I tend to agree with your feelings if I was in your place. It would seem if the mission said they could have them and if the families wanted them to have them they could send one or send the money. To buy them then send a bill without notice is kind of tacky.. In my opinion.
I tend to agree with your feelings if I was in your place. It would seem if the mission said they could have them and if the families wanted them to have them they could send one or send the money. To buy them then send a bill without notice is kind of tacky.. In my opinion.
You think your comment is original? I guess I must be nuts, stupid, idiotic, etc., spending a lot of time on learning about evil spirits. What a waste of time, huh? I get that same attitude with the vast majority of LDS. What would you like to know about? Let me see, I obtained a degree in criminal justice just before I became a police officer. I also have a degree in paralegal studies. Want to see some of the photographs I’ve taken of flowers, portraits, landscapes? They are very beautiful. Want to see some of the drawings I’ve made of dragons? They are pretty cool.
In June I’m setting up a farm in Utah doing underground greenhouses called walipinis. Ever hear of them? I’ve already written one book and I’m in the process of writing a second one. I’ve read well over 1000 books in my life time. I’m an avid book reader. I speak sign language. How about you? I don’t sit around the house watching the boob tube and I don’t watch movies. I don’t waste my time watching mindless TV shows, football or any other sport, except occasionally hockey if I have the time. Love them Penguins!
I guess that is pretty stupid, right? Guess what? You know that really stupid guy who restored Christ’s church on this earth, that idiot who talked to God in the Sacred Grove, Joseph Smith; the idiot who save Jesus only did more for the salvation of mankind than any other person who lived on this earth? That guy? Want to know what he wasted more time studing about and teaching about than any other subject? According to his cousin, the Apostle George A. Smith, Joseph spent the most time teaching the early saints about evil spirits, their abilities, their power, their government and laws, and how to discern them. You can look it up for yourself in one of those books the overwhelming majority of LDS don’t read; probably don’t even realize exists. The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph.
Want to hear some more of what Joseph Smith wasted his time on teaching?
If Joseph Smith were alive today, setting up the restored Church in this time, he would have been locked up in the looney bin. Pshrinks from the pseudo-science of psychiatry would have said he was schizophrenic and would have drugged him senseless. The Prophet was hounded badly by evil spirits from the very day he knelt down in the Sacred Grove till the day he was murdered.
I am amazed and tired of the willful ignorance of Latter-day Saints. They are so horribly deceived by the wisdom of the world. They think that secular learning is everything. It knows all and is all that is necessary to gain their salvation. I know a lot of highly educated idiots whose spiritual IQ is not much bigger than their shoe size. The glory of God is intelligence. The intelligence being referred to isn't secular knowledge, it is spiritual knowledge. You talk about literature? Why don’t you read some of what Joseph Smith taught.
I thought about how to reply to this, but I get the strong impression that I'm wasting my time. You ask for “canonized doctrine” before you will gain knowledge of how to control evil spirits for yourself. No matter that the Prophet Joseph Smith stated that you must gain knowledge of how to control evil spirits or they will control you, you still ask for “canonized doctrine.” This is the man that “has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it,”(D&C 135:3) the man who established about 98% of Church doctrine, the man that every single apostle or prophet since him has quoted extensively and yet you still question him.
There really isn't anything I can say that will change your mind. You must gain your own knowledge. That is doctrine.
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