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Ni doubt the lawn mower did as well, once you actually started it

Just a suggestion @Backroads: Next time you feel this strange urge, you might want to restrain your enthusiasm: one-off acts of service can so quickly become life-time obligations, 

Ni doubt the lawn mower did as well, once you actually started it

Ni doubt the lawn mower did as well, once you actually started it

Given that she's earned her Adulting badge. I think that's probably "No need to rest on your Relief Societies".

Congratulations Backroads. No need to rest on your laurels though, its time to quickly move on to the next big thing like using the trimmer/edger/whipper snipper to trim the edges. Sadly, I have to report that the minimum requirement to claim an adulthood badge involves two lawn mows, to prove that the first wasn't an accident, raking up any loose grass, refilling the fuel, checking the oil, and cleaning the mower afterwards.

Where do I stand? Next to the clothes line while hanging clothes. Its the most convenient place to stand while hanging clothes, because proximity to the line is important. The clothes get to sit in a basket on a chair so I don't have to bend down to the ground every time I reach for another item to hang.

Where do I stand? Next to the clothes line while hanging clothes. Its the most convenient place to stand while hanging clothes, because proximity to the line is important. The clothes get to sit in a basket on a chair so I don't have to bend down to the ground every time I reach for another item to hang.

Where do I stand? Next to the clothes line while hanging clothes. Its the most convenient place to stand while hanging clothes, because proximity to the line is important. The clothes get to sit in a basket on a chair so I don't have to bend down to the ground every time I reach for another item to hang.

Well, the "sham" lay in the identity of the poster.  As to the truth of the underlying allegations, we really don't know one way or the other; but I suspect that the kernel of the story--that the OP was more or less "cornered" without her parents' knowledge or consent--may be, to some extent, true.
At any rate--she's a kid, she's taken her licks from us, and it's probably time for us to lay off.

My wife and kids returned from two weeks in the US yesterday. As she has in the past, she commented, with surprise, on the abundant use of dryers vs minimal use of clothes lines. Pretty much every stand-alone house here would have a clothes line, but not all town houses would, and pretty much all of them would be regularly used, except by the elderly and in-firm. The clothes that are on the line now (Tuesday night) have been there since Saturday night. I don't do laundry on Sunday, Monday I was busy, and today it rained so the clothes are wetter now than when I hung them out. Its not a problem because I have plenty of other clothes to wear. If it does become a problem, that's when I'll put them in the dryer. 

I think if the above is the case, it would be quite analogous to Doctrine and Covenants 20:1 - a scriptural statement giving a timeframe based on the common understanding of the time. However, what might be a significant difference is that in Doctrine and Covenants 77:6 it more clearly seems to be a case of the Prophet speaking, as a Prophet, on specific, doctrinal questions. Additionally, the heading to the section states that  "in connection with the translation of the Scriptures, I received the following explanation of the Revelation of St. John."

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I remember reading an account by Orson Scott Card about his experience in preparing conference talks to be published in the Ensign. I'll try to find it again, but from what I remember they had the pre-written talks and would note any changes made during delivery for the speaker to later review and decide which version to publish.
Got it: The Gifts of Conference

My impression is both can happen. As I understand it, all conference talks are written out and submitted before conference so that the translators have time to put together their translations of each talk. But, there are plenty of examples of speakers who, in the moment deviate from the originally submitted talk. On the other hand, it also seems that there are talks that are edited after being given for the church magazine editions for clarity or for whatever reason the editors and church authorities have for editing talks afterwards. I don't get the impression that there is a single either 1 or 2 answer for your question, but that both happen. I'm not sure if there is a way of knowing if the talk was added to while being given or edited before publication, though sometimes there might be clues (such as when a translator seems to have trouble or delays during a portion of a talk that suggest that the speaker went "off script" and the translator is needing to translate on the fly).

In Seattle, they were illegal until someone renamed them "solar dryers". Now they're all the rage.

I don't know...  We read in Abraham that the Creation of the Earth and Adam happened under the Lord's reckoning of time. That he had not yet appointed Adam his reckoning time-wise.  The Joseph Smith explanation of the Seals of Revelation could easily be a break down of Adam's appointed reckoning. Beginning at the Fall (aka after creation) and ending with the Second Coming...  The time frame that is important to the Lords work.  This would simply reinforce the Idea that God sees time differently.
So I have no problem with seeing it as saying 7000 years from the Fall to the Second Coming as our Temporal Continuance.  I think the assumption that 7000 years from beginning creation to destruction (Which alot of people take it as) is simply an incorrect assumption.  

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I’ve got a new favourite piece of music. It’s the overture from Wagner’s Tannhauser. This is the music that I would like to hear being sung as I walk through the pearly gates into the Celestial Kingdom.
Picture this: After a period of mortality filled with struggle and difficulty and hardship, and slow but constant refinement, you eventually learn to fully submit your whole self to the will of the Father, and completely put aside the natural man. Having lived a good life and overcome the sorrows and snares of this life, you finally have your one-on-one interview with the Saviour. He listens to all that you have to say with perfect love and understanding, and you KNOW with all your soul that He knows you and loves you and understands you, and that He is so happy that you have endured mortality well and kept the faith. He puts His arm around your shoulders, looks into your face and says Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. After shedding tears and feeling His love for you, and being overcome with gratitude for the mercy and power and glory of the Plan of Salvation, you look over towards the pearly gates, and see your loved ones who have preceded you. You get up off your knees and start walking towards them, through those gates, leaving this world behind, and entering into a new and eternal life. And this is what you hear:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6OQCncAiC8

In the same vein, does anybody know where I can hire someone to do my hometeaching?

And thus the destruction of society  . . . I want my daughters growing up to believe that the most important job they can and will ever do is raising a righteous generation. Nothing, they do in life will ever come close to that monumental, sacred task. I want my son to grow up believing the most important job he can ever have is to lead his family in righteousness towards God.  That no job he will ever do will make up for a lack of him being a proper leader, mentor, provider in his family.
The above is (and I don't mean offense MG) is the modern secular humanistic view of the world-that it is important to do something "great", that being whatever you want is good.
Except that every single one of us will die at some point-life is very, very short and very transitory.  God cares not if we are "great men/women" in the eyes of the world. God cares whether we have done our best to learn to become like Him and whether we have learned the right lessons on this Earth.  And those lessons do not include "being whatever you want to be" but "how do I emulate my Savior more and then how do I teach that to others?".
I work to provide for my family-not for the praise and gain of the world.  It is a difference of world-view.  One is very secular and humanistic; the other is a focus on the things of God.

I've only read the first two pages of this post so what I say here might have already been said.
I think that everytime someone makes a better choice they should be congratulated, not condemned, even if making a better choice means overturning a previous choice that might have simply been just good.This is how we grow. I also can't help thinking of all the Latter-Day Saints who were once formally committed Catholics, Episcopalians, etc. 

I've only read the first two pages of this post so what I say here might have already been said.
I think that everytime someone makes a better choice they should be congratulated, not condemned, even if making a better choice means overturning a previous choice that might have simply been just good.This is how we grow. I also can't help thinking of all the Latter-Day Saints who were once formally committed Catholics, Episcopalians, etc. 

If we could do the spraying in the general direction of Zil, zis sounds like a great idea. Perhaps I could commission you to commence immediate construction of this pencil sprayer? And maybe we could modify it so that raw material would be fountain pens instead of pencils?

All you people declaring yourselves to be game should be careful. Hunting season is coming.