maybeinNH

thanks fellas

I tried LDS.org and I am terrible at finding things. I was reading an article about LDS t hat provide foster care to children (liek myself). They mentioned in the artlicle taht the First Presidency in 95 had put out a message encoraging members to help children in this way. It is not The Family Proclomation. SO the first one who can get me a link wins the prize....oh wait there is no prize except my graditude! lol

Maybe because not so long ago I was unsure about the Church and NH cause that is where I am. Guess since I know for sure that this is the true CHurch and i have been baptized I should change my name to ForSureinNH

I have done this with our four and a half year old. I just feel like if I teach her now the proper ways to dress it will not be a fight later on.

I am a new member but have tried to add things to my home to invite the spirit. I have the Family Proclamation and The Living Christ over my kitchen sink! I read them daily as i mindlessly scrub my dishes lol. I also have a picture of the Sacred Grove in my living room that says "What happened here changed the World, Let it chnage your life" That was a gift from a friend at my baptism I had seen the same one on her wall and admired it. Also there is alot of Catholicish stuff. I still have a crucifix over my bed and one over my front door. Those are family heirlooms and will be staying though!

Snow....where does that notion come from. Also I am a recent convert from Catholosim and I am not taking down the crucifix over my bed one has hung above me my whole life. It is handed dwon throug generations and is part of who I was and who I am and it is all about my love of the Savior. All I can say is that anyone who is anti any other religion in the Church is missing the boat. Were we not told to bring our truths and let the LDS CHurch add to them. It happened for me and I would hate to see something as silly as cross offense keep other from the truth. the end!

you should be super proud!

thank you all so much for all your wee wishes. I was baptized yesterday and it was awesome! I felt and feel so clean and pure and light now that the weight and guilt of all my past sins has gone! I am being confirmed today at one. I just have really had a wnderful spiritual experience I am so grateful. A friend's mom gave me a journal as a little gift yesterday and I have made a pledge to write at least one line in it everyday for the next year as i take my first steps and live my first days as a Latter Day Saint. A title i am just so excited to have!

Yes I am also going to be confirmed Sunday

So i am being baptized tomorow at 1pm est. I am so excited and nervous

Wow my questions were answered in the second post and still this goes on and on. Thank You mAson for the well wishes and to the poeple who clearly read my question correctly and were helpful with an answer. This really makes me think twice about asking a question in this sort of forum. Maybe I will just PM pam from now on lol

if you go to the wikipedia link Mason provided you can see how vastly diffrent the ideas are under the LDS section and under the Latin Church section since I am ROMAN Catholic. As for your rude comments on what I may have missed out on as a Catholic mind your business. The question was answered why do you have to chime in with negative garbage and to top it off you were wrong. so have a nice day!

pam you are da bomb!!! exactly what I was looking for I knew I could come here!

Hi all Ok I have a few questions that are not all that related to eachother. SO if you have an answer or can point me to scripture or talks that could I would appreciate it. 1. Eternal Progression...I understand the concept up to the point where I here people say that we will BECOME gods....As a lifelong Catholic till this point this concept seems very foregien and well blasphamous... 2. What is meant by the first resurestion? 3. When people pass away do they go right to one of the kingdoms of heaven or do they lay in some kind of waiting for reserection? I am not saying that I do not believe in eternal progression It is just a very foreign concept. What I do know is that this seems to be like dominos for me. I prayed if the BOM was true and was assured that it most certainly is. So if I know that then clearly Joseph SMith was a prophet of G-d which menas this is truely Christs church and that means that President Monson is surely G-ds prophet today. So thankfully beacuase I know these things I feel like I can believe any answer found in scripture or talks and know that it is true even if I cannot wrap my mind around it. SO please help!

No....sadly. He listened to the missionaries when they first came and he plays church basketball some saturdays but he has never come ot church with me. He has told me that he will see where I am with all this in a year so not to nag him about anything before then. I do occasionaly play hide the pamphlet with him lol! I put the plan of salvation in his book or lunch t hat he brings to work etc! I pray everyday that his heart will soften and he will accept and love the gospel and the church as much as I have come to.

I sure did....thanks

So i have been meeting with the Missionaries since Febuary took 2 months off to make sure i really knew the BOM was true and I was not egtiing to caught up in socializing. I have been going back to CHurch for the last 2 months and finally met again with the missionaries at friends from church's house. And I did it....with all thier help and support I set a date. 09/05/09. I prayed so hard on how to bring it up with my husband. We talked about it before but he kind of thinks I am a flake and will not follow through. I am excited and scared and excited and well i am a mess but in a good way. I guess once i do it I will ahve to change my name to ForSureinNH!

Help I really want to be baptised. I have taken the discussions and attended services regularly. I pray and read. I spend all day while working listening to GA talks on my IPOD. I feel a true passion for the CHurch and the Gospel. Here is my issue. TITHING! I am a married woman and my husband controls our finances. At this point he has no intrest in the CHurch and is sure not going to allow me tithe 10% of our or just my pay. I do get occasional bonuses, babysitting monies and gifts that I would happily give to God. What happens though when it comes time for temple recomends??? I just want to get batised and be the best LDS i can be but this issue is eating me up. I feel like I will be looked down upon and will not get to exprience what peoples whose whole families are in the Church do. Will I not be a full tithing memeber? Is there others like me? HELP!

oh no apple i have learned so much from you don't go!

this is all so true and I will tell you what as an investigator this is a huge turn off for me. I was attending regularly and a new convert in my Gospel class was always bashing catholics which is where I came from I actually stopped going for a few weeks till i realized that whole church is true and perfect people not so much! people should really watch what comes out of thier mouths and it looks so hypocritical when one guy is saying this stuff and people are laughing and at the same time they are telling you to bring your truths and let us add to them

i love Disney! have a four year old who swears she IS the little Mermaid :>

and i quit smoking this week! so far so good

ok..update it has really been awhile but I will give you the short version. right before E aster I kinda fraked and stopped attending church and called the missionaries and told them I needed time to think. I think I just let some of the stuff discussed in my Gospel Princ. class freak me out and then I let doubt fester and well yuck! so the bottom line is my husband continued to play basketball at church and the couple we had met that had come with the missionaries stayed in touch and I continued to reab the BOM and I read the Gospel Principle Book online....wasnt going to let them surprise me again :) The bottom line is I went back to church this week and has begun my lessons again with online missionaries and I couldnt be happier.I now know that for sure I want to be baptised and am working towards my goal. I am not fair weather I just take my faith very serious and wanted to make sure I am able and willing to keep any and all covenents I make to the letter. I know there are things that will be hard for me o understand or wrap my post catholic mind around but for me it was all about knowing the BOM is true and keeping that feeling in my heart and mind. The feeling i prayed for. I believe with everything i got that the BOM is true and I will pray to understand more. So that is where I am right now.

I always find if I can keep an additude of grattitude I feel better no matter what is going on. Fill your prayers with thanksgiving Your HF loves and knows whats best for you. HUGS!!!! It will all work out!

well the missionaries came back on Saturday and a couple from the church came with them. it was awesome. they did the second half of the plan of salvation! My husband was pretty involved asking alot of questions and while he told them he was not ready to go to church yet he did accept an invitation to play basketball with the guys. i felt so gret all day yesterday when they left. Today me and my 4 yr old went to church and this week we made the whole 3 hours. I ws much better prepared and calmer and i think that helped her relax during sacrament meeting. I am so excited I had a blast at church learning so much. Everyone was so nice. i just left there felling so filled up with the spirit.