Sunday21

The ones my wife and I have seen are about $75-85 for an hour session. Still a lot,  but we saw one once a week for a month to get ourselves a good basis of what to work on, then did it once a month. Now it’s just as needed.
I would also talk to your bishop and see if he can help financially with it.

@Junior, get marriage counseling. 

Update: All is well. Husband isnt thrilled about it, but is at peace with the policy and entering a church building.

I read a really good book a few years ago called Amish Grace, and I believe there was a movie/PBS special based on the story of a young gunman who terrorized an Amish school and how the community responded. It may offer some perspective. There's a lot to learn from the Amish.
Also, this policy allows for current law enforcement to carry a concealed weapon. I remember seeing a new police officer flash his gun at some friends in the YSA ward (by lifting up his shirt just enough to show them, didn't even take it out of the holster) and seeing it made me uncomfortable, even though I knew he would not use it unless absolutely necessary. So, if you want guns in church, convert more cops, I guess.
The Lord blesses us for our obedience.

Currently (well, previously) it falls on quorum presidents to ensure that priesthood holders were familiar with this material. Looks like Primary, Young Women, and Relief Society presidencies need to squeeze in an extra lesson.

That's really cool. My wife would love to be a witness for our daughter when she's old enough. How neat!

Just saw this reported in the Deseret News. Apparently, Pres. Nelson announced to a leadership session that girls and women may now be witnesses for baptisms and sealings:
https://www.deseret.com/2019/10/2/20894166/church-women-policy-witnesses-lds-mormon-conference?fbclid=IwAR2LtfL4QfTrRI89dQKgvRnE9bI3TwyZACki8FxbEQe-uIQAm065LXrfxD8

BUT it was cool, right?  I mean, like, the band really rocked it and you could feel an awesome vibe. Made some cool friends...and the coffee was off the charts, dude! . . .

If you are within 2 - 3 years of returning from missionary service and are looking for employment, you may include it under a section for civic affiliations and service.  Do not list it in your employment history.  The only thing you need it for is to explain what was happening in those two years. Even then, it may come with some risks (see below)
If you returned more than 5 years ago and have no work/education gaps in that period, do not put it on the resume at all.  Putting a mission on your resume doesn't add to your work experience, and when it's more than five years ago, doesn't say much about your employable skills or commitment to anything.  For instance, having a mission on the resume doesn't speak to commitment if you've held 5 jobs in the past two years.  Your recent (past ten years) history carries much more weight.  
Worse, putting anything religiously affiliated puts the employer in an awkward spot almost immediately. In the U.S., religion cannot be a factor in employment decisions. By putting a mission on the resume, you have tossed your religion into the arena and the employer may now feel the bind of making employment decisions carefully.  Congratulations, your first impression is to make life a little more stressful for your hiring manager. It's usually best to just leave it off.

Yes.
It is who you are.
Pros laid out correctly should overshadow any misguided cons they might have.
Depending on your age, it explains where you have been for the past 1.5-2 years and why you were not employed. 

Well I didn't have anything to do with it but thank you.    

I love it! I'm grateful for Third Hour  since I have an uncontrollable interest in everything.
Well done to the creators. I admire talent in those areas!

I can hear the conversations now.
"You spent how much on this?"
"You make this thing, but you still won't fund NT's next trip to SLC?"
(I hear these conversations because they're coming out of my mouth right now.  Not too shoddy, though!)
 

@SpiritDragon Thanks so much! I had decided that you had left the forum so I stopped checking for your response. I agree with you about Justin. I would like to see the back of him. I am amazed that Justin gets away with the things that he does. He interfered in the objectiveness of our judicial system! How dare you! What more do you need to do to get voted out of office? And the dressing up thing? Could you grow up please? 
I once invited a nonmember to an lds Halloween dance. We had coordinated outfits. I was southern belle and he was to be a southern beau. I arrived in my elaborate getup with all the trimmings. When I was rolled out of the car with the big skirt and parasol, there was a group of young woman at the curb. They had assembled to prevent me from killing my beau who unbeknownst to me had donned blackface.  That was a very longtime ago and everyone knew it was deeply wrong. I think he was making a statement about our former exclusion of blacks from the priesthood. Anyway. No one was happy. From the youngest to the oldest, we knew this was not a good thing to do. 
I teach young people in their 20s. At least 1/2 are brown. I am involved in the structure that prods them into the job market. They are a mixture of ambition laziness and sheer foolishness that drives me crazy. We are increasingly brown in the University population so racial tension is the very last thing we need. I see the conservative ad as an invite to those looking for a way to keep back the non -white tide. This invite scares the hell out of me.
i really don’t know what to do about this election. The PCs must have had a lot of meetings during which they pitched ideas, discussed these ideas, and approved that ad. I suspect that if we were to have a record of racial groups who graduate from UNI we would see that the future of some parts of the country will be brown. We are multicoloured and we need to embrace this.
Anyway thanks so much for your comprehensive responses! What a miserable election!

I attended an evangelical church today. Wooo! Rock band! Strobe lights! Noise! Noise! People standing and swaying to the music and clapping hands. A thinly veiled sermon on the correct political party for the upcoming election. After 3/4 hour I thanked my friend for the invite to the blessing ceremony for her young relative and I fled. And lots and lots of coffee! Coffee fumes! Coffee fumes! 
The people were exceptionally fun, kind, and interesting. Another flavour of Christianity and other than the political prompting from the pulpit, a positive experience. If the LDS decided to change the service to be similarly lively, I am sure that I would get used to it. Lovely people 💜  
 

The latest season on Everyone’s favorite TV show was released a few hours ago. Just a Recap from past seasons. The dems failed to prevent Trump from gathering all the electoral college stones, completing the Presidency gauntlet, then he snapped away his competition as well as the dem majority in the Supreme Court. Later, they failed to beat him with their own “Russian Collusion” gauntlet. Well now Trump slipped up and now the dems are uniting for one last attack to right the wrongs that have been done. An official impeachment inquiry has been launched.
what do you predict future episodes will hold?
on a serious note. I haven’t done much research into the claims and so far only liberal media (redundant?) has picked up on it so obviously it all sounds terrible.

@Vort I can appreciate your take on this. I don't feel that I have missed @Sunday21's point as much as I was responding to her OP asking fellow Canadians what we think of the upcoming election. I had already shared my likely voting intentions and expressed that I hadn't seen the racist Conservative ad yet and would need to look into it. After looking into it, I shared these thoughts to further articulate my position which I realize is very different from hers. The province of Alberta is typically the most conservative in the country and as far as Albertans go, I tend to be even more conservative still. I'm not surprised that my opinion differs from most Canadians, but I do struggle to understand how one in three Canadians in the polls can still back Trudeau. We do have many Canadians that are greatly concerned about freedom of speech, but unfortunately not enough voters realize the importance of it, seeming to think it's already protected while turning a blind eye to the fact that someone like me can't even express my opinions out loud or in social media because I would lose my job and have an incredibly hard time finding another one. As far as I'm concerned I've already lost freedom to express myself without the thin veil of anonymity offered by a forum such as this. The very censorship they opposed when it was censoring them, they favour now that it's censoring me. While I don't like a lot of what the left have to say, I stand up for their right to say it too.

@Sunday21 Okay, I'm a little bit more caught up on this. First of all, I have to say I don't actually see the pulled Conservative ad as racist. I find it racist that it is considered racist. I see a man walking into Canada (assumed to be illegally crossing and escorted by the RCMP into the lap of luxury on the tax payers dollar once over the 49th parallel). Everyone has a skin colour, be it white, black, brown, red, yellow or some mixture of all of the above. What colour would be acceptable for the ad? To me the skin colour is irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that we've had a run on the Canadian border and some one needs to address it. I'm all for good people immigrating through the proper channels, but this walking across and then living off the system while I bust my butt and make sacrifices to keep my family afloat while paying into this system that doesn't pay me back except for the rare medical visit - it's aggravating to say the least.
Maybe it's just the Alberta boy in me, but it seems like we don't need illegal mooches getting a free ride while continually being told our taxes need to go up to pay for all of the social programs (read indoctrination centres/leftist propaganda machines). Trudeau senior created serious East/west tension which had started to subside somewhat, but Trudeau junior has western Canada wanting to separate again because of his gross incompetence and lack of ethics and the fact that the east outnumbers the west and can continue to vote for us to make transfer payments to the have not provinces. This while trying to destroy our fossil fuel and agriculture based economy so that we'll all be a third world mess soon enough. I also see the opposite side of the empty country thing, I suppose. It seems to me that less labour would mean that jobs might actually have to pay fair market value, not because of minimum wage increases, but because to remain competitive and get the best people wages would need to go up, even for lower tier jobs, people would actually need to work instead of just show up some of the time knowing it's hard to fire them. I mean, I get that there is a balance point and we can't just have a dearth of viable employees leading to not being able to run business, but I think we're too far the other way where people seeking labour is outpacing opportunities, so why add more people looking for work to the mix (or worse, more people getting a free ride while the rest of us work to provide for them as well)? I also can't help but see the irony in the leftist policies that have left families broken and requiring both parents to be in the workforce while viewing children as an optional burden leading to the situation where we don't have enough native born citizens to carry our own economy. The solution they put forward is to accelerate the problem by bringing over an ever-increasing stream of newcomers, but not addressing the issue that our own citizens either can't afford to raise children, are too busy working to make ends meet, or too elitist to be bothered with such menial tasks as chasing babies. What we need is a strong reset of family values, wages that allow for single income families to more viable and families with lots of kids raised with good values instead of an ongoing influx of people who fundamentally disagree with our values but will gladly take advantage of our stupidity.

You mean we can't just spend on everything and let the budget balance itself? (Just in case it's lost in translation this is what Trudeau has actually said, that the budget will balance itself.)

Hey @Sunday21 Sorry, I'm so late to the party. I haven't logged on in months as I've been very busy and didn't seem to be being missed
I have a severe dislike of Trudeau and I can't believe (okay, I can, but don't want to) that the party is supporting him. He should have been turfed when SNC Lavalin broke. Now he's had at least two major ethics breeches and his Black Face business also shows a lack of judgement (I don't actually see it as racist, though I find it absurd that as a leftist he gets a pass, but we know if Scheer or Bernier were found with Black Face it would be blown up and all the media would bring out the pitch forks and start salivating). Sadly, the Canadian media has been bought off by Trudeau so it's even worse than the usual leftist news slant because they're getting paid by the Liberal Govt. to continue on as a failed business model.
Elizabeth May and Singh strike me as full of empty promises and would be an unmitigated disaster to even surpass the joke of a government we've endured the last four years.
I haven't seen the ad you refer to about the Conservatives and will likely have to check it out, but honestly they are the party I'll  most likely vote for. I actually could find myself supporting the PPC most of all, but don't see them overthrowing the liberals so I would strategically vote conservative for the best chance of throwing out Trudeau.

And they don't stink!  I've been so used to a certain amount of low-production values and cheeziness in LDS visual media, I'm a little in awe.

It was long enough ago that I don't remember my feelings too well, but I think it was pretty good but spoiled a bit for me from spoilers and overly high expectations.

These are two young women. Please France, send me more! 

It was "brown face" and "black face" and unfortunately Trudeau is our Prime Minister. 😊
M.

@scottyg Reminds me of the ‘who would you throw out of the boat’ questions that people used to ask as under graduates. I am not in favour of throwing people out of boats!