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So recently my wife just quit her job to be a stay at home mom. She has a strong desire to want to help with the income, yet I tell her to not worry about it and I will just work more overtime and her job is to be a mom. She knows it true because her patriarchial blessing speaks of it. Still she wants to help, so I was wondering if anybody knows of any of the stay at home jobs that aren't a scam. I hear of plenty on the radio and tv but when I check them out you can tell they are a scam. Thanks.

BYU going independent is a great move in my opinion. When the news first broke, I kept coming up with scenarios about how easy this would be for the Cougars to break into the Top 25 and be a contender each and every year. The current deal that I heard about asks BYU to finish in the Top 15 twice within three years after going independent. If that feat could be accomplished, then BYU will gain the same status that Notre Dame has, finish in the top 8 and you will play in a BCS bowl game. The deal with ESPN allows for any home game of BYU to show up on ESPN or any affliation (ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ABC, Disney...kidding) within the next 8 years. With BYU and Utah looking to continue their rivalry, this is a great way to showcase one of the most underrated rivalry games in the country. Every other year, this game could be broadcasted on ESPN from Provo. Better yet, if they held this before a conference weekend, the stadium would be a mad house. The rest of their games will most likely be broadcasted on BYU network, which broadcasts to a great deal of the country. The best part I love about this all is getting that same bid Notre Dame got. Consider that BYU could lose two games and still be offered into one of the big games. To me that seems like a one up on Utah. Utah could go all season long with one loss and not make one the Rose Bowl because a team like Oregon, USC, or Stanford swept the PAC-10. Yet the road laid ahead is a hard one. Finally with them scheduling big time schools shows that they have the courage to go out and face the big name schools. Texas and Notre Dame won't be easy tasks but in the end, if BYU beats both of them in the same year plus a few smaller schools like Utah State gets them up their in the polls. When they decide the polls, they don't look at a school indiviually. Notre Dame is the only one they look that way, and that is due to lack of conference. If you beat Colorado you just beat a Big 12 school (or a PAC-12 school in two years) and that is saying you beat a team from a qualifying conference.

The Top Ten Ways the Bible Would Have Been Different If Written by College Students: 10). Loaves and Fishes replaced by Pizza and Chips 9). Ten Commandments are actually only five, but because they are double-spaced and written in a large font, they look like ten. 8). Forbidden fruit would have been eaten only because it wasn't dining hall food. 7). Paul's Letters to the Romans become Paul's E-Mail to the Romans. 6). Reason Cain killed Abel: They were roommates. 5). The place where the end of the world occurs.... not the Plains of Armageddon, but Finals. 4). Book of Armaments would be in there somewhere. 3). Reason why Moses and followers wandered in desert for 40 years: They didn't want to ask directions and look like a Freshman. 2). Tower of Babel blamed for Foreign Language requirement. 1). Instead of creating the world in six days and resting on the seventh, God would have put it off until the night before it was due and then pulled an all-nighter and hoped no one noticed.

You have to remember that in the times of New Testament, that wine wasn't the same as today. It was actually non-alcoholic.

I actually suffered from this at one time. Just after we was married, we both worked different fast food jobs. Even though we were both Managers at our respected jobs, she was being paid more than me. I had a problem with the idea that I was suppose to be the primary care giver for the family. Finally, I realized that nobody would care who made what. A family's finances are their business and nobody elses.

Well he is almost two weeks old and I think we got it figured out. I put a blanket under the bassinet mattress to raise him up, a tip that my wife's grandma told us. That helped some but only every so often. But the other night, my wife fell asleep feeding him and she woke up and I guess he was out of it. She picked him up and put him in his bed and he slept there for like two hours. Guess the trick is to make sure he is totally asleep instead of just getting to sleep.

Just a thought that came to mind, do they have an aunt or grandma that lives near by? If so, you could send them to spend time with that person so they have a female role model in their lives and can learn how to do the different hair styles, maturity issues, etc.

We got a bassinet next to the bed and at nights she only gets up to feed him. Other than that, I am usually the one that has been getting up to change him, burp him, etc. After talking to my wife, I guess last night was better on her than the nights before so hopefully he is getting to it. He has been up all day so far so I am thinking that he might sleep good tonight. Thanks guys.

I have a new born that is just over a week old. I know babies sleep 18-20 hours a day and they decide the schedule but it just seems my new born's hours to be awake is from 11 PM till about 4 AM. Doesn't both me any because I work a night shift so to be up with him on my time off is easy enough for me. Even on this time off, I stayed up till 3 last night with him and back up at 9:30 because I can function on very little sleep. Yet my wife is the one lacking sleep that can't really function. I try to keep him up in the mornings when I get up and in the afternoons, so he will sleep during that time. Take yesterday for example, I had him up about three hours in the morning and four hours or so in the afternoon. Momma fed him and he fell asleep. I put him in his bed around 11 after he had been sleep for about two hours. Suddenly he is up and going till 4. I have been told to put rice cereal into their bottles but I know that is when they are older. Any tips to what to do? My wife is loosing sleep and I go back to work on Monday and would like to atleast get my son to sleep four or five hours at night so my wife can get some rest.

Just to give an update, the blessing went great. Its weird how the spirit works. My son was born Tuesday and we planned on blessing him that following Sunday before his grandpa returned to the Navy, stationed in Japan. Anyways, the doctor came in (who is also LDS) and told me that he had a feeling to run one additional test that they usually don't run on newborns. This test is used to gauge the amount of infection inside the human body. On average, the human body has .2%. My son had 5.8% in his body. I was more worried about my son that I forgot about all my other problems. The doctor got it set up and I was able to bless him on Sunday. The spirit spoke clear and I was able to give my son his proper blessing. I said that my prayers were answered because it told me to speak what is said to it. Thinking back, what the spirit told me is what I have been wanting my parents to know all this time. That family is the most important group you can be apart of. In this world, we need to quit thinking about ourselves and more about our children and our spouses. How can we be an example to our coworkers, friends, etc. if we cannot be an example to our family.

Its all wierd to me but I am blessing my first son this coming Sunday and I ain't going to lie when I say I am nervous. Its hard anymore to do a blessing for my wife or her family (I am convert so my family isn't into the church) because all my family does right now is fight all the time. My parents are on the brink of divorce and it seems to be harder for me to give blessings because I can feel what Heavenly Father wants me to say but in the same sense I also get a sudden urge to speak my mind about my parents and brothers. And now with my son's blessing coming up I just have the feeling that I will say it to a group of people and not give my son his proper blessing. I have prayed numerous times about this but I keep getting the feeling to go through with it and all will be alright but I am still worried. Any advice?

So I am currently having problems with acne. I was talking to one of my mom's friends about it and she recommended the Dead Sea products. She said it is a little costly but works great. She said you only use it twice a week for about two weeks then once a week after that. Well I talked to my wife's grandma about it and she said that her daughter used it and it was a total waste of time and money. Her grandma seems to always be negative though so I took the advice and tried to research it. Only thing I can find is the companies testimony of the product. Has anybody here used it? Does it work?

This is the first major sports title brought to Utah out of the big five. (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS) This is the first sports title brought to Utah since the 1984 BYU Cougars, when they were announced as the NCAA National Champions

I have been to four different Real Salt Lake games (three at Rice, one at Rio Tinto) and I must say that all four have been entertaining. I have been supporting RSL since the beginning and was the only person at my parent's house that was celebrating. It was unreal yet it was awesome.

One more book you might want to check out is called: Of Souls, Symbols, and Sacraments by Jeffrey R. Holland My wife's grandpa asked me to read it after we were married. A great book that you should check out, talking about love and making it last.

So today during Priesthood, our discussion turned into various moments we have had during blessings that have strengthen our testimony. One story I told was that I am always nervous but after I put my hands on the head of whom I am giving a blessing to, I feel a strong surge of confidence. Another story I told is that as soon as I say "amen" that I forget everything I said during the blessing. I have to ask people what I said, because I never remember what I said. One that I heard, is a father confirming his daughter and during it, he stopped halfway through and the words stopped coming to him but somebody was telling him how proud he was of his ability to overcome his challenges in his life to do this for his daughter, and then suddenly the words came back to him. So any of you have stories of moments during blessings that was just unreal?

Growing up, I looked at it but once I made a covenant with in the church I actually found a program that blocks out those images on computers and installed it to my computer. Just an idea.

If I can put in my two sense to the first question, then yes you have pretty much nailed it on the head. See when I graduated I went to the center of the Catholic Religion, Italy. While there, I toured various monuments, especially churches. See my feelings there was that the true church was there but not physically. I wondered how could that be. I came home back to Utah and met with the missionaries. I faced the same questions as you. I can testify to you that when President Monson announced that the Rome Temple was dedicated, my answer from Italy was answered. I walked all over Rome, and thought of Joseph Smith and the Church of Latter Day Saints. On a side note, various churches that I visited in Italy have a seperate building built right next to it. The tour guides claimed it was the baptismal buildings. That the Catholic church built them long ago, but didn't know why. To this day, they still build those buildings next to the churches because they don't know the meaning it holds but all they know is it is written down from church official to church official that it must be built. I can say, with a strong feeling, that those buildings are the early attempts at baptism. That when the word was lost, they kept building it because they knew that it was important but didn't know why.

McKay Jacobson served a mission to Japan that ended in January. He has had plenty of time to get back into shape. Oh and of course you should be able to brag, BYU over Oklahoma is bigger than Utah over Utah State.

Go Cougars! Hopefully my wife's friend comes through with tickets. She has a sister who can get me tickets to BYU vs. Florida State and BYU vs. Utah. If BYU can beat go 3-0 (vs. Oklahoma @ Texas, @ Tulane, vs. Florida State) then it just proves that the Mountain West should play with the big schools. Plus I would add Boise State and Hawaii to add fun to the conference.

Hi, I am Brett. I live in Utah and joined the church two years ago this past November. I am married, and she has been a member all her life. And one year this November, will be our temple anniversary. Just wanted to say hello!