SilentOne

Have you read Shannon Hale? Her YA books are Princess Academy and its sequels Palace of Stone and The Forgotten Sisters; the Books of Bayern, made up of The Goose Girl, Enna Burning, River Secrets, and Forest Born; Book of a Thousand Days; and Dangerous. My favorites are Princess Academy and Enna Burning, though I'd probably still read The Goose Girl before Enna Burning, even though the latter could stand alone. All except Dangerous are fantasy-ish, with Goose Girl a fairy tale retelling. Dangerous is present-day superhero sci-fi. What about Jessica Day George? I think all of hers are fantasy though I haven't read them all. Princess of the Midnight Ball, Princess of Glass, and Princess of the Silver Woods are a series and so should be read in that order, though they don't really have to be. All are fairy tale retellings (Twelve Dancing Princesses, Cinderella, and Red Riding Hood, respectively), as is Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (East of the Sun, West of the Moon). I think the first book of hers I read was Dragon Slippers, which has two sequels, Dragon Flight and Dragon Spear. She also has a series for middle grades I've only read one of, starting with Tuesdays at the Castle and going through the week to Saturdays at Sea, and another YA book I haven't read, Silver in the Blood. Angela Morrison's books are less light-hearted. She describes them herself as "break your heart coming of age YA and New Adult romances." I'm not sure whether all her books are available in hardcopy or not. I've only read about 1 1/2 of her books because at the time I came across them I was in a pretty dark place and tried to stick to happier fiction to keep me balanced, but she is a good writer. Her Taken by Storm trilogy and Sing Me to Sleep are modern day realistic fiction (Taken by Storm and Sing Me to Sleep are the ones I know are available as physical books). She also has a historical fiction series based on her own family history. The first book is An Ocean atween Us and apparently it is still the only one out.

Not exactly fun, but when I'm sick I like to watch "church" from home through BYUtv. I don't know whether @RooTheMormoncan do that without causing trouble, but here are links to their programming. Worship Services - Sacrament Meeting minus the sacrament. There are only ten, unfortunately. After finishing those, I guess you could start over or watch conference talks or BYU Devotionals or Women's Conference addresses. For Sunday School I watch Discussions on Whatever Book of Scripture We're Studying; Doctrine and Covenants this year. But I'd suggest Roo study the youth curriculum teacher's materials. Young Women Sunday School It might be helpful to get a notebook to record your answers to the questions. Sometimes trying to articulate answers and writing things down can help you think through them in more depth.

Oh, I really like Janette Rallison. I'll have a think about who else to recommend. Do you have any specific subgenre likes or dislikes - fairy tale retellings, other fantasy, historical, etc?

The only effective advice I can think of is to practice.

Who said anything about knowing it ALL? Just a little scriptural evidence that knowledge is possible:

Talk to the ward clerk. If your records haven't been moved in already, he'll know how to get them.

You are... Actually the manuals encourage discussion. They practically mandate it, actually. When I read the thread title my first thought was, "Raise your hand and wait to be called on." That's how it generally works in my Sunday School.

Well, I got the Silent Generation. Does that mean I missed out on those Greatest Generation qualities the church was supposed to teach me? Though I prefer to think of myself as belonging to the sixth generation since the pioneers on the line I chose to count down on. I would go with my generation number from Adam, but we don't actually have our genealogy traced back that far with adequate sourcing.

I'm trying to take the quiz (there are always going to be multiple questions with multiple answers that fit or no answers that really fit) and I couldn't help but notice they have an option for fiscally conservative but socially liberal but no option for fiscally liberal but socially conservative. Is that combination so impossible?

Isn't there at least one episode specifically about harassment training? Which reminds me of this harassment training:

How about that fruit from Lehi's Tree of Life?

I thought @Vort was saying you will likely be granted the wish of NOT becoming bishop. And here I thought @JohnsonJones was saying many people in general do not trust him, not many bishops specifically.

Other dictionaries say about the same. Flabbergasted means very surprised. Not upset.

My horn keeps snagging and tearing the tops. It doesn't fit through the head hole very well.

For some reason I've been thinking about this recently.

I finally got all caught up and now feel more that my time is my own.

I ended up making a pie and freezing the leftovers. I'll probably pick and freeze some more tomorrow. And I used this for the pitting:

You could have what percentage of the DNA is from what ethnicity/national origin exactly correct and it still probably wouldn't be the same as the exact percentage of your ancestors who came from what ethnicity/national origin. You get 1/2 of your DNA from your father and 1/2 from your mother. Probably about half of what you get from your father is from his father and half from his mother. But it's not like during meiosis the cells sit down with the chromosomes and carefully count out half of what you got from each great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparent to pass down. So full siblings get slightly different ethnicity results, even though they have the exact same ancestry. Not because the test is wrong but because the DNA is different. And I am now imagining a hypothetical situation where two people whose great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents are all matched up in 1:1 sibling pairs (so each one of Person As ancestors is a sibling of one of Person Bs ancestors) compare their DNA test results. I wonder what sort of relationship their DNA analysis would guess they had?

I remember wanting to post this commercial a few months ago but don't think I ever did. This discussion seems like a good second chance for it.

I'm not sure yet whether these ones will end up as pie, juice, jelly, or what.

You mean Arrow? The one that regularly crosses over with The Flash? I can't remember when I stopped really caring about the characters and story. The Red and Dorothy kiss annoyed me and made me uncomfortable. But what really got me mad at the writers was when they had Rumple get completely pure of heart - and we know it worked because he was able to remove the sword from the stone or something like that - and then about two episodes later he became the Dark One again through a plan that would have taken some time to arrange. Um, no. You do not go from being completely pure of heart to scheming to become the Dark One, knowing full well what that means, in a matter of a couple days or weeks. And to answer the question in the title, I think I mainly watch because I like the characters, though some shows I watch to keep up with what is going on elsewhere in the multiverse (I watch all of Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl because I don't want to miss out on anything that's going on, even though I don't think I ever really liked Arrow). It's actually driving me crazy a bit because I've been madly binging on four shows to get up to date on what happened during the last season, and I don't really want to be binge watching right now, but I feel sort of compelled to get it finished ASAP. Other stuff I watch or have watched because that's what my family or friends are doing and I want to spend time with them, or to be able to discuss the show when in comes up in conversation, or so I can recognize and understand the pop cultural references. And I watched Remington Steele during a particularly bad time because the silliness made me smile and there wasn't much that did then.

When I first saw the title to this thread I confused Gene Simmons with Richard Simmons. For some reason I feel the need to share that information. Carry on with your music discussion.

I had that sort of concern about how we and He could feel joy in such a situation. It was partially laid to rest by a quote from The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis. "Ye see it does not." "I feel in a way that it ought to." "That sounds very merciful: but see what lurks behind it." "What?" "The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven....it must be one way or the other. Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it: or else for ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves." But I don't think we really believe that He doesn't mourn for his children who don't make it. I can't remember what my references for that impression are, though I suppose it likely I could find some if I weren't too lazy to get up and look for my copy of The God Who Weeps. And was willing to wait to post this until I had a chance to look through there. Question: Are sadness/heartache and joy always mutually exclusive? That makes sense, considering Lehi, who had the dream, and Nephi, who saw it later, didn't have to follow the rod to get to the tree.

I have a pretty high tolerance for heat, though I do avoid really hot foods because I prefer to be able to taste the flavors. I can't stand the flavor of olives, and the texture of squash makes me gag, though I have learned to fight past it and get it swallowed.

And because of things I've heard and read, I will add: Don't ask if it is okay if you don't go, or if you can do good by staying home, or anything along those lines. Ask if staying home would be congruent with His will. Or ask if He wants you to serve a mission. Or ask for guidance to determine His plan for you.