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Robertus, Welcome to the site. I was the same way when I joined. Feel free to ask questions, everyone has been very open to the questions I have posted.

Alexis, first off let me say Welcome to the forum and a very late Welcome to the Church.

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OK, so it is funny... Friday night I had the Missonaries over for dinner and invited my "friend" over as well.. When I picked her up she started talking about one of her other friends who is interested in her as well. He texted her with a question about dating,(like I said we talk about everything) and she mentioned that she did not know what to tell him as they had the same conversation the day before and she already told him no (a well thought out and long answer that meant "no"). As we continued to discuss this, I said, "well let ask this, are you even ready to be in a relationship?" and she said "no"... She is scared that if she were to jump into a relationship too early that she would either start comparing the new relationship with her ex-husband and that wouldn't be fair to the new relationship..... So, in short I got my answer without having to ask.. I did mention to her that I was thinking about talking to her about the topic as well.. We talked about it briefly, but as I already knew where she stood it was short. Dinner was good and after I took her home and we played on the Wii (Mario Cart) till after midnight....

The good news is I do not feel rushed, I think that she and I have a good chance with a relationship as it would be based on a friendship first, our belief in the LDS Church and it's teachings are pretty much insync, and musch of our other views on issues are nearly identical. I am finding it a bit curious how first my Bishop thought that she and I were preparing to be married, a few other members of my ward have been asking about "our" plans for the future, and her cousin made the effort to ask me what my feelings for her are and that he thinks that she and I will get married. Thinking about it I may be feeling a bit like everyone is watching us with expectations...

Normally she has not introduced her into the situation early, but I met the daughter on the first date, after she and I had been talking 3-4 weeks.. So it was kind of early, but it was my idea as our first date was supose to be alone at dinner, but it was a Carpe Diem situation and I jumped at it...

I will admit I am attached to a little girl and with the "relationship" her mother and I am in or not in it does get interesting as to the role I should play in her life.... So in a long winded answer, yes.....

Ok, before you go farther I want to warn you that this dream is very disturbing, do not read if you can't handle disturbing things...... OK, so I had a dream the other night and it still is bugging me, I was wondering if anyone hear was good at interpiting dreams??? In my dream I am being held against my will, hancuffed and held down on my knees. The people holding me are also holding a little blonde girl. I don't know why, but they force me to watch them cut her head off. As soon as they are done, they are gone and I am no longer restrained. I jump up run to the girl and place my hand on her neck to try to stop the bleeding even though her head is not even attached, she is still screaming. As that point i was so freaked out that I woke up. This dream was a few weeks ago and it still pops in my head and gives me the chills. There are very few dreams that I have ever remembered after waking up, and even fewer that I remember later that day and maybe 1 or 2 others that I remembered after that day, but this one will not go away.

This has been a fear for both of us. We wanted to keep her daughter from "getting attached" before we knew if things would get serious. I know I have become VERY attached to her daughter, and it scares me to think what would happen if we decided to go our seperate ways and she got hurt because of me...

Some of the best conversations I have ever had involving erligion are with those who are of different faith. I do not rememeber where it says it, but I know God has called us all to expaind our knowledge, and in that way I believe that talking about what we believe in, as long as it stays civil, we are making God happy, but expainding on what we know. Some times it brings us to a higher level in our own understanding. Yes I am a pilot..

QuoththeRaven, You have soooo come to the right place. I am a new convert, and I just stumbled upon this forum and started asking questions. Everyone here has been so open to helping with my questions. Welcome...

OK, I feel kind of weird asking for advice, as most people come to me for relationship advice. I have come to the conclusion that in order to give good advice you need to be an outsider looking objectivly. So, here I am.. I have been "hanging out" with a young lady. She and I met on a singles website about 7 months ago. It started out with e-mails back and forth, then text messages, then calls. After about a month we finally met. We met at a "family" pizza place where her five year old daughter could play games while she and I talked and had fun watching her daughter play and laugh. Well, I guess you can say we "clicked" as we have talked either on the phone, via text or in person nearly every day since then, and no topic has been excluded from our talks. When we talk it is just so natural, no matter what the topic of conversation, wether it be politics, religion, parenting, emotions, or whatever. We are together 3-5 days a week, watching TV, dinner, playing in the backyard, going to Sacrament Meeting, ect.... She and I have talked about making this an "exclusive relationship," but at the time I was not a member of the Church and she and I agree that you only "date" those there is a chance of marriage at the end, and her goal is to get Sealed in the Temple, so we just continued to "hang out". Since then I have become a memeber of the Church. Long story short (and to answer the question before it arrises, NO, I did not do it for her). In a couple of our conversations she and I have had she has admited to being interested in me, but me not being LDS always squashed the idea. It has been a couple months since we have had that conversation, and I am kind of nervous to bring up the topic again. All I know is that I think about her constantly, and I enjoy every minute I get to spend with her and her daugther. She trusts me enough to let me take her daughter to the mall and movies alone. Of the member of her family who have spoken to me about this think that she and I making us an "us" are very encouraging of it, and all my friends and her best friend are as well. To make it a little more interesting I am getting suggestions from members of my ward about it, the Elders Quorum President was just talking to me about it before Sacrament this past Sunday. I don't know if it is time to just suck up my pride and bring up the topic again, or if it would be best to wait and continue to build the friendship. Part of what is holding me back is how new I am to the Church. I don't want her to think, even subconscienly, that I got baptized and Confirmed, and recieved the Priesthood for her. I have never been happier. I feel like I have come home with the LDS Church, and when I am with her, her daughter, and family I feel like I belong, like I am part of the family and I want to stay.

MissEm, I will keep you in my prayers, that you are able find your way again. I am sure that you will as you have found your way here and we are all here to help and support you as we can in this journey of yours. If you need to talk or just want a friend, drop me a line, I am here a couple times a week (sometimes more)... Oh, and Welcome Back Home :-)

Welcome Alicoa, it is nice to see another Arizonian... Which Ward are you in???

This would be awesome, could you imagine the amount of "service" Pres Obama would need to do to work this one off???

OK, here are my questions.. For the Flight Part (if they chose to do this), is there a minimum amount of flight time that needs to be done, or can it be a quick 30 minute flight to a point and back? I have connections in the Young Eagles program which pilots donate time in their airplanes for those under the age of 18, but the flights are usually 15-30 minutes in duration (depending on if the child gets sick)... For the Gas/Electric Motor Model, how extensive does the building need to be? There are models that literally you put the wings and motor on and it is ready... Or you can do the wood work to literally build the model form raw materials.. And every level in between... The rest I can do over the series of a few weeks as I am a Flight Instructor and well... I teach it on a daily basis already... Any help/advice is welcome...

Thank you for your words of encouragement and helping relieve what I made to be more stressful than it needed to be. The Bishop and I spoke on Sunday after Sacrament, and he said that he has no problem with me being ordained into the Arronic Priesthood, as long as I am living a life of chastity, am working to resolve the roommate situation, and I abide by the rules (oath) of the Priesthood. So I went through the interview for the Aaronic Priesthood and the interview for my Temple Recomend and I will be Ordained into the Priesthood this coming Sunday after Sacrament Meeting during Elders Quorum.