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But maybe it only matters if multiple wives happened to have sons with the same name. As long as each son had a unique name, who the mother was wouldn't matter (so to speak). Though I suppose if who the mother was never, ever mattered - as in, they never kept the genealogy of women (but then how did they know Elisabeth was a daughter of Aaron, and how did they know the mothers of the sons in this genealogy?), then yes, these are weird exceptions - perhaps due to their unique places in history.

And....? (Feel free to post your answer in the thread about that lesson if you don't want to jack this thread.)

You guys ever consider that maybe it was just for the sake of clarity - as in "this guy named John, son of this wife; not that guy name John, son of that other wife"?

Once again, we need a "puke" reaction icon. 🤢

I was thinking more along the lines of "if all it takes to keep from getting called as bishop is shaving, people will start shaving - in order to avoid being called as bishop".

They could make an announcement that bishops have to have beards - then every man in the Church would start shaving.

I'll write up a will so that if it kills me (before you get your own), it goes to you.

Oh, yes, with my knees bent, I could do a bit better - seemed like cheating, and I wasn't sure about how the whole "keep your body straight" was supposed to work that way... (Ha ha - under the table! ) My Total Gym includes attachments (not my photos, but what I have - the second works for hooking your feet or as a pull-up bar): You can also do something that seems a lot like pull-ups (to me) with just the cables and pulley. I'll experiment. I wonder if part of the curve is because of where he has his legs / feet. I'm short enough that I can do what he's doing but with my legs dangling off the top of the board. (And kneeling wouldn't be a problem - probably why my knees don't like stairs - I'm always sitting with my knees bent under me, or legs next to me, or cross-legged - can't stand sitting normally in a chair.) It has feet that can be folded under at one end. Here it is. Oh no, it's got resistance. I'm OK even just adding 10-15 minutes 3 days / week. I'll start experimenting tomorrow to find a combination that works - sequence of those exercises, number of reps I can do, etc. Once I have a routine that seems like it will work, I'll post back. Thank you! Not knowing where to start / what to do / how much to do has been one of the big things keeping me overly casual about all this, so having someone to give me a starting point is fabulous!

OK, SD, you've convinced me that I need to add some planned / consistent anaerobic / interval training to my day; restore some muscle strength. I currently tread on my trudgemill for 30 minutes / day, 6 days / week (sometimes 5 days, but less than 5 is extremely rare). Mr. Trudgey has built-in routines where the speed goes up and down automatically and I use one of these - but it's not one of the "intensity" workouts - one of those would kill me and break my knees and/or ankles. I think this is getting the aerobic in (I should probably kick it up a level, but I'm doing a lot better than when I started - took a year or so to make the 6 days / week habit). To give you an idea of my current upper-body strength, which I'd like to improve, I tried that under-the-table thing and my arms just laughed at me, but I can do about a minute of pushups leaning against the kitchen counter before my muscles say "uncle" (it's 36" high and I'm 63" high, so it's not as much of an angle as a man might think). Tools available to me: dumbbells (one easy set and one "good luck using us for anything except curls" set), stairs (though my knees don't like rapid stair use), Mr. Trudgey (but I'd rather do something else), a bike + trackstand, a Total Gym, and the furniture. Personally, the Total Gym, dumbbells, and pushups / the like sound best to me. What do you recommend? I work better with gradual changes, upping them only after I've formed a habit and it's no longer a challenge. And I don't want to add much time given I'm already spending 30 minutes / day walking all over Mr. Trudgey. Also, the whole reason I got Mr. Trudgey was because the bike and the Total Gym require me to keep up the pace, but it's boring as all get-out so my mind wanders and my body slows down - Mr. Trudgey keeps up the pace without needing my brain. Therefore, a shorter work out that doesn't let my mind wander would be good (that deal where you do as much as you can in 1 minute then rest seems like it would avoid that problem, but I'm game to try what you recommend). No rush answering - I'm deep-cleaning the house this month (~1 hour / weekday), which has a way of finding muscles you didn't know were needed by civilized humans. Meanwhile, I'm thinking we should pay you in Amazon gift cards or something.

We already do this at least annually for the ward Christmas breakfast / dinner (or BBQ or whatever other ward meal your ward has). I prefer my burnt sacrifice in the form of link sausages (other sacrifices, I prefer not burnt).

I'm thinking that's the key. The Apple development teams are always ahead (because for whatever reason, the Church standardized on Apple devices). Android claims to have this feature, but as far as I can tell, it comes and goes, or maybe was never there.

The ones to whom you minister, or the ones who minister to you, or both? Android or iPhone or Windows Phone? And are you in a presidency / bishopric?

Technically, I don't have a cell phone anymore - but I do have an Android device that looks and acts like a cell phone in all ways except it doesn't have phone service. (I also have an Android tablet from years ago.) But I hear ya - the web site lags in this way. Still, contacting leadership will get you the info too - any member of the RSPy, EQPy, and Bishopric (including membership clerk and executive secretary) can get you all of this info.

Has she gone to visit? Has she contacted her companion? I know we all expect that the "already there" people should welcome the newbie and our ministering sisters / brothers should reach out to their assignees first, but if that's not working for you, take the initiative - find out who your ministering sisters / brothers are and invite them. Find out who your companions are and contact them. Find out to whom you minister and contact them - if no one, contact the presidency and let them know you want an assignment. Invite someone else in the ward for lunch or dinner or something. Yes, that can be difficult, but the alternative, apparently, is to accept whatever happens without you taking initiative - and no program, policy, or instruction at an organizational level will solve this problem - all that stuff has been done, the people just aren't implementing it fully, so help them out.

At some point, LDS Tools was supposed to give everyone the right to see who their assigned ministering sisters / brothers are, but that doesn't appear to be the case (at least not on Android).

No, Primary happens every Sunday, they will still not interact with RS / EQ (ETA: on Sunday).

In what way has she been ignored by the RS? Has she gone to RS activities (if they're held)? Does she have a ministering assignment (and does she minister)? Are sisters assigned to minister to her, and do they come, and does she invite their ministering? Are there other ways in which she wishes interaction with the RS, but doesn't receive it? What has she done to initiate change? What have been the reactions to her efforts?

More like 2.3 years.

Rhodia Webnotebook, Wing Sung 601 with EF nib, Sailor Tokiwa-Matsu (ink).

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Quit giving me excuses to buy more paper! My house is practically a stationery store already! Nothing short of herculean will power is keeping me from setting up an elaborate discbound notebook system!

I have a planner (Hobonichi Techo) that I use for appointments / bullet journal / event logging / habit tracking / etc., and a regular journal. I'll keep that regardless of anything else, but you remind me that I don't want to track multiple simultaneous journals. Part of me doesn't want to "waste" pages of a journal - insert "junk" (like doodles or manual Sacrament meeting word clouds) in the middle of more meaningful content - but that's irrational and I figure the best way to overcome that worry is to add the mixed content and get over it - perhaps I'll do that tonight by drawing a bridge with a stick figure getting over it...

Just yesterday I designated a specific spot for this purpose - a recently cleared desk in a room where nothing but the printers and the router live. Am trying to set up new space, habits, etc. for the new year.

The new "Come Follow Me" manual for next year, on the introductory materials page, mentions use of a "study journal". I first heard this term a couple years ago in reference to seminary (apparently these days, the students get a study journal - which isn't much really, but saves them from having to go buy their own journal / notebook, I guess). Anywho, I've long believed that one learns and retains better if one takes notes, and that being prepared to take notes invites the Spirit to open our minds so that we have things worthy of being noted. The new manual has questions in the lesson, and a couple blank lines for writing a response (about the right size if you communicate in Twitter-sized bites, but too small if you're really going to make a serious effort to explore the answer). So, I'm curious: is anyone else planning to use a "study journal"? Anyone doing that already? Any thoughts or insights on what has worked well for you, or what your plans are? Sometime between now and tomorrow, I'll have to decide whether to use a separate journal1 or include my study notes in my regular journal. 1It's not like I've got dozens empty journals lying around waiting for me to use them (maybe one dozen, or so), but I have enough that I could use a separate one for this.

Where even our knives are made of bacon and french fries: Yes, that's real bacon in the handle. And there's a french fry on the other side of the handle. And it's a very funny (and interesting, if you like watching dudes forge stuff) video.