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    Please Pray for Quick Surgery and Recovery

    in Prayers and Testimonies

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    Today I go to the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Center for an appointment. Since February, I've been dealing with medical problems and

    earlier this month got the diagnosis of Endometrial cancer. (hopefully

    in the early stages).

    I've seen four doctors so far. The one I see today, may be able to do surgery as soon as next Tuesday. I really want to get something done and start healing.

    I was scheduled for robotic surgery at the end of May, but I'm starting to be in pain at night and I'm starting to feel weaker, so I really want to try and get something done ASAP.

    So please keep me in your prayers. I've never been sick or had surgergy

    before. (except Lasik surgery which was a Miracle for me!)

    Please pray that I'll be granted another Miracle!!!

    God Bless! I am grateful for you all.

  2. who is right the lds or the Flds??

    in LDS Gospel Discussion

    Posted

    Who is right? Probably the FLDS and the LDS are both right in their own eyes. If Jesus or Joseph Smith were asked to make a choice, I don't really know which side they would choose. I kinda think they would both tell everyone involved to just love and pray for each other.

    Who is wrong? The Texas State government and the CPS. (By the way, the Texas travel/tourism slogan is appropriately, "Texas, like a whole other country")

    They could have gone in and taken only the children they suspected "at risk", but they took every child in the community, even infants. That makes no sense to me, and I would even call it extreme governmental abuse.

    These videos of the Texas FLDS children just break my heart:

    Happy Children at the Ranch

    "I Don't Want to Go"

    Girls Taken Away

    Scared, Sad, Captive Children

  3. Alcohol and the Words of Wisdom

    in LDS Gospel Discussion

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    Today I was guided to this wonderful and all-encompassing verse in D&C, and I have been told to apply it to EVERY situation in life, EVERY moment!!! What a relief!

    "Wherefore, hear my voice and follow me, and you shall be a free people, and ye shall have no laws but my laws when I come, for I am your lawgiver, and what can stay my hand?"~Jesus Christ

    (Doctrine and Covenants 38:22) Revelation given through Joseph Smith, the Prophet at Fayette, New York, January 2, 1831.

    I am truly blessed and dancing in gratitude!

    a prayer request please

    in Prayers and Testimonies

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    I am praying for you and your family, Becca.

    And, I need everyone's prayers too, please. Yesterday I scheduled surgery for a radical hysterectomy. Last week I learned I have endometrial cancer. I've never

    been seriously sick in my whole life and I've never had any kind of surgery, so this

    will be a journey into new territory. I know God is with me. I know all

    is well. But I would so appreciate your prayers. God Bless!

    Day of Praise

  9. Can I be baptized???

    in LDS Gospel Discussion

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    Thank you all for taking the time to reply. I'm still not clear on the answer for me, but it seems that it is decided on an individual basis and only

    a bishop or stake president has the authority to decide. The CES class I take is taught by a former Stake President and Mission President of SLC.

    He is very open and caring and fun. I'd love to talk to him about it, but I can't find him listed in any phone book. After class, he is always in a hurry to rush out to his next assignment. But maybe one day, when the time is right, I'll catch him and try to schedule an appointment. He almost always says "hello" or "how are you" to me before class, even though there are over 150 other people there. It feels like he senses that I might like to talk to him.

    In answer to some questions asked here....no I haven't had missionary lessons, or even attended ward meetings. I've been studying on my own. I watch BYUtv and they have talks and lessons all day long from many Church leaders. I've watched the last two Church Conferences, I get the "Ensign" each month and study it cover to cover. The only books I get from the library are LDS books and I'm always learning, with my heart as well as my head. One elderly LDS friend that we knew (he died recently), said to my friend and I, "You know more about the Church, than most people IN the Church." For my birthday, my housemate bought me a Scriptures 'quad', which I cherish.

    So for now, I will continue to work on my testimony and my commitment.

    I can't honestly say that I would move out if I was told to do so by Church authorities. So, I can see that I have some obedience and surrender issues. All I know truly is that I love Jesus Christ, I believe this is his restored Church and I feel SO blessed to be a small part of it, even if not "officially". I know that everything will work out perfectly and exactly as it should. God is in charge! All is well!:)

    Thank you and God Bless.

  10. Can I be baptized???

    in LDS Gospel Discussion

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    I would like to be baptized and join the church, I've been studying church history and doctrines for almost a year on my own. I am taking a CES class at a local stake.The "problem" is I share a house with my best friend, of the opposite gender.

    We have been housemates for over 16 years. We have separate rooms and are not interested in being married or romantic with each other. We were both married to others in the past and don't want to repeat the experience. We are both seniors. He is 69 and I am 57. I am retired and dependent on his income, I cannot move out and support myself. I read in "Preach my Gospel", that you can't be baptized if you live with someone of the opposite gender. Is that true in ALL cases? I don't want to call the local missionaries or the local ward, if they are just going to tell me I have to move out to be baptized. At an open house for the Rexburg Temple, we did ask a young missionary there and she said emphatically, "You can't be baptized unless you move out." Is anyone here a bishop or someone "in authority" who could advise me on the actual rule. Thank you and God Bless!