StallionMcBeastly

That's right be jealous! Lol. Thanks beefche. That would be awesome to have a Prophet come visit. Alaska looks so cool!

Yeah, that will be a great time to come home! Right before Christmas. I'll be so excited to be home and that xmas is right around the corner. Sweet! From what I've heard, is that I wont be able to call home on Christmas while in the MTC just because of the fact of ALL the missionaries there and not enough phones. I wonder if they'll let us call on a different day once out of the MTC? Thanks for all the support and interest everyone.

Thanks Pammy!! I hope I get to go there. Everyone I've talked to that's been to Alaska loves it. I report on December 16th... my brother too. So soon!

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA!!!!!!!! I'm so pumped! That's one of the places where I said I wanted to go. Thanks all for being so interested and supportive!!!!! My brother is going to....dum dum dum.... Toronto, Canada! Thermal undies for both!!

Hmmmm... sooo... I opened it! Didn't say anything too important

My brother and I (we're twins) received our calls in the mail today. We'll be opening them in an hour or two. I'll let you know what be goin' on fellow mormoooos!

Thanks! Oakland.

Oh geez didn't mean to offend anyone... just joking around. I really have no clue to the crustiness of any of you. Anyways... congrats to EP.

Congrats on having a desire to go on a mission! Go for it!

If you feel like you should, then talk to your Bishop. I don't really know how it exactly works.

I guess you guys are just too old and crusty to understand my new hipster language. Get with the times moldy ones

hahaha go pigeon

Congrats! I be gettin my endowies soooooon

I think snow made a very good post. I too don't take the Bible 100% literal. I believe there was a man Adam and a woman Eve BUT I think symbolism could have been used to explain their story. Was it REALLY a fruit God didn't want them to eat to commit sin? Or is that symbol for some other act? Was Eve REALLY created from Adam's rib? Or is that simplified symbolic version of how God really goes about creating human bodies? Was Adam REALLY created from the dust of the Earth? I don't think so - I think that's symbolic for something else. Either way, this doesn't detract from my faith or testimony.

I would say pull back and perhaps date around a bit. You can't convince her to love you or to not have feelings for her ex.

Soooo.... does he not believe the Prophet is really a Prophet?

Lool did you see Lady Gaga (I cringe at even typing her name it sounds so freaking stupid) give her speech? She looked like a lunatic. I wonder how much coverage this got in comparison to the Tea Party march?????

For those who want nothing more to disbelieve it, it is proof. Yes.

I often think about how completely different my life would be if I wasn't raised in the church. It's amazing how different I would be living.

You're correct. If you were to join the LDS church, you would be baptized again. We believe we're the only church with the authority to perform essential ordinances (such as baptism). Are Mormons Christian? Yes. Why? Because we believe in Christ and follow him to the best of our ability. There are those who claim we aren't Christian because we don't have the exact same doctrines and beliefs as they do. As I said in the other thread, you are Christian if you believe in Christ and desire to follow him. There's no authoritative statement on what a "Christian" exactly is.

I don't know the people. You won't be surprised to find they are members of CARM message board! lol. Yeah, I don't waste my time arguing. Occasionally I'll go there and make a few comments, but their mindset isn't one that can produce respectable conversation it's one of "you're a fool for believing what you do and here's why". It's seems so misguided to focus on one small verse and forget about the overall message of the book! I could pull one verse from the Bible, Book of Mormon, D&C, PoGP - from any of them that strikes me as odd.... but when you discount the whole message because one verse? That's not being fair to yourself.

Weirdo!

I believe you are a Christian if you believe in Christ and desire to follow him.

Do you have links or sources for any of this information? How did the couple find out church leaders told their patrons not to do business with them?

I agree! I don't have any problem with the scripture, it certainly has no effect upon me. It's such a small insignificant verse yet for people who want to discredit the Book of Mormon they will latch onto ANYTHING they can get to discredit it. They treat it as if this one verse SO OBVIOUSLY proves the Book to be a work of fiction that you're an absolute fool if you don't believe it to be the word of God. What I don't understand in their thought process is, is if Joseph Smith was trying to dupe everyone into believe his book, why would he include this verse? Because, to them, it's so obviously proves it's fiction?