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She seems lovely. And a scholar. She has great advice about curiosity and research. I love and have been studying jewish traditions as well. It has been enlightening. You can’t know where you are if you don’t know where you came from.

So do you eat most of your chocolate before or after mid-day? Indian food does it for me. And I have vivid bizzare dreams. Nothing that I would share as I might get labeled as a psychopath etc. I have had visions though - inspired daydream images. I would never call any of my dreams inspired. Although I do consider myself a visionary man

With 11 children. I feel like I am constantly herding cats. We are lucky to get to the local ward on time. Let alone being on community hospital call 27 days of the month. Someday my life will become less hectic.

Usually those people taking vacations are making decent money. And if they are going to church during their vacation they are probably paying their tithing. If you show up to sacrament meeting in hiking gear you probably should re-evaluate your choices though. Local congregations no longer are paying for the local church buildings. That ended decades ago.

I’ve never been to bear Lake. But I have been to Park City. Also a vacation destination. But the Bishopric embraced the outsiders and made accommodations. It was one of the better fast and testimony meetings as there were people there from many locations. They had a very large building with overflowed rooms. And most of the members just came for sacrament service. The members were super friendly too. Meet and greet portion of meeting war great. Local members had recommendations of things to see and do.

https://nkytribune.com/2017/12/keven-moore-truncated-domes-cause-injuries-and-are-unsafe-not-at-all-what-they-were-meant-to-be/ See also https://abilitytools.org/blog/the-pros-and-cons-of-truncated-domes-should-one-disability-trump-another/ I’m not sure where these truncated domes originated. But I bet it was not requested by the visually impaired. I do know that a whole industry was invented by the ADA. As stated before. I know they are dangerous for the unsteady, aged, and those with canes and wheelchairs. Which happens to greatly outnumber the blind. They are also a hassle for the non-handicapped. The amount of money that business must expend to retrofit their store fronts can be extensive as well. Little things like this add up and destroy the hopes of personal business owners. Sure it looks like a loving solution at first glance. But sometimes our ‘solutions’ are worse than benign neglect. First do no harm.

I’m sure a safety expert will inform us.

3 Ne 27:21 Verily, verily, I say unto you, this is my gospel; and ye know the things that ye must do in my church; for the works which ye have seen me do that shall ye also do; for that which ye have seen me do even that shall ye do;

Oh I understand the issue. We live in a litigious society. I can’t send my kids on any significant church activity without a release form. Every time I read a radiology report I get a detailed list of what the radiologist thinks it might be just in-case… Instead of just giving a professional opinion of what he or she thinks they see in the image. You know those yellow bumpy ‘safety’ strips outside of stores on sidewalks etc. I have never seen one help anybody. On the contrary I have had dozens of patients trip, fall and break bones on the death-traps. As well as break items in my grocery cart. I had a place of business with a single exit and one of the local members came over for a ‘professional courtesy’ visit. After visiting the men’s room he related to me that I needed to update my emergency escape maps in the office and that he could do it for a reasonable price. It goes on and on….

In the home ward of my youth (Dallas Texas) I remember passing the sacrament every week outside of the chapel and into the overflow areas. Occasionally we had to refill the water and bread and re-bless the emblems. I never found it irritating.

Just build a bigger chapel. Or post some speakers outside under the eaves so those in the parking lot can hear the prayer. Use more priesthood to carry bread and water. If it has become such an issue that you have to get a professional sign made and post it weekly then you are failing. Sometimes we use society’s rules to try to solve our problems. In the Restored Church I would hope that we would try harder. During my internship we had a medical emergency, on a Christmas day the roads froze over and we had 20+ MVAs in an hour. We were overwhelmed. We treated people in the hallways and outside in the parking lot. Our sterile techniques were less than the standard. But we saved lives. How would you have felt if you showed up to a hospital with a loved one dying that could have lived with the simple placement of a chest tube. And you were greeted by the above sign? I recall many scripture references when people wanted to listen to, see, or touch Jesus. In almost every instance he made arrangements to accommodate those believers.

We used to have meetings outside. Would be nice on a pretty day like today. I feel like a saving ordinance trumps the fire marshal. D&C 6:32 Verily, verily, I say unto you, as I said unto my disciples, where two or three are gathered together in my name, as touching one thing, behold, there will I be in the midst of them—even so am I in the midst of you.

A friend of the family posted the above this AM. They showed up at the chapel @ 9 AM. Location - Bear Lake Idaho - which is a vacation destination. My wife’s response… Marching ever onward to the Telestial kingdom: More room available in the Relief Society room, every classroom and on the stage. Please make yourself comfortable. We will build more churches as fast as we can. *There. fixed it.

He intentionally deceived both Adam and Eve in order to do harm. He acted out of enmity. You could also say that God provided incomplete disclosure. But His intentions were good and actions were motivated by love.

I bet it has huge viewership. Tik Tok influencers, pretty girls and handsome young men, $$, Sex, Drama, Reality TV, Swingers, Taboo, conflict. Who doesn’t stop to watch a train wreck? I’m glad they are using the moniker Mormon instead of LDS.

I’m a bit concerned that we no longer have the capacity, knowledge, or wherewithal to properly vet a candidate. Both JD Vance and Tim Walz were looser picks IMHO. someone should have picked up a phone and made some calls.

All blood is red. Arterial (oxygenated blood) is bright red and under high pulsatile pressure. Venous blood oozes out and is dark red. It’s freaking obvious during surgery. There is one exception though - the pulmonary system is reversed. Pulmonary artery is semi high pressure but un-oxygenated and the Pulmonary vein is low pressure and oxygenated.

Moses 4:6 6 Satan … knew not the mind of God, Isaiah 55:9 9 my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 3 Ne 28:10 … and the Father and I are one;

In the temple narrative, Lucifer makes many statements. But he is the father of lies. You cannot trust anything that he says.

The temple narrative hints that after Adam and Eve fell, Eve could recognize Lucifer for who he was during the pre-mortal existence. Yet when Adam sacrifices the lambs, He has no idea that it is a similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten. Moses 5:7 And even After being taught this lesson, Adam must have wondered how the slaughtering a lamb, burning it upon an altar and consuming its flesh represented a future act that was described as “providing a Savior” We have the benefit of witnessing the Atonement after the fact and we still have difficulty making the association between the two events. Every time Adam gave sacrifice thereafter, he must have wondered how can this horrible act be a similitude - what is going to happen?!

The basics were explained. But no one understood the specifics (excepting Jehovah).

BYU football schedule 1. August 31 - Southern Illinois (Home) 2. September 6 - at SMU 3. September 14 - at Wyoming 4. September 21 - Kansas State (Home) [Big 12 Opener] 5. September 28 - at Baylor 6. October 5 - Bye Week (General Conference) 7. October 12 - Arizona (Home) 8. October 18 or 19 - Oklahoma State (Home) 9. October 26 - at UCF 10. November 2 - Bye Week 11. November 9 - at Utah 12. November 16 - Kansas (Home) 13. November 23 - at Arizona State 14. November 30 - Houston (Home) [Senior Day]

The four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded Nos. 1-4 and receive a first-round bye. Seeds 5-12 will play each other in the first round. The higher-seeded teams will play host in their first round games. Here's a breakdown of the first round matchups: No. 5 vs. No. 12 No. 6 vs. No. 11 No. 7 vs. No. 10 No. 8 vs. No. 9 New Year's Six bowl games will be introduced in the quarterfinal round. The semifinals will be played in bowls on a rotating basis while the national championship host site is determined through bids by prospective host sites. This is a huge improvement. If you don’t win your conference championship you cannot be in the top 4 seed. Four rounds! The first four games have home field advantage. Gonna be exciting.

Elevendy Billion is my big number. From Urban Dictionary elevendy - a number that is greater than, less than, and equal to zero. The elongated synonym of eleven, used by small children still in the juveniles instead of eleven due to a underdeveloped brain, or lack thereof. It may be applied with other numbers, for example, "elevendy four", to further confuse people. The actual code of "elevendy" is yet to be discovered, though scientists are working on it at this very point in time. "I have elevendy cents" "I paid you elevendy three cents"

I may have to watch the debate. For entertainment purposes of course.