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When looking for a wife, the most important thing to look for is a wedding ring. If the person you are looking at is wearing one, keeping looking - elsewhere.  

LOLOLOL! Thanks for that  I'll look around to see if I have any spare filters. 

Not meaning to doubt your word @Grunt but this is kind of hard to imagine. We've all been reading your posts with great interest for about 7 months now and I can't remember you ever saying a word out of place or being anything other than courteous and respectful. Now I'm full of curiousity about what happened. Did you suddenly forget where you are and use your Master Sergeant voice?  

Six other people laughed at this?! I can see the need for a re-education camp wherein attendees can be "instructed" in the difference between humor that is wretched and humour that is brilliant.

I see they left out my birthday!

No.  They asked if I had read the Proclamation and I replied that the missionaries gave it to me, but I spilled beer on it.  The phrase "silence was deafening" comes to mind.

If they'd left it on the original schedule - Saturday morning at 9am - it would have been baptizing the dead.  Instead, they made a special exception and held it in the afternoon.
(Just teasing, MG.)

Its true, I had a birthday last year and the year before that and I'm planning on having one this year and next year as well but they are all different from each other because every year I get a year older (coincidence perhaps?) Great events should have great celebrations but its not something that should be celebrated only on my birthday. Daily celebrations would be entirely appropriate. 
And as for the breathing thing, I'm well passed the stage where I breathe in and out. My breathing is of the far superior kind where I breathe out and then in. But not in a repetitive manner - only when necessary.  

While Mormons don't believe in rote / set prayers (except for ordinances), some of us might need this one (not my invention):

I see they left out my birthday!

I see they left out my birthday!

health is one of the reasons they wouldn't let me go, i have vitiligo ( same disease that michael jackson had) it basically doesn't allow me to take sun, i have to always be protected by sunblocks, but i'm shure i can still serve with that, although the physicians says that they do not recommend working in the sun, but i have never had any problems when i use sunblocks. i will surely speak to the bishop, thanks.

It sounds to me, from the OP, that this guy, talking about his enjoyment of sexual experiences, was talking about something of which he had fond memories. This would be a HUGE red flag and probably a deal breaker for me. I would think that a truly repentant person would come to view their previous fornication as the worst ever moment of their life, and with no thought whatsoever of enjoyment and how good it was. I understand that you feel that you love him, but I think you need to take into account that there are probably many, many guys you are yet to meet that you could love. 

When looking for a wife, the most important thing to look for is a wedding ring. If the person you are looking at is wearing one, keeping looking - elsewhere.  

A dog eat dog situation sounds like the ideal solution we have to a problem in northern parts of Australia, where feral dogs do massive damage to flocks of sheep and decimate the local wild life. If we could get them to eat each other we could make huge savings in the budget for the Department of Conservation and Parks.

A different perceptive from the other answers but.... My son is 18 next week, I think he (and you) are WAY to young to be thinking about marriage.  What do you want to do for a career?  Are you finished studying? I think you should focus on what you want in life and have some fun while you are still young enough not to have too many responsibilities.  Don't be so quick to tie yourself down.  
Marriage is eternal, date for a few years first (following the law of chastity of course) get to know girls, so you can work out what qualities are important to you in a potential wife.  Don't overlook the importance of pre marriage counselling, being on the same page on the important things can help give your marriage the best chance possible.  Things like money and how it is made, spent as well as long term financial goals, division of labour in the household, romance and what you need from each other with regards to this.  Children and how they are to be cared for, common interests and probably the most important question - Dogs inside or out!

Neither my wife or I married the person we loved. We married who the Spirit told us to. The love came later and its still coming. We'd been married for 8 months before my wife first told me that she loved me. I would commend this course of action to everyone. Love can bloom and fade depending on how well you look after it but the promptings of the Holy Ghost are constant and true.

What President Uchtdorf said in his October 2008 address during the Priesthood session might be applicable to those who desire to serve a mission but for some reason are not able to:
Some years ago in our meetinghouse in Darmstadt, Germany, a group of brethren was asked to move a grand piano from the chapel to the adjoining cultural hall, where it was needed for a musical event. None were professional movers, and the task of getting that gravity-friendly instrument through the chapel and into the cultural hall seemed nearly impossible. Everybody knew that this task required not only physical strength but also careful coordination. There were plenty of ideas, but not one could keep the piano balanced correctly. They repositioned the brethren by strength, height, and age over and over again—nothing worked.
As they stood around the piano, uncertain of what to do next, a good friend of mine, Brother Hanno Luschin, spoke up. He said, “Brethren, stand close together and lift where you stand.”
It seemed too simple. Nevertheless, each lifted where he stood, and the piano rose from the ground and moved into the cultural hall as if on its own power. That was the answer to the challenge. They merely needed to stand close together and lift where they stood.
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/lift-where-you-stand?lang=eng
 The message becomes clearer if we change the word "lift" to "serve." If you cannot serve a full time mission I encourage you to consider how you can serve where you stand.

If you both do things right, eg, love and look after each other, protect and suppor and help each other, the love grows throughout your life. I suspect that many couples married for many years love each other more now than when they were first married. One of the best ways to help this happen is through service. We come to love those who we sincerely serve. 

If you both do things right, eg, love and look after each other, protect and suppor and help each other, the love grows throughout your life. I suspect that many couples married for many years love each other more now than when they were first married. One of the best ways to help this happen is through service. We come to love those who we sincerely serve. 

Neither my wife or I married the person we loved. We married who the Spirit told us to. The love came later and its still coming. We'd been married for 8 months before my wife first told me that she loved me. I would commend this course of action to everyone. Love can bloom and fade depending on how well you look after it but the promptings of the Holy Ghost are constant and true.

That is how it was in my Branch for the last 7 years -with three different Branch Mission Leaders, and the last one you couldn't even reach him on his cell! The BML we have now is a real go-getter. I think having server 3 proselyting missions overseas with his wife makes the difference.
What I think is great is he and the members who have been called as Branch Missionaries, come to the various classes every other month and in 10 minutes  give us a Pep Talk. No challenges though because we just don't respond well to that. But it is more like You All Did GREAT - Keep up the GOOD work. Call on us ANYTIME to go with you -  to help you - etc. etc. Basically it is a pat on the back, Atta Boy/Girl, Keep it up,  and not a single but, you need to do better.

What President Uchtdorf said in his October 2008 address during the Priesthood session might be applicable to those who desire to serve a mission but for some reason are not able to:
Some years ago in our meetinghouse in Darmstadt, Germany, a group of brethren was asked to move a grand piano from the chapel to the adjoining cultural hall, where it was needed for a musical event. None were professional movers, and the task of getting that gravity-friendly instrument through the chapel and into the cultural hall seemed nearly impossible. Everybody knew that this task required not only physical strength but also careful coordination. There were plenty of ideas, but not one could keep the piano balanced correctly. They repositioned the brethren by strength, height, and age over and over again—nothing worked.
As they stood around the piano, uncertain of what to do next, a good friend of mine, Brother Hanno Luschin, spoke up. He said, “Brethren, stand close together and lift where you stand.”
It seemed too simple. Nevertheless, each lifted where he stood, and the piano rose from the ground and moved into the cultural hall as if on its own power. That was the answer to the challenge. They merely needed to stand close together and lift where they stood.
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/lift-where-you-stand?lang=eng
 The message becomes clearer if we change the word "lift" to "serve." If you cannot serve a full time mission I encourage you to consider how you can serve where you stand.

Ogres brave all perils. We're not that smrt.

I never served a typical mission, but live in the exact type of city your son is serving in. (We're only two hours from the mission home, though.) Our branch covers ground in at least four counties, and many of the surrounding towns wouldn't have a ward even if every citizen was an active Mormon.
Anyway, I'd encourage him to focus on asking questions and listening to hear the answers when they talk to people, rather than listening to respond or lead the discussion. In my own personal missionary work, I set a goal to bring everyone I can one step closer to Christ. Elder Bednar gave a great talk a few years ago addressed to nonmembers. In there, (I'm paraphrasing) he invited them to bring with them whatever truth they already had to see if we couldn't add to it. https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/come-and-see?lang=eng