Average Joe
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Our bishop asked us all as home teachers to meet with our families and ask "On a scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate yourselves:
1) Financial preparedness
2) Spiritual preparedness
3) Emergency preparedness
When this was disseminated in priesthood the discussion immediately went to financial woes.
too bad these discussions aren't taking place within the family in far too many instances
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All are important .....it's even alarming how many members have food storage and water and a 72 hour kit.
hard to have if you're in debt over your head...
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Several weeks ago I was called as our Stakes Emergency Preparedness Specialist and in the discussion about what was expected of me I asked what the stake leadership felt our greatest challenge was. I then heard the usual litany of disasters - last summers great flood in S.C., winter ice storms, tornado season was coming up, etc...etc...
After listening politely I asked if they were ready for an economic crisis. While acknowledging the possibility the conversation soon shifted back to chainsaws and mud outs.
That was early in December. Now that the New Year has arrived there has been an almost daily drop in oil prices and drop in the stock markets.
Tomorrow I'll meet with the stake leadership to discuss emergency preparedness and I'll ask again if they're preparing for an economic crisis or just natural disasters.
I hope for a more substantive discussion of the economic issue...we'll see.
I just wondered if any other Stakes/Wards have been discussing getting our financial houses in order?
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Roll Tide !!!
They did :)
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Clemson lost. Sorry.
Thanks, as they say, there's always next year
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Roll Tide !!!!
Congratulations. now they've lived up to the hype. :)
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ROLL TIDE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they haven't lived up to all the hype yet
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Good luck!
all tied up at the half
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GO TIGERS!!!
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Elder Bruce R. McConkie :
"The place of gathering for the Mexican Saints is in Mexico; the place of gathering for the Guatemalan Saints is in Guatemala; the place of gathering for the Brazilian Saints is in Brazil; and so it goes throughout the length and breadth of the whole earth. . . . every nation is the gathering place for its own people."
(quoted in Church News, 03/06/93...Elder McConkie died April 19, 1985)
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Houston - we have a problem
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Heh - I doubt we'll be fighting the Russians here. We're on the same side of this fight.
The Russians, Cubans and Iranians are there to prop up Assad
The U.S. and this administrations Al Qaeda affiliated "free Syrian army" are trying to topple Assad.
The U.S. helped "birth" Isis just as it helped "birth" Al Qaeda.
The Iraqis aren't helping fight ISIS if there's another direction their army can run to. The Kurds are trying to fight ISIS but we give weapons and supplies to Iraq and the leaders there have no intention of strengthening the Kurds, so when the Iraqi army flees from ISIS, ISIS gets the weapons and supplies instead.
Our "fight" against ISIS has been negligible.
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Beware the Pharisees
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One of my favorite genres, and I'm actually serious. Mortal Treason is my current favorite band.
lol, good for you :)
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maybe if its a death metal band
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lol, this was scary - perhaps even cruelty to kittens
how on earth did you find this? :) -
Kinda thinkin' the "Big Bang" ain't all it was cracked up to be so Albert inadvertently missed the mark...but that's just my take
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The Bible dictionary has some interesting things on it. It isn't inspired scripture. It is sometimes called Canticles (Latin) or Song of Songs (Hebrew) and may not have been written by Solomon.
That being said, what exactly does it mean and how does it apply to today?
Great lines for breaking the ice on Christian Mingle
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I can't speak for other societies of faith, I can only say in the church I attend as long as HT & VT remain the same, the number of endowed without TR's remain the same, the number of new converts still active after the first year remains basically unchanged year after year...I can't say we're growing stronger by measurable metrics.
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enjoy yourself :)
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welcome and enjoy yourself :)
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Understood. Here's a short primer, if interested.
Thank you :)
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The nephites did get a set of urim and thummim from the jaredites.... Its not impossible that they got some of the stones?
natives still have stories how they came here in 8 turtle boats.
lol, its kinda like reading reading the Bro. of Jared said to Mt. Zerin, "Remove" and it was removed. Hello?!? How about a when, where, why, ya know? :)
Emergency Preparedness for Economic Crisises
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go into debt or go into food storage? the former seems to happen a lot more than the latter