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I am talking about the First Presidency and the 12 apostles. Before they make an official statement of any significance, they discuss it and wait until there is unanimous agreement. I have to assume they also pray about it.
Opposing such official pronouncements publicly is apostasy.
If you privately have a problem with it, then you take it to the Lord in prayer. Meanwhile, you obey it. Often a testimony comes after obedience.
I think it may be fairly common for some church members to have a problem with an official doctrine or policy. It's happened many times in the past - when polygamy was announced, when the church opposed the ERA, when the church opposed gay marriage. The important thing is what you do, when/if you ever have that feeling.
The church is not a democracy, and there is no such thing as a "loyal opposition." No, the prophet and apostles are not infallible. However, part of being a member is having the faith that the leaders are guided by revelation and inspiration from the Lord - and in the very least, the Lord will not let the leaders lead us astray.
I am not advocating blind obedience. The Lord want us to use our brains.
But sometimes obedience is needed in the meantime, while you figure things out:
I think this is very important to understand, which is why I keep harping on it. in these last days, there will surely be even more things in the future that many members have a problem with, as the world gets more wicked and the prophet denounces that wickedness and/or asks us to make sacrifices. The worldly hate prophets.
We need to understand this and be prepared to follow the prophet instead of the world.

We do the half lawn AND half everything and anything we can cram into the space approach. This is our yard... just part of my "front" yard! This has been a family project. Everything you see has been planted/placed by 4 little boys and their parents. When we bought the house it was only grass and one dying shrub. Many family nights in the "garden"
EDIT: we live in a Zone 4-5, so we have to baby our plants each year!

 

Where does this leave the Holy Ghost, also a God? 
Okay, just for fun...is the Holy Ghost a "God", or simply (no disrespect) a member of the Godhead, but not a God himself? Like a Bishopric... a counselor is a member of the Bishopric (Bishoprichead) but not an actual Bishop...
10 Brownie points to someone who can post where it says the Holy Ghost is a God himself, versus a "member of the Godhead". This is just for fun

So, I'm cleaning out, very late, last year's garden plot. I'm finding some lovely plants I don't want in the garden. I want to transplant them, and did so as carefully as I could. I'm sure they'll die.
Here's the garden plot now. We sort of ignored it all spring.
I have plans for it, I swear.
My tomatoes that attacked everything last year are planning a resurgence, as you can see. I think the Black Russians are leading it.

Crazy falsely misleadingly cheap. 

Where does this leave the Holy Ghost, also a God? 
Okay, just for fun...is the Holy Ghost a "God", or simply (no disrespect) a member of the Godhead, but not a God himself? Like a Bishopric... a counselor is a member of the Bishopric (Bishoprichead) but not an actual Bishop...
10 Brownie points to someone who can post where it says the Holy Ghost is a God himself, versus a "member of the Godhead". This is just for fun

What is a flower? something that, after you have watered it, talked to it, fertilized it, pruned it, and loved it, dies. What is a weed? Something that after you have dug it up, sworn at it, stomped on it, poisoned it, lives and thrives.

I have a very nice white shirt, but it got a small stain does not come out.
Simple, use liquid White Out  and brush on the stain, and it covers the stain.   The White Out does not show if you rub it a little after it is dry, and is virtually invisible after washing the shirt.

I replaced my front lawn with native plants using a city rebate program.  I thought it would look all desert like being Southern California, but they are thriving.  When I planted, it was literally all dirt with tiny green plants scattered about.  The pic is from several months ago, and they have filled in even more, and most have purple flowers now.  Looks amazing but now that I know what the plants look like beyond their tiny buds, I might transplant and buy some filler plants.  

Boyd K. Packer's book I think is still great reading for someone cautiously approaching the temple.
https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Temple-Boyd-K-Packer/dp/0884944115/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1465679846&sr=8-13&keywords=mormon+temples

It depends on the nature of the question, I suppose.  I guess the general guideline I try to use (and it's not a perfect one) is that if it involves something about the ceremonies themselves that I wouldn't know if I hadn't actually been through the ceremony--it's probably something I'm supposed to work out on my own or with a trusted friend/family member/bishop/temple worker.  Otherwise, though; I think more general temple-related questions are usually fair game for open discussion in boards such as this.
The only caveat to that--and I hope I don't sound like a condescending donkey as I say this--but I think there is a special value to having worked a question out and reaching a satisfactory solution on one's own, versus simply having some other source provide the solution to me.  Engaging that process hones our ability to receive revelation in other areas of our lives.

You know, it's funny that in a church known for its missionaries on bicycles, so many are absolutely dependent on the family minivan.
The first sign a disaster is real is when the fuel prices go through the roof...if there's any fuel to be had.
How are you planning to get around when you can't top off the tank for $20?  How many have a commute/utility bicycle available and stay in good enough shape to get to Sacrament Meeting or across town on it?  Lots of options out there for hauling kids, too, though as soon as they can be trusted on a two wheeler, letting them carry their own weight (literally) is the best plan.  

It's certainly possible, but I suppose shy of some new revelation we'll not likely know until the next life.
Based on the understanding that we all have the potential to be gods, it would seem that we are all this type of being - of course in our fallen state we cannot realize further potential without the Atonement of Christ. Interestingly this seems to refer to the becoming unified as One aspect again.
Assuming that the intelligences that can be made into the spirit bodies patterned after our Exalted parentage which can go on to become humans and then onto godhood constitute the type of being that make up God, but only those who are purified and brought forth from a fallen state actually become part of the collective one true God? 
Musings that may seem repetitive:
The Father is God, The Son is God, the Holy Ghost is God, based on the idea of eternal marriage sealing two as one then the goddess spouses must also be God - but God is not any one of these, God is more.  God is love - is love God?
...the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children... fundamental unit of society. Fundamental unit of Heaven? Fundamental unit(y) of God?
I have to say that I am seeing a strong case for the idea of One true and living God - being one truly united and happy family continuing to progress and grow. its almost as if God is a family name and each individual member is therefore God by name, but God is greater than any one individual - as is the family. So those beings who are united through the sealing power to this family of God are adopted in and become one with God and thereby become God. Those who are not sealed or choose not to keep the covenants of the sealing do not become part of the one truly united family that constitutes God.

Great question Traveler. This two quotes...do not answer your direct question, but I thought I would post them anyways.
Desert News: Defending the Faith: Mormonism in recent book 'Becoming Devine'
Elder Parley P. Pratt, an early LDS apostle, summarized that idea well in his book “Key to the Science of Theology”:
“Gods, angels and man are all of the same species,” he wrote, “they comprise a great family which is distributed over the whole solar system in the form of colonies, kingdoms, nations, etc. The great decisive difference between one part of this race and the other consists in the differing degrees of intelligence and purity and also in the difference of the spheres, which each of them inhabit, in a series of progressive Being.”
lds.org Becoming Like God:

The following April, feeling he was “never in any nearer relationship to God than at the present time,” Joseph Smith spoke about the nature of God and the future of humankind to the Saints... “What kind of a being is God?” he asked. Human beings needed to know, he argued, because “if men do not comprehend the character of God they do not comprehend themselves.”... God “was once as one of us” and “all the spirits that God ever sent into the world” were likewise “susceptible of enlargement.”

I have nothing helpful to contribute to this topic, but it appears you all are cooking hot over here! There I was minding my own business watching the news about a Cheeseburger Stabbing and the scroll on the bottom said "HOT!" thread so I popped over to see what was going on.

No idea on the rust (though I wonder if this is basically iron, and good for you ), but I have a friend whose brother keeps bees and sells honey and she said he recommends that unlike regular food, honey be stored in a warm place, and exposure to sunlight is OK (presumably as long as it doesn't get so hot as to heat the honey to over 100F).  FWIW

The metallic taste is just because the air has hit the honey exposed to it. It's not really harmful but it obviously doesn't taste good.  My personal thoughts (if it were me) is I would transfer all of the honey into smaller glass mason jars - and it's up to you if you throw out the small amount of honey exposed to the air that has a metallic taste, but if you have a whole gallon of honey basically, I'd probably just mix it all together knowing the small amount with the off taste would be incorporated into the larger mass - mix well and separate into my glass jars with lids and put into the pantry.  You can warm the smaller jars to use the crystallized honey or just scoop it out as crystals and use it if it's going to be warmed, added to a warm beverage or used in baking/cooking where it doesn't matter.  You can also add a bit of hot water to the amount you need and 'melt' it into liquid honey again.

This won't stop it from crystallizing. There is nothing wrong with the honey at all. Actually this is proof that it is 100% unadulterated honey.
 
This entire article is well worth the read, http://www.realnews24.com/there-are-shocking-differences-between-raw-honey-and-the-processed-golden-honey-found-in-grocery-retailers/
My husband suffers every summer from allergies from the pollen's, and the cut grass. I am having a very difficult time finding honey that the local bee farmers have not boiled to death. They say they have to, I say too bad and they had darn well label it pasteurized and how they pasteurized it. Yes, you can buy pollen in the Organic section of the store, but where is the pollen from? Not my neck of the woods. I keep forgetting to ask a brother at church if the family he home teaches still raise honey bees and harvests the honey. Way back in 2002 I got a gallon of it for $5.00, IF I brought my own GLASS gallon jar w/metal lid. Used it all up by 2009. Yes it crystallized, made it all that much easier to measure out and use. .

I was called to work in the temple. Temple workers and a temple president's wife (matron's counsellor?) had gently suggested that I serve. I did not volunteer because my delivery is clumsy. I was called and my heart sank. Sunday the under achiever dragging down everyone else. On the day of my setting apart, I finally got it! Almost perfect. Just goes to show that more than half of the performance is the Holy Ghost!

Cut a chunk out, warm it up enough that you can stir it, mix in some peanut butter, eat with spoon.  Yum.

Is it too nerdy? My boys and I have debated too nerdy VS. too geeky... difference??
As far as that wig NT, where is @NightSG with his Pony Brain Bleach when you need him 
PG-13 video
 
 
 

Is it too nerdy? My boys and I have debated too nerdy VS. too geeky... difference??
As far as that wig NT, where is @NightSG with his Pony Brain Bleach when you need him 
PG-13 video
 
 
 

Hey! I'm old, but not even I am old enough to be counted on to know that honey stays good for millennia by personal experience.
Lehi

Can't remember the name of the company, but there's one near Georgetown TX that somehow whips crystallized honey into fresh honey to make a spread that's still pure honey, but spreads like butter.  Sounded like the sort of process that's dead simple, but takes some experimentation to find the ratios and method.  The end result is addictive though.
If you could find a way to whip butter into it at the same time, you could save a step when prepping toast.

Put it hot (~150°F) water until it liquifies. Honey stays good for millennia. Even if you have to reheat it, it doesn't change its nutritional and taste value.
Lehi