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Ah, okay. Thanks. I'm a goner, 'cause I can't do that! I could whack their heads off, maybe if they were really, really slow and I had a sharp enough machete, and they were crawling in a single file.

speaking of zombies, why if they are the 'walking dead' and their bodies are decomposing, can they be 'killed' with just a bullet??? I was under the impression that they needed to be beheaded.

I have been going down "Memory Lane" recently and have been looking at pictures of the teens in the 50's & 60's - the guys have their arms around the shoulders of their pals next to them in nearly every picture. This triggered memories of my brother standing next to his buddies - yep, they had their arms around the shoulders of each other as they posed for the pictures. His explanation of why the football players whacked each other on the tush was: Because you can't get through all the shoulder padding - hit it (the shoulder padding) hard enough and you can knock a guy out! They also wore their pants up around their waists with their shirt-tails tucked in, and they would have been thoroughly embarrassed at the sight of Michael Jackson grabbing and 'pumping' his crotch as he was singing (where this originated in my opinion). For the most part they were embarrassed with the hip/knee/leg jerking of Elvis.

For what it is worth - every time that a missionary is hurt or killed while on a mission, the LDS News comments on it. When you all (generic You) post it here on the forum and cite lay news sources, I check on lds.org.news. to verify that it actually happened. Sorry, but lay newspapers reporting about our LDS Missionaries just isn't proof enough for me. There has been absolutely NO mention of this missionary. The ONLY mention of him is from an anti-Mormon forum. At one time he had a profile on mormon.org, I am a Mormon - it is gone. So IF he was murdered or committed suicide while on his mission, then THAT is up to his parents and the LDS church to decide IF and WHEN to release information. Until that day - when it is officially released - it is not for us to mish-mash and speculate about. Seems to me that would just be considered Rumor Mongering. Especially when this info is coming from an anti site. Basically, the "Rule of Thumb" is: To back up your statement, opinion, information - link your sources. If the link is from an objectionable site, Anti-Mormon site, and/or has foul language and/or graphic pictures - then keep those statements, opinions and information to yourself and off of this forum. I am NOT a moderator of this forum - I am just a run-of-the-mill 61 year old female member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and of this forum. Quite frankly I tire of the rumors that have been passing for truth. I AM a moderator of what I read and what I choose to post about.

Just a bit of trivia - the lesson manuals for Nursery have been 'out' since before 1978 - I just tossed 24 of the 1978 ones when I cleaned our Branch Library. They just recently upgraded and printed new ones - they are now spiral bound, with beautiful pictures. I kept 3 for the library and gave Primary the other 6. Why we ever got 9 of them is a mystery. Even when ALL of the 18 mo- 3 yrolds are in attendance, there are 4 of them. Guess the Nursery Leader gets one and each child gets two.

Edited: While I was writing out my post, this got answered. For a wife to get a clearance/cancellation when children are involved, it takes more time. There was a woman in my branch who waited 6 years for her clearance/cancellation to hubby #1 and father to her first three children to be approved. In the meantime hubby #2 and her had 4 more children. When it finally came, pretty much the entire branch went to the temple with them in support of their sealing. It took 2.5 years for my now husband to get his sealing to his second wife (I am wife #4) cancelled and for approval to be sealed to me. All totaled there was four letters written, two interviews with the Stake President and too many to count meetings with three bishops. He moved from one ward/ stake boundaries to another and then the bishop in the second ward was released. Thus the 3 bishops. We were told one month before he got the letter of approval, that the 1st Presidency does not review cancellation requests on a daily/weekly basis. They do it like on a quarterly basis. So you can not plan your next sealing until AFTER you get the approval, and then it must be withing 30 days of receiving it. If his second wife had died prior to his request or during the process, it would have sped things up a bit. She refused to respond, and finally her Bishop caught up with her. Read the letter to her, got the questions asked and answered and returned that information to the 1st Presidency. It was a week after that meeting that she wrote a long, disjointed rant to her Bishop to be forwarded to her ex-husband and his sick and convoluted church (he met her through the LDS Church) that she wanted to be divorced for time and all eternity from all things LDS. Her name has been removed from the Church records. Husband and I were sealed on 12 May 2006. One week after we got the letter from the 1st Presidency granting the clearance and approving our sealing. Have you put your ex's name on the prayer rolls at the Temple? Have you prayed for him, and worked hard to keep the animosity out of your heart towards him. That was one thing that the Stake President asked husband. No hate, no negatives. Yes you want rid of her/him, but no negatives. Banish the adversary.

After living in Arizona for 6 years, and learning to always offer water - I have carried that on to here - Central Oregon Coast. My Home Teacher (Branch President and his wife) and my Visiting Teachers have always accepted. I have never offered treats - though if the box of cookies are on the table, then I offer them. As a Visiting Teacher, I carry my own water. Again, this is a habit I cultivated from living in Arizona. The sisters I visit teach have never offered refreshments. mormonS ~ your Home Teachers, Visiting Teachers are not there for refreshments. They are there to give you a spiritual message and to help you if needed. You say your house is messy, if you ask, they will help you to clean & tidy it. The last time my VTeachers were here, I was in the middle of laundry. Hadn't done laundry for a month, and I was way behind with the folding. They folded towels and sheets while we visited. Got 5 baskets done!

Not the ones I wear - you must be wearing 100% cotton or cotton jersey and in too large of a size. I wear DriSilque- found I could wear one size smaller in slacks because they slide on easier. I still say it is the Funeral Potatoes - the sisters in my neck of the woods make them with sour cream and lots of cheese.

Funeral potatoes.

Now just wait one minute everyone. I did not say EVERY FAT PERSON. I started my post off with: I am obese. From one Fat person - I. Do. Not. Call. Others. FAT! I am not judging those obese people who have junk food in their carts. I am stating that those who are paying for that junk food with a state food stamp card should have gotten dietary and nutrition classes before they got their card! So BACK OFF please.

Speaking as an obese person - it is not will power. I have the will power to not eat. I get so darn tired, have no energy to even put cereal in a bowl and pour milk over it, let alone cook a meal or snack or nuke something from the freezer. I am Type 2 diabetic. My Dr sat me down and explained to me that I am tired because I am not taking my meds properly. I don't have to take my insulin injections just before I go to bed. I don't have to take the entire dose at one time. I am awake and alert between 9 am and 9 pm. I just don't eat much - don't really care to. So I take 1/2 of my dose at 9 am - along with the three pills I take with no food. Then I take the second half of my insulin dose at 9 pm. I asked my husband to remind me to take the rest of my meds throughout the day. I take a total of 15 pills throughout the day. I have to take 9 of them with food, split between breakfast and dinner. Since I have been taking my meds on time, and eating 45 carbs per meal (not just enough bread to equal 45 carbs - but balanced out with vegetables, meat/protien, fat, starch. I have lost an average of 3-4 pounds a week/week and a half. Some weeks I don't lose, but gain a pound or two. Some weeks I don't lose or gain. In 9 months I have lost two clothing sizes!! I was going to open up the waist on my pants and shorted the elastic - -but the elastic is sown into the waist band in four rows!! Any pants I purchase in the future, I will make sure they aren't like the ones I have now. When I see morbidly obese people in the store, I look into their cart and see bags of candy, chips, crackers, cookies, frozen junk food, cases of soda pop. Then I see them check out using food stamps. The junk food they eat contributes to their bad health. I have always felt that the recipients of food stamps should go through nutritional classes and cooking classes. I also believe that the food stamp program should not be a plastic card for X amount of money - it should be a check that they have to go to the nutritionist to get, that has the food items listed on the back of the check. XX pounds of fresh carrots, XX pounds of 80% lean hamburger, XX pounds of raw chicken, XX pounds of fresh vegetables, etc., etc. That when they purchase what is on the itemized check, then the check is valid. The clerk writes in the dollar amount and the customer goes home with healthy food. Eating salad greens only is not healthy either. Where is the protein? Where is dietary fiber? Carbs? In one cup of salad greens (NOT iceburg) there are: Total Carbohydrate 2.0 g Dietary Fiber 1.0 g Sugars 0.0 g Protein 1.0. For a diabetic like me - this is not enough. Add a serving of beans (pinto, navy, kidney, garbanzo) for the dietary fiber, a hard cooked egg for the fat, tomato, radish, green onion, cucumber for variety and flavor and 2 TBS of your favorite dressing, along with a dinner roll or muffin or baking powder biscuit for the carbs. My entire family is obese, morbidly so. They are all Type 2 diabetics too. NONE of us eat properly all of the time. We all (3 girls and 2 boys) were taught how to cook from scratch, how to shop for groceries. Yet we all fell victim to the fast food easy-ness. Drive through and frozen & nuke. Cooking properly takes time, energy, knowledge. mnn727 - no one noticed on me until my pants slid off. It was at Church, RS Evening meeting and I put my cell phone in my pants pocket and slowly the weight of it, and my walking around and next thing I knew the waist of my pants was nearly to my knees. Wearing DriSilque garments, makes clothes slide on and OFF easily!! My dresses don't show my weight loss much, but my capri's and other slacks/pants sure do. I weigh myself every other day too. Gaining a pound or three doesn't depress me. I keep track and after a month the results are always a loss.

I too witnessed a baptism of a very large man - size 6X - he is terrified of water & can not swim. The man baptizing him is 6'2" and weighs at the most 125 pounds. They had practiced in the shallow end of the public swimming pool and found that by having the baptizee crouch, then go forward onto his knees and then slide his hands forward along the bottom of the font - the PH can then push on his back to make sure all of him is immersed. Worked great!

Find out from the missionaries if there will be any baptisms performed before yours, then go to them.

Have any of you priced light fixtures lately?? I have. Searching for new lights for my kitchen. Got sidelined by the absolutely fantastic ornate fixtures that are available for the rest of the house. One chandelier that would go in my living room was over $1,000.00. Comparing just that one, and it was rather simple in design - to the GINORMOUS chandelier's in each and every temple, not hard to see that those would cost $100K. I have only seen the chandelier's in the Celestial room in the Seattle, Portland and Mesa temples. HUGE- beyond huge!!

The guy who went to jail for threatening to kill me and the neighbor got three years probation, no contact for three years and court ordered mental health evaluation, and drug & alcohol evaluation. The judge was real specific about it to. Must go to every session. Must Participate Fully. Must complete. IF you miss just one scheduled appointment you will be arrested and finish out the 3 years in jail. There is no lee way on this. Just one appointment! He is out as of yesterday morning. Even though the court has ordered him to not be 100 feet from me, and he can not be in this area, I am not calm. (got a Rx from my Dr this morning for mild tranqs so I can sleep at night.) If he shows up in this neighborhood - which by the way is also where his drug dealers are - and he is caught by the sheriff deputies, then he goes back to jail. These were the agreements he signed to in his plea. There was one count of menacing and one count of attempt to commit that were dismissed. The fact that the courts were not wimpy where his being a meth user is concerned, then yes it is a good week.

Worked at True Value Hardware store. Sold a lot of Poulan, Homelite, & Black & Decker to the week-end Do It Yourselfers. We had just started to carry Echo when I quit. When I asked the loggers here in town what brand to buy - it was unanimous for Husqvarna. So I bought a 36" Husqvarna. When I separated from the ex, unfortunately he took it. I liked the little electric Poulan - it was easy for me to use to trim the whippy branches off of the downed trees. Whippy = just the right size for a whipping stick.

Beautiful talk. That is all I can think of to say. Beautiful. Thank you.

1 lb or 3 cups berries yields approx. 4 cups ground flour A rough approx.- a scant 2/3 cup berries = 1 cup ground flour I grind my own wheat for bread making. For a batch of bread I use 11 3/4 C. whole wheat flour. After grinding it and measuring out 11 3/4 cups. I then hand sift with a very fine mesh sieve to remove the chaff from the flour. You save the chaff and add it to the dough at the very last. For some reason this method allows the dough to rise properly with just the addition of Vital Gluten (approximately 3T Vital Gluten to 3.6 pounds of freshly ground whole wheat flour). If you are going to make a lot of cookies, cakes & pastries, then grind soft spring wheat on a finer grind than for bread flour. I wish I had the money for 500 pounds of wheat. AND the space other than along the walls of my bedrooms. Purchasing flour in bulk for me was not a viable option. I refuse to use enriched flour or to purchase anything made with enriched flours. I used to buy flour by the 5 lb. bags when they were on sale and keep them in my freezer. Prevented the bugs from hatching if there were bugs in the paper bags. BUT since grinding my own - husband and I are healthier. I also use less flour when making gravy and sauces. I paid 269.00 for my grinder, and it has already paid for itself in 18 months time. I purchase my grains from Emergency Essentials - they have the cleanest bulk grain for the money. (the grinder company specifically said NOT to use grain purchased from the LDS, as it is not triple cleaned and could break the grinder thus voiding the warranty on it) If you use non-food grade plastic buckets, then order the milo bags from Emergency Essentials to line the buckets with. I do the same for the food grade I get from the restaurants- that way there is no chance of flavors/oils passing into the grain. I vacuum seal my grains & beans. The grains are in 3.6 pound portions, the beans in 1 pound portions. Keeps all bugs and moisture out. Applepansy ~ every attic I have had has not been insulated well enough and is too buggy for food storage. I need two more large storage cupboards, but I have no place to put them. So am thinking of putting the king bed on a raised platform (12" high) so that I can store the #10 cans of freeze dried and dehydrated long term foods. That will free up one large cupboard that I can put envelope, boxed foods into. Am also thinking of putting 24" high, 12" deep cupboards along the upper walls in my two bathrooms - storing the bath towels,etc in them and freeing up the deep and tall linen closet in the hall way for more food storage. We have such high ceilings - and this area in the bathrooms, hall way and even in the master bedroom seems like it is wasted space. I buy extra foods that we like. When Walmart had packages of 6: 7.5 oz Bumble Bee tuna for $5.00. Believe me I bought a bunch. They limited you to 3 packages. So I bought 3, put it in my car, came back in bought 3 more went to a different cashier, did this 6 times. 6 cashiers. Then I came back the next day - did the same thing. Repeat for day 3, 4 & 5. Two weeks later, Safeway had the 10 pack of 5.?oz. Chicken of the Sea, for $5.00 - no limit. I bought them out - 10 packages. I have given packages to the Missionaries. We have eaten lots of tuna. Found out the hard way that Hormel Completes have a VERY short shelf life. Gave the not so good ones to a family in the Branch who has a dog- the dog loves them when added to the cheap dry food and it doesn't hurt him. Also found out that the soft cheese in Velveeta Shells and Cheese goes bad at the use by date. Also why pay 2.50 to 3.59 for a box of pasta and a foil bag of soft cheese whiz? I buy the pasta on sale for $1.00 a 16 oz. box and then buy WalMart's brand knock off of cheese whiz for $1.19. Half a jar is plenty for 2-3 cups of raw pasta. Shells, bow ties, spirals, etc. The jars last longer on the shelf too. Total cost for the same amount of Velveeta Shells & Cheese - $1.10. If you like the Rice (Pasta) Sides. Buy them when they a $1.00 or less each. They last forever as long as they are not in direct sunlight or heat or in excessive moisture. Then buy the pasta sauces and use them on your cooked pasta or rice. I use evaporated milk diluted with water. OH- yeah, evap milk has a use by date - heed it. That stuff is N.A.S.T.Y. when it turns. When I open one, I empty it into a plastic Ball jar- that way I can shake it good before pouring out what I need. Also you can see if it has turned or not. I dilute it with the liquid from canned veggies if I am serving them before I use water. Just made up some butter and herb pasta, then added Fred Meyer frozen grilled chunk chicken to it. Served it with canned green beans so I used the liquid from the can + 1/4 cup water to equal the milk amount. Husband never can tell when I use veggie liquid rather than just water.

Shortly after moving to Arizona to live with new husband, I started looking on-line for a home to retire to OUTSIDE of Arizona. After 6 years, I found one right back where I came from: The Central Oregon Coast. I drove up on my own to take a look at the house and neighborhood. Found out it is the little trailer park owned and managed by a guy I knew from living here before. (from 1978 to 2004 to be precise) The park is old but it had been kept up nicely. There was only one young family. They are in their early 40's with a teen boy. It was quiet, friendly (the couple next to us asked if we were church goers. I said yes, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he nodded his head, looked to the end of the cul-de-sac and said, yep, so are the kids. (meaning the young family) That was in 2010- October. It is now 2013 - July and it is not quiet anymore. It is not nice looking anymore. Two of the homes are now occupied by an elderly couple that don't give a crap what the outside looks like. They collect trash and people. Next door to them is their single mother daughter. She is just the same. Only she is LOUD. She also collects people, from age 12 on up. Across the street the park maintenance dude is a meth addict. Sells the crap. Cars were coming here all night long. Then next door to him is the trash/junk collector. An older man who claims to be on Medical Marijuana, except he isn't. He is also on morphine. Since his youngest son got out of prison a year ago - he has been living there also. This kid is nuts. He is also a hater. He hates Jews. He hates Mormons. He also believes that Jews and Mormons are the same. He often puts up homemade signs that say: Death to Mormen Jews. Yeah, well, he is an uneducated white trash red neck. The next sign he puts up gets photographed by me and the pics sent to the sheriffs office. Two of the deputies are Jewish. None of us here own our land. We own our homes. Well, some are tenants. They rent house and land. The daughter rents - allegedly she is to pay the land owner the back taxes on the house (he bought it off the elderly couple who owned it - they both were too ill to be living alone. So they *sold* it to the land owner for the back taxes. Those taxes have yet to be paid. The meth addict/dealer across from me: He doesn't own the house either. He pays rent on the house in sweat equity plus some cash. He took a dilapidated trailer house and made it habitable. BUT since we moved here, he has not done his maintenance jobs. The morphine/medical pot dude finally had all of the trash (bagged garbage) hauled off because I threatened to turn him into the health dept, solid waste department, etc. and the landowner has enough black marks against him from those two departments that he is scared of them. The landowner is experiencing some health issues. He doesn't deposit our lot rent checks in a timely fashion - I actually think he forgets he even has them. He doesn't take care of the park business. As for the rest of the neighbors and their thoughts on what religion we are - I could care less what they think. Keep your dogs quiet, scoop their poo and please provide litter boxes for your cats as my flower pots are off limits.

Record it at home then post to the blog. I have to have my talks written out entirely so I can read from them. I get distracted and go off-rail WAY too easily to do otherwise. I have recorded entire Sacrament meetings, Gospel Doctrine & RS classes. Because I cannot hear them. We have a mini recorder. That smaller than a cell phone piece of equipment picks up a baby's burp at the back of the room as I sit at the front. Way back when in 2001-2004 the branch used to record these meetings for three of our home bound sisters. So I say ~ go for it. If you fiddle with your hands a lot, then keep the phone in your shirt pocket.

I unfriended two women after they bashed me for being LDS. They were really nasty about it. I also unfriended Husbands bad baby brother's three girls. They have such vulgar mouths and brains. Don't need that. Also unfriended a distant friend - she sucks the energy right out of you in person and dang- but she even does it via email, FB, etc. And I unfriended and BLOCKED my little sister. Got so tired of her correcting me. Had to remind the cousins that it is MY facebook page and I have every right in the world to delete her incorrect data and snarky comments.

What I would do is find him on the National Sex Offender data base, then email that link to the group who had him in the parade, and to the parade officials. Bcc your husband so you have two proofs of sending the email. Personally, I would also send a separate email with the link to the policing body. Where I live where there would be a parade, that would be the Sheriff's Office.

Amazing - I am baffled as to why your Bishop has not taken her and her husband's temple recommend away. She is bearing false witness against others. I am baffled as to why you continue to answer her intrusive questions. You and Mum continue to go to the Temple, keep the Holy Ghost close to you and pray that this woman be protected from the adversary. Personally, I would do as Loundmouth_Mormon has suggested. But I would go one step further ~ I would tape record &/or video tape each encounter. Plus I would also ask the Bishop if he has gone to the Stake President with this - to seek council on how to deal with this sister.

In April, our Branch took 225 family names to the temple and did the baptisms & confirmations for them. Now there were 6 young women, 3 young men, 5 married couples, one single man and 5 sisters. A total of 8 of us did not get in the water or participate in the confirmations. We witnessed. We were told by the Temple President that there aren't enough names for the temple attendees to do. They encouraged us to turn the names in so that the initiatory & endowments could be done by others in other temples. We can reserve the sealing. Husband and I only have his Father, Grandfather and Uncle to do. My great grandmother to do. Then get us all sealed to the proper people. This we want to do ourselves. But for the couple ( who by the way are 76 & 74 years old) that brought 75 names - they really should release those names for initiatory and endowment work. Also, my family thought we were the only ones to convert to LDS. In doing the research on my mothers side of the family, I discovered living cousins. Guess what? They are members of the church. Converted in the same years as we did. They have done the work for their parents, grands and greats. When I connected with them, my tree went from a puny sapling to a truly mature tree. My little sister was really outraged that someone did the work for the great grands, uncles, aunts & cousins. She ate humble pie when she discovered that we have oodles and oodles of cousins who are LDS.

Believe you can do that via the internet at The Book of Mormon - store.lds.org