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Almost sounds like the makings of a, dare I say?, cult? hee hee hee.... sorry, I had to!

I did not know about this... THANK YOU SO MUCH! I will be checking that out for sure! YAY!!!!

In another thread I was able to share something I wrote a long time ago, during my conversion... Sharing it made me wonder if any of you would be willing to share original inspirational poems or such that you guys have written... i would be very interested to read things you all have written! Here is what I shared in the other thread to get us started...

Sorry capt I accidentally laughed at you... didn't mean to do that... I just wanted to second your CLEP advice. I CLEPed a bunch of classes... It was awesome!

"911, I'm driving drunk!""""" | BLUtube Heres one where a lady calls 911 on herself for driving drunk And those are all I can find without bad language right now... hee hee hee!

That's what dispatchers and police officers call "job security".

Man calls 911 because Taco Bell won't serve him | BLUtube I don't know if this will work or not, but this is a funny story about a guy who called 911 for tacos.

Thank you THANK you THANK YOU, everyone for all your opinions!!! I just thought that I would give you an update on what we are doing... We talked it over and discussed the ins and outs of all the options... My eyes glassed over about 30 seconds into a 15 minute discussion. Hee hee hee... He decided on the Mac and we ordered it yesterday! I am soooo excited for him. I'll let you guys know what he thinks of it. THANK YOU again! you guys are the best!

I personally don't feel any restrictions on what I read from the church, I do, however from the spirit. If I go onto an ex mormon website usually the spirit whispers to me that I could be doing something better with my time. The reason I started expoloring anti mormon things on the internet and at the local bookstore, was because I wanted to know everything that was out there about the church so that people who come up to me and ask questions couldn't take me by surprise with wierd questions. I watched hours of videos of protesters outside general conference, the prop 8 protests, etc, and went to all sorts of anti mormon websites. It NEVER even challenged my testimony. The spirit was with me and helped me sort thru everything. I did feel a little sheepish about doing it, because I figured we probably weren't 'supposed' to be doing it. But I am free to do whatever I want to do. I don't usually read anti lit now because I feel like I have better things to do with my time.

Thank you RM, you saved me from having to say this! I think that it is so wrong to say that the only way one's testimony is 'tested' is because of sin is so wrong... I know that I've been struggling with my testimony since I started posting on this web site again, a week or more ago... I really had a hard time because I felt like I was being attacked by members of my own faith, who I expected to be loving and accepting, and to understand me better than other people... My perspective has changed and I am struggling to rebuild was was torn down. I think I will come out on the other side a stronger person. That effected me more than the average person because I am just not as emotionally strong as your average joe. I know that it was a perspective issue (not trying to call anyone out!)... My struggles with depression and anxiety also have tested my testimony (and when I say testimony, I don't mean in Jesus Christ, but in the church). We had a ward picnic the other week. I thought I would be okay to go, even though I have a hard time remembering people and their names, I thought it would be okay. It wasn't. I got there and shut down. I couldn't talk to anyone, and I ended up standing by myself by a tree about 10 feet away from everyone else. I was so embarassed, and I didn't bring my medication, so I ended up asking my boyfriend to bring me medication. when he got there I just begged him to take me with him because I was in the middle of a full blown panic attack. I haven't been able to go to church two weeks straight because I don't want it to trigger another PA. I hate medicating before church because it is hard to stay away for the full 3 hour block... These things make it hard for me to be a 'normal' member... But I know that my struggles are not because of sin. Okay, my rant is over... With that I would like to share something I wrote when I was in the middle of my conversion, right about the time I was getting baptized. I was reading the BOM for the first time. I was gauging my progress by how fast I got thru the books, and after reading, and reading, and reading, I was still in Alma. I actually called my missionary. He answered the phone, and without saying anything else, I asked, "Will Alma ever end?!?". He laughed and told me to just keep at it. After I hung up the phone I turned to Alma 32, which took my breath away. I felt like it just spoke to ME. While reading this i was inspired to write something that has been an inspiration to me ever since... Here it is: I beheld a garden filled with trees. Some trees were mature, some saplings, some seeds barely sprouted... Each represented something in my life, friendships, work, my relationship with God. Each was nourished according to the energy I devoted to it. I looked at the trees and knew that my relationship with God was the most important tree in my garden, but it wasn't getting as much water and light as it needed to grow big and strong. It was being crowded out by other trees who took up valuable space in my garden. I resolved then and there to thin out the things that were unimportant and put that time and energy into helping my 'relationship with God' tree grow and flourish. One day it will be the strongest tree, able to weather any storm, standing tall in the garden of my life. I hope everyone finds it as inspiring as I have!

I don't think the guy deserves our attention. I think he would probably enjoy getting a rise out of us. I say ignore him. just my opinion!

Thank you slamjet! I am going to encourage him to price out how much it would be to rebuild his old computer... He likes having more than on cd drive, and he has umpteenmillion USB ports on his old computer, which he wouldn't have with a mac... hummmmm...

For some reason I am under the impression that PC's crash a lot and Mac's don't... Is that right? And he has been tossing around the idea of rebuilding his old computer... he's got everything (monitor, speakers, all that stuff...) he would just have to rebuild the rest of it. But the poor guy has been trying to patch that thing together for years now. I don't know how many sound cards and video cards hes gone thru... thats one reason I thought we should just start over with a new computer... but this makes me rethink that... i may encourage him to look at that option again... hum.

Ahhhh... I get it. Thanks pam!

I think it is unfortunate that the missionaries jaywalked... but I think that bringing Christ's suffering into this discussion is a bit over the top.

This is none of my business, and everyone is entitled to my opinion, I mean, their opinion, but unless there is some hx I'm not aware of... This seems a bit harsh!

slamjet??? what does this mean? Sorry, I'm really not much of a computer person... Thanks for all the input!

He likes doing a lot of photo stuff... We take Sophie fly fishing a lot in the mountains, and I like taking pictures of him and Sophie... He likes to mess with the colors and contrasts and that kind of stuff... He wants to do music on it, and then (every once in a while) he plays games, which he may get into more if he had a good computer. He has a flight simulator thing and I got him a model airplane thingy a few christmases (sp?) ago he hasn't really been able to play. And he does a lot of presentations and stuff for his CIT and negotiator classes (he's an instructor)... We like to watch a lot of blutube videos and stuff like that... That's pretty much it I think.

I have always had 'inactive' HT and VTs... I usually get an appology and a gift basket every couple of months. That's okay with me because I don't really feel comfortable having people over to my house... I hate putting my BF thru it. Although a couple of months ago I asked my bishop if I could have HT's, and I haven't heard anything back yet either, so you are not alone! =)

ACTUALLY, that's not a bad idea. I'm hungry. <yelling into the livingroom> "HONEY!!!"

HE SHOULD if I buy him stuff like this, huh?!? I bought him his dream grill this summer... You know the one with gas and charcoal side by side and a smoker attatched. The thing is 10 feet long for goodness sakes. He likes to do photo stuff and claims he wants to hook one of the piano keyboards up to it (although I've only seen him play a couple of times) he also plays games once in a blue moon... He does like to dink around with computers tho (he was just giving me a hard time when he got home and I scurried off to my room with the laptop... "Where are you going with OUR laptop, honey?" Go play with your grill. hee hee hee!)

So I want to get my honey his 'dream' computer, and he has decided on an I Mac 27" with 16 GB, boot camp and windows 7 (I don't even know what all that means! Not a big computer girl...) and it will be about $3,300. That includes a printer and some kind of package... My question is, is this a good computer? Worth the money? And is it pretty easy to learn how to operate? Thank you!

I was watching America's Test Kitchen earlier today, and thought about all of you talented people! I think i would be into cooking more if I had a maid to clean up after me. Plus my honey loves to cook so much, I like watching him do his thing in the kitchen... Maybe i would be a little more into baking if I had that kind of thing growing up. Mom never baked me cookies or did things like that, so I wouldn't even know where to begin! ugh! I admire all you bakers out there! But I think I'll be running to Walmart for my christmas treats!

Oh. My. Word. That is toooooooo funniiieeee!!!

I hope we don't have to be perfect to find 'eaternal' life! If we do, heaven will be a pretty lonely place. I know I wouldn't make it, and I can only think of one person in history who would.