Madriglace

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  1. The block has never bothered me ... I have seen both sides and with price of gas this works great. However we are on the 1-4 PM shift this year ... being a morning person I can't wait until we change back in January! I have to admit tho that after SS with 10 14-18 year olds by the time RS rolls around I am some days more than ready for a nap!
  2. Find a good credit union ...
  3. Some traveling on the Sabbath is unavoidable, like going to church VT & HT, meetings, choir practice etc ... all centered on engaging in the Lords work. Sometimes the ox is in the mire so to speak and other types of traveling has to be done ... we handle it the best we can and move on. No big deal. The brother who stayed home in the prodigal son parable was upset because he didn't understand the worth of all souls. No big mystery .. at least not that I can see ... just another teaching moment.
  4. The best reason for being sealed here on earth is that it is an earthly ordinance and we can't get to the celestial kingdom without it. For those who aren't married here, me being one ... if we live worthy of the blessing it will be taken care of.
  5. Wearing the garment is just not a problem ... don't sweat the small stuff (no pun intended) save your energies for the hard stuff. For me wearing them in the heat is still so much better than being without them ... now the bra can go any time but not the garments. They are meant to a protection to us but we have to be wearing them to be protected ... and yes they can physically protect us, I have seen it happen. As for the rash ... try some Gold Bond powder ... works wonders! Actually for me being with out them is awful ... clothing is itchy!
  6. Crime is so high because there are no longer consequences for it. When a person goes to prison and all they loose is their freedom and are given 3 square meals a day, full health care, internet, TV (the list goes on) . This mother was right to use what ever consequence she could to stop this stupid kid from ruining his life worse. Used to be the fear of what would happen to you was enough to keep most folks on the straight and narrow ... now everybody is a victim and nothing is their fault. Sheriff Joe is my hero ... he makes the people in his jail (Maricopa County, AZ) uncomfortable and tells them if they don't like it don't come back.
  7. Weather cycles ..... my mom remembers 3-4 feet of snow in this area when she was a kid ... I remember rain but this year we had 25 inches in our yard for a week or so ..... today it is pouring buckets! And is supposed to for the next week ... here come the floods again!
  8. That's the beauty of it ... the gospel is the same for all of us ... we have the same Father, the same Savior, the same Holy Ghost ... the difference being that we as LDS believe that we have the blessings of Heaven that were available in Christ's church when He was on the earth. We are so incredibly loved that every possibility has been set up for us to succeed and return home. Heavenly Father loved us before we loved Him ... if we repent and follow His Son we are promised that we will live with Him and our Savior again. I can think of no greater reward for so little from me.
  9. I think maybe you just got the point of the teaching moment. Good for you! We need to learn to bend our will to the Lords and then we can move forward. It may not be fun and we most likely will not see it until after it is done but all things work together for our good. Don't give up on the temple ... that is your reward for enduring to the end and doing it well. The doing it well part is the part we so often forget.
  10. In my humble opinion the Holy Ghost does not leave us ... we leave him. The Father is the same today and forever .... He keeps His promises ... He gave us the gift of the Holy Ghost as a constant companion ... when we feel the lack it is because we have moved away from our part of the bargain. D&C 82:10 one of my favorite scriptures .."I the Lord am bound when ye do what I say, when ye do not what I say ye have no promise." So when we actively seek repentance and forgiveness we move back within the circle of influence where we should be. Like I tell my SS kids our choices come with consequences ... being without the Holy Ghost to me is the consequence of my bad choices ... I do however agree that we also become basically immune to the promptings as we continue to make bad choices.
  11. I guess I have to take the scriptures at face value when they state that Satan was present during the council in heaven and that he rebeled against the Father and was cast out ... he is real and he uses anything he can against us. He may not tell us what to do but when we are hashing out a choice for ourselves he waits to use his best tools like discouragement and fear to kind of nudge us to choose his way. The choice is entirely ours and as are the consequences but the hints are his if we are headed away from the light. He knows us and what works best against us.
  12. Actually anything with chocolate ... been dieting 2 months and seem to be having chocolate withdrawals (sp?)
  13. Been there done that ... without the tea ... still had blast and then did a sprint down to Saturday Market! I love the art and science of all the booths with cool stuff to buy! Even in the rain it's fun. Gotta have an elephant ear though.
  14. Watch the movie The Best Two Years ... then go on your mission single. Throw yourself into your work with a whole heart and then see how things are when you come home. You will be a different person in 2 years and so will she.
  15. Yep fun .... drinking stuff that smells like paint thinner, smoking something that smells like a burning garbage can and oh yeah coffee now that's just plain nasty! I really can't see these as "pleasures" in life. Fun at church ... our Bishopric doing Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree in full Blues Brothers mode .... they had everyone rolling in the isles. It's all how you look at it ... if I need a crutch to have fun I choose something that isn't going to kill me.
  16. I agree with what has been said ... in the church you pretty much get out of it what you put into it. But that requires getting outside your comfort zone. Go to church, greet everyone especially those you don't know or that are visiting or have come for the first time. Use the Saviors #1 teaching tool ... example. And smile!!!! It makes people wonder what you are up to. When we look for good that is what we find. If you want friendly you need to cme to our ward ... sometimes it is sooooooooooo friendly it makes you want to hide under a bench!
  17. I have never felt deprived ... of course even in high school I just didn't get the fun in going out and getting drunk and puking on your shoes and not remembering what you did. Really the WOW isn't an issue for me ... decision made ... done. Now going in a bar bothers me ... my friends know I don't drink but it just isn't comfortable ... I always feel like the Holy Ghost is waiting outside for me. But that's just me.
  18. If you have a testimony of the Savior you must also have a testimony of Satan ... both sides of the coin. My folks have served 5 missions and every single time as they got ready to leave things took a down ward spiral. The better we do the harder he works ... he doesn't much care about the ones he already has, he wants the ones that got away. If the GA keep addressing it maybe it's because we aren't listening hard enough.
  19. Its there ... but you have to have a testimony of the book or you won't even recognize it.
  20. Seriously?????? Members of my family have served in every conflict the US was in volved in since Bunker Hill to give you the right to spout these less than intelligent statements. Until you have walked a mile in their shoes just remember that some one paid the price for you. I have no problem with uniforms in church or anywhere else for that matter ... I am just deeply grateful that they are there ... because of them I can sleep safe at night. But oh how I love the Marine dress blues
  21. The girls need to be in camp ... and enforcing the ban for this particular camp would probably not be possible. However to teach obedience by asking that they not do this for camp is another thing. One of the things I repeat often to my SS kids is if we can't manage to be obedient in the little things how do we expect to handle the hard stuff? We need to follow the Lords teaching method ... teach correct principles and then allow them their agency. Everday of a life is a teaching moment ... we just need to use them wisely.
  22. We asked by the GA to only have one pair of earrings at a time ... when attending a church function this should be followed. It's all about teaching obedience. Of course our area isn't like it was when I first went as a counselor at 15. We had a dry camp up on Mt Lemon outside of Tucson AZ. No cabins, no running water except in the cook cabin, not electricity. Those girls knew this and still they drug along hair dryers, electric rollers and all manner of stuff. Where the heck did they think they were going to plug them in ... a current bush?????? A year or so ago our girls went to a camp over near Ellensburg, WA ... they got to sleep in Teepees ... to cool.
  23. In our ward we have a sister that has a "Service dog" .... she bought the puppy this past fall and decided it was a service dog and went through some fly by night group to get a jacket. The dog has no training, no manners, gets fed and watered all during the meetings, and barks in church! Really annoying especially to someone who has worked so hard for years following the rules of being a good dog owner. The answer i got when i took it to the Lord ... "Let it go". Hey at least she is in church where she needs to be and maybe learning something ... the dog not so much!
  24. This is one of things that happens to nearly every new convert ... something comes along that is designed by the adversary to shake your faith. Keep learning and then follow the promise in Moroni 10:4 .... that promise applies to the gospel as a whole. If your teachers gets confrontational again tell him that you are here to learn and build your own testimony ... he can give you the foundation but he cannot force your testimony. A new sister is our ward is an expert atthis kind of learning. She takes what the teachers are saying (she even takes notes in single adult home evening) and then goes home and reads all she can about it and prays. You can visually see her growing ... line upon line. The author of all science is the Father ... makes sense that He uses it to fill His needs. Also makes sense that compared to Him we are still in the dark ages. Keep up the good work.