (by asking the question it seems to invite it) and tell me no, or, it's okay this time. *sigh*

Seriously Elgama? That's amusing! It's amazing what we learn over time en't it?

I have always believed that we are sent to earth at a time where we will most likely accept the Gospel.