KellyLC

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  1. This is adorable :) thanks for sharing! I wonder how they did that?
  2. A Different Kind Of Christmas Sometimes Christmas is just overwhelming, it seems, As we rush around buying up stuff. We spend without end, and we rack up those bills, But it feels like it's never enough. So this Christmas, let's all take a different approach: Let's try to be more in accord With God's Christmas gift, the best one of all-- Our sweet Jesus, our Savior, our Lord. We'll be gentle and patient, and loving and kind, And we'll keep our priorities straight; The gifts of the Spirit, the gifts of the heart Are the ones that we'll all celebrate. And our stress will decrease, and we'll feel more at peace, As we decorate, package, and trim; Our new Christmas will be a pure joy and delight, As we try to be much more like Him. By Joanna Fuchs
  3. Are they released if you definitely want to do the work? I started my paternal grandmother's work in the month of February, but thanks to family health issues with a nonmember in my family, I haven't been able to go back. I would have loved to have met her, she died the year I was born. I'm hoping I can get most of her work done before Christmas.
  4. I just looked at the links in here and these look great. I'm going to have to try making a bracelet like that one of these days.
  5. Hi Doriette! Nice to meet you! :)
  6. I had to share this video I found today :) Temple construction with the temple dedicatory hymn- a perfect pairing.
  7. Bumping because I've noticed the same problem with some members of my family on familysearch. Some work's been printed (and completed) but not in order.
  8. Thanks. I didn't know. You can delete my last post.
  9. Sorry for bumping an old thread but I wanted to ask a question. Would a member who suffers from both chronic epilepsy they've had since birth and chronic migraines (I've even had brain surgery to try to stop the epilepsy, a partial temporal lobectomy on the right side and it didn't work, have had seizures since my surgery that put me BACK in the ER) and who is in good standing with their bishopric be able to obtain a medical marijuana card and still hold a temple recommend? There's a strain of cannabis being used for seizure treatment now, or at least, the cannabis extract in olive oil is. Charlotte's Web. I'm asking my neurologists if it could work, but things are coming really slow. If I already asked a question like this you can delete this post, a family member got seriously hurt last month and all I've been thinking about is what happened to her. Thank goodness she's still alive.
  10. After reading this thread, I hope everyone's safe, Str8shooter. I'm praying no one had to deal with anything worse than smoke.
  11. If I had to give a self-rating it wouldn't be anything over a 2, 2 or below. I do the exact same thing, get focused on one thing and lose focus on others.
  12. Does anyone know if there's any easy way to transfer information between Ancestry and Familysearch? I have accounts on both sites, but I have the majority of my family history work over on Ancestry. I was hoping there could be an easy program that could merge the two sites together. If anyone could give any ideas it'd be a huge help, thanks :)
  13. I've been wondering this myself too. Is there a site anywhere with LDS avatars?
  14. I think I messed up- I tried and just got a message that said "you are not permitted to modify some or all of your profile information". What's going on?
  15. Is something broken on the site? I went to my settings page and I just see: E mail and password, 'Ignore' preferences, manage attachments, notification options and my notifications. How does a user change their signature with this? I'm really confused. Can someone let me know please?
  16. To quote AndyPG: I feel the exact same way. I was baptized at 11 in 1991. I've always been active, but there was a long period in my life in the past when I was less than fully active because of medical issues, not able to go to church in Sundays. . . and I hated that time; I knew I belonged in church but couldn't attend. As of now, I'm fully active.
  17. I'm 32. I don't know what to do right now. I'm stuck living with Mom and Grandma because of my seizures. I didn't really have issues with them until they bashed Will's memory and said "he was nothing to you". I'd just found out less than a minute before they said that to me that I lost a friend to suicide and they had the GALL to say that to my face?!
  18. I'm sorry in advance if I say something wrong in this post. I've been a member since I was 11 years old in 1991 and a suicide griever since February 3, 2008. A good friend I'd known since I was about thirteen chose to cross the Veil at his own hand that day. :tears: My family and our bishop keep saying "you can only do temple work for your family" but this friend of mine was a young non-member named Will. His family set this site up for him, it has his picture on it: Will Jones Memorial I loved him (I still do) and I never got the chance to tell him! Maybe I could have saved him. . . He killed me too. :tears: Also, I didn't know anything about it until September 11 thanks to a series of "TRICKLE-DOWN" E-MAILS (as I call it) bounced between his mom, my dad and then it "just happened" to come to me: The first e-mail came from my father to me, 8-15-08: His exact words were: 1: "I heard from Rosie for the first time in a year. She needs someone to talk to. 'I lost my son earlier this year. He committed suicide this past Feb. I have had a hard time with it. Your friend-ship would be appreciated. Rosie' She loves you drop her a line dad." -------------------------------- I didn't see a name, so I automatically thought it was Rosie's other son, James. I didn't want it to have been James; I just didn't think my friend had done it. I'd forgotten most of the message because I'd had a seizure that day, but I remembered my 'father's' section of the message: 'she needs someone to talk to'. I send Will's mother a reply: 2: Hi, Rosie. Sorry I haven't been in touch in so long. We've been closing down the store. I got an e-mail from dad; he mentioned you needed someone to talk to? My end's always open. -------------------------------- Her next mail to me comes 8-21-08 at 11:29 pm: 3: Hi, I have been really down this year. I don't talk to your dad anymore except rarely, and a couple weeks ago when I was espically down I e-mailed him of that fact. He wrote me back that he was sorry that I was having a hard time and that is probably why he wrote you. I don't want to burden you with my problems, you have enough of your own. I'm sorry to be so gloomy. I love you, Rosie -------------------------------- I send a fast reply back the next morning at 9:22 am: 4: It's understandable. If it'll help at all I'll be praying for you. Hugs, Kelly -------------------------------- The next message I get from Rosie on 9-11-08 at 9:10 pm hit me like a knife; I read that e-mail and it literally felt like I'd been stabbed through the heart: 5: hey baby, I just talked to your grandmother. She told me your dad told ya'll about Will. I didn't know how to tell you. I hope you aren't mad at me. Any questions you want answered, just ask. I miss him so much. It has been really hard for me. I love you. Rosie -------------------------------- I'm in shock; I send her back a fast reply at 9:29: 6: I'm not mad at you, Rosie. Dad didn't tell me any details or names, he just said that something had happened. I didn't know it was Will until your e-mail tonight. I'm so sorry. What happened? -------------------------------- Her next e-mail to me at 10:04 pm was another knife: 7: Will felt like he couldn't live in this life anymore. He took his own life. He had been troubled for a long time. He is at peace now. If you have any questions you think I can answer, just ask. This has just about killed me, but I am doing better lately. I want to live for my James and April and my little grand-daughter, Austin. I love her with all my heart. I think Will wants me to get better to be a good grandmother for her. Love, Rosie -------------------------------- I send her a fast, stupid reply at 11:42 before I just lose it completely, start screaming and crying and can't stop: 8: I have a lot of questions and I don't know where to start. -------------------------------- Her next mail to me the next day starts off like this: 9: Ask me what questions you need to. I don't have all the answers but I will do my best for you. I have a lot of depression, I go up and down, half the week I'm up and half the week I'm down. WHY?! My family keeps saying really cold and insensitive things about Will's memory (Mom's a member of the Church, Grandma isn't) and I can't stand it anymore: "The boy was nothing to you" "Maybe this'll make his mother straighten up" "You need to get over it" They don't care about my feelings or me, just about the health insurance I'm bringing in. STUPID Medicaid. I wasn't there to help my friend. . . . I'm seriously thinking about going home myself February 3 of next year: There's a railway line that runs north to south through Melbourne FL near our ward building; our ward building's west of the railway. All I have to do is walk to the tracks, wait until a train's coming through, then just not move out of the way and let it finish the job. My family can take care of my insurance policy afterward. But at the same time I don't want to dump that job on someone else and have them stuck with the burden of sending me across the veil. I don't pray for help for myself or usually ask for prayers for myself but I'm hurting more than words can express and I don't know what to do. :tears: :tears: I'm sorry if I got on a rant. I didn't mean to. If this post is just in the way can someone delete it please?
  19. Happy belated birthday, Dahlia!
  20. Welcome, Sunbeep and Olivia! We're glad you're both here. :)
  21. Welcome to the site! We're glad you're here. :)
  22. The Monson family's been in my prayers ever since I read and heard the news. I wanted to put their names on our temple prayer roll the Sunday after I heard but I wasn't able to ask our bishop, he left before I could ask him.
  23. KellyLC

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    Hi, MrsP! I hope you enjoy your time here on the forum.
  24. Hi, Spartan! It's great to meet you. :) Welcome.
  25. I'm sorry for the late reply, Gwen! I didn't see your post until now. When I was going to the place in Philadelphia, I was taking more pills such as vitamin E, B-6, and on a totally sugar-free diet for a long time. I've been on medicine all my life. The anti-epileptic drugs I've been taking since the surgery are Dilantin, Keppra, and Vimpat. (My doctor's trying to get me on the Vimpat so he can cut back on the Dilantin) I'm also on a pill for high blood pressure, Verapamil. I used to be on Paxil and Risperdal when I was in my last school, and I remember they had a bad reaction: The Paxil caused me to gain weight. I'm guessing this other was the Risperdal, I found an article later saying it could "cause suicidal ideation" : I tried to do something crazy to myself and got put in Circles of Care overnight under a suicide watch. I personally feel those two pills made my seizures worse. I wish I knew some way I could help.