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I have a friend who is in the Alred Sect of Mormonism. Their beliefs on blacks is that they were not valiant in pre earth life. While running a sales team there were two African Americans he hired (among others) that didn’t work. Because they didn’t work they didn’t get paid very much. They had at some point found out he was a Mormon And then Filed a lawsuit against my friend because of he was “racist” and didn’t pay them equally.

As of now, Zion is where we make it. Though there were times a geographical place was specified, Worrying about a specific location today seems to be missing the mark, pharisaical even. Until the Prophet declares it to be a specific place, let’s hold on to the notion that Zion is in our homes and where we make it. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/zion?lang=eng

Sealings can be canceled, but only through first presidency approval. I would also add that a sealing is made void when one or both couples are not keeping the Covenant. Remember a covenant is a two way promise. If we break our promise, God will not keep his (which is to seal us together for eternity in the celestial kingdom). A “temple divorce” cannot occur until a new sealing is taken Place by one or the other couples. And then, based on the scenario, the presidency will approve or disapprove. For example, if one couple has apostatized from the church, I am sure the presidency will approve the the “temple divorce” AFTER the faithful member remarried another faithful member. But if a divorce occurs, and both of the couple are still faithful, I doubt the FP would ok a “temple divorce”. This is how I understand it.

When I was growing up and had no family nearby, that is where we would go on Thanksgiving. Got the open face roast beef sandwich with sour dough bread, mashed potatoes, and fries every time! That is truly a great restaurant

@LadyGunnar I faced the exact same thing you did when I moved to my ward. I am 24 and the average age in my congregation is like 80. Most wards have 1 crazy old guy or 1 know it all old guy... we have 20 of each. We called it an old folks home when we first walked in. We also had a similar experience with the younger couples. The “in crowd” or the social leaders of the ward were not very welcoming, we got awkward glances, and only two families reached out to us. We felt frustrated that this was going to be our ward. But we had just moved from Vegas where we had the most incredible ward ever! So after wallowing I’m self pity for a few weeks, we realized a couple things. - In the process of noticing other’s awkward glances, we were actually giving them awkward glances too. - Every ward has that awesome click of people that are always so welcoming. This ward didn’t have that couple so my wife and I decided to be that couple. - EVERYONE has a hard time reaching out to people they don’t know. So we could perpetuate that culture, or break it. We started hosting dinners, game nights, volleyball nights, etc. within a few weeks we were friends with most the young couples in the ward. A few of them still don’t give us the time of day when we try talking to them, but I hold no Ill feelings toward them. Now looking back, the only couples we are good friends with today are the same couples that befriended us when we first move can in. But instead of grudgingly hating on those that don’t talk to us, we are now all good acquaintances and I try to always give some enthusiastic greeting every time I see them. Instead of waiting for that powerhouse couple and the in crowd to reach out to us, we decided to dethrone the powerhouse couple, take their place, take over the in-crowd, and run it as we thought it should be run. And we are pretty much there xD Now of course I make this sound more grandiose than it actually is, but that ultimately is what we are doing. Since we started our crusade, we have befriended two couples that have recently moved in, one of them was actually invited to my surprise party and we had a good laugh at how I didn’t recognize them, then had a blast the rest of the evening. Follow the example of the gadianton robbers and usurp the authority. Kill the king and queen and take their place and influence the sociality of the ward the way you believe it should. Become a story that would be told in

You are exactly right, in writing my comment, this exact quote came to mind but I didn’t have time to go into detail of what I meant. Using the term “fullness of the gospel” probably wasn’t the best way to describe what I was saying. The root of my comment goes back to when @bytebear said that Latter-day Saint teachings are biblical. The point I was making is that everything we believe and do today is not found in a single book, but rather from a single source, and that source has provided many books and means of direction. The specifics of our ordinances are not found in anyone book, but found in revelation (which includes books). The Book of Mormon provides all we need for exaltation, particularly in light of Doctrine and Covenants 82:3, Luke 12:48, and James 4:17.

The fullness of the gospel is found in the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants AND words of modern day prophets (and personal revelation as long as that revelation conforms to the prior). And by fullness of the gospel I am referring to the doctrines, principles and applications that bring us in better standing with God. The fullness is not found in any one book.

This is what I’m getting at. Yes our bible as inklings if truths in them unknown to traditional Christians, but the Bible does not contain the fullness of the gospel on its own. Specifically truths concerning the word of wisdom as we understand them today. If you tell a Christian that you don’t drink alcohol at all and that you think it is a sin to, many would be impressed, but many others would challenge you on where it is found in the Bible. The fullness of our understanding of the plan of salvation is not found purely in the Bible either. Sure, you can find traces of it I’m the Bible, but one would need the Book of Mormon and Modern Revelation in order to truly I understand it.

We are likely found at a nearby Cracker Barrel

Mashed potatoes... and lots of them. If you invite a member of the Fether family to thanksgiving and you only have enough potatoes for one serving per person, the Fether will leave.

I recognize 2 and 3 but I couldn’t tell you how they go.

Bernie is the only candidate that has ever actually made me scared. His plans only “benefit” the poor and middle class that have no intention to get out of the rat race of life. He sees the billionaires of the world and he wants to fund his ideas with their money, take for the innovative and give to the sheep. Rich people are the villains in their world. It blows my mind that people want to take money from Amazon and give it to everyone else. Jeff started it as a small online book store, now it has grown to o e if the largest companies in the world. The dems talk about helping the small business owners, but the second they succeed, they want to drag them back down.

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/events/april-2020-general-conference?lang=eng

I told this to my mission companion who never had a baby blessing. I tried to convince him to let me give him one, but he never did ok it 😕

Does astrology pull people in purely on the power of suggestion and vague fortunes?

Scorpio 🤘and as with every pseudoscience, it’s about 50% accurate in its guesses. Particularly, I’m not nearly as brutal as scorpios are suppose to be.

I’m really good as saying goodbye. In fact, if given the opportunity, I would leave a ward I have been deeply rooted in for years to go experience something new. I got in an argument with a mission companion once when I was getting transferred from an area. He was under the impression that I was ganna spend the day saying goodbye to members and investigators... despite the many friends I had made, I had no intention to.

Glad we can agree on such a serious topic

That’s interesting, but makes sense. I met with a finance guy a while back and I told him I was a Latter-day Saint. His next response was “I have. Buddy out east who had his house built by you guys” I then let him know he was mistaking us with the Mennonites. He was really embarrassed haha. I guess it is really easy to lump all weird religious denominations together.

I’m mostly joking 🙃I had a coworker a while back that had every platitude ever at his disposal. He would give trainings and they would be almost entirely anecdotes and platitudes... it was the most nauseating thing I had ever experienced. Since then I have been strictly anti platitude haha

It’s incredible how many little stones of doctrine there are that we take for granted, but aren’t even concepts in traditional Christianity. They want to have in depth conversations about God once being a man, but before we can even touch that, you have to break down pre earth life, agency, our concept of grace, and the biggest one that we don’t base our teachings on the Bible. I can’t twll you how many times someone says “show me in the Bible where God says *insert Latter-day Saint unique teaching*” ... It doesn’t, and it doesn’t need to. But that has to be understood before we can tackle the “exciting” topics.

Platitudes come from Hell. They are Satan’s main tool in taking us from the path. They numb us of truth. A saint in word and deed would not be found with any cute sayings written in their walls, if one is found, one can assume the occupants are of the home are less than dross and are destined to an eternity in the Telestial kingdom... assuming they aren’t immediately cast into outer darkness, stripped if all they are and have. But that is just my opinion

I disagree

The irony of these sayings is that they often give somewhat good advice, but the very nature of such sayings and platitudes cause them to go over everyone’s head. We make platitudes to teach lessons, yet because they are what they are, the lesson is never learned.

This has to be my favorite creation that has come from this