The_Phoenix

You don’t want to know what I named her?

It could happen, but I don't think it will. I will hold out hope for this to happen, but I missed the Temple dedication due to an accident. It seems the more I try to get there the more problems I have. Maybe if I give up on trying it could happen.

I would say what it is, but I will be even less popular.

A merciful God.

OK 8 weeks ago I bought a puppy. AKC Golden Retriever. Now what?

So you would like me to leave?

Good, I am not making another house payment.

No, I am not sure about much anymore. This is why I came to "my people" to ask. "Human Nature", do you ever wonder if we dismiss to much with this phrase. Do we think in the resurrection we will pass through some type of perfection filter. Our doctrine teaches that the same Spirit that we have when we die, can have power over us after we die. Does not leave much to look forward to does it?

I would think decade’s long friendship would trump this,

Oh my, you guys are brutally honest.

Also thank you for being so honest, but it does help me realize where people who doubt stand in any faith. This thread has been an eye opener.

Well that message was received loud and clear, so not welcome here either. At least you are honest though. In the future I will talk about kittens and puppies.

My doubts and disbeliefs are growing larger by the day. Depression has set in and I prayed that God would just let me go. So I don’t know if there is any hope for me, my friends don’t call anymore (my home teacher stopped coming, because I was asking questions about policy, in short I have been written off) because I have expressed my problems. I missed the Temple dedication due to my Mother-in-law falling around 1:00AM Saturday night. So I have a question about two things. Why do people do this, pull away like doubt is a contagious? Also we had a missionary leave as a hero, when he did not finish his mission due to struggles he was having, his plaque was taken down (quietly) and no one ever spoke of him again. I found out about eight months later, that he was for the most part ostracized and left the church. The unfinished mission had nothing to do with sin, he was a young black man and heard some anti-Mormon stuff which he had never heard growing up and it messed with his head. Why don’t we encircle such people (Like me and this young man) and pull them in? Right now my one of my best friends has a son who said he is not going on a mission, and he is getting ostracized as well. Missions are not for everyone; why do our actions drive people away? Far too often when a young man decides not to go on a mission, he ends up leaving the Church for 5 or 6 years until the pressure wears off; If he ever returns. Found out my son is upset because the girl who said she would wait, now says “Dear John”. So if he comes home (and he seems to be looking for excuses) our entire family will become a plague. What is to be done, by me and by my friends and Ward? The words of a poem to make my point:

I lived in Germany when Kimball was President, no such laws existed of which I am aware.

I suddenly feel like I am in that situation in the movie, Mrs. Doubtfire” where Robin Williams is making jokes and the Lady asked. “Do you consider yourself humorous”, then he responds, “I used too”.

That response was making reference to a typo I committed. Saying "Hold One", instead of "hold On".

He is an obedient young man and would do what I tell him. I would not do such a thing, I just wanted opinions of those calling me hypocritical for not telling him to come home. I “will” overcome my doubts, the only question is when?

Kind of like Hann's Mill.

Yes, typo in my middle name. :), if I remain posting, get used too it.

There is currently a thread running on an apologetic questioning the Virginity of Mary, and many say it does not matter. Where are we heading?

Because I have expressed my doubts on other boards, that I am a hypocrite for not calling my son home from his mission. I explained I will always be a Mormon, I am just going trough a tough time, depression and have doubts. Am I being a hypocrite?

Just how I am, and we will wait until the Gov't gives us the green light. Right now on a large scale basis we would just be in the way. I will offer my services for free, even though it is my livelihood, maybe even come out of pocket in needed.

I have assisted in a number of clean-ups, and rebuilds after various disasters. I was talking with someone who is not LDS, she was telling me how “The Church of Christ” does not act, individuals do, and they are not always in agreement. But our Church “acts’, in a few days here in the South members will be asked to assist in cleaning up the devastation caused by the recent storms. Then we will be asked to help rebuild. I am sure supplies have already been dispatched from Tucker, GA to areas hardest hit. This one of our greatest strengths, and one in which having central control does best (and area administrators). The word will go out and 1,000’s will respond. Despite my struggles with belief as of late, this is one of the things I love most about us, and one of the things that builds testimony. I never wear the T-Shirts though, I lean toward the scripture “Let not the left hand know what the right hand is doing” and ‘do thy alms in secret”. In short, North GA and Alabama hold one, we are coming.

This is a discussion board, just doing so; My Israeli brother.

What “standards” bother you? Is it the money; the price is the same for everybody. Also other than telling you what is word for word, which can be found in the 1st two chapters of Genesis? You can be almost told everything.