Char

Before I became LDS 5 years ago this whole food storage thing was very curious. When I was 20 (47 now) I was invited by my boss, who was caretaking her father and step-mother's house, to go look at their food storage. Neither of us was LDS and everything was such a mystery. She took me to a room somewhere in the middle of the house (pretty big house) and there it was......it looked like a shrine to gold, metal cans. One stacked on top of each other. Only one light hung from a cord in the middle of the room illuminating what sorta looked like a pyramid in the center of the room. I didn't even notice what else was in the room...the whole focus was those cans. I wondered what was in them. I'd never seen anything like it. In the old testament, when Elijah is told to go to Zarephath, it gives an interesting perspective on the sharing concept. Quick overview here: Elijah asks a widow, who has a son at home with her whom she must provide for, for water and a piece of bread. Well, her cupboards are bare all except for just a little bit of oil and flour...enough to make she and her son their last meal. He tells her to prepare a cake for him with all she has left, and the Lord has promised to provide her with an unending supply of oil and flour until this drought they're having ends and it rains again. She shared with a stranger, and put his needs before her son's and her own. Maybe she thought, 'what have I got to lose?' Thought this went along well with your topic, Royal.

Heather...that was my question as I read these posts. I'm a convert of 4 years and this is a new discussion for me. So, men don't have to deal with this situation the way women do. Am I to understand that a woman who gets a divorce must have her first sealing undone before she could be sealed to her new husband? Does this hold true for the divorced man as well? Perhaps the death of ones spouse is what determines a mans ability to be sealed to another woman. Then, women should have the same option in the case of a spouses death. I'm really, really not understanding this whole thing between spiritual applications of men and women. When I was converting I found a story about a women who had received the priesthood in the early beginnings of the church. My daughter is asking me why she can't pass the sacrament. Anyways, lot's of questions to be answered and I'm not sure how to answer them for her or me.