mckell

definately recess... haha jk. um...... physics. pen or pencil?

Heinz 57 Ketchup baby! Gum or mints?

Hoooooooooowdy.

lol he doesn't even know i have this. i don't think he'd like me sharing our lives to strangers.... but thank you for the offer.

THank you. I have thought a lot about going back to the home ward lately. I am clueless about the details though, so I would have to find out the times and rooms. and sit by myself. I know for a FACT that if I did attend our home ward, my husband would DEFINATELY not come. Yes, he is very bitter about them. That's his opnion and I'm not the one to change it in his heart.

we have tried getting our records moved over to the ward. we've asked the bishop and the stake president. we asked if we could pay our tithing there, and was told technicially no, but they wouldn't mind allowing a few donations here and there. so we stopped by the home ward to get some tithing envelopes, and I pay our tithing, most the time, to the home ward and then we drop it off in the bishop's mail box. I am the only one currently paying tithing, I believe my husband as issues with it. He doesn't mind donating, but I will not pay his tithing for him. There would be no benefit for him if I was to pay it for him. I can see him believing that "why pay my tithing when they won't even give me my reccommend anyway"? i KNOW this isn't the reason to pay titihing. I KNOW already. but i think that is just an excuse that he uses, which is really lame.

I have had a lot of my family members tell me that I should go see both bishops. I am scared that if I went to the home ward bishop, I would blame them for my husband's recent dislike for the church. I don't want to come across like that, and I know I need to get rid of those feelings, but it is hard. I have thought a lot about going to the home ward and I'm in a pickle. lol I can just see myself in relief society when they ask if there are any vistors and they ask me who I am, I'll just say Hi, I'm McKell. I've been in this ward for 19 months now and this is my first time acutally attending relief society because I haven't felt comfortable with your ward in coming. LOL I can just see their faces.. My husband and I had a break through chat last night. I think I have some what of hope of him not shutting out the church forever. I will have to continue to pray and do what is the Lord's will. And he will be there in the end. I appreciate everyone's advice and input. Thank you. It means more than you know.

i was able to attend all three of my sibling's blessings, of course i was young and didn't know what was going on... but i was still able to go with my parents. i can understand what someone (sorry i didn't quote it) said about having the advesary get in the way of you getting your blessing. first of all, The day of my blessing i was scheduled to work. I went to work ready to get the blessings i had wanted for so long. I was going to leave work early so I could get there in time. Five minutes before I was about to leave, my mother called my work and told me that the stake patriarch has a family emergency and wouldn't be able to give me my blessing that day. I didn't think much of it really, but now i realize how much that was Satan trying to prevent me from getting it. It's been almost two years now, and I still havent' received my PB. I had gotten married and told myself I would get it in our new ward when we moved, but we never attend that ward anymore since we didn't feel welcome. I can't stress how important it is to watch out for the little things that go wrong when you're trying to do what is right. get your blessing. seek it. I know I do.

See the thing that I don't really understand and what got us really ticked off.. is when we called to get an appointment. The Bishop was out of town and so we talked to the second counseler. My husband was told that we would have to get a hold of the bishop for anything that has to do with temple recommends, along with the fact that we don't attend our ward it's not looking good for us. the 2nd counseler basically said that we should get up, move, and go to a different ward since we we're participating in theirs. They asked what ward we were attending now so they could transfer our records back... which you can't really do. trust us. we've asked the in-laws's bishops if we could technically be a member of their ward. i can't believe they would tell us that we should move! how rude and un-christlike! Now I can understand how people get offended and never want to go back to church again. Before this happened, I never understood what made those people so hurt. Well the bishop called us back when he get back into town, and stated that he has discussed it with the stake president and they both agreed that we shouldn't be able to get the new recommend. I still have my old one, and it is still valid. I don't understand how things work i guess.

well we haven't moved yet. that's the thing. i want to talk to a bishop now.... but we are moving more towards the summer/the end of summer. so technically my records are still in the home ward.

eh............ ok? haha i didn't think i was playing a game here. but thanks? i guess

:mellow:ok here's the deal... we got married and moved into a basement apartment, which put us in a family ward. We tried going to the family ward and it proved to be a dissapointment. No one said hello, no one made an effort to welcome us. So we decided to attend my husband's parents ward... the one we have attended previously. well when the time came that the church went all high tech, haha, and decided to add bar codes to the temple recommends, we called our home ward to get our current temple recommends switched over. They said they wouldn't do it. We didnt think it was fair of them from keeping us from having the blessing that come from attending the temple. The home ward basically told us that since we don't participate in their meetings, that they wouldn't give us the new recommend even though our recommends are still valid. My husband got really frustrated and didnt' understand how they would do that to us, when we haven't even met our home teachers, relief society president, or even the bishop. They claim they call us all the time (we both have cell phones and no home phone) and we NEVER get any calls. So my hubby HATES the home ward now and I believe that is one of the reasons why he has gone astray from the church. He says everyone is fake. I can see why they wouldn't give us the new recommend now that I think about it, but I still don't attend the home ward. Since I've been going to church by myself, I attend church with my husband's parents. His mom is the relief society president and I feel welcomed in that ward. Pretty soon we will be moving our records into this ward since we will be living in the basement of my hubby's parents while we attend school. I want to talk to a bishop now, but I don't know if I am obligated to talk to the home ward bishop that I've never even seen, or can I still get revelation and help from the ward I am currently attending?

So I've been trying to do everything that I'm supposed to be doing. I attend church, I try to read the scriptures and say my prayers. My husband just recently started to tell me that he doesn't want to go to church anymore. He doesn't realy want to have much to do with it. We have been greatly offened by our home ward and I try to look past that, but it seems he can't. :sadwalk: My heart is breaking to know that he made a covenant with me and the lord and he's not honoring it. How can I get him to get back into the church without forcing anything upon him ... which might cause him to push away from myself? I keep praying and doing what I can, but I would like to know if anyone has any other suggestions. Thank you.