AnnieO

Just a quick overview of UK Law as this seems to me to be where Jane is. You can't record a telephone conversation without first warning the person that you might be. If her ex-boss is the Director of the local Law Society, unless there are some other solicitors within the area that have a personal grudge against the man she will find it very difficult to obtain local representation. That's not to say however whether she could find a solicitor in another city to represent her. There are still going to be obvious problems, how does she know that the solicitor who does take on her case won't actually be friends with her old boss? It seems to me Jane that the best way forward is to simply tell him no, once and for all. The best reference in the world isn't worth what this could cost you eternally! Ann :-)

In my experience I've often found that those prayers that are just 'off the cuff' in the shower or while driving and travelling, they're the ones that I seem to be more sincere about than other stuff. Like I know I should pray before food and morning and evening but I guess I pray more 'honestly'* when they're just prayers of the heart. *honestly isn't the correct word but I can't think of what I mean right now. :)

Hi I don't often post here in the forums so excuse me please if I'm doing this wrong :-S I've had a similar situation very recently with my local bishopric - the best advice I've ever had is that old chestnut of 'just do it'. The adversary will get in your head and making you doubt you should go to your ward right up and perhaps even right through your Sunday meetings. But you have to be stronger than that. Just remember that Heavenly Father is just a prayer away and that He'll be watching you as you attend your meetings. Remember too that attendance at our meetings isn't really an option but a commandment. I even looked into going to another church entirely when I was in this dilemma with my local leaders, it'd have been fairly easy as a convert I could've just gone back to the church I was in before I joined Church. I wasn't questioning the Book of Mormon or really any LDS doctrine, simply I couldn't hack the way I was being treated by the leadership. But you know what? I put my trust in Heavenly Father and went. Even when I was thinking of driving straight past and going home again, even when I wanted to split during sacrament meeting, I kept thinking about why I was there. Remember, you don't go for the people - you go for you and God. No one else. I know that's hard, but sometimes Satan will make us blow things out of all proportion. For what it's worth I think your EQ pres was trying to be helpful, he's probably exceedingly concerned by the sentiments you've expressed; I think he probably felt that if you did a lesson then you'd have a 'spiritual moment'. There is a seminary song I think that talks about reaching towards heaven and heaven reaches back. I think that's what your EQ was probably trying to force in perhaps a misdirected way. :-S I hope your test was better than you thought it was; and I sincerely hope you don't give up on either your exams or the Church just because of a few crummy people =D

:) Hi there I've been doing a lot of study in the last few months into this very topic and my conclusions are as follows: We should always be reverant to our Heavenly FatherIf we are praying in public or for a group of people we should use "thee", "thou" and "thine" etc if we speak English, however these don't always translate into other languages.Personal prayer is exactly that, personal, and can be like we are talking to our best friend, our dad, which of course we are.I don't think there's any 'wrong' way to pray, and Heavenly Father is probably just happy that we are talking to Him at all! A

There is a book called Bringing Elizabeth Home: A Journey of Faith and Hope that was written by Ed and Lois Smart (her parents) - I'd certainly recommend it for further reading - it's still available on Amazon. I think they're all just grateful for her to be home. X