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Quite frustratingly I can't remember what book I last read but I remember that I really enjoyed it, to the point that I couldn't put it down. Currently I am rereading the first of the work and the glory books.

I have been finding alot of recipes on pintrest lately

OH very :) especially when people are talking about something I am sitting here thinking "I know what happens" :) I could be convinced in a private message to share but it might involve bribery and corruption

I know from experience that some members will only accept callings that are of a certain level and some wont accept callings at all - which especially in small units (like mine) means that some people have multiple callings. I remember many years ago - I had 5 callings and assignment while also working 20hrs a week, running the house for my mother 2 days a week and attending college full time (oh a neighbor who partied hard meaning some nights I only had 2-3hrs sleep). It was hard - I ended up very ill - and had to ask to be released from some of my callings. All this while I was a Stake Missionary (back in the days when they existed) and therefore shouldn't have had any other callings. I currently have 2 callings and the Branch president has said that he has something else in mind for me - but since he has only recently been called it could take a while before I know what that is - it is frustrating knowing that something is coming but not what it is or when it will be - I almost wish he hadn't said any thing. I was always taught that you should never turn down a calling - so found it really hard when I got ill and had to do that - but 5 callings was really too much.

Don't worry Pam I am holding my Tongue - I am getting lots of practice at doing so as lots of my American friends are also watching Call the Midwife

a cut of ham - I don't know the difference other than that

Tonight we had honey roast danish gammon, roast potatoes, mixed veg (green beans, peas, sweetcorn and carrots) Button Sprouts and a little brocolli (just what we had left). tomorrow we are having lamb kababs (kabobs) and salad, and Tuesday is spagetti and meatballs - wednesday is shopping day so we haven't planned past Tuesday.

I don't know - but I beleive at least a 4th season.

I would be inclined to open a complaint against them. Me and my housemate recently had to do it when we bought an item, which was then removed by ebay - and because of problems with ebay (saying we hadn't paid so we shouldn't - meaning we couldn't complain through them) we ended up opening a paypal complaint and got our money back :) Sometimes it is definately worth opening a complaint

As it is a UK series - I am way ahead of you and know what happens with Bates and all sorts of other stuff - but I will try and bite my tongue so as not to spoil it for you all! I am currently rewatching it as UK netflix just got season 3 :)

If I am really desperate I would eat cooking choc and actually quite like choc chips - I blame 6 summers of summer camp for that - if they were requested for a "cook out" and didn't all get used, if they went back to the kitchen they would just be binned so we counsellors would keep them and eat them to get our chocolate fix during the next few days :)

Parraffin intolerant? I have just spent alot of time in the USA and have discovered that other than really expensive chocolates I am don't like many american chocolate types - there are a few I like but in comparisson to how many British types of chocolate it is almost none - and because of that I didn't crave chocolate as much while I was working in the USA and going out shopping, as it just didn't have the same temptation!

why am I torturing myself reading this thread???? I love chocolate but I am trying to loose weight and therefore have totally cut down my chocolate consumption (not given it up completely) but today when I was out shopping it seemed like everywhere I looked there was chocolate and I struggled so hard not buy it all and to be good and buy fruit instead - and I am volunarily torturing myself by reading all your talk of chocolate! I think it would be easier if I lived in the USA because I don't really like american chocolate.

When I visited I stayed in log cabins run by a company I think called Nauvoo Log Cabins - they were lovely :) I would recommend spending at least a week there to give yourself time to see and do all the stuff in and around the area. Some of the sites are owned and run by Community of Christ but they don't put say anything negative about the church and if you aren't used to the heat don't go in the summer - I was there mid sept and at 10pm the temp was still over 100f

It is rare over here, I can only think of a handful of times when I has happened in my branch - and that was ususally when they were switching between elders, sisters and senior missionaries. I guess it depends on what the Lord percieves the needs of the area to be!

I does happen sometimes like that! Its not a screening process just a process of making sure you are taught by the missionaries who are in your area - and sometimes that means you might meet extra missionaries but I believe that you met those missionaries for a reason and the ones that you meet next will also be the same. How did you find church today? In theory once you meet your new missionaries they will be with you unless they are moved - but it is rare for both missionaries in the companionship to be moved at the same time.

I can understand that - I think that for someone who has not grown up in the church they have to learn a whole new vocab

A meeting house - is your church building A ward is what we call a unit of the church - the same as Anglicans have a Parish A stake is a group of wards and branchs (branches are smaller versions of a ward) that lead by a priesthood leader - I guess you could say it is our version of a dioceses (sp?) Hope that helps

I would suggest that on top of all the excellent suggestions that have been made so far - here are some things that seem to get over looked :) To be able to serve effectively you need to be able to look after yourself - to be able cook a few simple meals, do laundry with and with out a washing machine, and do basic repairs to your clothing. And if you have never been away from home without your parents I suggest spending a few nights with friends etc. And while these things might seem obvious - as stake missionary back in the days when they existed I worked with missionaries who didn't know how to cook before they left for their missions and I have heard stories from missionaries about companions who could just about master the pot noodle. And I have seen many missionaries come to my mother for help with things like sewing buttons on and repair burst seems. And the missionary who baptised my sister ended up leaving the mission field as he was unable to cope with being away from home - every youth conference or young mens camp - either his dad has been there as a leader or his mum had been there as the cook so he had never spent a night away from his parents - as a result he struggled to cope when he was in the mission field.

I love Gerald Lunds books - I have read the Kingdom and the crown series, the work and the glory series, the first of the covenant and the undaunted - I found that I couldn't put any of them down and on more than one occaison I would end up reading until 4 or 5am - and would end up thinking it was a good thing that I was caring for my mother than having a paid job as I would have been a zombie as I would just get so caught up in the stories and loose track of time

I would suggest finding a way to release some of the engery before the actual teaching starts - maybe singing one of the action songs from the primary song book. I am currently covering my branch's primary while we wait for a new president and teacher to be called and doing an extended sharing time rather than sharing time and then sunday school classes because of the age range of the children and me being in there on my own. Anyway I find that if they are starting to get really antsy half way through sharing time if they have a chance to release that energy they settle back down and are fine for the rest of the time we have - I usually do this by have 2 mins of "wriggle time" I let them be active for a few mins (they can run around the room - we shake out their arms and legs etc) and then they have to sit back down and behave for the rest of primary. It might be unusual but for my situation it works :) The other thing your husband could do - is invite one of the primary presidency in and instead of doing the regular lesson sit down with the boys and create what we called at summer camp "Promises to keep" which were camp rules by another name. But we allowed the girls to come up with these promises themselves (with guidance and sometimes using a process of "guided discovery"). As each promise is devised it is written on flip chart paper and when finished all the girls signed it. This gave them ownership over the rules and they followed them better than if we were sit down and tell them what they could and couldn't do! It worked really well even for the most hyper groups.

As someone who doesn't live in the USA I am intrigued! In the UK we have very strict gun control which was tighten further after Dunblane (13 Mar 1996) those controls were further tighten and we haven't had a school shooting since. We don't have security guards or metal detectors in our schools although some high schools do have a policeman assigned to them, I also don't understand the arguement that putting more guns into schools is the solution.

Last year my friends told me that such a man had joined their ward (the ward I attended when I was at uni) and they told me that members where instructed to treat him as a normal member but at the same time during primary the corridors were patroled by at least one member of the bishopric and that he was "escorted" between in classes - but it was done in a subtle way eg a group or priesthood would start talking with him and then they would just naturally make their way to priesthood or from priesthood to sunday school or sacrament

Wow - 30 LDS in one School - sounds amazing - I think the most I ever went to school with was 6 - my sister and me and 4 girls from another family in a different ward. At my first high school there were 2 of us and I wasn't active at the time so I guess that makes one - but we start high school at 12 by the time I reached seminary age I was active again. We couldn't have early morning seminary because it would have needed to start before the first bus ran inorder for me to get out to catch the bus to school so that wouldn't have worked