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Personal Priesthood Interview. Let me give you some background. I've been LDS my whole life. I can point to times in my life when I have had priesthood interviews. From my father as a youth. From my bishop, stake president, etc. During my mission I had interviews with my mission president and companionship inventory. I have had many 'discussions' during my married life with my wife. But I would not put those under the PPI heading... Most recently with my teenage children, a father's interviews and discussion have become necessary and are quite effective... Anyway to get to the point - I recently moved into a new ward and was called into the elders quorum presidency. Wherein I was informed that we are to do PPI's monthly with each member of the quorum. My response was 'WHAT THE heck?' I was informed that I was to ask pointed questions concerning the Elder, his family, job circumstances, his marriage, home teaching families, set goals with him both personal and family, and ask him if he was exercising his priesthood. And if there were any recommendations that he had for the quorum presidency. This was strange because it seemed like an undue amount of time committment on both the quorum members and presidency. And frankly I am a quiet person and somewhat anti-social and I really don't want to get into other members personal business. Not to mention the issues of confidentiality, etc. Furtermore I was not set apart to do such intimate interviews neither was I trained in how to conduct these interviews. And if there are issues that come up during these interviews... I assume that I would defer such issues to the bishopric anyway. And I have never had such an interview as a member of my previous quorums. The term Personal Priesthood Interview can neither be found in the LDS Cannon nor in the Handbook. The closest thing that I have found is in Church Handbook 2 7. Melchizedek Priesthood Elders Quorum President and Counselors and High Priests Group Leader and Assistants "Where posssible, they visit or interview quorum or group members at least once a year." Which of course is quite different than the material that I was presented with... I would love to be enlightened about the origin of these PPIs and the doctrinal foundation upon which they are based. Personally I think that my time would be better served by just setting up home teaching visits with slacker home teachers and visit with them and their families instead of talking about it.

In a 1987 study, published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, of 132 cats that were brought into the New York Animal Medical Center after having fallen from buildings, it was found that the injuries per cat increased depending on the height fallen up to seven stories but decreased above seven stories. The study authors speculated that after falling five stories the cats reached terminal velocity and thereafter relaxed and spread their bodies to increase drag. The Straight Dope: Do cats always land unharmed on their feet, no matter how far they fall?

Isaiah 53:2

I just made a Maple Bacon Pecan Pie.

Every day Work Free will The Gospel Other children of God that respect life and follow the gospel.

Yeah, we love em. Its kinda like watching the Osmonds for us but different. We love SiFy Our favorite episode was when Si and Phil went to the kids school for career day and teach the kids how to clean a duck and all about Vietnam.

I doubt it. The next couple links lead me to believe that God actually lives on a Star instead of a planet. http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/1843/18Feb43.html BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Diamond star thrills astronomers

There is really no correlation between the size of the planet and a day (single revolution). Jupiter has 1300 times the volume of the Earth and its day is only 9 hours and 55 minutes. Anti-Mormons are so hopeless.

Two of my favorite hymns. For the Record, I believe that God lives on a celestialized planet. Im not sure what He calls it but Kolob sounds pretty kool to me.

The Gospel is eternal. Obama can only do a finite amount of damage in his remaining term.

“The brethren direct me to say that the Church has never announced a definite doctrine upon this point. Some of the brethren have held the view that it was possible in the course of progression to advance from one glory to another, invoking the principle of eternal progression; others of the brethren have taken the opposite view. But as stated, the Church has never announced a definite doctrine on this point.” -Secretary to the First Presidency in a 1952 letter; and again in 1965 “None would inherit this earth when it became celestial and translated into the presence of God but those who would be crowned as Gods — all others would have to inherit another kingdom — they would eventually have the privilege of proving themselves worthy and advancing to a celestial kingdom but it would be a slow process [progress?].” -Brigham Young, in Wilford Woodruff Journal, 5 Aug 1855 “Once a person enters these glories there will be eternal progress in the line of each of these particular glories, but the privilege of passing from one to another (though this may be possible for especially gifted and faithful characters) is not provided for.” -Joseph F. Smith, Improvement Era 14:87 [November 1910] “I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His children that he can: and while, if we live unrighteously here, we shall not go to the other side in the same status, so to speak, as those who lived righteously; nevertheless, the unrighteous will have their chance, and in the eons of the eternities that are to follow, they, too, may climb to the destinies to which they who are righteous and serve God, have climbed to those eternities that are to come.” -J. Reuben Clark, Church News, 23 April 1960, p. 3 “It is reasonable to believe, in the absence of direct revelation by which alone absolute knowledge of the matter could be acquired, that, in accordance with God’s plan of eternal progression, advancement from grade to grade within any kingdom, and from kingdom to kingdom, will be provided for. But if the recipients of a lower glory be enabled to advance, surely the intelligences of higher rank will not be stopped in their progress; and thus we may conclude, that degrees and grades will ever characterize the kingdoms of our God. Eternity is progressive; perfection is relative; the essential feature of God’s living purpose is its associated power of eternal increase.” -James E. Talmage, The Articles of Faith [1899 edition] pp. 420-421 The question of advancement within the great divisions of glory celestial, terrestrial, and telestial; as also the question of advancement from one sphere of glory to another remains to be considered. In the revelation from which we have summarized what has been written here, in respect to the different degrees of glory, it is said that those of the terrestrial glory will be ministered unto by those of the celestial; and those of the telestial will be ministered unto by those of the terrestrial—that is, those of the higher glory minister to those of a lesser glory. I can conceive of no reason for all this administration of the higher to the lower, unless it be for the purpose of advancing our Father’s children along the lines of eternal progression. Whether or not in the great future, full of so many possibilities now hidden from us, they of the lesser glories after education and advancement within those spheres may at last emerge from them and make their way to the higher degrees of glory until at last they attain to the highest, is not revealed in the revelations of God, and any statement made on the subject must partake more or less of the nature of conjecture. But if it be granted that such a thing is possible, they who at the first entered into the celestial glory—having before them the privilege also of eternal progress—have been moving onward, so that the relative distance between them and those who have fought their way up from the lesser glories may be as great when the latter have come into the degrees of celestial glory in which the righteous at first stood, as it was at the commencement. Thus: Those whose faith and works are such only as to enable them to inherit a telestial glory, may arrive at last where those whose works in this life were such as to enable them to entrance into the celestial kingdom—they may arrive where these were, but never where they are.” B. H. Roberts, New Witnesses for God 1:391-392. Some years ago I was in Washington, D.C., with President Harold B. Lee. Early one morning he called me to come into his hotel room. He was sitting in his robe reading Gospel Doctrine, by President Joseph F. Smith, and he said, Listen to this! "Jesus had not finished his work when his body was slain, neither did he finish it after his resurrection from the dead; although he had accomplished the purpose for which he then came to the earth, he had not fulfilled all his work. And when will he? Not until he has redeemed and saved every son and daughter of our father Adam that have been or ever will be born upon this earth to the end of time, except the sons of perdition. That is his mission. We will not finish our work until we have saved ourselves, and then not until we shall have saved all depending upon us; for we are to become saviors upon Mount Zion, as well as Christ. We are called to this mission." “There is never a time,” the Prophet Joseph Smith taught, “when the spirit is too old to approach God. All are within the reach of pardoning mercy, who have not committed the unpardonable sin.” Boyd K. Packer, “The Brilliant Morning of Forgiveness,” Ensign, Nov. 1995, 18

A flat affect is worrisome of clinical depression. An endowed male refusing to pray is another concern... Do you have friends in common? If so what do they think is going on? Sounds like youall have had a serious communication barrier. Was it an issue during the courtship? Until you understand what is going on in his head, and what his and your expectations are you are kinda spinning your wheels.

I submit, your obstinance prevails.

I think the confusion is due to the word quickened. I believe that in the material I quoted the word quickened should have be sustained. Mortal bodies receive nutrition, oxygen, and remove waste via the blood. Immortal bodies use a different substance. I think of it as a fluid spirit light substance. Note the difference between Flesh and Blood & Flesh and Bone. The following link has good explanation of the idea that Immortals bodies do not have blood. Improvement Era: A Mormon Blog | No Blood Before The Fall? Where’d THAT come from?

Verse 24 is the voice of God. Verse 25 seems to be hearsay 'it shall be said in time to come'. You commented that the scriptures cannot make up its mind. Moses 5:24 is definitive in my opinion. Cain was perdition (a bad person - IMHO). Somehow he managed to meet the requirements that allowed entrance into mortality.

Moses 5:24 For from this time forth thou shalt be the father of his lies; thou shalt be called Perdition; for thou wast also before the world. Apparently Cain was a bad apple prior to Earth life.

Before the fall Adam's Body was quickened with spirit. After the fall it was quickened with blood.

From a basic physics standpoint: C-ship: The Dilation of Time 1) As one approaches the speed of light time slows asymptotically, and at the speed of light time stops. 2) God is Light D&C 88 & 93 Doctrines of Salvation, Joseph Fielding Smith, volume 1, p. 92 Adam quickened by Spirit, Not by Blood.* Man became a living spirit clothed with a physical, flesh and bones body, but the body was not quickened by blood, but by spirit, for there was no blood in Adam's body before the fall.* He was not then "flesh" as we know it, that is in the sense of mortality.* In that state Adam could have remained in the Garden of Eden forever and all things that were created would have remained in that same condition forever. 3) If God is composed of light, then He does not experience time and is thus eternal.

lol, yeah I agree. There is alot of Proverbs 26:11 going on over there. But every once in a while there is an uplifting post. It's like watching the CBS, NBC, or ABC.

What Quentin Tarantino Taught Me About the Temple By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog This is a recent blog post from the BCC site. I found it insightful. Also interesting because the R rated film Pulp Fiction plays an important part in the post. Must admit that I did watch the movie Pulp Fiction, and at the time did not see the symbolism. But there it is.

From Evidences and Reconciliations - John A. Widtsoe I believe that the Earth was born, baptized, and will eventually endure a baptism of fire.

We voted early, but live in California so I could have voted for (candidate deleted by moderator) and it would have made no difference. But at least I get the option to be called in for jury duty. Yeah! We did donate some money to the campaign and fast offerings though :)

The Holy Temple:Amazon:Books LDS.org - Support Materials Chapter - Preparing to Enter the Holy Temple The first link is to my favorite book about temple symbolism (Boyd K Packer). The second is the text of a pamphlet based on the first book.

Family and Consumer Science Looks like an obvious fit to me. I got my BS @ BYU Provo in Nutrition Science. It was awesome. Wonderful teachers, interesting classes. I took this one course wherein organic chemistry was an elective, and the first day I showed up, we baked oatmeal cookies at our own personal kitchen set up. We had the best college parties. The facilty could really cook. I continued with my education, went to medical school and an now fixing bones for a living. Many of my classmates became registered dietetics. No doubt some now are chefs and work in the restaurant field.

There are a few instances that one can look at within the scriptures that let us understand what happens when one passes thru the veil. In my opinion the best reference is found within Ether chapter 3, see verses 10-20. From these verses it suggests that one passes thru the veil only after sufficient testing and faith. And upon passage thru the veil one then receives his pre-mortal memories. Everyone will become resurrected. It is obvious that most of those that are resurrected will never pass thru the veil. I'm not even sure if one must pass thru the veil to enter into the celestial kingdom. Do some research on the ordinance of receiving one's calling and election. I would suggest that passage thru the veil is an ordinance that all must partake of who wish to follow the plan of exaltation. It may be a long time after we are resurrected before we are ready to pass through the veil. Although some men have done so during mortality... 3 Nephi 11: 14-15 also gives some insight to the temple ceremony.