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I have to order new garments. Lost 55 lbs so my garments are falling off me. My temple dress is a tent but it is a pretty tent like dress anyway so it doesn't really matter. No one seems to care if the top of the slip shows a bit. Am off to be scoped for stomach cancer this am. What a miserable night prepping for this procedure! Wish me luck.

Why flax? Don't you use flax to make linen? Or does it just look nice?

Good for you!

His wife left him for a nonmember. Perhaps he is embarrassed. Sometimes with the new emphasis in class on sharing your own experiences it can be tough. "Can anyone think of a time, when you really needed Heavenly Father's support?" I sometimes feel that I should stop sharing. We are a small ward with small classes- it's embarrassing to be honest about your trials. For most of the long time members others have seen us at our most vulnerable - post divorce, coping with illness, unemployment... It's hard to face people when your life is falling apart.

I wonder what is so great about Nauvoo?

Yes I think this is true. Sometimes I think people feel embarrassed that their life is not going well ..their spouse leaves them, they develop health problems...it is hard to go to church and feel that others are judging you.

Apparently someone was rude to them. This is what I hear.

Still working on this. I try not to voice what I am thinking and to block negative thoughts with a hymn. Thank you for your advice.

Only about 1/3 of our members are active. We try hard to maintain. We have many different activities. Many with food. We are warm and friendly to others. We shake hands and greet others. Our classes are friendly with lots of participation. We are really trying but still we lose great people who are from strong families and who have held important positions. It is heartbreaking.

About 250 members

My former bishop. Great man very sad. Has two very nice kids

Groan. Really stalwart people are going inactive in my ward.. And taking their families with them! My former bishop! One very nice mother of five and her former elders quarom president apparently because someone said something rude to her. What a waste!

Do you have a favourite tip from the Book of Mormon or an insight that has really helped you out? There is a scripture (Moroni 7:16, sorry cannot get link to work) that tells us that all men have a conscience. I find it very comforting to know that the people I am dealing with do know, at some level, perhaps buried deep, that it is wrong to lie, cheat, and steal.

Helping to paint new church buildings Selling chocolate bars to finance church buildings The Bishop measuring your skirt and pinning paper to the hem if too short

Yes life with kids means that you rarely have time weighing on your hands.

If I lived with someone else, I would go bug them until they asked me to go away!

If I lived with someone else, I would talk to them or help them do something mindless. If I had more energy I would do genealogy. I used to read the Jeeves series of novels by PG Woodhouse on Sunday nights. These novels were written pre WWII and are very gentle and non offensive but I decided this was not obeying the sabbath. Our bishop has asked us not to watch tv, which I do not have, but Jeeves novels are close to gentle tv. I had a great time watching The District, a tv reality show that follows missionaries. If you have not seen this go to byutv and search The District. It is great. I have read articles in lds living. I have watched YouTube videos of elders returning from their missions and people singing hymns. I have googled images-christ. I have listened to the children's song book. I have looked at YouTube pictures of temples. I have spent a lot of time on the mormon channel. I have a serious health problem and so am trying to be very good in hopes that G-d will have mercy on me. On the plus side, I am super thin!

If you live alone and are determined to obey the sabbath, what do you do when you are dead tired on a Sunday? You have read your scriptures, gone for a walk, read an improving book, meditated, phoned a friend, now what? Assume you are plum tuckered out - too tired to do anything remotely useful. What to do with those last hours before bed time?

Absolutely read them. All of them. Find them very interesting.

My late father was not very positive about religion but I had his ordinances done anyway. Ordinances by proxy are an invitation to the dead person not a binding contract. The deceased person can choose to ignore the offer.

Best spiritual advice that I received was to obey the commandment even when you are not sure how things will workout. With respect to the law of tithing the first time you pay can be very scary. A friend told me just to think of it as walking off a cliff and believing that God will catch you. It has been a bit like that in my life especially with not working on Sundays. I think that Satan tells us that certain commandments are more difficult to live than they really are.

Has anyone tried the drug store products that are advertised to cover roots? Do these color fixes cause a problem when you later go to a salon to have color applied?

Is the gathering of the Jews in the last days a spiritual gathering, they convert, or a physical gathering? Is everyone invited to Adam's gathering? Which will be built first the temple in Jerusalem or the temple in Missouri?