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Backroads nailed it with specific savings goals. I move my money around between different accounts and deposit types regularly to maximize return. It really depends on how much money and how long you can go without having access to it. If it's an emergency fund and you need to have access at a moments notice, you'll use a different type of account than if you're saving for retirement or a five-year project. At one point I had 4 of the same type of accounts at the same bank because they provided a larger return on money up to a certain point than they did on anything over that amount. I just opened multiple accounts to cap that. They eventually changed the rules to prevent that, so I moved it into a money market.

I wonder if the caffeine issue is geographical? I've seen Mormons here pump energy drinks in Sacrament.

Thank you for this! I watched part one and I'll go look for the others later.

I really enjoyed that LDS Living article.

Turtle, I'm not LDS, but I attend an LDS church with my family. Has your husband been to an LDS church? If you're asking him to convert, that is a mistake in my opinion. Just ask him to support you. He doesn't NEED to believe LDS is the true church. It doesn't matter. He can worship in his way AT LDS church. Start small. What time is his church? If they aren't at the same time, ask if you can go to both. Don't make him sit through Principles and Priesthood. Ask if you can go, attend Sacrament, then leave. He can participate in Sacrament. He can even call it communion if he wants. He can do what my family does is not participate in Sacrament. Nobody in my ward says a thing to me. If his service is the same time as Sacrament, ask if you can split the times. One day a month go to Sacrament. Get your children involved in mutual (maybe? I'm not sure what that is, honestly). Ask him to help with service projects. These are all ways you can participate in LDS and still respect his belief. This shouldn't be a "one or the other" scenario. It should be an opportunity for mutual respect and support. Compromise.

You're changing the terms of your marriage. For that matter, so am I. My wife and I are a team, though, so we work it out. You need to be a team, too.

Well, my interpretation is it all is related, yet tied together by "that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins". They are the meaning to my mortal life.

Thank you for this! It speaks to one reason why I sought a church.

What? Where have you been all my life!

I think it is without significance.

I believe it depends on the request. If it comes from a true desire to have a relationship with God, then I agree.

It's easy to climb upon the flaming pyre of martyrdom when you were going to lose anyway.

Hey! I came here with an agenda, too. I just never left.

What? D&D is more important than my eternal salvation?

Wait......are you my wife?

You're correct, but it's completely dependent upon what you consider "accepting". Allowing them to participate in service? Absolutely. Not talking about homosexuality as a sin in service so they don't feel uncomfortable? Allowing them to be affectionate with their SS spouse in service? What's the proper level of acceptance? Everyone's line in the sand is different.

I don't think anyone is saying they don't want sinners (whatever the sin) at church. I think they're saying they want them at church to pursue following scripture. To that end, I don't think we need to tiptoe around the fact that the person sitting next to you is a sinner, regardless what their sin is, just so they don't feel bad. While I don't see the need to call out individuals, I certainly think it appropriate to call out sin.

Only because his real name is Chris Kirkpatrick.

That's unnerving. One of the things that attracted me to the Church was its acceptance of damaged people and desire to help them get right in accordance with their unbending adherence to God's law.

I'm not sure what you mean by "denouncing those sins". Maybe it's because I don't live in Mormonland, but there is never any "pounding of the pulpit" or denouncing specific sins in my ward (Am I allowed to call it my ward if I'm not LDS?). They talk about sin in general and living as God requires, but I never hear them focus on a particular sin.

You say a lot of things that really hit home with me. I love reading your comments.

Army folk can't be charming, handsome, and smaht? Or we can't have degrees?

That's why I had to go back and get a degree in business. Now I'm charming, handsome, and smaht.

That one closed. (It's now a tourist attraction) The last one is in Maine and has two members left.

Well, the last remaining Shaker community isn't far away....