ZSEdwardson

Well, Israel is not a party to the Nuclear NPT, and in case if you missed it, right now some of the political parties that are part of the Israeli government are so far right that they would make apartheid south Africa look liberal.

Not saying that Wealth, looks, and so on are not important. I always told my sister that the key thing is that her husband love her, and after a few toads, she dated and married a wonderful guy. Us LDS folks (I am the sole LDS member of my family) have the added thing of looking for Temple recommended folks. Of course, my problem is that I am the nice guy who girls want to be friends with, not date, curse of being a nice guy. Such is life. anyways, I don't have a temple recommend as I am only a member since January, but I think i will brave the stake YSA meeting to see what is happening. As if there was not enough pressure, LDS puts a extra load on you in the dating realm. My advise for a single mormon girl is that the man be a good mormon, love her, have the ability to carry out husbandly duty (Would say a real job, but with the economy, there is a lot of hard working people without work, so you cannot use that as a litmus test.) and have some sort of attraction too. Now, if she can find a six foot 2, good looking Returning Missionary who happens to be the heir to the So-and-so Oil fortune, and is nuts about her. Well, by all means date him. However, I have seen at least at the local level that there seems to be more worthy females then males. Hopefully they can fix the problem... ....right after I get married and sealed.

Well I live by myself, and I am a hour away from the nearest branch (One hour EACH WAY mind you). ~10 hours of video games a week. (I play about a hour a day, and on the weekend I try to do a 2-3 hour flight on flight sims) is far from a major crisis, exp. since I don't watch much TV at all. I still go to Sacrament, FHE, and Institute on a weekly basis, and I am 4 hours away from nearest family,and I put my 45-50 hours a week in work, so if you think that a issue, then well, I disagree. :)

two women bring in a limp duck to a vets office. The vet takes one look at it and says "Your duck is dead" The women insist that he run some tests, even though the duck is quite dead. So first he brings in a Labrador retriever, who sniffs over the duck, shakes his head, and is lead out of the room. Then the vet brings in a cat, the cat swats at the duck, shakes it head, and goes on. so the vet goes and prints out his bill. The women look at the bill and are shocked! "150 for telling us the duck is dead?!" "well, if you listened to me, I would of charged $20, but after a lab report and a cat scan...." --------------- ok, I know it cheesy, and i know much better jokes, but they are not 100% clean

I am single since I never married. I am one of those poor guys who gets sucked into the whole "nice guys finish last" and most girls meet me and become friends, nothing more. Though Right now I am trying to get my head around the whole "Not only are you going to be married for life, your going to be married for enternity" mode. I have a lot of good features, real job (which is a blessing in this economy) faith, live the words of wisdom, but I am also 50 lbs or so overwight, and the reality is that I need to work on that or I really cannot say anything bad about me being single. That, and I go to a small branch, and all the girls are friends, and thus I will have ONE chance to date one of the girls i nthe local branch, otherwise I will be turned down as "you dated X, and she my friend and I couldn't do that"

There is a old saying, those who are not liberal and under thirty have no heart, and those who are not conservative over thirty have no brain. You can be Christian (and Mormon) on both sides of the political spectrum. Mormons have a tendency to be more conservative then some other churches due to the concept of personal responsibility more then group responsibility. However, the mission to take care of the less fortunate does strike a bell deep within all those who follow the Gospel. I am concerned personally that the government is trying to eliminate personal choice and trying to eliminate the responsibility of people choices. (for example, bailing out companies that made bad choices, and not letting people make a choice on if and what type of health care they want. (I for example cannot buy a less expensive policy that does not cover substance abuse, even though I follow the words of wisdom and do not smoke, drink, drink coffee or tea (or caffeine for that matter) ) That, and i am sick of tired of people saying I am being mean since I didn't like the health care bill, I agree that health care needed reforms, just the reforms enacted I dislike.

Been told that I will recive a calling once I recive the Melchizedek Priesthood, (had my two interviews, now waiting for sustaining of the high council and the local branch)

Thank you all.

Well gaming in moderation is not bad, first you need to be able to do all your other duties to Family, Work, and do whatever callings you may have. I play any number of games, about half are with some friends that do not live in the area, and they call and we play a online game and talk while we play, and the other half are for me to wind down when I am too crosseyed to read. The other thing other then time is make sure you know that there is reality and fantasy, and there is no more danger playing a D&D type game then say, reading Lord of the Rings. just my .02 cents

I can only say from my personal knowlige, but we have a man who been visiting for over a year, even though he not decided to join as of yet, and there is always a member of the priesthood their to make sure he has a guiding arm to get where he needs to be, and a ride to church and back. A young kid who has some developmental problems is welcomed with open arms, sits in sacrament, and does activies the best he is able to do. The toughest line is knowing how much you need to help someone, as both you and the person with the disabilities wants to have as normal a experince as possible. I know at one point the branch had a girl who was deaf and half the young women learned basic sign language so that the girl felt accepted. (only problem is half the college/young women will sign to gossip when they don't want to be overheard.)

Each member has his or own way of figuring out what there testimony is, and it builds up over time. It is something that you pick up over a period of time, from prayer, thinking about it, and reading. This is mine right now. In time it may be more detailed as I learn more and have more of a testomony on some items.

Congrats! At mine I had to borrow a members temple pants as I could NOT find white pants Baptism is amazing!

I came across this issue as well, and when I spoke at my Stake confrence as a new member, I have found a simple answer. I hadn't learned to listen yet. After I had read the book of mormon, it took a good eight months of something nagging in the back of the head before I started looking at the branches of Mormonism/LDS and four months after that, I walked into my local branch.

Hi all! I am a recent convert to the LDS faith, read the book of Mormon back in late 2008, and after about a year of something nagging in the back of my head, I finally visited the local branch and been going since. Was baptized on Jan 16th, 2010, Confirmed Jan 17th, 2010 (Both where amazing, most notably the confirmation) and I have been granted the Aaronic Priesthood, and have finished both the interviews for the Melchizedek Priesthood. (I have only had to repeat the blessing of the water once in sacrement as serving as priest, I switched a word around. ) The Words of Wisdom are suprisingly easy to handle, and I am learning to improve myself, I delt with wonderful lady missionaries and now I am slowly learning the ropes of being in the church. Just wanted to say hi and all that.

Well I knew I was crazy to join the church as a single 30 year old male, and this just confirms it. (needless to say, I am a 30 year old male who not a RM, and will not be a RM for a very long time) You do need to find a good spouse, but RM is far from a good way to make sure you find a good spouse. A Elder who goes on a mission solely so his parents would buy him a car and help with college is not exactly going to be better then a devout convert who enduring to the end and following the commandments. Then again, if a girl thinks that I am automaticly unworthy since I am not a RM, then I am not going to be wanting to deal with her anyways in dating/marriage, and I hope she gets a good RM, as there is a fair share of bad apples in RM.