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Good to hear the prophet talk about this.
This trumps the excellent and valid arguments of search engine optimization and name recognition.  It is not rebranding - it's re-committing to follow pretty clear and unambiguous revelation.
"Responsible media will be sympathetic"
First reference - long name.  After that, The Church.  The Church of Jesus Christ.  The Restored Church of Jesus Christ.   Every other situation seems to be, acknowledge the Savior in some way in our speech.  

Hey, 12 instead of 20, but I was close!  

I’m hoping to have more time to work on family history. I just pray that I, personally, will make good use of that time and not disappoint my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ by squandering it. I have good intentions. I will need to be on guard to stay on top of my good intentions and remain committed. 

I’m accepting President Nelson’s request to the sisters to give up social media for 10 days. I know what that will entail for me—FaceBook, and some of my online games I play. How about you?

Chilean, I don't want to sound preachy but I am sure the OP knows exactly what he/she did. I don't think it is helpful to remind a brother or a sister their past transgressions specially after the repentance process took place. The Lord is clear when He says he does not remember them "no more". So even though I understand your frustration, my heart goes out to anyone who has chosen to be honest with themselves and confess their sins, particularly during a mission. It takes a lot of guts. It is time to support each other, it could be us...

Hi and welcome elwplm!  Honestly, no matter what happens, your road is kind of the same.  Just walk the path of a disciple of Christ, no matter what.  If you return to the mission field, walk the path there.  If you are reassigned to a home-country mission, walk there.  Released and 'thanks for your service'?  Walk your path at home.
Thinking about things this way helps me deal with the uncertainties of my life.  When big changes out of my control might be coming, I find it comforting to think about how I can be a disciple, be everything God wants from me, no matter what the actual change.

For people who know me, they find it definitely out of character that I would actually be a moderator on a website. Haha.
One of my quirks lately is I have a fascination with watching flight simulations of airplane crashes. You Tube happily notifies me of any new videos that are out, and I can’t seem to help myself, but watch the grizzly scenes. It’s amazing how real these videos seem.

Sailor Sei Boku in Pilot Stargazer, F.

You are so right without my support system I would be in a much different place now. From day one when his dad was arrested and me finding out I was pregnant two days after, I have literally have the most amazing support system.
Update: for now there will be no surgery just monitoring him. Well, I shouldn't say no surgery. There will be no surgery on the prolapse.
But, there will be surgery most likely a tonsil removal and another attempt to repair the laryngeal cleft he has. We will also be following up with neurology to see if we need to switch up medication, he had a sleep study and the doctor believes he may be having short little seizures in his sleep that we haven't noticed. Along with central sleep apnea now that she thinks may have been developed because of the seizures...  After years of fighting for Emerson to get a sleep study we finally won the battle and came out knowing why he doesn't sleep well and what we can do to fix it. He stops breathing for about 20+ times in an average hour period caused by both central AND obstructive apneaas well as a few possible small seizures throughout the night. 
We have also FINALLY been okayed by his doctor and insurance to go through with behavioral testing. Started that process well over two years ago and finally there. Both excited and almost scared? I don't know hard to explain. I am so happy that we will finally maybe know why he has these random outburst of hurting himself and others. As well as hopefully finding a solution to all his sensory processing issues. But, worried about what these diagnosis' will bring?
It's been an incredibly challenging , amazing journey that I wouldn't trade for the world. Even with all the bumps and bruises gained along the way. It's just extremely hard to see the light sometimes during those bump and bruise moments.

We can just change the logo to the below, and they'll get the idea:

I may have gone to Red Lobster, once, but I’m not sure. If I have it was a long time ago. 

I’ve never had cheddar bay biscuits.  They sound delicious.  But, I am now in the mood for homemade biscuits fresh from the oven. I think I’ll go make some.😁

My family isn't LDS.  I'm a convert.  I converted BECAUSE of the truthfulness of the doctrine and the "we serve God regardless what public opinion is".  If I'd wanted watered down religion there are plenty closer to my house that I could choose from.  That said, I'm not getting worked up about "what ifs" and I trust the Prophet has a plan from God that will make perfect sense to me if and when it's rolled out.

I have seen many people who love their pets as much as a family member. When we had to put our aged dog down, it was sad. But, the amount of sympathy and support we received from co-workers, extended family, friends, and neighbors was surprising to me. I grew up on a dairy farm and many of my “pet” chickens, calves, piglets, and lambs grew up and became our dinner. I guess I don’t understand the “pets are family” mentality.

I have seen many people who love their pets as much as a family member. When we had to put our aged dog down, it was sad. But, the amount of sympathy and support we received from co-workers, extended family, friends, and neighbors was surprising to me. I grew up on a dairy farm and many of my “pet” chickens, calves, piglets, and lambs grew up and became our dinner. I guess I don’t understand the “pets are family” mentality.

I have seen many people who love their pets as much as a family member. When we had to put our aged dog down, it was sad. But, the amount of sympathy and support we received from co-workers, extended family, friends, and neighbors was surprising to me. I grew up on a dairy farm and many of my “pet” chickens, calves, piglets, and lambs grew up and became our dinner. I guess I don’t understand the “pets are family” mentality.

An eternal marriage (sealed together) is the greatest blessing/gift that we can receive. I am so grateful that my husband and I have an eternal marriage. I’m so grateful that my daughter who died in a car accident at the age of 19 was born in the covenant. Not only do I know that I will see her again, but I cherish and hold to the promise that we are an eternal family. There is no other blessing in my life that is greater than this. Please do not think lightly of eternal marriage.
One of the greatest comforts I had as a child was knowing my parents were sealed together as husband and wife. My father died when I was six years old. I am so thankful for that comfort of knowing we were an eternal family. Even though my father was not with us in this life, I knew we were still a family. There is no other blessing more comforting than this knowledge.
I strive to live my life worthily, even though I often fall short, so I can be with my daughter and other loved ones again. I don’t want anything less than this. For me, nothing else comes close to this blessing and comfort. When you truly love someone you want an eternal union.

I have seen many people who love their pets as much as a family member. When we had to put our aged dog down, it was sad. But, the amount of sympathy and support we received from co-workers, extended family, friends, and neighbors was surprising to me. I grew up on a dairy farm and many of my “pet” chickens, calves, piglets, and lambs grew up and became our dinner. I guess I don’t understand the “pets are family” mentality.

I have seen many people who love their pets as much as a family member. When we had to put our aged dog down, it was sad. But, the amount of sympathy and support we received from co-workers, extended family, friends, and neighbors was surprising to me. I grew up on a dairy farm and many of my “pet” chickens, calves, piglets, and lambs grew up and became our dinner. I guess I don’t understand the “pets are family” mentality.

So, some of you on this forum are crazy chicken people like my wife.  It's a growing community.  For the last 20 years, people have been looking through their neighborhood zoning laws (laid down 50-100 years ago in many cases), and discovering that chickens are allowed.  (Think of the WWII war production effort mentalities, with it's meatless Tuesdays and victory gardens and whatnot.)  Every day there's another crazy chicken person born.  And they congregate in Facebook groups where they argue the finer points of breed desirability, carnivorism vs. vegetarianism, etc.
Anyway, my wife's beloved special needs chicken died this last week.  She was a "crossbeak", which usually die within a few days of being born.  But my wife tube-fed her by hand, twice daily sometimes, for over two years. (Longer than a lot of people breastfeed their kiddos.)  Apparently this chicken was quite well known.  My wife has received sympathy from people in four countries. There's genuine grieving going on.  I shouldn't be surprised (although I continually am), to find an outpouring of love showing up in our mailbox.  Here's the latest:  Someone drew a portrait of Tempest and sent it to my wife along with a sympathy card.

(This is actually the second hand-drawn portrait she has received from adoring Facebook fans.)
I heard from the crematorium, the pendant we special ordered finally came, and her ashes are ready to come back to my wife. 
I've never seen people so zealous about things, than the crazy chicken people.  They even give some of our zealous folks on this board a run for their money. 
Anyway, happy slice-of-life Thursday.

When talking about marriage, I completely disagree.
What if her past resulted in her having an incurable STD like AIDS? What if her past made her really physically ugly and missing all of her teeth? What if her past gave her really strong BO and repulsive breath? What if her past made her brain-damaged so that she couldn't really hold a job or run a household? What if her past left her perfectly pure in spirit, yet totally unaccountable for her violent actions? I believe that people are justified in refusing to marry whomever they don't want to marry, regardless of the reason. The reason may be stupid. They themselves may be stupid for choosing as they do. But they are justified in doing so, because you get to decide whom you don't want to marry, for any old reason that you consider sufficient.
If blond hair, acne, weight, financial status, and body odor are sufficient reasons not to marry someone, then certainly so is past sexual history, past failures at marriage, or other (frankly much more relevant) problems a person might have had in the past, whether or not you think she might have repented of them.

Somehow, that never made it into his autobiography.

“The hub formerly known as Mormon”, expressed in written form by some character from the Deseret Alphabet?
 

@Sunday21 If my suspicion is correct--that scripture calls upon us to marry within the faith--then it is not only ethical, but mandatory, to call upon our older single members to remain celibate, rather than be unequally yoked. It may be the church will need to funnel more resources to care for those who's obedience has left them dependent. My own church faces a similar dilemma. In our early years ministers truly believed Jesus would return very very soon. The served faithfully, and chose not participate in our country's Social Security scheme--again, believing the church's heavy emphasis on the soon coming return of Jesus. So, now we are called upon to support the Aged Ministers Fund. Even though hindsight shows us their decisions were hasty, the results were wonderful (many churches built, many souls converted). Likewise, if women are finding themselves destitute in their older years because they remained faithful to the admonition not to be unequally yoked, members will find great blessing in caring for them now.

As an apostle, President Howard W. Hunter, remarried in 1990 about 7 years after his first wife had died.  He married a divorced woman, Inis Egan. Inis had been divorced since 1966 and had three children from her previous relationship.  From what President Hunter wrote in his journal, they were very happy together.