Iggy

That part is true, it is in the Library of Congress.

Shop thrift stores, it is the only way to go! Once a year we do a trade off at Church. We bring things we no longer want or can no longer wear and get things we can use. I think it is called Give and Take. At the end of the day, what ever is left over goes in the the DI Trailer. Got a lot of awesome books that way,and about 6 small 1 1/2cup casserole dishes. I gave away all of my sweatshirts, sweaters, & heavy knee socks.

Stay at home, in loose soft clothes. Drink lots of liquids. I too am diabetic yet orange juice has WAY too much sugar for me, so I drink lots of water or room temp herbal infusions. I have to eat even when I don't feel like it, so I consume a LOT of chicken noodle or chicken rice soup. I also love tomato bisque soup and enough crackers to make it into a thick mush. Yeah I know it sounds bad, but I really like it. I slather my neck, chest, upper back with Vicks and then put on an old turtle neck to keep the vapors and heat in. Slather the soles of my feet with Vicks and put on cotton socks, then wrap up in a blanket on the futon and try to read a book. I sleep a lot, then eat some soup, sleep some more, eat more soup. I also do not use Kleenex. I don't care what brand I use, when my nose is running and I blow a lot, tissues make my nose raw. I bought some flannel- like what you make baby nighties out of- in pastel colors, cut them into 16" squares and hemmed them. That is what I use. The more you wash them, the softer they get. I have also used clean old diapers. I have cut them down and hemmed them too. If I am congested, then I get out my 2 Quart crock pot, fill it up with hot, hot water, turn it on high and put in about 1/4 c. of Vicks Vapor mist liquid, then put the lid on ajar enough so that the steam and vapors can escape. When I can find it, I use eucalyptus oil. That will loosenup the congestion and keep it loose.

your city may be using a higher amount of chlorine. You can let your water sit out overnight and the chlorine smell will evaporate out. If you are going to store 1 gallon jugs, buy the prebottled water and get it by the case, then you have the boxed case to store. Stack them two or three high behind the sofa, cover with a very lightweight board, place fabric over and you now have a sofa table. Use bricks or board to make shelves and store your 1 gallon jugs next to an interior wall. Bookshelf it but use bricks or boards to raise the shelves just a bit above the jugs. Again use fabric to cover the front and you can put some real books on the top shelf, or knick knacks, a vase of flowers and pictures on display.

Winnie, I feel for you I truly do- You and your family are always in my prayers. I am awake most nights, 'er mornings until 3 or 4 am- I am on MST. You can pm me and we can set up windows live messenger, phone calls are just too expensive- but we can chat on-line via windows live for free.

Pushka, this is entirely up to the individual as to pay or not. My MIL does not pay tithing. When my own mother was still alive, she did pay on her SS. That was her choice. Her Bishop told her she could or could not. That not paying on SS would not keep her from having a valid Temple Recommend. I have several friends who are on SS Disabilities and about half pay tithing. ALL hold valid temple recommends and they all live in different parts of the country.

You understand correctly.

From: apostasy - Information from Reference.com Apostasy (from Greek αποστασία, meaning a defection or revolt, from απο, apo, "away, apart", στασις, stasis, "standing") is a term generally employed to describe the formal abandonment or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. In a technical sense, as used sometimes by sociologists without the pejorative connotations of the word, the term refers to renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to one's former religion. One who commits apostasy is an apostate, or one who apostatises. Apostasy is generally not a self-definition: very few former believers call themselves apostates and they generally consider this term to be a pejorative. One of the possible reasons for this renunciation is loss of faith, another is the failure of alleged religious indoctrination or brainwashing. Many religious movements consider it a vice (sin), a corruption of the virtue of piety in the sense that when piety fails, apostasy is the result. Many religious groups and even some states punish apostates. Apostates may be shunned by the members of their former religious group or worse. This may be the official policy of the religious group or may happen spontaneously, due in some sense to psycho-social factors as well. Historically as well as currently, the offense can be punishable by death. The Catholic Church may in certain circumstances respond to apostasy by excommunicating the apostate, while the traditional holy writings of both Judaism (Deuteronomy 13:6-10) and Islam (al-Bukhari, Diyat, bab 6) demand the death penalty for apostates.

I am a split my ticket type too.

whoa girl, cool down a bit. What are you getting so fired up about? Spell it out please. Where are you getting cast their vote is more important than picking up apples??? From my interpretation this thread is about several business men who in their mindless rush to catch a flight home, knocked over an apple stand. One man who had a conscience stopped and helped the apple stand owner put things to right and in doing so discovered that she is blind and crying. He actually did the right thing in helping her to right her apple stand and he also did right in paying for the damage that he and his associates had done. (What would Jesus have done? He would have helped her put the stand to rights) Not one poster after that made any comments accusing any one in particular of being unchristian. Not LDS in general, nor catholic, nor any one person from this forum. There was comment made about how in todays world, right now, that the poster felt that too many who claimed to be christian were telling others how to vote, how to dress, etc. Well here is his statement: Where in that phrase is LDS??? It isn't there, it isn't implied. How has anyone comments in this entire thread support your me me me me theory??? Please point them out to me as I would really like to know.

Yes I remember that - but those web sites were different than what they are suggesting now. They were way different than the LDS based forums we are on too.The church has not really done a U-turn, they have taken a long hard look at what is happening on the internet and it is inevitable that this was going to take place. MorningStar- your blog is a perfect example of what the leaders are asking us to do via internet blogs. There isn't a more perfect example of what a LDS is, then to peek into the daily life of one. Our individual blogs should not be full of preaching, they should be about our own feelings. I heard once during a Stake Conference that the LDS Church needs no defending. If you are unsure of how to answer questions put to you by investigators, particular if you feel the investigator is a bit hostile, answer by giving your spirit filled testimony. YOUR testimony requires no defense. By writing with the spirit in your blog about normal events and how they affected you spiritually- you are witnessing to investigators to the truthfulness of the Gospel. By their fruits they will be known.

Yes I can, I have not had a tv since 1999. Haven't missed it one iota. Get my news via select on-line news papers and then my Hubby reads the paper while he is eating his dinner at work. Then he tells me about it, I look it up on-line. As for comic relief and entertainment, I get that from BOOKS, or from movies. We subscribe to Netflix. Then once every two months or so we need a movie theatre popcorn fix so we go to the brand new multiplex theatre in town and see a movie.

Any good 72 hour kit should contain chocolate. Heck, any good first aid kit should contain chocolate. How did I EVER miss this post?? ABSOLUTELY- Gotta have chocolate. Bars of it, oh and instant cocoa too. Did you know that instant cocoa is great dusted on top of vanilla ice cream! Add it to Pero/Postum.

Charley, LDS are not really the worst for forwarding junk email. There really isn't one sector of the public who is the worst. By and large people do so thinking they are doing good. When I first got this email it was from my ex sister-in-law who is catholic. She had received it from a co-worker who also was catholic, she forwarded it on to a multitude of people of diverse religious beliefs. I just happened to be the only one who was LDS. At the time I got it I had just recently left her brother, and he had told his family that I left him because my new church had forced me to. After copying and pasting that email to Works, replying to it, and then bearing my Testimony to her, I also explained to her and to his family that I left him because he had three different mistress's at the same time, he was physically, mentally, and verbally abusing me (included the hosp. & Dr bills in the regular mail along with a copy of the Book of Mormon), and that this was not my new church- but had been my faith all along and that NO the Church forced no one to do anything. Also this particular email followed on the heels of about a dozen that were along the same line that she had been bombarding me with, example: "...If you love Jesus then you will forward this to EVERYONE in your address book within the next 10 seconds or you will be forever damned!..." Well not damned, but you will be forever sorry, etc. Now when I do get these I delete them. When I get those wearnings via the email, example: If you think you are having a heart attack, cough really hard and that will jump start your heart. Then it goes on with this long convoluted story. I go to stopes.com - stopes and get the true information on it. Whether (not weather) or not it is true or a hoax, then send it back to the person who sent it to me and ask that they please check it out before they forward it on. For the last three years I have not received any email crap-trash-warnings. Today I did receive one from a new acquaintance at church. I looked it up at Snopes, sent her the link and suggested how she should send it on to others. The warning was a true one, but I really do not appreciate all the excess email baggage that is sent with the warning. Such as the 16 pages of headers before the text. And I take great offense at the implied threat at the ending. I have been known to send the threat part back to the sender and inform them that I haven't forwarded it on-so go ahead and follow through with their threat, please . I generally get an apology and they make sure they no longer send me emails. Quite frankly who needs 'friends' like that? If the only emails I get are those forwarded trash, then I bounce the sender. Again Charlie, how many of your email buddies are LDS? How many are Lutheran? Catholic? So what would the actual percentage be? Actually I have very few LDS emailing buddies. My emailing buddies right now are family and extended family. Only my immediate family are LDS- the rest are quite a mixture of different faiths.

They are fine if you live in an area with only sidewalks. Their wheels are so little that they won't roll on sand, dirt, or gravel. I live in rural Arizona where the ground is soft dirt. Not sand mind you, but soft dirt. Almost like talcum powder. Little wheels get you no where. I might as well put the duffel on top of a wool blanket and drag the thing. Shopping cart wheels are better- but still not big enough I think. I'll find the right thing when the time is right.

I found this in one of the older threads.(2004) Rather than bump that thread I am posting this new. My responses are in red. One Sunday morning during service, a 2,000 member congregation was surprised to see two men enter, both covered from head to toe in black and carrying submachine guns. One of the men proclaimed, "Anyone willing to take a bullet for Christ remain where you are." Immediately, the choir fled, the deacons fled, and most of the congregation fled. Out of the 2,000 there only remained around 20. The man who had spoken took off his hood, looked at the preacher and said "Okay Pastor, I got rid of all the hypocrites. Now you may begin your service. Have a nice day!" And the two men turned and walked out. The Pastor is to be the Shepherd of God’s flock, not the wolf. What a sick and pathetic thing that this man of God would resort to do to his congregation. Even the men he hired to rid his flock of hypocrites were hypocrites, because they walked out too. They did not sit down and listen to the pastor. Jesus Christ preached to the sinners and hypocrites, He did not terrorize them. Those people who fled are far from being hypocrites. Funny how simple it is for people to trash God ... and then wonder why the world is in the condition it is today. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says. Funny or is it scary? Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan (who, by the way, also "believes" in God). 'There is nothing funny about any of this. Not funny in a Ha Ha sense, not funny in a peculiar sense either. Satan is battling hard for our souls, and he is using these types of emails to pound more guilt into us. Yes, it is scary. It is scary that our brothers and sisters use these kinds of tactics to guilt us to love Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. Satan of course believes in God- he is a son of God, a fallen son to be sure, but son non-the less. We are taught to choose the right. To do that we must learn what the right is. To learn is to question. We ask, we are answered. We ponder and pray, we are answered. By living the commandments we are able to HEAR and HEED those answers. Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyber space, but the public discussion of Jesus is suppressed in the school and work place. Funny, isn't it? Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible Christian the rest of the week. This email is not a message regarding the Lord. It is a sick, twisted and pathetic attempt to guilt one into passing on more email trash. The jokes that are sent via the email, that do travel like wildfire are email trash too. Jesus Christ never humiliated, threatened, cajoled, or guilted anyone into worshipping God the Father, or in following the commandments. Are you laughing? Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them. Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me. Are you thinking? Will you share this with people you care about? Or not? I refused to pass this email on when I first received it from my catholic ex sister-in-law. I responded to her, though not with the same words I have responded here. The words I used were personalized for her. What I told her about passing this email on was that the people in my address book are my family and/or members of my Church. None of them deserves to be guilted into loving God and Jesus Christ. None of them need or deserve to be guilted into loving one another. Jesus Christ does not want us to be forced or guilted into loving Him or forced/guilted into obeying Him. Heavenly Father gave us Agency. Personally, I think that Agency is the number one most perfect and loving gift that Father gave to us.

Nah, because after the disaster and when I no longer needed it, I would return it to the store- IF the store was still there and operational. Pam, did you not see the " marks surrounding the word borrowing? That means I really don't mean it. Of course I would not steal it. Nor would I borrow it. The store supplies places don't sell them by the each.

:crackup:I like this one the best!

Is Elvis in the building too??

Don't feel like that MorningStar- If a member of the priesthood is really unworthy to be giving blessings, then he should have the fortitude to decline going with his companion. Being asked to give blessings while they are visiting is part and parcel of their calling. My Husband loves to give blessings. He says that being asked and giving them is the highlight of Home Teaching. He says he receives such wonderful blessings himself from doing it. I can always tell when he has given a blessing when he gets home- he is just infused with the Holy Ghost!

Several of the elderly couples in my ward use the rubbermaid containers that have wheels. There is no way they could carry a back pack. My husband and I each had three wheel bicycles with large baskets on the back- but we went and sold them:(. I am seriously thinking of 'borrowing' a shopping cart from one of the stores! They will not let you purchase one, so I am reduced to 'borrowing' it. Use it like a street person does. If I could find a cart that has the big wheels on it - those are better for rough terrain - that can be pushed or pulled- and that the items can be stored inside out of the weather and away from eyes - then I would be happy. Here in Arizona, water is crucial to store. We only have cases of .5 ltr of bottled water. We drink that- and I take a water to work to drink. I also have a point of use filter on my faucet and a filter pitcher. The filter pitcher is in the fridge. I don't like real cold water- so I drink room temp or from the tap. Thus we would need to carry a lot of water too- a cart or wagon that we can pull or push would be good.

Oh no-it is something special. Think about it a minute. For the Bishop and the Young Women leadership being impressed to call a non-member Young Woman to a YW office, Heavenly Father really has plans for you. For the Bishop to heed the Holy Ghost and set apart that non-member, that is awesome! Pushka, you were and still are someone very special.

I started going to church when I was 8, and when I was 14 I asked to be baptized. The Bishop told me that I couldn't be baptized again. I told him I had never been baptized. He shushed me out of his office.He really thought that I was already baptized. The Missionaries talked with me, my folks and then the Bishop. I got baptized in Nov of my 14th year. Back then Pushka, they were not strict about the Young Men and Young Women being baptised members to hold the offices of MIA. In my ward now, they still aren't! Which in a way is good. When I was 17 I was called to teach the 5 year olds. I was never set apart for that. Taught them for a year. WOW, did those little ones teach me alot about the Gospel:lol:

Personally I don't feel that being a RM is a good recommendation for spouse material. These are the attributes I looked for- (am married now, and they are still important in my husband) Being active in the Church - more than just going on SundayHolding a valid Temple Recommend and USING IT frequentlyNot insecure in his own self and able to openly tear up and cry when so moved by the Spirit.Living so that the Holy Ghost is with him alwaysHave a clean sense of humorPatienceChildren like himAnimals like himHave table manners that I can live withHas morals and standards that are constant and in harmony with the teachings of the Church.When he says yes to something, he does it. When he says no, he doesn't falter and back away.Loves his parentsLoves himselfLoves the Lord and His gospelNot necessarily in that order either, but has ALL of those attributes.I have met too many RM's, both in person and on forums who were not worth spit. Way too many had left the Church, blaming the Church for their not having a testimony. I have seen too many of these RM ruin others lives as a result of them leaving the Church. Because they were RM, so many others feel that what they say and do holds credence. Well it doesn't- so what if they are RM. It doesn't matter whether they returned honorably or not. It doesn't matter how many baptisms they did either on their mission. What matters is how many people they affect every day of their lives. Just the same as how many people WE are going to affect every day of our lives. I have also met many more members who never went on a 'mission' who are true missionaries just by the way they live their lives, love the Lord and love others. They are truly Member Missionaries. I am a Return Inactive member- do I get Brownie Points for that!!! Just remember that WE are all Active Missionaries every hour of every day. Act accordingly.