NightSG

That's not unusual. You might just be the first woman to finally understand it.

This is the first thing you need to talk to her about. Guess I need to give some background here: the friend I mentioned in the other thread also happens to be a very attractive woman that I had quite a crush on back in the day. I still do and she knows it now, and the feeling is at least somewhat mutual though she's got to get done with a drawn-out divorce before we can really explore that. (Yeah, everybody that saw us the first couple of times she brought me to church - including the bishop - knew before we admitted it to each other...guess it shows a bit.) I firmly believe that I was led to her at a time when I was ready to be brought back to Christ, one way or another and she needed something to strengthen her faith. I'd like to think she was chosen for other reasons as well, (I have other LDS friends who probably could have brought me in.) and that caused me a little uneasiness during the first couple of discussions. When the bishop asked me point blank if I was doing it because of her, it finally dawned on me that it was because of her, but I wasn't doing it for her. She was the example of how I wanted to live my faith, and had been for a long time, and I was taking the obvious steps to bring myself to that by learning about her faith. Once I clarified that for myself, I realized that I was just studying her example in detail, and I could just as easily take what I learned and go back to the Methodist church rather than convert. If she faltered again, maybe I could even take her with me and at least keep her from getting in too much trouble until she was ready to go back. As I was reading the BoM, though, it just felt right. Had I not removed the pressure of wondering if I was doing it for her, I might never have opened myself up to it in that way. Short version, tell her the truth, and offer to try starting over from the beginning. Read the scriptures with an open mind and an open heart, for yourself only, and see what happens.

When I had my baptismal interview, the interviewer had just gotten back from a long drive to the city, so it was a bit off-script and rushed. I have to admit that when he asked about murder, homosexual relationships, transgender operations and something else in one breath, I fought the urge to answer "never at the same time."

Everybody who knew what you did died, moved or got Alzheimer's, eh?

116 pages doesn't matter much when you keep your BoM on a MicroSD card.

My cat's not LDS...the old saying that you can't baptize a cat doesn't really apply to Methodist sprinkling, but immersing one while saying anything that isn't a stream of obscenities is pretty much impossible. Back to the food storage issue, how many of these would it take to get by for a year?

I hope it works out that way in the long run. She's still struggling due to a rough, drawn out divorce and custody battle, and there have been some major setbacks for her, but I certainly won't give up on her after the positive effects she's had on me.

Speaking as a relatively recent convert and former rowdy friend of several Mormons, I was always impressed by the way so many of them actually lived their faith without pretense or hypocrisy, though I certainly made a point of not telling any of them that at the time. In fact, it was one of those friends who set the example that probably kept me from getting myself in a lot more trouble than I did. It took two decades before I ran into her again and told her that. She later admitted that she was close to leaving the church when I found her, and that she felt she had to hang on for a while to keep from turning me away from it.

Oxygen is far more addictive than nicotine, caffeine or alcohol; we're all hopelessly hooked before we're even born, and withdrawal symptoms are fatal in all cases. (OK, one could argue that being translated is a means of going cold turkey on O2 without dying, but that's stretching it a bit.)

Yes, but some of those people remind me of the old guys who try to maneuver a cigarette around their oxygen mask.

Didn't have the SNES, but I remember doing this with the original NES, and an Atari 2600. The real question is how we all learned to do that. I don't remember anybody ever telling me to do it.

Sometimes, God is just sending the message that you need to clean your statue.

No...but if we had coffee, yours would be free.

I don't know if it's the same for clergy, but ISTR a lawyer telling me once that confidentiality only protected him from becoming an accessory after the fact. IOW, it only applied to something that had already happened, whereas he could be required to report some ongoing crimes, and usually did have to report if someone admitted to him that they were planning to commit a crime. So, if that's the case, confessing that you took a hit while your buddy had his bong fired up would be different from confessing that you smoke it every day. (Implying that you maintain a stash, thus being an ongoing possession offense.)

WalMart generally carries both too, at least site-to-store if not in stock.

That is the question. IMO, there's a huge difference between We Were Soldiers and, say, Invasion of the Bee Girls.

Ok, I'm assuming you're using Windows, so install Calibre: calibre - Download for Windows During the Calibre setup, you can just select your Kindle, and it will set the preferred output format for you. Then you can load ePub files from the church website and convert them, then use Calibre's "send to device" option to put them on the Kindle.

Stop by WalMart. Over by the men's dress socks will be the bulk packs of cheap white handkerchiefs. IIRC, 5 for $3 or 12 for $5. It just adds insult to injury when you're crying your heart out and a generic disposable snotrag disintegrates all over your face. I usually try to carry at least 2-3 real cloth hankies to church, taking friends to court appearances, or any time a friend says "I need to talk to somebody about..." Besides, I think it helps someone realize that you really do care about them and think of their troubles when you've gone to the effort to have one ready.

The Nook Simple Touch is $99 at WalMart.com, site-to-store available if your nearest WM happens to not have it in stock. Since the free eBooks on the LDS site are ePubs, which is the Nook's native format, it simplifies things a bit. If you root it, you can even put Gospel Library and the Kindle for Android app on there. I have mine rooted with both apps, but I rarely use them since I already have GL on my Android phone, and all the scriptures and manuals in it (but not the magazines or conference transcripts) are already available as ePubs.

Not hard to pick up, but not nearly as easy to carry as my rooted Nook Simple Touch with all the church's ePub files (quad, most manuals, etc.) plus the Gospel Library app. I'm tempted to wander into the media center with a scale and see what that would weigh in paper form. 38 years of Ensign would probably require a handcart just by itself.

If you're using Calibre, you can pull pretty much any format into its library, then just have it auto convert everything as you're putting it on your device. I'm using it with a Nook, and haven't had any trouble pulling in 3-4 different formats at once and letting it convert the ones that my reader doesn't understand natively. I haven't found a hymn book in any reader format that includes the sheet music and lets you go straight to a hymn by number the way the Android app does, but I haven't really looked for Kindle stuff all that much.

It's always best to start with an ereader format, so if you need it for Kindle, start with an ePub file and convert it rather than trying to work from a raw text file or a pdf. Those just don't convert well, but ePub is already intended for reading on a pretty similar device, so the conversion seems to work smoothly and leave you with a file that's fairly easy to read. The ePubs from the church website should convert just fine. E-Book Manuals

IMO, the biggest advantage of just using Calibre to convert them is that you can set it to automatically convert while it's sending them to the device. I've not been terribly impressed with PDF conversions (and I use a Nook Simple Touch that can read PDFs just fine anyway) but converting between the various formats intended for readers seems to work pretty well.

You don't even have to buy car insurance to have the car, just to drive it on public roads. You can cruise around a private field all you want without insurance. Even when you do drive on public roads, you only have to have liability coverage; you're free to not do anything to protect your own interests, as long as you protect the interests of those you are likely to injure. (And yes, it is likely that sometime in your driving career you will cause property damage or personal injury to someone.)

Vegetables deserve it, primarily for not being made of pork.