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I used to enjoy the fact on my Spanish speaking mission that tithing was called "diezmo". The number 10 is "diez", so explaining 10% was easy as pie

I could have expanded my previous brief thought further. When my kids were home schooled, they had plenty of non-member friends. They had friends from other home school groups, boy scouts, city sports, volunteering at the library, etc. Home school is often mislabeled by outsiders as producing anti-social shy hermits, when it really is quite the opposite.

Part 2: Sorry not sure why the other half of my post got cut off: continued... Only "Real" advantage is: 1. My wife gets free time 2. My wife gets free time 3. My wife gets, yes, more free time The person that has any advantage is my wife, but none that we can see with our kids.

Gut reaction on my part... if your friend has the means/time/resources to continue homeschooling successfully for her education, I would pull my kid out in a heartbeat. My oldest ended home school after the 6th grade and entered Jr.High. My wife felt that she had maxed out her personal resources at that point, otherwise he would still be home with us. For whatever small perceived "advantages" our son gets, they are overshadowed by the disadvantages. Some (pretend) advantages: Sports (but he could do this via the YMCA or city leagues) Dances (but he could do this with the YM/YW at church) Band (but home school groups have those too) Friends (YM&YW take care of that also)

That is wonderful AI! I was just at church today wondering about you, but thought it was going to happen towards the latter part of this month. This was a wonderful thread to read today!

Wow, appears it was a birthday weekend. We did one of my sons 12th b-day. Screaming kids & Minecraft sleepover, so not terribly quiet. Mulched the flower beds and bought fruit trees with the family yesterday. Oh boy!, our own fruit...well um, 10 years from now I mean Lastly, broke our 30-day no sugar/dairy/grain diet on birthday cake/potato salad. It was delicious, but the guilt wasn't worth it.

Welcome also! You sound a lot like myself, glad you found us! Defenders unite!!

Here is a great YW activity that illustrates building a field of dreams and has the YW fellowshipping each other and growing together. Video from Indiana, YW group.

We did in fact teach the dating class the other night, along with two other couples. Everything went great and the youth appeared to enjoy themselves. At the end was a Q&A session. One of the questions we all got asked was: "So, is it okay to date people who are not members?" You could feel a sudden collective gasp from everyone in the room, youth, leaders and other panelist. After about 20 seconds of silence and no other panelist piping up, my wife goes "Yes, Bro. Needle and I dated when we were 16 and I was not a member". The Youth Leaders gave off a look like we had just unraveled all their hard work or told the youth something contrary to "Mormon" belief. I did step in and mention, "Yes, it is true, Sister Needle was not a member, but she pretty much lived like and had the standards of one". I could almost see the leaders wiping the sweat from the foreheads in relief that I added the last part. It was a fun time. Thanks again to everyone for your thoughts and comments!

I thought it would be fun to post an actual picture of the cover in the thread, but was unable to find any covers that matched the time frame of 1962. I did find an article (Aug '62) about the groundbreaking, but it only had one picture in it. I unfortunately suspect, this might be a "mission myth" that your friend shared with you. Sounded like a funny story for the moment.

Yep Zil - fully aware of this side of it too, sorry that I didn't provide "enough words". I never intentionally try to see "guy" movies like this and have even walked out/turned it off if it turned into this before. As much as I don't care to be compared to some fake Hollywood standard, I know my wife doesn't want to be either. So off to movies like Star Wars & Lord of the Rings instead, this way we can only compare each other to Force wielding hobbits at best!

Welcome... I guess/suppose?? Does this mean we are the leftover chop liver site...not really sure how to take this??

If I could some how squeeze this whole quote onto a t-shirt and sell it to guys, I would be rich!!! Women sometimes wonder why guys can't stand "chick flicks", they assume it is only because of long dialogue, slow pacing, no action scenes. Honestly, I can't stand them for the above reasons that Anatess gives... being compared to "shirtless, ripped abs, perfect hair, model guys who have no other responsibilities except to be overly romantic to his woman and provide the best sex ever." This goes both ways for guys too, but I'm not sure a lot of woman realize this is huge turn off to guys with chick movies. We can leave feeling 2" tall especially if we get the glances all during the movie and the "see how he does things" comments. On a different note: Porn targets women every time you check out at the grocery store or Wal-mart. The magazines next to the gum are full of garbage. Now they even have to hide portions of the covers with black barriers so kids won't read the section titles too. I call these magazines the gateway drug. Gracias Anatess!

I "liked" your post for the content, but would have loved to give it 2nd "like" for the fact that a "food" specialist has the word "meal" in their name, wow perfect fit! Hum... that is assuming your real name is OMeal...inquiring minds

Way to encourage couples and applaud there efforts to "CTR". Bummer

What the bananas did I just read on this thread? The closest thing I read to gospel teachings was the whole "astro pops" taste good part.

Going from utter disgust to laughing out loud at work... you all are killing me! Perhaps Carb's Health Dept was passing out shots for toe nail fungus?

1. At night walking past a parked car, shattered window glass all over the sidewalk. I stopped by to ask the driver if he needed help. He was obviously worried and short with me, so he said, "no thanks". We started to walk away, when the "owner" then ran off with the car radio in hand. "Dang, dang, dang! It was the actual thief not the owner! 2. Many dogs that roamed the streets in Chile had some kind of skin disease that would make patches of their hair fall out. People would spray them with some kind of medicine... it was bright blue. So... you saw almost blue dogs roaming the street every so often. 3. People in the country would put slices of potatoes on the foreheads when they got head aches. So just picture trying to have a discussion with a person that has 3-4 potato slices stuck on their face.

There is still time for that hint to work for you GL (perhaps a senior couple mission down the road. Then you could send a letter to your old bishop, he would be in for a surprise!)

Everyone has a funny story from their missions. Something they saw or did. How about you?? Point of reference: served in Chile. A couple that come to mind. 1. Companion and I raced across the street to help a guy who appeared to have crashed his bicycle. Turned out he was drunk, passed out on the grass, still on his bike in the riding position, feet on the pedals and all. We let him sleep it off. 2. My first baptism was at the ocean, I was baptizing an adult Sister. Half the branch was in attendance. This was the pinnacle of all my training (whopping 2 months at the MTC). Clear blue sky, clouds parted just for this sacred occasion. Angels in heaven rejoiced at the sight! The Sister, two witnesses and myself entered the ocean. I raise my hand to the square to start on the prayer and then BAMMMMMM! The biggest wave out of no where crushes us all. We go tumbling under the wave in all directions. We finally all stand up with sand in every pocket and every crevasse you can think of. "What just happened?" Even worse, to top it off with, the gown the Sister is wearing is now see through. The branch is all in shock, I'm laughing, we do the baptism. Yes, I have pictures from it all. Hah! 3. Convinced my greenie companion that we had a magical little pool of water, about 6" high, that helped you speak a different language. Took the zone to the pool for P-day. Had a Latin Sister "try" it first. She stepped in speaking Spanish and exited the pool speaking English. "It worked!" he exclaimed, while throwing off his shoes to race in. Part of it "working" was to splash water in your face and say "I want to speak Spanish". As he is doing this we are all laughing hysterically, especially the Latin bilingual sister from Arizona! I've got tons, but how about you??

I hope "madasahatter" actually comes back to read all the responses. I often wonder this on certain threads, so I periodically check the "last visited" status on users. Perhaps they have viewed the thread, but simply not logged in?

I agree with Lehi, the Mission Pres. is the one in charge. I personally don't see anything wrong with this proposed scenario as outlined.

Traveler - thanks for sharing this, it is fun to see this side of you too! I just checked, there isn't an account for a "Mrs. Traveler", so your secret is safe with us

Thanks for the laugh NT!