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Thanks for that clarification. Whew!

So - let me make sure I understand this - beginning in January, 12 yr olds will come to Sunday School? I'm not a fan. I like being around adults. Even in Sunday School (and certainly in RS) topics come up that are for adults. I think having kids around waters down the environment. I have a hard enough time with the Women's meeting during Conference for the same reasons; you can't forget that there are children in the audience. Obviously, this isn't for every topic, but geez, sometimes I want to learn from adults who have something to say or some life knowledge to impart. It looks like the Church is trying to consolidate all these different classes/groups, and I dig that, but maybe this is too much. Am I missing something? I don't look to children for inspiration or guidance on adult life problems or adult level education on the Scriptures. Bah humbug.

Let's not get stupid.

You gotta problem with the Ramones? What's wrong with you?

Once the broken cabinet goes to the garage, does it ever get fixed? I think people put a lot of 'projects' in the garage that would be better off in the landfill.

Amen. While I am sure many here wish I would shut up sometimes, there are also many instances in which I take the better course and just keep scrolling.

I'm not gonna lie - when I pass an open garage door and the garage is filled to bursting, I think the person has some sort of moral failing. A few garden implements or the stray fridge/freezer is one thing, tons of unorganized stuff? No.

Wait a minute - who are all these Mormons drinking Tequila? I can't leave you people alone for a second.

Yeah, I was just going to say something about that, but you solved the problem neatly.

Never in a million years would I not eat coffee cake because of the coffee. It wouldn't even have occurred to me. I was never a big coffee drinker, so that doesn't bother me, but I enjoy coffee flavor and eat coffee ice cream, etc.

Scenario - Two people who are dating convert and are baptized. They get married in the chapel, but are not sealed in the Temple because they haven't been members for a year, yet. As luck would have it, they have a baby within the year. Is that child born in the covenant or do the parents have to have been sealed in the Temple?

Really? Maybe in private industry, but I'm in a state university with a ton o'anti harassment/discrimination rules. They'd have me on my knees in HR before I knew what was happening if I even looked like I was talking about pornography in the workplace. Plus, tho I am not in Utah and am the only LDS my co-workers know, almost all of them go to church and I can't imagine they would think porn was an appropriate topic for work. Goodness - they even put 'trigger warning' when they send out an email if there's been an alleged sexual attack in the dorms or in town.

I love watching cooking shows, from experts to home chefs. I know that we can use wine in cooking, but what about coffee? I just watched a show where the special ingredient was various flavors of coffee. One person recently turned 21 and had never had her ingredient - Irish creme - before since she wasn't legal to drink (truth in posting - I never drank much, but boy, did I love me some Bailey's). I was doing something else at the time, but I assume the bakers all had to taste their coffee to see how they could build a pastry around it. Also, what about the situation one year on Hell's Kitchen where the winner got the usual chef's prize, but also became spokesperson for a year for a winery. Could a Mormon do that? I'm not sure how much of a head's up the contestants get - they know the usual prize, but it seems they don't always know the restaurant and I doubt they knew about the winery - so they couldn't have opted out if they were chosen for that season. Also, any given season might have 1 episode that includes alcohol in some way. So - no Mormons on FoodTV - unless they have a special on funeral potatoes?

I just got a FB post from a sister in the ward, wanting to know how to research the candidates. Voting is tomorrow. Personally, if you are that ignorant of the candidates and issues so that you don't bother about them until the day before the election, you shouldn't vote. I'm just gonna say that I left the plantation. You couldn't pay me to vote Democrat. Yes, I'm one of those who votes a straight ticket. As far as I'm concerned, there are no 'good' Democrats in office. They are out to ruin families, keep blacks as an underclass, ruin the economy and give it over to globalists, and erase American culture. In my mind, there is no 'best person for the job' if that person's party is anti-life and anti-America. I lived in Seattle for almost 5 years. I know what a government based on liberalism looks like and it ain't pretty. Also, this 'they need to work with other parties' stuff is a mistake. Work with other parties how - vote for 3rd trimester abortion? Allow all undocumented illegals in? Where do you compromise your principals? It's bad enough when corporate Republicans fail to act on illegal aliens because they need the labor (I'm looking at you G. Bush). I don't have to go looking for places to compromise my beliefs just because some people think it will make me look like a better person.

A lot of men worried about what a woman does. The question should be, 'Would you date or marry a man who wanted to condemn you for something you did before you even met him and before you were a member of the Church?'

Apparently there is an unwritten rule in our ward that all verses of all hymns are always sung. Maybe with the reduced meeting time, we will sing 2 verses and be done with it. Except for 'If You Could Hie to Kolob.' I love that one. We can sing all the verses every Sunday as far as I'm concerned.

I don't know. Seems that there are plenty of things to leave the Church over (if one is so inclined) before ever getting to pageants. As for the closed schools, etc. in Nauvoo - the ride down there passes through a few economically depressed towns. It is kinda sad, especially seeing the closed Scheaffer pen factory in Ft. Madison.

Thanks. I didn't know it was a stake kinda thing.

I don't know how many people just going to the temple stay over night in Nauvoo (spending money), but Nauvoo is my temple and we go to the fudge shop, sometimes the souvenir places, and have a meal. I imagine many visitors do the same, tho not sure if that's enough to keep it from becoming a ghost town.

Can long time members tell me why these pageants should end? I attended the Nauvoo pageant a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Maybe because I was a new member, I dunno. It was like going to outdoor theater. I thought it was fine, so I was a bit surprised to see this new statement. Do they take too much money and members' time or something?

Gang - My son, who lives across the street from me, is looking for a new house; not right away, but he's in the market. My ward boundary ends at a highway that divides the town. All the cute, new housing is north of the highway. I'm also looking to retire in the next 10 months and to move to something smaller. There is cute, new, smaller housing north of the highway. I have only known the 1 ward I am in. Buying a house north of the highway would add a big 5-7 minutes to my distance from church. I am a single; widowed; 'young old'; only 1 child to help me in my old age, including taking me to church activities; person. Obviously I'm trying to make a desperate case here. The two wards share the same building, so it's not even like I'd have to go someplace else if I went to a new ward. Given the above, what are the chances in Hades that my bishop will let me stay in my current ward?

Good question. Carnegie's book would be good. I'm a fan of Larry Winget's books on work and responsibility. If I had to choose one (ok, 1 story, 3 books), I think it would be Lord of the Rings. You've got good and evil, sin and the consequences thereof, friendship, self-sacrifice, pride, greed, it's all there.

So, we're supposed to have stake conference. I thought it was last night and today. I didn't go last night, but got up headed out for conference this morning. When I got to church, there wasn't a line of cars trying to get in the lot, no unattended children running between cars like maniacs, nobody & nothing. I thought it was just another manifestation of MST, but when I got into the building I realized right away something was wrong. #*$($# Stake conference is NEXT weekend. I went home until time for church. This wasn't the first time I've arrived on time for an event and no one else was there. It used to make me doubt my sanity until someone told me about MST. I only have to get myself out of the house; I guess others find it more difficult to get out because people are always late.

I don't know about you, but I don't joke about rape too much. It's just a thing with me. It's easy to say we all joke about each other. Yeah, probably. But keep that stuff out of the workplace and the classroom.

I was a professor in a woman-dominated field. I am also the proud mother of a male. I frequently had to prohibit the "men are so stupid" jokes/comments that would come up in class. They don't get to speak that way about men in my presence.