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Both last year, when we were the second of two wards to meet, and this year, when we are the first of two wards, we have held choir practice straight after meetings .Last year when we were the afternoon ward, we were able to hold practices in the chapel, but this year, as the morning ward, we have to hold them in the Relief Society room. Having practice straight after church means that the choir members miss out in Sundae Sunday, which we had last Sunday. For special occasions, such as Christmas, we will practice at the choir director's house on Thursday nights. The biggest problem for our choir director is that about half the choir show up for practice each week, but its never the same half two weeks in a row, and then there are the ones who only show up the week before we are due to sing.

This is excessively optimistic. I’ve read your posts. You live in Utah and you have connections with Texas. So, I think you need to start preparing yourself for that miserable collection of trashy romance novellas, with the missing covers, and the torn out back pages, and that collection of unstructured scribblings by Russian pseudo intellects that constitutes the “library” in that place down below.

It might be an interesting exercise for a legal scholar to work out on average how long a SCOTUS ruling lasts before it is overturned, either by legislation or another ruling.

Thanks Jag

I completely agree with and endorse what has been said about the finding and using the right combination of professional counselling and medication. But don't forget the power of music, which can be quite powerful. I recommend assembling a playlist of carefully chosen, uplifting, perhaps even spiritual music. Or maybe just put Spotify or Pandora on your phone and add the Mormon Tabernacle choir channel, or even just download the hymns from the church website. When the depression comes, just turn to your music. It takes almost no effort at all and it can be listened to at almost any time. In the mean time, consider this: Count Your Blessings 31243, Hymns, Count Your Blessings, no. 241 1. When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed, When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings; name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord has done. [Chorus] Count your blessings; Name them one by one. Count your blessings; See what God hath done. Count your blessings; Name them one by one. Count your many blessings; See what God hath done. 2. Are you ever burdened with a load of care? Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear? Count your many blessings; ev'ry doubt will fly, And you will be singing as the days go by. 3. When you look at others with their lands and gold, Think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold. Count your many blessings; money cannot buy Your reward in heaven nor your home on high. 4. So amid the conflict, whether great or small, Do not be discouraged; God is over all. Count your many blessings; angels will attend, Help and comfort give you to your journey's end. Best of luck with your depression. Sometimes all you can do is just hang in there and endure, but it almost always passes.

In our Sunday School lesson last week we looked at D&C 107. Someone read aloud verse 1 and I realized for the first time that this verse is only talking about those priesthoods that exist within the church. (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 107:1) 1 THERE are, in the church, two priesthoods, namely, the Melchizedek and Aaronic, including the Levitical Priesthood. We learn in another place that there is at least one other “person” who holds a priesthood that is neither Melchizedek or Aaronic and I’ve occasionally heard references to a Patriarchal priesthood, which possibly might exist within families, separately from the church. I note that the wording of this verse suggests that where one type of priesthood is included in, or a part of, another priesthood, eg, the Aaronic Priesthood includes the Levitical Priesthood, the scriptures will make this inclusion clear, as they have done in this instance. I also note that no such suggestion has been made in this verse that the patriarchal priesthood is part of, or included within the Melchizedek Priesthood, thereby opening up the possibility that the Melchizedek and the patriarchal priesthood are different from each other. It seems that the word priesthood refers to a power that is held by, or attached to someone, eg, the Melchizedek Priesthood is so named because it was held by Melchizedek, the Aaronic Priesthood so named because it was held by Aaron, the Levitical Priesthood because it was held by the sons of Aaron, the Holy Priesthood after the Order of the Son of God, because it was held by the Son of God, and the patriarchal priesthood because it is held by patriarchs. So now I’m wondering: How many priesthoods there are? Is the patriarchal priesthood the same or part of or different from the Melchizedek and Aaronic Priesthoods?

I would kill a VT rooster - then serve it with gravy, roast potatoes and peas.

I would kill a VT rooster - then serve it with gravy, roast potatoes and peas.

Welcome back Bini, very nice to see you again. I hope we see/hear more of you.

You're failing in this important responsibility. He's still here!

..........why Zil didn't get one

Thank you Johnson, I'll have to read and think about this several times

Global warming might or might not be a fulfillment of the prophecy that there will be a day that will burn as an oven. I don't think we have enough evidence to immediately discount the possibility that it might be true. Certainly for there to be a day that will burn as an oven the earth, at least on that day, will need to be much warmer than it currently is. That increase in temperature might or might not happen gradually. The fact that temperatures are increasing at least gives reason to think that to get to that oven burning day, it will be a gradual increase. Last weekend in much of the east coast of Australia we had a heat-wave where temperatures in my city were in the low 40's and in some western rural areas, in the mid to high 40's. You can be sure that a lot of older Australians, after finishing their beer in the airconditioned pub, and then stepping outside into the heat, would have been turned back to tell their mates still in the pub, "It's like a blood* oven out here." it's not an uncommon expression amongst older anglo Australians, and for those people, there have been many days when their part of the earth has burned like an oven. I'm also not sure if its reasonable to assume that when using this description, Malachi meant that on a certain day the whole earth would feel like an oven (presumably he was talking about the inside of the oven ) or if he just used that expression to mean a day that was going to be every hot.

(the bold function isn't cooperating) I'm inclined to agree with the scriptures here in their assertion that not ALL flesh shall be cut off, and that neither will there be a flood that destroys the WHOLE earth, but that still leaves a great deal of scope for a lot of flesh and earth to be destroyed by floods - just not all flesh and all earth. I note that the Lord used multiple methods of destruction prior to his arrival in the Americas, and I anticipate He would use multiple modalities again, one of which I think is likely to be flooding.

(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 61:14) 14 Behold, I, the Lord, in the beginning blessed the waters; but in the last days, by the mouth of my servant John, I cursed the waters. (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 88:90) 90 And also cometh the testimony of the voice of thunderings, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, and the voice of the waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds.

You know that God often works in patterns, eg, the damage and destruction that preceded His coming to the Nephites, is prophesied to happen prior to His second coming.

Thank you

I mentioned Noah because in his time rising sea levels were a result of great wickedness, and brought about some unfortunate consequences, and there seems to be a belief, perhaps even some evidence, that we are experiencing rising sea levels and great wickedness today.

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In the Summer between when I finished Year 10 and started Year 11, I made a plan for my life for the next ten years. It was pretty straight forward. I would take two years to finish high school, do a year of uni, work for a year to save money for a mission, serve a mission for two years and then spend the next four years getting a degree – ten years. What I deliberately left out of my plan was when I would get married and what I would study after my mission. I left marriage out of my plan because I didn’t think it was the kind of thing I could plan for, I mean, who knows when it will happen? I deliberately left my study plans vague because I’d known too many returned missionaries who returned from their missions with completely different perspective and goals than what they had before their mission. I followed my ten year plan fairly closely – took a year longer to save the mission money than planned but made up that year my completing my course a year sooner than planned, so I still ended up where and when I planned to be. I served my mission in a land of beautiful people and I soon came to love these people. Whilst on my mission, some women made some sort of impression on me and I filed them away in the back of my mind under the heading “might be worth getting to know better at a more appropriate time.” By the end of my mission there were perhaps 8 or so people on this list. Once I had finished my mission and was back home most of the people on this list faded further into the back of my mind, but there was one person who did not fade. In fact, for no reason that I can properly explain, she became more prominent. I began to include her in the several letters that I was sending each month to former mission friends and although the letters I was sending to her were not substantially different from the letters I was sending to other friends, and her replies were not substantially different, the feeling became stronger. After I had been home for 11 months, and exchanging occasional letters with her and several other male and female mission friends, while walking to the train station to catch the train to school the Spirit prompted me very strongly that she was the one. I decided to accept this revelation. At this point, she was about 6 or 8 weeks away from finishing her mission. I thought that I should wait until she had been home from her mission for about two months and then I would write to her and tell her how I felt. I thought she needed two months to adjust to post-mission life because I felt that in that transition between mission and post-mission life, a person’s decision making processes are not the same as they usually are. But then the Spirit prompted me again, saying that I needed to act immediately. So I prepared a voice tape in which I told her of my experience and my desire to talk with her about marriage and then I mailed the tape to the Philippines timed to arrive so that it would be waiting for her when she got home from her mission. Due to some flooding in her home town the mail service was delayed for a few days, so she ended up arriving home before the tape did. Its good that I acted when I did because, unbeknown to me, she’d had a boyfriend for a year or two before her mission, and before she went on her mission they had already made post-mission plans. This is getting long, and perhaps not entirely relevant, so I’m going to cut a lot of stuff out. She got home in late October, I finished the first year of my degree at about the same time. I went to the Philippines in January with the intention of getting to know her better and starting preparations for a marriage in the semester break the following June-July. We ended up deciding to get married there and then, which we did. I had not gone to the Philippines to get married, and was not mentally or financially prepared for it, but that’s what we did. After a two week honeymoon, during which we visited all but one of our former mission areas together (her last companion was still in the same area in which they had served together) I had to leave her and come back home to Australia to start second year uni. I did not see her again for almost another 6 months while we worked through the immigration process. When she arrived, I was in the second semester of my second year, with another year to go. I had no job and no car and only the day before, had moved out of my parent’s place, into our tiny one bedroom apartment, furnished with borrowed and second hand furniture. Six weeks after she arrived I was down to my last $80 when she found a job, and I found a part time job shortly after. That’s how it was for me. So, to address a few of your points: I married because it is a commandment to do so. If it was not, I don’t know if I would have got married. However, having shown my willingness to obey this commandment, the Lord did most of the rest of the work by bringing my wife and I together. She married me because after praying about it several times in the Temple, she finally accepted the answer she had been fighting against. We were married in February. It wasn’t until the following October that she told me for the first time that she loved me. It was a marriage based on faith, not love. We hadn’t dated before we decided to get married and hardly knew each other. Nevertheless, because of the guidance of the Spirit and the answers we had received to prayer, we knew that it was the right thing to marry each other. I hadn’t finished my education and had no idea what career I would pursue when I got married. The timing of our decision when to get married was very heavily influenced by the counsel of Spencer W Kimball who counselled that marriage should not be delayed. When I went to the Philippines in mid January, I had no plan, no intention, no idea, that I would be married a month later. Today is our 28th wedding anniversary. You sound keen to pursue a career. I imagine the satisfaction and enjoyment you would gain from that would only be increased if you have someone to share it with. I also imagine that if you marry the right person, you will be even more motivated to study harder and to try harder to find the career you would like, and, more importantly, you will be more likely to succeed. In all likelihood, she will help you succeed in what it is you want to do. If your education and career goals are important to you, they will become even more important and more joy filled, when you are married. My son is in a similar situation to you. He turns 24 in about ten days, and has been home from his mission for about 2 ½ years. He dates out of a sense of duty with no real hope or belief that he will find anyone of eternal interest in our stake. He’s favourably disposed towards the idea of marriage and says if the right person comes along, he will make an effort, but right now he doesn’t seem to be too willing to try too hard to do anything about it. He knows what is right so we leave it to him.

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It sounds like you have two incomes and only one dependent child. Where I come from, that would leave enough money left over to afford to hire a housekeeper/cook for a few hours a week. This approach would hide but not solve the problem. It might even be cheaper than counselling. And then you would both be faced with a clear choice - live in a tidy house and pay someone to keep it clean or keep the money and live in a tidier house. Sometimes it can help to have the issues clarified.

And you're married already?

Carb are you trying to ring a bell?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/19/sea-levels-could-rise-by-six-to-nine-metres-over-time-new-study-warns?CMP=share_btn_tw Sea levels could rise by six to nine metres over time, new study warns Genesis 7: 11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/18/world/2016-hottest-year/ (CNN)Last year was officially the Earth's warmest since record-keeping began in the 1880s, the World Meteorological Organization announced Wednesday morning. That means 2016 set a global heat record for the third year in a row according to NOAA and NASA, who held a joint press conference on Wednesday to discuss the record. Malachi 4:1 FOR, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Aging | Why human lifespan is rapidly increasing: solving "longevity ... www.aging-us.com/article/7kte23J8MQHCmQnf8/text by MV Blagosklonny - ‎2010 - ‎Cited by 54 - ‎Related articles Healthy life span is rapidly increasing and human aging seems to be postponed. ... The progress of civilization (especially 60 years ago) allowed slow-aging individuals to survive until old age, emerging as healthy centenarians now. ... This dramatically increased the average lifespan. Doctrine and Covenants 101:30 In that day an infant shall not die until he is old; and his life shall be as the age of a tree; Just a few things to think about.........