SilentOne

The Good Guessing Recognition Post And with a 100% accurate, 4/4 list:

Savai’i, Samoa Cancún, Mexico Piura, Peru Huancayo, Peru Viña del Mar, Chile Goiãnia, Brazil João Pessoa, Brazil Calabar, Nigeria Cape Coast, Ghana Luanda, Angola Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Laoag, Philippines Osaka, Japan Colorado Springs, Colorado Tulsa, Oklahoma Roanoke, Virginia Kahului, Hawaii Fairbanks, Alaska Vancouver, Washington Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

I guess I'll probably stop guessing Ulaanbaatar every conference now.

The president and matron of that temple spoke at my recent stake conference. They don't know when it will open. 😞

Throwing out some places I didn't see already in the thread: Aberdeen, Scotland Fairbanks, Alaska, USA La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico Maracaibo, Venezuela Neuquén, Argentina Pensacola, Florida, USA Port of Spain, Trinidad Price, Utah, USA Prince George, British Columbia, Canada Puerto Montt, Chile

I recognized the joke and actually meant to be sort of continuing it. I should know better than to do that on the internet when that particular brand of my humor is often missed offline. The confused face was a response to the bot, not you.

I don't see anything like that in my browser history...

When I asked about bringing a date to conference, it seemed to assume that my date would not be a member of the church.

LDSBot appears to share ChatGPT's tendency to hallucinate. I am having a conversation with it now about conference snacks. I mentioned the possibility of using a theme and asked for a list of foods mentioned in talks and received: Bread: Symbol of the Savior's body in the sacrament, and of Jesus Christ as the "Bread of Life." Honey: Symbolizing the "sweetness" oof God's word and law. Fruits: These are often used to symbolize the results of righteous living and the blessings of following gospel principles. Milk and meat: These are scriptural symbols used to differentiate between basic and deeper gospel teachings. I gave an example of a story I remembered, hoping I could then prompt more of that sort of idea (The Privilege of Prayer by J. Devn Cornish, Sunday Afternoon October 2011). I gave the same citation information as I shared in the link above, and LDSBot apologized, said it remembered now, and made up a story about Elder Cornish finding money on the road while delivering newspapers as a boy and bought a chicken dinner for his family. I told it the actual details of the case (medical residency; bought single piece of chicken for self). It apologized for the confusion and found a moral in the story. Me: All that aside, can you remember any such stories involving snack foods? LDSBot: Hmmm, specific stories about snack foods might be a bit harder to come by in General Conference talks. But here's a story that might fit what you're looking for! There's a talk by Elder Michael John U. Teh called "The Sacrament Can Help Us Become Holy" from October 2016. He shares this little gem about a bag of popcorn: "While participating at a three-day Shakespearian festival with their English class during their junior high school years, our sons noticed that their friends were buying bags of kettle corn from vendors. They, too, wanted to buy kettle corn but didn’t want to spend any of their money. Since our family is always looking for ways to save money, they returned home and asked my dear wife, Grace, if they could make homemade popcorn and sell it at the festival the following year. After examining the viability of their proposal, the project was approved. The next year during the same festival, we brought four small tables, eight camping chairs, a small camp stove, two popcorn pots, and supplies for making the popcorn. Our boys popped it, Grace packaged it, and our little girls sold it. I guarded the cash box. It was a hit with their classmates because of the delicious popcorn and the affordable price. This continued for eight years until our youngest graduated from high school. Truly, the laborer in Zion shall labor for Zion; for if they labor for money, they shall perish (see 2 Nephi 26:31)." I hope this little popcorn tale adds a flavor of fun to your snack-themed General Conference! 😊🍿 Elder Teh did not speak in the October 2016 conference. Also, a story about earning money by making and selling popcorn, immediately followed by "...if they labor for money, they shall perish," in a talk supposedly about the sacrament?

It seems a reasonable assumption (my imaginings of how a temple would be allowed on government-owned land all involve a dramatic enough change to not really still be the USA), but now I am amusing myself with the idea of the Canyonlands and Capitol Reef temples.

Up-to-date no-temple locations list: North American States/Provinces/Territories New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, Yukon Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Northern Mariana Islands, Rhode Island, South Dakota, U.S. Virgin Islands, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Michoacan, Nayarit, Quintana Roo, Tlaxcala, Zacatecas Africa Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia Asia/Middle East Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen Europe Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Vatican City Also Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland Central America/Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago Oceania Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu South America Guyana, Suriname Also French Guiana and the Falklands Utah Counties Beaver, Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Juab, Kane, Millard, Morgan, Piute, Rich, Sevier, Summit, Wasatch, Wayne

I may join when you catch up to where I am.

My grandmother was tattooed with her blood type as a child. Maybe a teen; maybe a bit younger. Apparently it was done mainly in Lake County, Indiana, and Cache and Rich counties in Utah during the early 1950s. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/sharp-needles-for-the-cold-war-yes-some-kids-got-tattooed-with-their-blood-type/2017/08/19/67e088c4-82b3-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html

I feel confident in saying that they've picked at least some of them.

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/singers-needed-for-new-church-hymnbook

Maybe the full account of that period was included in the book of Lehi.

My dad has pointed out Alma 24:19 as an example several times

@Diana Hone With regards to temple work, a baptism is to be performed for every person who has lived on Earth (with the exception of children who died before reaching the age of accountability). Whether or not to accept said baptism is up to them, but they will be offered the opportunity.

An outline of some of what is true and what is embellished/made up in the movie on the O.U.R. website. Interestingly (to me), it points out that this is not the most common form of human trafficking. https://ourrescue.org/blog/sound-of-freedom-based-on-true-story

From the Guardian article So what exactly makes something a real movie?

Luke 19:9 And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham. I'm not seeing the condemnation there.

@zil2 Thank you for the time and effort you've put into this. I ended up busier than expected recently, so I decided to put off the fountain pen gift until the next gifting occasion. Sorry. I should be able to make time to compare options and make a considered choice before Christmas.

I understood @Vort to be suggesting that the previous versions were the intelligent humans who we do have fossil evidence of from before the last ice age.

I also, or maybe even mostly, knew it to be a sort of metaphorical term for someone whose mind would spasm- maybe getting overly excited or jumping around from idea to idea in a seemingly random fashion.