Jeny

I am a missionary in whatever forum I am in...on-line or real world...I just testify to the truth of what I KNOW in my heart and am honest about it with people. I have seen many seeds planted. I also use my poetry as a form of missionary work...

Why is it all the best men are already taken?

So, are you a good witch or a bad witch?

My son also has oppositional defiant disorder as well. He is angry and defiant in most everything we try to do. My son is very angry with his father as my husband abandoned the family and has no contact with his children. Mikey feels this loss the worse, he somehow blames himself...Mikey knows that he is different and he is angry and hurt about it. He sees the world as "attacking" him all the time. He takes no responsibility for his own actions, everything is "The world is picking on Mikey"...it is very tiresome to deal with on a daily basis!! He has a violent temper as well. He is 13 and growing fast...I am beginning to get worried about the next few years as he is almost bigger than me now and he is starting to see that he can be intimidating!!

Please tell me you are speaking tongue and cheek!! I have run into Dr Stuess at the Ldstalk forum and I rather like the man...his post are very enlightening and well written.

The middle letter of the word, "pride" is the word, "I" Satan had "I" trouble! (Isaiah 14)

Ok, I'll bite! What is SSCE?

Actually, The speaker at the fireside said much the same things as you just did...he went into great detail and explained that they did not have the compasses as we do today so their East was different to some degree than ours, and with just a slight tilt of the modern day map...the geography fit beautifully as he showed us with the maps. He went to South America and studied this whole thing out and was quite knowledgeable, as I said, I was fascinated...but much of what he said went right over my head as I was still a new convert and had not read much of the Book of Mormon to know a whole lot about what he was saying...

I am looking forward to getting to know ya, Mormonboy!! I am a convert...been Lds for a little over three years. Been active all three years, so far (knock on wood)

I went to a fireside at church that was very fascinating...the speaker had maps and he told us that the compass was off and if you tilted the current map to the side...it would fit with BoM geography...he used a slide projector and had maps for us to see...I was fascinated, as I stated.

I like your heart!! G-d does too!!!I left the Baptist church because I hated that guilt trip that I went on every SAunday!! my heart is changing and softening since I have met the Real Jesus!!

Thank you for your kind words!! We played the "Mikey Game" last night. My son is Mikey, he participated because the game was all about him. He is a very self absorbed young man!! but we had a nice family home evening!!

Thanks!! I am not angry with my ward family, they just do not know me well, that is all and I have fybromyalsia and I suffer from depression a lot so, I tend to be reclusive, this is MY OWN fault. I don't reach out because I just don't feel like I am worth the time...These are my issues to overcome, not the fault of my ward family. they are for the most part...really good people. Everyone is VERY friendly to me...we just have nothing in common, that is all.

I have to say that my ward REALLY poured it on when I first joined!! I got visits, phone calls, invited to dinner...all kinds of stuff...but since I started teaching Sunday school and am no longer in the relief society and am no longer a "new" convert...I have faded off and blended in. Our ward is the Stake center and we have over 500 members...it is a big ward and there are very few single mothers, I think there is one other than me and two widows...the rest are busy families who just don't relate to us single sisters. Especially since my son is autistic.

I am not bitter, I love this church and my ward members...we just don't fellowship...everybody has there own life and I am kind of a loner anyway.... I feel uncomfortable asking for blessing, so I just don't and when I do...I am still waiting for the one I asked for three weeks ago...I don't like to go to ward functions because I feel like a wall flower. I sit by myself and nobody bothers to talk to me...I just don't have many friends in this ward. People are not snooty, they all smile and say "hi" and stuff, but we just do not have much in common. I am alone. At least that is how I feel. I am a convert, my family has disowned me...and I have no spouse (unless you count the one who is living with his mistress and their two children, I'm still married to that louse, too!!

My son has Asperger's syndrome...he is autistic, he does not do well in social situations. He is in a world of his own. The other kids shun him because he is different and the Bishop's son just recently got into a fist fight with him. My son threw the first punch, but the Bishop's son provoked him with his jeering. My son does not respond well to being mocked.

No I do not get many visit from my home teachers and when they do visit, I feel like I am just a check on a list of things to do. I need blessings I have asked for one about three weeks ago, have yet to receive it...he keeps forgetting. I don't speak up like I should because I feel overlooked in my ward full of families. I am a single mother, I can't relate to these "ben heres" (I am a "got here" or convert)Everybody was great when I first joined, but now that I have been around a couple of years...I have faded off and am ignored for the most part. People speak to me at church, but nobody contacts me during the week or asks me how I am doing or do I need anything...they all have busy lives and since I teach Sunday school...I don't go to relief society anymore. I have only myself to blame, my ward members are all nice, I just have not put forth much of an effort because I don't feel like I fit in.

I let my husband wear the pants in our family, I just picked out the color!

I have been working on my memorization since I was a kid...I started out with just reading them over and over, then in the 80's, I got a copy of the Bible on tape...I wore them out, then...about 8 years ago, I got a copy of the Bible on CD...and just last month, I downloaded them to my mp3 player. I have read my memory work over so many times, I cannot even begin to fathom how many. I know that I have read the KJV1611 through from cover to cover well over 30 times. I am not as good with the Book of Mormon, but I am working on my 5th time through it.

Do you really want me to list them all? I can quote the first 14 chapters of Matthew...A bunch of Psalms, Ephesians 6, colossians 3, Philippians 4, Galatians 4...the whole book of James. Acts 6&7, Romans 7&8 , Isaiah 53...there are many more that I am working on, too. I love my scriptures!!!

I can add one more...G-d wants us to have faith. As I understand D&C 138...I believe that we will still need to have faith in him on the other side of the Vail as well...that is why there will be a need for missionaries to the dead. Faith is not something we see and know...G-d gave us what we need and we need to trust him about the rest...IMHO.

Actually...I come from a Baptist background, and all my baptist family and "friends" except the Prophets of old, but not the modern day ones. I put the word, "friends" in parentheses because when I converted to LDS, I might as well have killed 10,000 kittens!!! I am "going to Hell" now and they have "given me over to Satan"....whatever!!

Yeah...this board looks GREAT!!! Sorry I got a little discouraged at first, but I'm Baaaack!!!

Hi Daffodil'Star...oops! I mean, Morning Star!! I am currently trying to teach myself Hebrew!! I have fallen in love with the language!! I got interested because of my love for my Bible, and now a friend of mine from another board is sending me a Greek new Testament!! Not sure I am ready to tackle Greek, yet...but I have a Strong's concordance and I am interested to see it at least!! I love my scriptures!! I have memorised 33 chapters of the Bible and am still relatively new with the Book of Mormon...but I have read that 4 times since joining this church a little over 3 years ago. I was raised a fundamentalist Baptist...LONG story how I converted...I posted it up here, but I am not sure it survived the changes in the board...I lost over 20 of my post in the shuffle. Anyway...looking forward to getting to know ya!!

I'm not too familiar with the Madd boards...I have posted about 8 post up there...I got a little overwhelmed because there were so many threads to weed through!! And they were so long!!! Think I will just hang out here for awhile!! I teach the 9 years olds in my ward, and I am on the provident living committee and am a visit teacher (of course).