BenRaines
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Maybe it is the spirit of your coworker visiting your house. She checking you out and see how you live with your wife?
Hmmm.
Smells fishy here. Spooky maybe. Where are Scooby-Do and Shaggy?
They can always solve the ghostly capers.
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LM, you have found me out. I will use my bike to get around in the snow instead of my 4WD Quad Cab Dodge Ram with a Hemi engine. :)
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PC, was she sitting in her rocker back in 1987 and saying those things? I bet that is when it was. :)
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I was reading this article today and found it very interesting.
Lets do what we can to be good stewards of the planet but lets not lie to get gain or put ourselves in a better light.
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We used to attend them all the time in Las Vegas. When I was Branch President and under the Mission President's direction we held them and all members were invited to attend.
Must be that other LDS church.
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No rules. Institute is open to everyone. I know many adults, married and single, in college and not that attend Institute.
Enjoy. A great way to learn more about LDS church and beliefs.
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squab is a small fowl, like a quail.
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Snow, what an awesome experience. When our son entered the MTC it was only two weeks later that our daughter did. What a blessing to the family to have a missionary serving.
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Mexican government was upset that Forbes would recognize him too. They did not like the fact that it would make it look like a good thing to be a drug lord.
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Anyone looked up the protocol for a US President meeting a leader of another country? Emperor of Japan is not the elected leader just as Queen of England is not an elected leader, born in to it.
Let me see what I can find regarding protocol.
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When I worked in the Hmong branch and we had a branch dinner activity they would bring big trays full of them. I would fill my plate with them and some peanut sauce and the Hmong hot chili sauce. Man was it hot.
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The first ones. Not the fried ones.
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One of my favorite ethnic foods from when I worked in a Hmong branch were the Hmong Spring Rolls. So good. Sorry no picture.
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Looks like Top Ramen to me. Can get them 10 for a dollar at the dollar store.
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Miss and Beefche and Pam are correct. I have taught and taught my children that the way to get an answer from God is not to ask "What should I do?" The way to get an answer is to study the thing out in your mind. Make a decision and then ask God if that decision is the correct one. That is the process. So easy but so hard to remember.
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It was by Him, under the direction of the Father, that all things in this world were created. Man also. He is the creator of this world and all in it. First born in spirit on only born in the flesh of the Father. He is still the Son of God.
The same God of the Children of Israel.
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Good question. There would be more than just the Bishop asking but if the Bishop told me that is what was supposed to happen then I would, to the church, not to the Bishop or his friend.
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Welcome Ashley. Take the good you find here and enjoy. The bad disregard.
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Ouch!!!!!
I saw the New Mexico player on ESPN. It was during the MWC semifinals for conference championship. Totally uncalled for.
At the same time in the world of sports that allows the likes of Steve Howe, Daryll Strawberry, Artest, Ray Lewis and the list goes on and on to come back after bans or lifetime bands for some of them and the fact that her teams season is over it is a moot point.
My beef is where is Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame as a player? OK so he gambled as a manager. He was a player and deserves the Hall of Fame. :)
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MACC,
I read the quote at the end of the article. I think it is one person's opinion. That is what I think.
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Lindz,
My daughter went through the same things. She regularly read her patriarchal blessing. She was attending BYU, working, dating. Nothing seemed to be right. One day she heard a returning sister missionary share her feelings from having served a mission and how she was able to serve people and more importantly serve the Lord. How this girl was so thankful with the relationship that she developed serving the Lord.
My daughter came home from that meeting and said she had made the decision to go on a mission. She left two weeks after our youngest, our son, left on his. She served in Cape Town, South Africa. She loved it and the service she was able to give to the people of South Africa and the relationship that she developed with the Lord.
Your father and Bishop are right that it has to come from you. I will be amazing to you when it happens and if that is not for you or what the Lord has for you then something else will take it's place.
Good luck,
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To all posters in this thread. Please express your opinion without attacking another poster in the thread. Share your opinion but leave the remarks regarding other posters off.
I have sat where Charlyc has sat. The bar has been raised. Anyone is welcome to read the talk that was given regard raising the bar. A mission is not for everyone and that will be decided by the applicant, their local leaders, leaders in SLC and The Lord. The OP asked and we have responded with real world situations. NO PERSONAL ATTACKS.
I believe this is the talk where the bar was raised. In this same session of conference President Hinkley also addressed it. His is title To the Men of the Priesthood.
The Greatest Generation of Missionaries
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As Charlyc said since the "bar was raised" If someone broke the law of chastity once then after a time of serious repentance they may be allowed to go. If there is a repeated pattern of breaking the law of chastity, with one person of several most likely a person will not be sent on a mission. It all depends on local authorities until it gets to Salt Lake City.
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We are always counseled to seek confirmation by the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost can only and will only bear witness to truth. Confirmation of spirit.
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A real "Inconvenient Truth"
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Did you read the article folks. The guy who wrote the emails that were found, his resonse was, I don't know what I meant when I wrote the email. Sheesh it was ten years ago. Laughable.
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