Maureen

I looked to see if anyone had mentioned this video yet and it looks like this is the first one. 
About once a year the Missionaries will give my husband and me a call to make an appt for a visit. We tell them they are welcome to come over for a visit but we let them know a head of time on where we stand with the Church and our beliefs or non-beliefs. They say they will come over but never do. About 2 weeks they called to say they would like to visit and they ACTUALLY CAME OVER. There were 3 Missionaries, one from Utah, one from South Carolina and the 3rd one from Calgary. 🤔 The "Calgarian" was still waiting for his Visa to come through so he could serve in Australia. We did a little bit of "religion" talking, but also talked about guitars (playing musical unstruments in general), paintball and where we traveled to because of paintball. I even mentioned this forum and how there are nice people on this forum and also "not nice" people on this forum. 😉 We covered a few subjects while they visited and they were wonderful young men.
Just when they were leaving they mentioned this video. It's all in Aramaic with no subtitles. It's a wonderful video. Enjoy.
M.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/1975/12/q-and-a-questions-and-answers/what-happens-when-a-couple-gets-a-temple-divorce?lang=eng
M.

Yes, you're right. I was thinking the very same thing as I wrote.  I asked myself, "How is it, Harrison, that you find it easy to accept the possibility of one God instead of many or that God always existed, but difficult to comprehend some other doctrines?" And I confess that people were telling me such from a very early age.  So, I counseled myself that some other person such as @Maureen could just as easily perhaps accept the doctrines you (and @prisonchaplain ) have endeavored to explain to me. 
So, I appreciate your patience with me, and taking a little extra time to share your beliefs. I hope my respect has been apparent.

There is no problem at all. Each person of the Trinity is God. Each person is distinct from the other. They are one divine God, they are Creator, Saviour and Comforter.
M.

Some men wont open up and just stay quiet with generic responses while relying on their better judgement.
From an organizational standpoint, where there is smoke there is fire so I wouldnt be too worried that this particular person behaves this way but that many people behave this way when it comes to finding the reason they dont attend and/or left.
Most of you that follow my posts in here know that I appear borderline anti-mormon when I am simply expressing my true feelings and questions about the church. Im just trying to find answers and make sense of my testimony in the gospel. I will NEVER open up like this to my local leaders or fellow members for fear of being labeled.

There is no problem at all. Each person of the Trinity is God. Each person is distinct from the other. They are one divine God, they are Creator, Saviour and Comforter.
M.

If you had been brought up in England and your family was not particularly anti-monarchy then you would get it. To "Middle England" (by which I mean the conservative middle and upper-working classes) the royals are seen as a kind of extended family. People gossip/winge about them in the same sort of way they do about Uncle Jim or Aunt Jenny. (Right now Prince Andrew is the "disgraceful uncle" who's brought embarrassment on the rest of the family.) As a kid, listening to the way grown-ups talked about the royals, I sometimes vaguely felt they really were our relatives.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/1975/12/q-and-a-questions-and-answers/what-happens-when-a-couple-gets-a-temple-divorce?lang=eng
M.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/1975/12/q-and-a-questions-and-answers/what-happens-when-a-couple-gets-a-temple-divorce?lang=eng
M.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/1975/12/q-and-a-questions-and-answers/what-happens-when-a-couple-gets-a-temple-divorce?lang=eng
M.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/1975/12/q-and-a-questions-and-answers/what-happens-when-a-couple-gets-a-temple-divorce?lang=eng
M.

I like @Fether's strategy.  I've used it too.  I've been in a couple wards where the cliques were too deeply entrenched for it to succeed.  I'm fortunately in a fantastic ward now and have helped make sure that clique mentality gets stomped on.  Hard.

If a move is not already in your plans that "option" is unreasonable.
If you are in a ward full of jerks (BTDT) changing your attitude does not make them not jerks.
 
 

I looked to see if anyone had mentioned this video yet and it looks like this is the first one. 
About once a year the Missionaries will give my husband and me a call to make an appt for a visit. We tell them they are welcome to come over for a visit but we let them know a head of time on where we stand with the Church and our beliefs or non-beliefs. They say they will come over but never do. About 2 weeks they called to say they would like to visit and they ACTUALLY CAME OVER. There were 3 Missionaries, one from Utah, one from South Carolina and the 3rd one from Calgary. 🤔 The "Calgarian" was still waiting for his Visa to come through so he could serve in Australia. We did a little bit of "religion" talking, but also talked about guitars (playing musical unstruments in general), paintball and where we traveled to because of paintball. I even mentioned this forum and how there are nice people on this forum and also "not nice" people on this forum. 😉 We covered a few subjects while they visited and they were wonderful young men.
Just when they were leaving they mentioned this video. It's all in Aramaic with no subtitles. It's a wonderful video. Enjoy.
M.

I looked to see if anyone had mentioned this video yet and it looks like this is the first one. 
About once a year the Missionaries will give my husband and me a call to make an appt for a visit. We tell them they are welcome to come over for a visit but we let them know a head of time on where we stand with the Church and our beliefs or non-beliefs. They say they will come over but never do. About 2 weeks they called to say they would like to visit and they ACTUALLY CAME OVER. There were 3 Missionaries, one from Utah, one from South Carolina and the 3rd one from Calgary. 🤔 The "Calgarian" was still waiting for his Visa to come through so he could serve in Australia. We did a little bit of "religion" talking, but also talked about guitars (playing musical unstruments in general), paintball and where we traveled to because of paintball. I even mentioned this forum and how there are nice people on this forum and also "not nice" people on this forum. 😉 We covered a few subjects while they visited and they were wonderful young men.
Just when they were leaving they mentioned this video. It's all in Aramaic with no subtitles. It's a wonderful video. Enjoy.
M.

I looked to see if anyone had mentioned this video yet and it looks like this is the first one. 
About once a year the Missionaries will give my husband and me a call to make an appt for a visit. We tell them they are welcome to come over for a visit but we let them know a head of time on where we stand with the Church and our beliefs or non-beliefs. They say they will come over but never do. About 2 weeks they called to say they would like to visit and they ACTUALLY CAME OVER. There were 3 Missionaries, one from Utah, one from South Carolina and the 3rd one from Calgary. 🤔 The "Calgarian" was still waiting for his Visa to come through so he could serve in Australia. We did a little bit of "religion" talking, but also talked about guitars (playing musical unstruments in general), paintball and where we traveled to because of paintball. I even mentioned this forum and how there are nice people on this forum and also "not nice" people on this forum. 😉 We covered a few subjects while they visited and they were wonderful young men.
Just when they were leaving they mentioned this video. It's all in Aramaic with no subtitles. It's a wonderful video. Enjoy.
M.

I looked to see if anyone had mentioned this video yet and it looks like this is the first one. 
About once a year the Missionaries will give my husband and me a call to make an appt for a visit. We tell them they are welcome to come over for a visit but we let them know a head of time on where we stand with the Church and our beliefs or non-beliefs. They say they will come over but never do. About 2 weeks they called to say they would like to visit and they ACTUALLY CAME OVER. There were 3 Missionaries, one from Utah, one from South Carolina and the 3rd one from Calgary. 🤔 The "Calgarian" was still waiting for his Visa to come through so he could serve in Australia. We did a little bit of "religion" talking, but also talked about guitars (playing musical unstruments in general), paintball and where we traveled to because of paintball. I even mentioned this forum and how there are nice people on this forum and also "not nice" people on this forum. 😉 We covered a few subjects while they visited and they were wonderful young men.
Just when they were leaving they mentioned this video. It's all in Aramaic with no subtitles. It's a wonderful video. Enjoy.
M.

I have suffered. My life has not been easy.  I won't get into that.
  We had 2 houses that we looked at and liked. My husband and I both got a either house will do when we prayed.  I went with this one because I liked the ward better. I can't tell you how many times I have regretted that because of this ward. Some times there are many paths that you can go down. 
I worry about my kids not having other youth in our ward. It's hard on kids to not have other youth to be around and lean on.

On the topic of astrology:
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any videos just featuring the bit I wanted, which goes to about 3:45. So be warned that some episodes may be spoiled for you if you watch through to the end and haven't seen Psych season 2 but want to.

Approaching it from a slightly different viewpoint.
Many Protestants can choose where they wish to attend church.  Some of the Protestant religions recognize the things done by other Protestant religions in their official capacities of authority (things such as Baptism, confirmation, communion, etc).  Thus, at times for those who are in some protestant religions it comes down to finding a congregation that you feel most comfortable with. 
If they were raised in this manner the way the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can seem odd and very weird.  It can seem the luck of the draw or roll of the dice on who you get to spend your Sunday Services with.
On the otherhand, with a Catholic Background there is a very similar thing among Catholics.  You will be assigned to a parish.  This is normally a specific area.  You register at the parish over your area and that Parish is the only one that you can typically get certain ordinances or actions from (at least in my experience, I'm not a Catholic priest and have no divinity training in Catholicism).  You can go anywhere and get Mass if you so desired, but you still belong to the Parish over the area.
This helps to keep order in the Catholic Church.  It helps to keep things organized and to ensure a line of authority from the Highest echelons of the Church down to it's lowest member.
There are some that do not like this system.  It feels as if it is too restrictive.  They desire to have more of the freedom they see their Protestant friends have in choosing a church and congregation.
I can see both sides of the coin.  I have been blessed never to have been in a bad ward (thus far) though there have been times I wish that I was in a different ward.  I had a yearning to be equal with my peers and yet when I was younger I saw many become High Priests and leaders in the Church while I was not.  Many seemed to have family and area connections or wealth whereas I did not, even though I attended faithfully.  At times I felt it was very unfair and wish that I was part of another ward or lived in an area where I would be valued more.   This may have been the flawed thoughts of my younger years (because in reality, I do not feel the Lord is a respecter of persons in that degree and he values everyone from the lowest member to the highest.  It's not about what position you are given, but what actions you take in life and how you express your faith that matters more), but I do know how I felt at those times.
That is not to say I was ever in a bad ward.  As I said, I have always been in decent wards.  I have not had the experiences of bad wards that others have had and in that I would suppose I have been blessed.  I was just unhappy with my lot in the ward (which I would say now was more a personal problem rather than anything with the ward itself).
If I could have chosen different ward to be in, or even a different stake, there's a good chance I would have gone hunting.
However, that is not the way of the church.  The Church has a line of priesthood authority and as such, order and organization need to be adhered to.  I think this is the big thing behind much.  One of the aspects that set the Church as different from others (and Catholics would also claim this about their church as well...but as I said they ALSO have organizations such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) is that we feel we have the correct authority of the Lord.  This authority is the Priesthood and as such needs to be administered in accordance with the Lord's direction.  The Lord is one of order, not chaos, and as such, as any organization we have leaders in a matter of structure.  We go from the highest ranks to those of the lowest ranks. 
Thus, we are assigned to different wards and stakes (and so forth) for those who are assigned to hold the higher positions to be able to serve (or hopefully serve) those in their areas assigned.  In this the leadership is supposed to be one of service, rather than that of command, and those served are supposed to be the members that are assigned to those wards or stakes.
I can understand how this can be difficult for some who grow up in a ward and grow close to friends.  When a ward splits or they are assigned to a different stake, if the only connection they normally have with those friends is through the Church this can be difficult.  It can feel like they will never see those friends again or have the close associations with them.  In a ward that one does not feel they have any friends with, it can feel isolating and difficult to go to church.  As a young married couple we saw several expansions of the wards and stakes we were in.  One of the stakes used to be 2 hours across from one end to the other.  When it was eventually split and then split again there were friends from across the stake that we did not see since.  We were friends, but not close enough to see each other out of church.
On the otherhand I have also been fortunate to have friends that are not dependent on this.  One good friend I play chess and other games.  Over the years it does not matter if we are in the same ward or even the same stake, we keep in contact with each other and organize times to see each other.  What I think it boils down to are people are different.  People have different reactions to the church and it's organizations at times.  What may be easy for one may be very difficult for another.  I have never had a particularly hard time with wards changing but I have a grandson that took moving to another ward EXTREMELY hard.  He got so depressed that eventually his parents had to get some medical intervention in that regard.  It was a very hard time for him and very hard for him to go through.  Now, he is as vibrant as ever and I feel more involved with church then ever before, but for a while, it was very hard for him.

I have seen discrepancies in ward budgeting cut both directions. It's kind of hit-or-miss, and I've heard of enough first hand accounts of young women being given smaller budgets than young men (including from my spouse), that I'm certain the problem was common, but not ubiquitous.
The first time I was called as a ward clerk, the ward had three young men and their budget was $700. The ward had seven young women and their budget was $400. Yet, when I looked at the expenditures, the young women were trying to milk every penny out of their budget, and the young men had $575 left at the end of the year.
From the other direction, the Relief Society had a budget of $850. The EQ/HP had a combined budget of $100. The mens and womens groups were about equally sized.
I decided that couldn't stand.  I assigned budgets based on how many active participants there were in each group. The Young Women presidency loved me.  The Young Men presidency didn't care (they weren't spending the money anyway). Surprisingly, I got more push back from the men than I did from any one else.  The Relief Society president wasn't thrilled, but when she looked at my process for allocating the money she was willing to accept it because it treated everyone fairly. What caught me off guard was the resistance from the men.  Their claim was that they didn't need it and weren't likely to spend it. I responded that if they weren't using their budget, they weren't doing enough to build their quorum, and they should start doing a better job of that.  In then end, we negotiated $50 less to each EQ and HP, gave it to Relief Society and told the men to suck it up and have some activities.  That's when we started holding cookouts before priesthood sessions, and Elders Quorum started to be a bit more fun.
Anyway, I am a fan of the directive to allocate funds equally between programs based on participation. Like I said, it wasn't ubiquitous, but it probably does still happen that one group gets more than another for stupid reasons.  This gives a clear statement that leaders can use to advocate better funding for their groups when leaders are being jerks about budgets.

They probably didn’t know about them. Actually only a very small percentage of wards and stakes have access to those camps. It’s mostly a western US advantage. Here in the east and the rest of the world we go through the process every year of having to find a place for the girls to have camp. It has cost my girls at least $100 out of pocket each to attend. 

This is how I interpret what you have written.
Your sons are priceless therefore they deserve whatever can be taught them whatever the cost and your daughter will benefit because her identity is based on what kind of "priceless" husband she will marry.
Do you ever consider that your future daughters-in-law might have some qualitities in them that might benefit your sons? If so, how do you think these young women will learn to possess these qualitites?
M.

That is a hard situation.  In addition to continuing in patience (which sounds like you're doing), try to get to know the kids, what they like to do, play, read, watch...  Try to build some type of relationship with them. 

The only thing I've seen work, is to love them.  Deeply and honestly and transparently and genuinely.   
We had one of these wild children living in our home for about a year once.  Broken home, another home breaking around her, other issues.  Wild child did all that stuff you mention - didn't fit in, ran around, yelling and screaming.  We did our absolute level best to love her whenever we could.  Mom had her head screwed on straight, and also did much good.   Fast forward 10 years, and girl is attending the UofU, seems happy as a clam, takes the worlds cutest college chick selfie.  But dang - I never had a 7 yr old try her hardest to pinch flesh off of me or beat me bloody.  Poor girl.
When it comes to dealing with someone else's child, I think it's appropriate to work out clear enforceable boundaries with bishop and parents.  "This child is welcome here unless she x/y/z.   If she won't stop x/y/z, then she must leave the activity."   
Draw the x/y/z lines carefully.  Like "hurt other children" or "yell over people trying to talk" or "breaking things".  Find ways for wild child to be appropriately wild, and encourage and compliment that form of wildness.
And love em.  "control" as a focus will drive you insane, and you'll end up using that duct tape, things will get worse, someone will call the cops, etc.