mrmarklin

Economically speaking you have no increase. So, you don't need to pay tithing. 

What the Church spends on temples it saves on modern chapels, which are marginal at best. :-)
 
Further, temples are open to all worthy. Even the poorest among us. 

What the Church spends on temples it saves on modern chapels, which are marginal at best. :-)
 
Further, temples are open to all worthy. Even the poorest among us. 

Hmm.  Do we really celebrate his "birthday", or do we celebrate his "birth"?  I think there's a difference, and the latter is more important.

Movies have been made with this premise. I don't recall the names but one in the 30s with Carey Grant and the remake in the 60s with Doris Day. 
 
The movies were more chaste back then. I don't see any more remakes given today's society.:-)

I'm finding 31% of births being medicaid funded to be abhorrent.  The fact that it's one of the lowest in the nation nauseating. 

My opinion is that if it was prescribed by a good doctor, you can take it as medication. Tea could very well be intended for such uses.

I think you are being very wise.  I don't know where you live, but laying a foundation for life, ie.  getting an education, a good career and purchasing a home is appropriate for the vast majority.  I don't get the LDS culture of early marriage either.
The happiest couples I've ever known have laid these sorts of foundations.  It eliminates a lot of problems such as lack of financial means, maturity, etc.

It doesn't trump observing the Sabbath, it is observing the Sabbath.

Very sunny here in Monterrey MX. I'm here for a wedding 

Vort and Estradling gave the answer to the LDS Church.
As far as the rest of Christianity, the Christian Church adopted ancient Roman Law where monogamy was the lawful standard.  This marital standard distinguished the Romans and the Greeks from the rest of Europe.

WOW should be revised to allow coffee and tea. Whatever rationale was used originally to name these as hot drinks is no longer extant. Studies in general, show these to be relatively benign, even beneficial. 
 
Certainly they are arguably healthier than sugary sodas and energy drinks loaded with chemicals. 

I know there was a bit of humour in what you are saying here, but I don't think we should let this decide what commandments we enforce. Imagine the amount of converts we would get if we began allowing coffee and tea. I can't tell you how many people on my mission wouldn't even hear us out because we didn't allow those 2 drinks. That doesn't stop the presidency from enforcing this conmandment. 

I think there's sort of an undercurrent in a lot of answers here, which presumes that an American youth living today cannot reasonably expect to be able to live a middle-class lifestyle given hard work, careful planning, and prudent living.
Individual cases will always vary, of course; but speaking in generalities:  I do not think that America is so far gone.  Speaking generally, in first-world countries abject poverty is avoidable; and I think we do our youth--especially our young women--a grave disservice if we don't teach them how to avoid it and how to spot a potential marriage partner who seems to be moving in that direction.
And while I recognize that modern American culture is a hodge-podge of double standards where gender issues are concerned, I am sick unto death of folks (not here) who seem to think that fresh-faced Mormon girls have a God-given duty to enter into matrimony with the first nominally Mormon boy who expresses an interest in them.  Sisters:  dating is not a charity program, and you are not theologically bound to "give him a chance" or "refrain from judging" some skull full of mush just because he's a Priesthood Holder™.  This is your future life partner you're talking about here; and if a guy isn't meeting your standards and you're willing to be single rather than compromise those standards--cut him loose.

Actually, I'm not sure I believe this any more. The Book of Mormon does not specifically say this; it only mentions that the Lamanites became far more numerous than the Nephites. Since "Lamanite" was a term applied to anyone who wasn't a Nephite, or at least to anyone who fought against the Nephites, it would likely have been applied to any hostile indigenous peoples. I would suppose that Laman and Lemuel and their descendants "went native" and were, in effect, adopted into the larger existing population. This seems to me a far more likely explanation than that the Lamanites had higher fertility and/or survival rates.

I agree. A cave can certainly be used as a stable.
 
i misstated and should been more exact in my comment.

Just because the site is a cave doesn't mean it wasn't a stable.  We are talking about Bethlehem in approx 32 BC... it's a desert.  Trees are few and far between.  People built shelter around caves.  So, a house might be free standing or on a mountainside and built using rocks but stables are more likely to go the easier and simpler route of shallow caves... or just have the animals live on the lower room (as opposed to the more fancy upper room of Last Supper fame) of the house with the servants.
The thought that Jesus was born in a stable is, of course, derived from the Biblical narrative of the manger.

My wife says when it comes to dating:  Don't look for the one, be the one somebody else is looking for.

I grew up in a country where divorce is illegal.  In that culture, marriage evolves differently than in a culture where marriage can have a "do over".  So, this is how I see dating and marriage:
Dating is about the journey that goes from "I like her because..." to "I don't like her because... and I'm just fine with that..." to "I choose to love her regardless of ANY other thing I would discover about her in the future".
So, as long as you are still looking at a girl and thinking what if I find someone better/more compatible/etc... you are not ready for marriage.  This is not about the girls.  This is about you. 
You are ready for marriage when you can look at that girl and say with complete honesty to yourself - "If I meet the perfect girl tomorrow I can look her in the eye and tell her - you're an awesome woman and you will make some lucky guy very happy but I chose to love my not-as-perfect wife and I am happy to spend my entire life bringing her with me closer to Christ."... it is THEN that you are ready for marriage.
Love is not just a feeling.  Love is a decision.  A choice made by free agents.  This is a decision that you will make and re-affirm everyday for the rest of your life through richer/poorer/sickness/health/etc...

Well, as I'm brown, I don't need to.  If you haven't noticed, only White People can be racists and neo-nazis.  They're the only ones that need to publicly denounce it.  Black or Brown or Yellow ones can say the most racist things and not have to worry about it.   

No, it doesn't arise out of thin air.  It arose out of decades of masterful choreographed political strategy of the Democrat Party and a complicit media that then got piggy-backed on by the e-GOP to eat their own.  So, no, we don't cast disdain on those of the American rank and file that believe Trump (and all Republicans before him) raise concerns about racism, sexism, and religious bigotry.  We cast disdain on the political and media elites who are the architects of the modern stigma of racism, sexism, etc. on those who want to protect the Constitution and the Rule of Law and its tenets of Freedom for All.  After all, the LDS Church may say, "we were persecuted", but I am very sure they don't say, "so please break the law and immigrate to America" or even "please don't vet Muslims to find Muslim terrorists".
Edit:  This battle against the political elites and their collusion with a politicized media is still ongoing.  Tuesday did not resolve that in any shape way or form.  So yes, the work continues.

Well then between you and your friend it's conclusive evidence, I stand corrected

There's no evidence Moroni had to walk very far at all. 
 
The Mesoamerican geographic model is far from proved. 

I got enough of my own sins to be worrying about to get too worked up over someone else's.

The provenance for the story that Moroni dedicated the Manti Temple site is pretty dodgy--it boils down to Manti bishop Warren Snow, who in other reminiscences showed himself to be a little bit of a confabulator.  The Moroni-as-site-selector story is conspicuously absent from the records of sermons given at the Manti temple's cornerstone ceremony as well as its dedication.  See this link.