mirkwood

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  1. I'll get screwed out of about 60% of my SSN because I will have a public safety pension. There are currently efforts to change the laws that take away my benefits. Not really holding my breath.
  2. Interesting. Where do you live?
  3. Think of "they" in context of an organization. Example: Officer Mirkwood works in Utah. He is part of the police. They work together to solve crimes.
  4. I must correct myself. There is a second time our leaders have referenced a sign of the times. “If 9/11 (September 11, 2001) was a wake-up call, then the earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia (on December 26, 2004), was a kick out of bed. We need to pay attention to the signs of the times.” (Boyd K. Packer, meeting of the Twelve and the Seventy, January 11, 2005).
  5. It is definitely a very big sign. Almost over? No, lots of things still have to happen, that is just a big red flag warning in my opinion.
  6. Here's the actual quote about the missionaries. Heber C. Kimball, Deseret News, May 23, 1931. “An army of Elders will be sent to the four quarters of the earth to search out the righteous and warn the wicked of what is coming. All kinds of religions will be started and miracles performed that will deceive the very elect if such were possible. Our sons and daughters must live pure lives so as to be prepared for what is coming. After a while the gentiles will gather to this place by the thousands, and Salt Lake City will be classed among the wicked cities of the world. A spirit of speculation and extravagance will take possession of the Saints, and the result will be financial bondage. Persecution comes next and all true Latter-Day Saints will be tested to the limit. Many will apostatize and others will stand still, not knowing what to do. Darkness will cover the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people. The judgments of God will be poured out upon the wicked to the extent that our Elders from far and near will be called home, or in other words the gospel will be taken from the Gentiles and later on be carried to the Jews. The western boundary of the State of Missouri will be swept so clean of its inhabitants that as President Young tells us, ‘When you return to that place, there will not be left so much as a yellow dog to wag his tail.’ Before that day comes, however, the Saints will be put to tests that will try the integrity of the best of them. The pressure will become so great that the more righteous among them will cry unto the Lord day and night until deliverance comes.
  7. No, all the missionaries will be called home when that sign occurs.
  8. @carlimac the problem with that video is the individuals have a heavy reliance on the book Visions of Glory. It is filled with doctrinal problems and that renders it a spurious and therefore useless source of information. Is the eclipse a sign? Maybe. Preparedness has always been a part of our beliefs and you should continue working on it whether this is a sign or not. @LDSGator the Brethren are not likely to speak of end times signs. In my lifetime only one time has a sign of the times been pointed out by our leaders.
  9. Yes. Now if only they would hold the left accountable when they act this way (and they have.) As a noteworthy point. It still was not an insurrection. Nobody was charged with insurrection. Nobody was convicted of insurrection.
  10. IF they do the same as you say, it will look a lot different. As you said, Antifa and BLM love to burn and destroy. That won't look anything like the J6 crowd and talk about respecting law and order would be a very different conversation.
  11. No, that would be a KISS fan.
  12. Pres. R. asked twice in the last couple of years and was told no to boundary changes. He said it would be the next SP's problem.
  13. You may have noticed our ward has gotten smaller. We are pretty close to branch numbers that attend.
  14. Best song on the album is track 1 side 2.
  15. Both my kids like Rush. My oldest says they are his favorite band.
  16. One of those rare perfect albums.
  17. Legal immigration. If we need to reform some laws on how that works, I'm okay with that. What is going on now is unacceptable. There are terrorists that have used our current "not really a border policy" to enter our country. If you think they do not have ulterior motives you are an idiot.
  18. This is speaking as if the missionary were the victim. For argument sake, let's say it also applies as being a witness. That would be the missionary's choice, not the church leader.
  19. Pretty sure you won't find anything in the Church Handbook of Instructions to support his position of not involving the missionaries in a criminal investigation due to some rule or policy of the church.