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This is going to be a difficult thing to overcome. I enjoy my beer ;p Hey, I am learning something right now, right? One of the things I enjoy about beer, is it is the only time I really open up and talk to people. When I am sober, I just clam up and am very self conscious. Bleh, I love the scripture and find truth in it. If it is either the beer or LDS of course I will choose LDS, but it would be a lie to say I won't miss the beer.

Every few weeks, I will kick back and drink 12 beers. I just really enjoy it, relaxing and listening to some music. I don't do anything bad, I just drink at home and play around on the Internet. It is not like I'm addicted to the stuff either, but it is one of the few things I enjoy doing every now and then. In the words of wisdom it reads: "17 Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain."

Just an update: My car is broken down, so I haven't gone yet, but out of the blue a few members came to my house. It was nice to see LDS, they are having a few missionaries come down some time in the near future. It has been a while, and I am really rusty with the church. I'm not sure about becoming active right yet, I want to but I have social anxiety disorder and am a bit worried about going to the Church. My wife is not a member, and now has to work on Sundays so it would be just be my kids and I. For now, just talking about the gospel will be nice though, eventually I will get my car fixed and perhaps get something to assist me with my SAD. Anyway, thank you all for the information you provided. I think after all of your kind words, you deserved a bit of an update.

What is the best thing you ever got for free? My kids, okay they are expensive but they were technically free. WHat is the silliest thing you have heard today? My daughter and I were fishing off of my couch, with imaginary fishing rods. She caught two idonic angel fish, not sure what those are but according to her they are edible. We put them in the oven with fish sticks

Thanks Skippy.

When is the general conference?

It has been close to six years now, since I have last attended my ward. Since that time, I have drank alcohol, I have smoked cigarets, I have had illegal substances (marijuana, once), I have been prideful, and I have spoken against Christians. I've always been supportive of LDS, but I have said some bad things about Jesus, and ridiculed believers outside of tcojcolds. In the past month, I have felt an urge to reconnect to the Church, to get closer to God. To bring my two wonderful children to the faith. I have finished reading the Book of Mormon, and am in the process of reading the Doctrine and Covenants. I find myself a different person, that I have purpose in this life and that I feel very hopeful that it is true. I'm at a loss here though, should I go to the ward, what should I do? I don't think I am worthy of taking the sacrament, should I speak to the Bishop about these things? And most importantly, how should I approach the Bishop if I need to? Should it be before the sacrament, or after? How do you usually schedule a meeting with him? How should I meet up with my Bishop, is this something I should go to the church early to, to discuss these things, or what? I have only spoken to him once, and that was a while ago. --- Just to let you all know where I am coming from, I was a member with the church for only a short period. Prior to my baptism, I was a very skeptical of religion and God. I did not get far in the church, shortly after being baptised and given my Aaronic priesthood, I became inactive.

My guess, would be gathered from another post you have written. You feel that you have no control over where your relationship is going to take you, and you also have formed a strong connection to the daughter. Your imagination is playing with your fears, the decapitated girl screaming for help is the daughter, and you are trying to keep her in your life if the worst case scenario occurs and you and your girlfriend break up. I imagine you are really concerned about the well being of the daughter. Of course, this is me just trying to make sense of it with what little I know. It could be anything, but as others have said sometimes a dream is just a dream.

I know exactly how you feel, regarding the feeling after praying on Moroni's promise. I too felt the holy ghost, and I also left the church shortly after. I also would like the feeling back, but it seems that no matter how much I pray I just get little hints, here and there. Nothing in comparison to the original prayer but enough to keep me going to try to become closer to God. I remember before I left the church (Not really left, just never really returned :) ) I was told by a member that the hard part was upon me, to endure to the end. That Satan would use every trick in his book to pull me away. But, I did not pay attention to it.. after all I had just experienced the most extraordinary sensation in my life.. I felt there was nothing that could get in the way. I suppose it takes a lot of work, and I thought I would always get that strong confirmation I had received when praying on Moroni's promise. Did not happen, I'm not sure if it will ever happen again. So eventually, I let doubts seep in, and primal urges take precedence.. started smoking again, drinking, and so on. I became prideful, and felt that I was above the church.. I dunno if that feeling will return, but I look at my life outside of the church and I know that given in to temptation, and letting myself be prideful is not doing any good. It is enough to keep me at least trying to find a strong faith again. I think, after our initial confirmation we are expected to work diligently for God. Best of luck, promise63.

I'm glad I am not the only one, I only see the clown laughing with bozo style hair. I wasn't sure if it was photoshopped or just my imagination lol.

Hi Elder Spencer, I'm fairly new to the Church so I don't have much advice for you, I just want to express my thanks to those of you that go out there to spread the gospel. I don't want to sound cheesy, but the elders that spread the gospel to me had a significant impact on my life. They were great guys, and I miss having them around. I wish I had some advice to offer, but I don't know what hardships missionaries go though.. I just want you to know, that you really do make a difference in people's lives and it is appreciated. Best of luck, and keep safe.

It looks fake to me, as though it were all acted out. Sorry, I just am not buying it.

Sure, but it seems a lot also believe the end justify the means. A lot of exmormons are now atheists, and have given up on God entirely. Because, to be quite honest when you take their same tactics and apply it to any religion it has the same exact effect. It is sad, that these same people that devote most of their time pushing people away from Jesus think they spreading the good word. Some of them even do it with knowledge that they are pushing some Mormons away from Christ. I once asked one such person on a forum a few years ago a question, that question being something along the terms of "Would you rather see me return to atheism, or remain Christian", to which his answer was along the lines of that I hadn't accepted the real Jesus so it did not matter. Some of these people seem to only want to spread around hatred, and be free to ridicule others.. they claim they are anti mormonism and not anti mormon, but they way they speak shows they are lying. They like to go to areas where it is mostly Mormon, to mock and ridicule Mormons.. such as general conference. If they were trying to save their own kind, then they should be able to do so without ridicule or misrepresenting facts.

That is pretty wild, I wonder how she functions day to day without snapping the things off. The nails look a bit tangled, so it must take a lot of effort to do even the simplest of things, plus having your hands positioned in strange manner all day must lead to arthritis Whatever the reason, she must take great pride in them. That has got to be one major sacrifice to life and a huge inconvenience.

I was just trying to justify my ignorance with that statement, nothing else was meant to be implied.