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It's in Organizations: the Priesthood Quorum's (Aaronic and Melchezidek) and Scouting forum. I happened to google "can a man be a bishop if previously divorced" and it took me right to that thread.
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Jayanna, it is my understanding that a previously divorced man can be called as a bishop. But, he needs to currently be married. And I believe that the divorce needs to have been at least 5 years prior to his calling. See the thread "Qualifications of a Bishop" from back in 2011. I don't know how to link you to it, or I would.
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Just want to say how much I love Facebook
classylady replied to Backroads's topic in General Discussion
I also love Facebook for the same reason--I'm in contact with distant family that I wouldn't normally have any contact with. Plus, I've been able to reconnect with many of my missionary companions, and others from my mission. -
My ward no longer does "Super Saturday". I was only able to attend once or twice in years past when they were being done. I usually couldn't afford to do any of the crafts.
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Life is So Fragile: Hug Your Loved Ones
classylady replied to Anddenex's topic in General Discussion
One of my biggest regrets is not hugging my 19 year old daughter good-bye, or even getting the chance to say good bye to her before she left on a short vacation with her girl friend. I was working evenings, and didn't see her before she left. She didn't make it back home. Her girl friend fell asleep at the wheel, drifted off the road, then over corrected, and the car rolled several times. My daughter did not survive. I don't know why it bothers me so much to not have been able to say "good-bye", give her a hug, and tell her "I love you" before she left. Now, I always tell everyone I care about "I love you". "Be careful". And give lots of hugs. -
My grandson, who has Asperger's, (that's within the Autism Spectrum) was assigned a special helper. She would attend Primary with him. He would often sit by her and her family during Sacrament Meeting. She was a wonderful help. My grandson is now 9 years old and doesn't need a special helper any longer, but church can still be hard for him. Sacrament Meeting can still be a struggle for us because of his issues, but it has gotten somewhat better as he has gotten older. We have just persevered through it all. My husband and I are the ones that take my grandson to church. Plus, my husband has been wonderful with this. He's the one that had to get the kids to church every Sunday, because I had a job for the last ten years that required me to work most Sundays.
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I love Gouda or Edam cheese. Either one of those on dark bread with butter is yummy!
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Unfortunately, most women born during those times wouldn't have been given the choice/chance to become a cowgirl. Now, that would have been hard, to want to be one, and not be allowed to, just because you're female. Plus, can you imagine having to ride side-saddle? I'm grateful that I live in this day and age where I have so many choices.
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Attitudes about breastfeeding are improving, but there's still a long way to go. I always tried to be discreet while breastfeeding in public because I knew there were people out there who were very sensitive to the issue. The older generation seem to have a hard time with it because it was so taboo at one time. But, it sounds like in the OP, the brother that was concerned is not from an older generation.
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A rabbi, a Mormon and a black Christian mayor
classylady replied to pam's topic in General Discussion
Loved the article. All three of these men have the same values--honesty, integrity, etc. Some of my closest friends throughout my life have not been LDS, but we have respected the differences in each other while valuing the same core values. -
I used to wonder "why can't those parents get their children to behave"? My kids, seven of them, were all reasonably well behaved during Sacrament meeting. My method of discipline was similar to Vort's. And then after my daughter died in a car accident, my husband and I had the responsibility of bringing her son to church with us. He was two months old at the time of the accident, so we have pretty much always had him every Sunday with us. He has been a "Holy Terror"!! I commiserate with parents who have difficult children. I disciplined him the same as I did my other children. Nothing seemed to work. After he was 7 years old we learned he has Asperger's Syndrome. Now, I know what I can reasonably expect from him. He can learn social skills, but it doesn't come naturally to him, and he is extremely anxious about certain situations. I'm not so judgmental about misbehaving children, or seemingly inept parenting anymore. But, I do agree if a child is being disruptive they need to be taken out of the room.
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Now that I've got an iPhone I've learned to text. I never could get the hang of it on my old cell phone. I've seen my kids text their friends while sitting next to each other on the couch. What's up with that? Maybe it was just the novelty of having a cell phone? I haven't seen them do that lately, so it might just have been the novelty.
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I'm friends on FB with one person from LDS.net. We did meet at an LDS.net dinner, but we were FB friends prior to that. I know there are mixed emotions about FB. I happen to love it. I've connected with so many extended family members--cousins that I rarely see. It's wonderful to know what's going on in their lives. I've also been able to connect with missionary companions, school friends/acquaintances, etc. With the extended family that I'm FB friends with, they are not all my generation. Many are from the younger generation, who wouldn't ordinarily have much in common with me. But, now when we have family get togethers/reunions, they are very comfortable in talking to me. I've even had two daughters of one my cousin's come and visit me while I was in the Seattle area visiting my son. I'm pretty sure it's because of FB that they felt the desire and were comfortable enough to come visit with me. For me, FB has been a blessing. In some ways I feel like it helps promote the Spirit of Elijah.
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Does this make me an unloving wife?
classylady replied to Backroads's topic in Marriage and Relationship Advice
No, I don't think it makes you an unloving wife. I don't get much done when my husband is home. I tend to sit and watch TV with him, or something similarly unproductive, and all my "me time", or house work, or projects, or whatever it is I have on my to-do list simply doesn't get done. -
When I was 5 years old, and in Kindergarten, my best friend and I both had long hair to our waists. One day she came to school with a page boy cut. I don't know what I was thinking, but when I got home from school I flipped my pony tail over and cut it off. Right after I cut it off, I realized the horror of what I'd done--I didn't want short hair like my friend! I wanted my long hair! I ran to my mother and said "I cut my hair, and I'm sorry!" She trimmed my hair to even it up, and it was now shoulder length. It could have been a lot worse. To this day, I still regret cutting my hair. I still don't know why I did it. I always wanted long hair. My hair never grew back down to my waist. The longest I could get it was half-way down my back. Of course, I have cut it since I've been an adult. It's just too thin to have it long.
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Nylons/pantyhose/stockings: necessary for modesty?
classylady replied to a topic in General Discussion
I usually do wear nylons, but it has nothing to do with modesty. My legs just look better. Today, I wore a just-below-the-knee skirt with sandals, no nylons. Too hot outside in my opinion to torture myself in nylons. I don't think it's necessary to wear nylons with Sunday dress to be dressed up. I do notice when other women don't wear nylons, but it has nothing to do with being the "modesty" police. It has more to do with checking out fashion. Several months ago I was reading a fashion magazine, and there was an article about nylons. According to the article, the fashion is to not wear nylons, and if you're a woman who is so inclined to wear nylons, then you should choose a nude color, and have the nylons look as natural as possible--the tan-orangey color nylons were definitely out of fashion. I guess, for me, the reason I notice whether women are wearing nylons or not, is because if I wear regular shoes and no nylons (socks, or something), my feet stick inside the shoe, and it's very uncomfortable for me. And I see other women wearing shoes with their bare feet, and I can't help but wonder how they do it so effortlessly. Don't their feet stick too? But, for some reason I can wear my sandals without socks/nylons, and my feet don't stick. Is it because with sandals, they're open, and so my feet can breathe? -
Friendship takes effort. And, I'm sorry to say, I'm probably the one who lets the ball drop. Like Annewandering says, I just seem to get caught up in my own life, and I haven't always made time for friends.
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Whenever I hear the song "Little Purple Pansies" (a Primary song), I'll always remember my mother telling me that her younger sister would sing "Little Purple Panties..." Hilarious! Another one is "Up Up in the Sky", small children often think it's "A pup in the sky".
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I think I want a divorce from my in-laws.
classylady replied to a topic in Marriage and Relationship Advice
I've been very blessed with wonderful in-laws. I love my mother-in-law, father-in-law, all my sisters-in-laws, and brothers-in-law. None of them are of the meddling sort. -
The stress of one wedding is a lot! I can't imagine two. I'm still recovering from my daughter's wedding in April.
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Jennarator, I'm sorry you will need to wait a year. Right now, one year seems like forever. But, in the eternal scheme of things, it's really a short amount of time. The Lord knows the righteous desires of your heart. He knows how much you want to be sealed to your husband. Be patient, (I know--easier said than done), and try to think positive. You will get there. It's just not in the time frame that you had in mind. Sending you hugs.
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Yes, it would be possible to divorce or annul your marriage and then marry and seal yourself to someone else in this life even while your first wife is still alive. But, would your first wife even want you in the next life if you abandoned her in this life? Will your first/current wife ever remarry? She may be able to get her life in order, or not, and may find someone else who will love her for who she is and is willing to stick it out. I would think she would want to be sealed to that sort of man, rather than one who is not willing to stay with her through thick or thin. Also, if I was the second wife, I'm not so sure I would trust you to stay in the current marriage when things got tough. And, I can see all sorts of problems developing in your second marriage, when the second wife knows that you still love your first wife. Unless your second wife has a very strong self-image and is very secure in your relationship, she is going to be very unhappy wondering when you're going to leave her and perhaps return to your first wife. I don't see a happy second marriage.
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Aw, but did you know this about the number 42? From wikipedia. -Given 27 same-size cubes whose nominal values progress from 1 to 27, a 3×3×3 magic cube can be constructed such that every row, column, and corridor, and every diagonal passing through the center, is composed of 3 cubes whose sum of values is 42. -Forty-two is a pronic number and an abundant number; its prime factorization 2 · 3 · 7 makes it the second sphenic number and also the second of the form { 2 · 3 · r }. As with all sphenic numbers of this form, the aliquot sum is abundant by 12. 42 is also the second sphenic number to be bracketed by twin primes; 30 is also a pronic number and also rests between two primes. 42 has a 14 member aliquot sequence 42, 54, 66, 78, 90, 144, 259, 45, 33, 15, 9, 4, 3, 1, 0 and is itself part of the aliquot sequence commencing with the first sphenic number 30. Further, 42 is the 10th member of the 3-aliquot tree. -42 is the product of the first three terms of Sylvester's sequence; like the first five such numbers it is also a primary pseudoperfect number. -It is a Catalan number. Consequently; 42 is the number of noncrossing partitions of a set of five elements, the number of triangulations of a heptagon, the number of rooted ordered binary trees with six leaves, the number of ways in which five pairs of nested parentheses can be arranged, etc. -It is a partition number - the number of different ways 10 can be represented as the sum of natural numbers. -It is the reciprocal of the sixth Bernoulli number. -It is conjectured to be the scaling factor in the leading order term of the "sixth moment of the Riemann zeta function". In particular, Conrey & Ghosh have conjectured where the infinite product is over all prime numbers, p.[1][2] -It is the third pentadecagonal number. It is a meandric number and an open meandric number. -42 is a Størmer number. -42 is a perfect score on the USA Math Olympiad (USAMO)[3] and International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).[4] -In base 10, this number is a Harshad number and a self number, while it is a repdigit in base 4 (as 222). -42 is the only known value that is the number of sets of four distinct positive integers a,b,c,d, each less than the value itself, such that ab-cd, ac-bd, and ad-bc are each multiples of the value. Whether there are other values remains an open question.[5] And how about this? 42 is: -The atomic number of molybdenum. -The angle in degrees for which a rainbow appears or the critical angle.[citation needed] -In 1966, mathematician Paul Cooper theorized that the fastest, most efficient way to travel across continents would be to bore a straight hollow tube directly through the Earth, connecting a set of antipodes, evacuate it (remove the air), and then just fall through.[6] The first half of the journey consists of free-fall acceleration, while the second half consists of an exactly equal deceleration. The time for such a journey works out to be 42 minutes. Remarkably, even if the tube does not pass through the exact center of the Earth, the time for a journey powered entirely by gravity (also known as Gravity train) always works out to be 42 minutes, as long as the tube remains friction-free, as while gravity's force would be lessened, so would the distance traveled at an equal rate.[7][8] (The same idea was proposed, without calculation by Lewis Carroll in 1893 in Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.[9])
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While I was on my mission in Germany, I learned to like mayo with fries. Ketchup was not the norm there. I happen to like mayo. I used to think Miracle Whip and mayo were the same, but NO they do not taste the same. I prefer real mayo, but can handle Miracle Whip. A little mayo mixed with tuna, for a tuna salad sandwich is yummy!