TruthSeeker

My wife and I had been 3 months into the dating part of our relationship and she straight up asked me what my sex life entailed. With tears and regret I informed her that there had been 2 times where I had had intercourse, and many other times of lesser, other things. I was scared out of my mind that I was going to lose the person that I thought I was going to marry. After I told her, she told me that it didn't change anything, even though she had saved herself for marriage. At that moment, I knew she was the one that I wanted to marry, because she knew that I had worked very hard at repenting, and that those sins had been forgotten. I have had to look past other issues that she has, and it has not been easy, but a mutual respect and understanding exists in our relationship. The whole process has helped me to learn not to judge people, and to be more understanding and accepting.

I have found that when I am in situations where I don't have total control of leaving or getting up and going to the bathroom that I get bad anxiety(classroom, meetings, etc.). Also, a lot of my axiety is related to sickness, so if I notice I have a little bit of a fever, runny nose or whatever, I jump to the absolute worst case scenerio and think that I am going to die. It is pretty rough.

Hey man, I know how you are feeling. I started having VERY bad anxiety a couple of months ago and thought I had about every diease alive, and had a bunch of tests done and was told it was probably anxiety. The doctors put me on .25mg of xanax. I sometimes cut them in half, but it is a very small amount to take. I too usually take one before bed, and take one if I am going into a situation where my anxiety will be very high. Panic attacks are no fun. I feel like im choking, my throat tightens up amongst other things. I will go a day or 2 without xanax but fear, a little bit, the day where I have to live totally without it. Here are a couple of things I do to help me not take the xanax: 1) Running 2) Just getting outside and feeling the sun on my skin(souds weird, but the fresh air really helps) 3) Yoga 4) I have changed my routine up and do things a little bit differently every day, as to keep my mind guessing a little bit As for coming down from the xanax, I would imagine that it would be easier and maybe healthier to just decrease the dosage little by little, under a doctor's supervision. I understand that you said that you are not covered health wise, but if this is a money issue, I would ask your bishop if there are any services the church offers to help people like you and I to get through tough times like these. Trust me man, I have been through a lot of physical agony and tough times, but nothing has made life as hard as anxiety. A lot is about how you control your thoughts and the way you breathe. I have been trying to give my anxiety to the Lord to handle. I have found that has helped me go a couple of days without taking a pill. Good luck.

I would be with an agency such as the Marshalls or the FBI in a second if it wasn't for a small hearing impairment that law enforcement get hung up on. Im in a spot where I have some great connections, but they don't like the fact that I can't hear at a frequency that is the same as a dog whistle. Good luck with your application. I think its one of the most rewarding things you could do with your life.

Thanks. Physically im just fine, but some of those images just keep replaying in my head. Sad, sad day. It was the most "real" moment of my life.

I work in the building and was in the middle of it all. Had to hide from the gunman. I missed the bullets by about 5 seconds. I know that I was being watched out for.

My logic wants to agree with this, but it can't. So are we saying that the Lord does not interfer at all? I have a very recent event that leads me to believe that he does intervene for the purpose of saving people. The event: Monday morning I was supposed to leave the house for work by 7. For whatever reason, I called in and told them I would come in later, and I slept another hour.(Unusual, happened in the past, but it is not an every day thing) I now planned on leaving the house at 8:30. However, for no reason at all, I just had a feeling I needed to stay home for a while longer, so I sat around in bed for another hour, wide awake, wondering why I was still at home. Well, at 9, my wife had a seizure and I had to call an ambulence. She has never had a seizure before, and I knew that the Lord kept me around the house on Monday so someone could call an ambulence for my wife(we are the only ones in our house). The question is...why? Why does the Lord allow for some things to happen, and for others not to happen? It seems unfair, right? Nope. It is part of his plan, mingled with the agency of man. That is why His plan is so perfect, and we have to trust in His will.

This subject is always on my mind. I think that we are in the beginning of the end. I subsribe to the thought that it probably will not happen tomorrow, but I will be pretty surprised if 20 years has passed and we have not yet experienced it. A man in my last ward told me that when a general authority was staying at his house, the general authority explained that the church was starting develop land in Jackson County and send people on missions to just "occupy" the land. In other words, it sounds like some people are being gathered. However, this is just second hand info. He also told me about an interesting, recent discovery in the middle east, where a cavern was discovered and the name "Nephi" was anciently written on the wall of this cavern. Again, second hand info. So, I think that some of these things are happening for a reason, if they are indeed true. We know that Christ will come as a thef in the night, though, so I am willing to put everything I have on the fact that he doesn't come the day the mayan calander ends...it would be too expected.

I remember when I first came across some incriminating church history....I left the church for 3 years. My life went from pretty ordered and good, to chaotic and awful. Upon my return, I understood the value of Gospel principles. Still to this day, I struggle with things early church leaders said and did...however, I have to constantly remind myself of two things... 1) How do I know what REALLY happened? (Any source has an agenda) 2) No man/woman is perfect. I often think about how I would feel if I was called to be the prophet one day. People would probably come out from my past and detail the wrong choices I had made...and I would then think about how no words could explain my change of heart and true intentions. I imagine much was the same with Joseph and Brigham. They said and did some crazy things. They, however, were men. If aything, I have learned to take them as prime examples of how the atonement can work. Even though I understand this, I still struggle with my testimony at times. Luckily, I have had 2 or 3 spiritual experiences that will never forget and not ever be able to deny, and I latch on to these. I also see how doing my best in the church has brought me many blessings to my life. Will I ever understand why one of Joseph's wives was 14 years old? Can I justify this? Not at all. However, it is not my place to.

Thanks for the answers! Very insightful. I have so much respect for Emma Smith. I can't imagine what she had to endure. Also, in my opinion, it would be a pretty big leap to go from being LDS now to the community of Christ church, but back then, amongst the confusion, I would imagine that initially the 2 groups didn't seem all that different. I could be wrong though.

Hello Everyone, I have a question. I was reading in the news about some pretty foul actions of some Community of Christ members back in Missouri today.(Not saying CofC members are bad) However, I was wondering what the Community of Christ believed in relative to our church. On their website, they claim that Emma Smith, after the death of Joseph, became a member. Is this true? I was just curious as to any insight this board mght have to offer. It is just different to read about those who use the Book of Mormon in their worship, but the differences in their beliefs to ours is pretty drastic(women holding the priesthood, etc..)

Although there are only 1000 dead out of 300 million, we need to look at how many people die out of how many contract it. I have read different things on this rate, but one of the articles said that about 1% are dying who contract it. Might seem low, but if 65%(one of the predicted numbers) of the country contracts H1N1, you're looking at over 3 million dead. Thats a lot.

Snow, I wish I could agree, but I can not. In a recent poll, 49% of America thinks the vaccine is safe, and 43 % does not. Sounds like it is pretty split down the middle. Also, as we have seen in the BOM, God has certainly humbled the people with methods that might be similar to this. These are all honest questions. Not trying to stir controversy.

Don't want to panic you, but my mom knows someone who died from it and my co worker knows someone who died from it. I also have a co worker that has a cousin who was put into a medically induced coma because the swine flu caused 2 collapsed lungs and either kidney or liver failure...can't remember witch. So, yea, there it is.

I really thought that a lot of it was all hype...then I started reading about all the healthy kids/young adults that are passing away...and passing away in such a short time. I.e...fever on wednesday, ICU Thursday...dead on Friday. I have found a couple of websites that have presented these news stories, all have the same story of a rapid downward spiral of condition. I know this isn't happening to everyone, but my heart shatters when I hear about healthy people with their lives in front of them just dying in a matter of days from something like H1N1. Lets pray for each other.