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One of my institute teachers told me one of the stories of this guy that goes around fixing and finding out things like mistakes that happen through the church and helps fix them. He told us this story where this certain guy went to this ward one day and found that the women were passing the sacrament. He had gotten a call or something like that from someone saying something weird was happening in this ward and he should check it out. The bishop let them do it because there wasn't enough men or something like that. He had to explain why that wasn't okay and had to fix it or help fix it. We all got a real kick out of the story. I realized after that that there are a lot of interesting things happening throught the church that we don't hear about. I kind of figured that if I knew who it is that takes care of things like this I could find other funny and interesting stories

I've been working on thiese problems for over 4 years now with my bishop. I have certainly made some progress, a LOT of progress in overcoming my desires, but I still am not quite there yet. I never even once thought about what I was doing when I took the sacrament. I have taken it unworthily so many times it's not even countable. I'm glad I saw my friend that I highly respect not take it because it sparked the thought in me and now I can't let it go. I definitely feel the guilt of doing what I have done now. I am planning on seeing my bishop again in a few weeks. I don't think I will take it again until I'm absolutely sure. I'm sure that God understands. I am doing this to show respect. I don't think i have shown him respect for a very long time.

Taking the sacrament is kind of like a robot thing for me, I do it without thinking about it at all. That is until today when a friend of mine didn't take it. I don't know why he didn't take it but when I saw this happen I actually thought about it and this is how I felt. I believe in the church, but I don't think I take it as seriously as I should. My testimony is not as strong as some other people I know in my ward, this I know. I guess that even if my bishop hasn't said I shouldn't take the sacrament if I really feel I shouldn't then I shouldn't??? Can I really makethis decision on my own?

I've been feeling like I should not take it lately. I feel a little guilty taking it. I did take it today, but I am still struggling with sexual sin a little bit still and honestly I don't have a great relationship with God yet. I don't take my membership that seriously, I go to church and stuff, but only because I feel bad if I don't. I am the kind of person that would probably stay home if i didn't have my family behind me. I just feel like I shouldn't be taking it. I don't feel worthy to take it right now. When is it okay to take the sacrament?

I am in a psychology class at my school and we are doing a group project. I need you guys to answer 3 questions for me. :) What was your mood today? What were your activities today? Why do you usually dress the way you do? Wasn't sure if I put this in the right section. Hope I get some good answers. :)

Like it or not this is NOT something you can do on your own. You might not completely grasp the seriousness of this, that is the feeling I am getting anyway. I have always been tought that ANY sexual sin you commit you can not resolve on your own. Sexual sins have to be discussed with the bishop, this is a sexual sin. I struggled with this not to long ago, in my case mine was more extreme and it went on for a lot longer than the normal time (I started earlier than normal). My situation was mostly a lack of education on how bad it was, I was pretty innocent about it and didn't realize how bad it was. by the time i was 18 I had been doing it for 15 years and it was SERIOUS. I had one of the worst addictions to masturbation that I have ever heard of (seriously). I first talked to my mom about it, and from there I started talking to my bishop. It has been 3 years, and I have made plenty of blunders since I started talking to my bishop about it, he is a very understanding person though. A few of the key things you have to remember when you are trying to get over this is 1. KEEP YOUR MIND CLEAN! In most cases when I slipped and did it again my mind started wandering off in the wrong direction. 2. Pray every time you get the urge, even if there is even the slightest urge you should pray, God wants to help you and this is one of the most important parts in getting over this. 3. Don't beat yourself up about messing up if you slip and do it, this kind of addiction takes time and effort to get over, it's okay to make mistakes as long as you are trying your best not to. 4. stay away from TV, movies, music, media in general that will provoke your addiction / kindle it. 5. Talk to your bishop at least every couple weeks (with me it's always 3 or 4 now. at first it was every week though). Like it or not you do need to see your bishop and it WILL help. I find I struggle more with the temptation when I haven't seen my bishop for a while. Even if you have stopped for months like me you are still in the red or at least the yellow zone. I stopped for 3 or 4 months, did pretty well and then slipped once or twice. Just because you stop for a few months does not mean you are cured. Things like this take years to completely cure. Also, it being embarrassing to talk to him about this can really help as well. In my case every time I told him about it it was REALLY embarrassing and thus it helped me because I did NOT want to go back to him with more embarrassing news. I tried my best to avoid having to be embarrassed again. it is not easy for me to talk about it with him even after 3 years. I consider this to be a good thing. Hope this helps. :)

This sounds like my ward to a T. Everyone around here is mormon and we all give each other gifts, and are always very nice. President Hinckley even came to my ward once. Our bishop at the time was his nephew.

Thanks anyway! I think red will do just fine. I'm glad I asked. :) I was just curious because my sister has a white leatherbound book of mormon. I'll be fine with a black or red one though. :)

Does anyone know where I can find a white leather scripture quad with large print? I really want one but I can only seem to find the black, blue, green, and red ones. I really want a white one. If such a thing doesn't exist then tell me as well.

I have a really big problem with pride, with admiting i need help, with asking for help, with admitting i'm weak. I have had this problem for as long as I can remember. I am a very stubborn person. This is probably the main reason why I keep giving into my addictions. My pride keeps me from admitting i need help a lot, from asking help from god. Sometimes I know i should pray to god and ask him to deliver me from temptation but I don't because of my pride. I convinced myself for so long that I did not need his help with my addictions. How do I get rid of my pride? I'm not exactly sure how to do this. I know that If i don't I will just continue making the same mistakes.

So long story short I have this sexual addiction I have been trying to work around for years. I'm not in school, I can't get a job, I don't have any friends to hang out with nor do i realy want any to hang out with right now. I am basicly stuck on the internet because i have nothing else to do, all my family members are at work all the time or busy, or i can't think up anything to do. I am really bad at ths stuff. I have been to my bishop a million times over the past 2 years but I keep getting lured into the same trap. I just dont know what to do. I get bored and then i end up surfing random sites and i run into images, and it just keeps going throug this cycle and I really hate it. So I need advice on stuff I could do, I need destractions, other stuff to do because I am so not good at this kind of thing. Thinking up fun, and wholesom activities are not my thing, I am not good at that kind of thing so i end up in this never ending cycle. I have trouble working through this kind of stuff.

Yeah goverment is full of people like that, including our beloved FDA, they are a bunch of payed off crooks too. I could name a few things they have been payed to pass that are actualy dangerous. Including a few popular artifical sweeteners, etc. I'm not really worried though, there is justice for everyone eventually.

I think that anyone with some common sense that knows what is in cofee and tea and knows what it does to the body would understand why these are prohibited. It is very obvious why. God doesn't need to specify because we have the information at our own finger tips and we can find out for ourselves. It is very easy to destinguish which hot drinks we can have and which we can't by what they have in them.

it's what is IN coffee that makes it be against the word of wisdom, doesn't matter if it's hot or cold. I don't think anyone should make an exception, you can get lured in this way even if you don't realize it.

Thanks a lot for your help! What I have read here has helped me a lot. I now understand what I have been doing wrong, and why I keep messing up.

If you ask for forgiveness, stop doing the sin, get lured back into the sin and emmediatly go back and try to get god to forgive you right after you do it will he take you seriously? or does it require more time? I have a "Oh I can just do this one time and go to my bishop and be forgiving any time i want". kind of attitude. I know it's wrong but it's become a serious habit. I know I take forgiveness for granted. I always seem to get lured right back into the sin every time. How can you get more motivation to stop doing the sin? how can you become more serious? I don't really think i'm quite serious enough about stopping. I don't know how though. I don't know if God is taking me seriously anymore. I feel like if a talk to him right now hat he will not believe me or something like that. My desire to stop isn't that great right now but I know I should stop so I want to stop. I wish my desire to stop was stronger. I think that is one of the big problems. That and i allways find myself getting lured into the same situation over and over and over. This is all very confusing. I hope I did not just twist your brain in knots. Oh and also I have a question about prayer. When do you cross the line of being to informal when you pray? Like is it okay to tel God aout your day, or about something funny that happened to you that day/ Stuff like that? What kind of things are no okay to talk abut in prayer or are descouraged? I'm tryint to understand this more. Maybe my major problem is that I don't really take my praying seriously. I don't talk to God that often besides at night before I go to bed but usualy say the same stuff over and over again. I guess I'm just afraid to change. Also I think that my main reasons for wanting to be forgiven are selfish, like stuff just for myself, my own gain. I know this is a problem. What can I do about this? Also how can I gain more motivation? My biggest motivation right now is this guy I like, I really think the reason why I keep trying to go back right after I do this particular sin is because I want a good spiritual guy like him. I know it is wrong to have this as a main motivation or I think it's wrong but I lack serious motivation. Like, I feel like I don't really care about a lot of things. I am a sort of selfish and self centered person and I know I need to stop and stuff but it's hard.

While plain English scriptures would also be good I don't think this would always be the case. While they might be good for children we should also teach them how to read the old english ones as well. When I was a chile I learned how to read from reading the old english ones. You can learn a lot of stuff from reading them. I personaly, from personal experience think it's better for you to teach your children how to read the old english ones.

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