LeilaDawn

For me nothing much changes. But I know a young 17 year old girl who wants to go on a mission very badly a week or a bit more ago she posted on facebook how she wished to be 21 and have enough money to go. Also how long 4 years waiting are... I believe she must be jumping for joy now that she only has half that time to wait, actually not even 2 years but a small 1,5 year untill she turns 19. I have to say I am actually quite curious for her reaction.

I'm not married (nor ever have been) but maybe this is an idea: Write down your things, your point of view and all. Let her do the same and let eachother read or you write first let her read and then let her write her point of view on things too... Thing is you have to read them openminded to eachothers opinions I'd say. Positive thing is you can tell eachother things without yelling and you can tell everything easier without forgetting details/leaving something out... Negative would be ... if one of you peeps start yelling over written things -.- I do hope that when you talk about the written things you both look at this in a mature, openminded loving way. Oooh and please don't only write down the negatives and annoying things but also what you love about eachother esp. what you love about eachother ... how and what I have no idea on what else to say to this ^^; Also like Vort's no discussions after 10 pm because you both need your rest and sleep. (I also think that because I guess it will result in: better sleep = less annoyance = less fights too! ~atleast I do hope it works that way)

My father and I had to wear socks when I got baptized. I actually wanted to go barefeet in the water. I was standing there ready in the white dress provided by the church (we don't have the overals in my church but white suitable clothes) and a brother in the church asked me then where are your socks? I said I didn't have white socks and that I thought it doesn't really matter if I do or don't wear socks. The brother said well you really do have to wear socks and after a while he handed me a pair of white stockings (no idea where he foud them) I asked if I really had to and he said yes. I don't remember if he said if it had to that it would be slippery without. In the temple I always get that well known baptism overal with a pair of thick white socks. As for the words said during baptism I have seen we have a little card sticked out of sight of the people present where the brothers can peek on it reads what has to be said. I also see brothers who have to baptize love this little card since I often see them peek on it and read. But I don't think every church has a little note stuck out of sight to peek on ^^; it's that it's so soon otherwise I would have said well go to your church and check if there is a little peek note with the right words. (I'm calling it peek note I have no idea if this is the right English term for it but I guess every one understands me, right?) Edit: forgot to add the most important thing: congrats!

Totally different case but it does have something to do with sealing so it is maybe something nice for this topic. In our ward we had an old couple they where married for the law with eachother. It was their second marriage in life. In the temple they both stood in for eachothers first spouses. So for eternity they both are married to their first and original partner. I also do think that with this action their families are some kind of special eternal friends (I think true friendships are eternal anyway). They mostly did this because they both lost their partner a bit too soon and to have a friend and companion for the last 20 (???) years in life. As for other things I believe God has a solution for cases where some one has children with a second partner after loosing the person they actually got married/sealed to. I think we all agree on that he doesn't rip families in pieces... It's just some things on earth seem so complicated or strange in a way while for everything there is a simple solution it's just something we don't need to know here. Most important thing to do here is just to do as good as possible and rest will be provided when needed.

I don't mind a little green tea sometimes. I use it as a medicine sometimes too. My sister bought Energy Tea... it's actually just a green tea mix. A year ago or so we had a very bad cold to the point it was as if we had the flu with headache and feeling really tired because of it but the tea did help to the point of atleast getting that annoying headache away. I didn't drink any of the tea again since that annoying cold but if I happen to have a headache of that kind again I will also use the tea as a medicine again since it did make me feel better. Herbal tea is not against the WoW atleast not here there is no real tea inside but only herbs. You won't get addicted to it but it's a nice alternative on drinking water or all that sweet stuff (like fanta or so). No calories (unless you put sugar in) and gives a bit of taste to water. It's also healthy in a way if you hate using pills/medicine for certain things. Sometimes in a mix and sometimes alone. For example you can already give a baby fennel tea. It wont hurt the baby in a bit it's even really good if a baby has a stomach ache. Here it's even advised by the pediatrician. My mother sometimes also gave it to me next to breastfeeding and sometimes through where she would drink the tea. Still like said babies can have it. I also know from a YW or a YW + Relief Society evening where we'd drink cups of herbal tea with cookies and play games together. So I think herbal tea is fine :3 and best of all not addicting. Still all the talking about tea while thirsty...

For a while I refused to wear a skirt or a dress in my life because I just didn't feel comfy in it. So in that time I'd just pick whatever was available. I also was inactive from church (not gospel just didn't want to go to church in my teen years but I did live the same as I did always and didn't do anything wrong...). You could say was just my teen stubborn way... When I was getting back to going to church I just didn't have any skirts or dresses anymore because the last time I had worn one was when I was 12 or 13. So I'd always just pick my best jeans and t-shirt to wear. Then I had 1 skirt ... and overtime I got a bit more. Still don't have sooo much skirts and dresses so sometimes I still go to church in my best darkblue jeans. Same counts for when I have to go by bike or when I walk in the winter sometimes if I have the time I have a skirt with me in my bag to change in the wheelchair toilet room. I don't own a car so only have a ride if my father is going (in case you're wondering why I walk or go by bike sometimes). It's more important to me to be in church than the: skirt/dress or jeans question ... since I sometimes have no choice but to wear jeans (don't have other kinds of pants). I do always pick the best available. Besides: clean neat jeans > (dirty) skirt that looks horrible (because then you're also picking sundays best).

Hey Everyone, My name is Miriam. I'm 23 years old I live in the Netherlands. My hobbies are mostly creative things but I also love to learn new things. I love to sport too but I haven't really found a favourite or more in that yet. I'm mostly here to learn about all sorts of things I wonder about. Also just things from life in general. But if I can find friends here that'll be a nice thing too. My nickname here is LeilaDawn because Leila or Layla... means night in Arabic/Hebrew and I don't have to explain Dawn. I love the sky colors around those times (and around dusk). It's really a pretty gift from God. As for believes. I grew up in the church. As a teen I did have a bit of a rebelious time. I needed that. Because it made me realize I still kept on praying and living the same way the only thing that changed was that I was questioning a lot of stuff... I still question so much in life but it doesn't keep me from going to church anymore (the only thing that does now is my unhealthy sleeping pattern that I have to deal with). I feel more like I will find more answers there. Maybe not to everything there is since there are oh so many mysteries... But it's okay I'll know it all someday since I'm so curious. Well if you need to know anything about me feel free to ask in here. I hope to learn a lot from everyone here. ~ Miriam

I think this topic is perfect to also put some of my own experiences in I hope you don't mind. I once had a dream where I was on the internet chatting with a young man. I saw his photograph or it was a webcam image. Anyways I saw a real face. I showed him to my sister and told her: "It may sound weird but he's my soulmate" I never have forgotten this dream. So a few months later I started to play an MMORPG called Ragnarok Online a really cute game to play a bit every now and then. After playing for a while I found others to talk with. So well in this game you can get married and adopt another player as your child (this child will be a mini version of what it was before). So well I will have to make the long story short. Like said I found friends and one of my friends wanted a baby character too (because a friend and I both had one too). This friend asked me please be my mommy. So I said in front of some people there. "I'll be your mommy but who'll marry me then?" to wich the friend I hoped for replied "I will." I'm not sure why I wanted that friend to be my ingame hubby so much suddenly. I think I might have dreamed it the night before or my feeling told me oh he'll be fine. So well we got married in that game. I also asked for his msn because I really enjoyed chatting with him. So ingame he also told me "I won't be online tomorrow (on sunday) because I'll be in church." Some days later when I remembered I asked him "So what church do you go to?" To that he replied "Mormon church" With some sweat drop emoticons after it as if he was feeling awkward. I was sitting here with a big smile just wanting to give that guy a big hug and say don't feel to awkward about that it's okay because I went too. I told him "Ah you don't need to sweatdrop about that. I'm going there too." As told I did have his msn but I didn't see any pictures of that guy just one very unclear picture. So I couldn't tell much. Anyway I already had grown fond of him before we talked on msn. I always liked him ingame (even before I knew he was a member of the same church I already liked him a lot ~ so strange since I have that with no one believe me). I don't know how or when it happened but we just suddenly loved eachother. Without really knowing eachother (also weird for me). Anyway contact kind of watered. Because of different factors with the biggest one ~ my bad internet connection. Later he wouldn't get on msn anymore. I found him on Facebook and added him. He didn't have much photographs of himself there but with time more and more came up. I already thought... Strange he looks so much like that guy in my dream... Today I saw even more pictures. He really looks like him. So by now I'm for a 100% sure it's the same guy. Downside: Since overtime communication watered... Well he has a girlfriend now. One that lives nearby (since we are both on different continents). Eventhough the comunication watered and I tried to move on because we are so far away from eachother. I tried to move on and love some one else but the more I tried the more I noticed he's the only one I actually really love (other guys are nice but they all miss something... and I mostly get just attracted to their... eh outside?). So confusing. Since like said he has a girlfriend. There is also a thought I got while playing that game together with him. But I'm keeping that for myself. Might tell but... I don't know if the future really will bring that. Another thing. for the full story I could give a link to my blog. But I once knew a friend of mine would die before it happened. It was a lot of things actually. The first was a thought "one of you both won't be there next year" (or something along those lines). Later I was hoping to see this friend for a last time again because... And I was awake but I thought "I want to see you because you will drown" and while thinking that I saw this little movie in my head of my mother on the phone getting the news of his death and my mother then telling me that this friend drowned. I didn't like that so I kind of replied in my mind "I don't want that to happen" I was crying, praying and hoping to see him again. When I said that I didn't want that to happen something said to me "Sometimes things like that happen." Anyway after a few other weird things revolving around this the phone thing really happened. The talk on the phone was taking longer as what I had seen months before in my mind but the message was the same. A few days after the funeral I also had a very realistic dream where I was drowning. Made me wonder if I saw his last moments and dispair. :s I also notice how I have more often thoughts and things that later really happen for real. As a child I would sometimes kind of play with that. Out of boredom. I also notice I sometimes find out stuff without being told to me I'm not sure if I just get that for paying good attention or if it's something else... My aunt who isn't Christian says I'm paranormal gifted... I don't think so I may be a bit sensitive to some things but I was really wondering what it is how the church looks at that kind of stuff. Also can't help it. Please tell me I'm not insane!!! Because sometimes I kind of have the feeling I'm weird compared to others because I actually do notice some more things as others do. (sorry for that long post)