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I wonder how Trump will take it when he loses to this. Overheard this morning on Fox Business News. “Biden is aging worse than an open mayonnaise jar in the sun.”

Heleman 14:30 And now remember, remember, my brethren, that whosoever perisheth, perisheth unto himself; and whosoever doeth iniquity, doeth it unto himself; for behold, ye are free; ye are permitted to act for yourselves; for behold, God hath given unto you a knowledge and he hath made you free. 31 He hath given unto you that ye might know good from evil, and he hath given unto you that ye might choose life or death; and ye can do good and be restored unto that which is good, or have that which is good restored unto you; or ye can do evil, and have that which is evil restored unto you. D&C 3:3 Remember, remember that it is not the work of God that is frustrated, but the work of men;

I agree with you. Adam 1st, Then Joseph. And that includes D&C 135:3 Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer of the Lord, has done more, save Jesus only, for the salvation of men in this world, than any other man that ever lived in it.

Prime tomahawk rib eye medium rare. If you ever see a baseball steak on a menu get it. Sous vide does a great job.

If you get me a bookcase you can have your closet back. Why are you buying more books?!! To fill the new bookcase you got me… It looks lonely.

Loosing battle.

Well you are laser focused on an esoteric teaching of the LDS doctrine. We are not trying to become Jesus Christ. Here in this life, we are just trying to follow his gospel. We learn of Him and His Father so we can have a correct understanding of His attributes. We seek after all truth and cherish the Book of Mormon because it clarifies many points of His doctrine. Just because we may have more truth does not mean that we are more righteous than those of other faiths.

You will probably like this talk. It is saved as one of my many "Must read" https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/curt-holman/raising-ebenezer-monument-remember/ Raising Your Ebenezer: A Monument to Remember CURT HOLMAN July 30, 2013

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I may skip it. It’s probably going to make me embarrassed and cringe. If I do watch it, I’ll switch between Fox News and MSNBC just to see how bad the pundits try to spin it.

Oh gosh yes. Its a classic

lol I’ve probably read it 3x and listened to the audiobook x2. I need Dale Carnegie to follow me around with a cattle prod apparently…

Yeah, this is my issue. Retrospectively I was abrasive and should have been more Christ like. I was irritated that she hijacked my afternoon and took it out on her. But somebody from the past 5 stops where she gave this same presentation should have given her some Christ-like feedback. We shouldn’t just hold our peace and endure to the end should we.

Poop show. World wide embarrassment.

Are those corn dogs?

Well they could have done many positive things. Someone gave them an assignment without any direction or feedback. Apparently didn’t even ask them if they had any experience with family history (which they don’t or is so superficial that they could not answer simple related questions). I can tell when someone is a neophyte or making up stuff on the run. And after having given this presentation probably a half dozen times at least, I was the only person that gave any negative feedback.

Jan Mikulecky was born in 1822 in Bohemia, which is now part of the Czech Republic. He immigrated to the United States in the mid-19th century, settling in Wisconsin. Jan, also known as John, was part of the wave of Czech immigrants who moved to Wisconsin between 1848 and 1880 [oai_citation:1,Mikulecky Genealogy | WikiTree FREE Family Tree](https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Mikulecky) [oai_citation:2,John Mikulecky, b.1842 d.1900 - Ancestry®](https://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/john-mikulecky-24-tqrkx8). Jan Mikulecky came to the U.S. around 1852, traveling through Bremen, Germany, and Quebec, Canada, before eventually arriving in Wisconsin. He initially settled in Caledonia, Racine County. Unfortunately, Jan died during the cholera epidemic in 1853 or 1854, shortly after his arrival in the U.S. [oai_citation:3,Mikulecky Genealogy | WikiTree FREE Family Tree](https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Mikulecky) [oai_citation:4,John Mikulecky, b.1842 d.1900 - Ancestry®](https://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/john-mikulecky-24-tqrkx8). The Mikulecky family continued to grow in the U.S., with descendants moving to other states, such as Kansas and Minnesota. The name Mikulecky remains relatively rare and is often associated with those of Czech ancestry [oai_citation:5,Mikulecky Genealogy | WikiTree FREE Family Tree](https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Mikulecky) [oai_citation:6,John Mikulecky, b.1842 d.1900 - Ancestry®](https://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/john-mikulecky-24-tqrkx8). For further details on Jan Mikulecky's descendants and additional genealogical information, you might consider exploring resources like Ancestry.com or WikiTree, which offer extensive databases and user-contributed family trees [oai_citation:7,Mikulecky Genealogy | WikiTree FREE Family Tree](https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Mikulecky) [oai_citation:8,John Mikulecky, b.1842 d.1900 - Ancestry®](https://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/john-mikulecky-24-tqrkx8). This is from ChatGPT iphone version. The computer free version 3.5 refused to look into public records. My favorite line from the AI genology presentation so far, “AI can mimic human intelligence. It can also mimic human stupidity”

Holy crap! with me inputting minimal information

Thanks found a video about AI and genealogy will watch after work. You provided way more helpful information than an hour long meeting.

So for the past 2 months I have received 3-4 emails and 3-4 verbal reminders from the ward leaders that I need to attend the following meeting as a representative of the Elders Quorum. "Hi all, just a reminder that the Temple And Family History training is today at 2:00 in the Red Bluff building. The training is for all temple and family history specialists and the councilors in both Elders Quorum and Relief Society that are responsible for temple and family history work." Turns out that the meeting is being taught by a married couple from the big city (Sacramento 1.5 hours south of me). And that they have given the presentation multiple times before coming to our ward. Anyway, the husband of the couple sat down the entire lesson and gave occasional support while the wife gave the presentation which had nothing to do with Family History training. It was more of family history awareness mostly with statistics and occasional general authority quotes. During the entire 45 min presentation, I'm thinking when are we getting to the content of this meeting. When she asked for questions I asked if there was any training in this training meeting. Handout? Could she direct me to a website? Are there any YouTube tutorial channels that can teach family history for dummies? At about my 3rd question she started to get irritated with me (I later recognized as I can sometimes interpret social queues incorrectly). Her recommendations were to have one of the youth in the ward teach me as the youth are good with computers. Or that I should create a youtube channel. My wife tells me that the husband appeared furious with my badgering but I totally missed that as well. Three of the attendants of the meeting (including our Stake President) tried to mollify both parties while also requesting some sort of practical direction. I eventually found the website https://www.familysearch.org/en/fieldops/article/family-tree-basics and I plan to go over it sometime this week. I texted the website to multiple attendees at the meeting, at their request, and received text messages after the meeting thanking me for my input. Looking for recommendations. In the future when I am requested to go to a training meeting I will request an agenda with goals and material that I can review prior to the meeting to make the sessions more productive.

A long time ago I put together two concepts that helped me reason why to act and do the right thing 1) Concept that our motivation for why we act is more important sometimes than the act itself. From a BYU speech of Dallin Oaks 1998 - Why do we serve at BYU? He listed the follow reason “in ascending order from the lesser to the greater.” a) For riches or honor b) To obtain good companionship c) Fear of punishment d) Duty or loyalty e) Hope of an eternal reward f) Love of God and fellowman 2) D&C 19:7 Again, it is written eternal damnation; wherefore it is more express than other scriptures, that it might work upon the hearts of the children of men, altogether for my name’s glory. The above scripture, to me, means that God called punishment eternal so that men might be motivated by what Dallin Oaks listed as (c. Fear of punishment). But if we learn to love and trust God, we will not need to act out of fear of punishment or hope for a reward. So I don’t. I don’t worry about Hell. I don’t hope for the Celestial Kingdom. I try to do the right thing for the right reasons. And I trust God. It has always worked out for me. When I heard Mossimo De Feo’s conference talk - Rise! He Calleth Thee. I reflected that we have had very similar point’s of view. Especially the prelude to his talk - Some time ago I asked my wife, “Can you tell me why, as far as I remember, we have never had any major problems in our lives?” She looked at me and said, “Sure. I’ll tell you why we have never had any major problems; it’s because you have a very short memory!”

computers just collate records. They don't have feelings or spirituality. Obviously, you can have feelings and spiritual reactions from data but that doesn't have anything to do with the compiling of the data.

AI is just better computing power and programming. It is very good at putting together puzzles and finding solutions. Genealogy seems a perfect fit. We are not trying to get into any personal information and it doesn't really have anything to do with spirituality. Just record keeping and clarification of family trees. In the USA - Birth, death, and marriage records become public records after a certain period of time, which varies by state. Typically, birth records become public after 100 years, death records after 50-75 years, and marriage records after 50 years.

I think the hardest part will be digitizing the records in our country first then getting into foreign countries. By the time we have a good database quantum computers might be online.