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As RS president all I did was fill their needs as directed by the Bishop. It's the Bishop who ask them to do work. Most of them would say they were going to clean the church on Saturday and then not show up. Some were asked to go to the Bishop's Storehouse and work 6 or 8 hours. They would say yes and then not show up. Some would lie about health issues to keep from doing work. And for this they got food for months. It was frustrating. The book 'Pure Religion' by Glen L. Rudd is an excellent source on the church welfare system and how it should work. It just doesn't work the way it should all the time.

"If Christ asked you today why you didn't help your fellow man what would you say?" This is a much deeper question than it first seems to be. When I was RS president I started out wanting to answer all pleas for help with a resounding "Yes". I quickly learned that one of the worse things you can do to someone is to give them something for nothing. They will keep coming back for more and want every desire they have met by you and will take up all of your time and then scream for more. It makes them weaker people. If you want more out of life than what you already have, then work for it if you are able. Go to college, work two or more jobs for a while. Hard times are something humans need to go through. They make us rely on God for comfort and strength and we gain our own strength and knowledge by working our way through them.

The only heart attacks I've heard about in my ward have been on the Bishop's door at church. As far as other service projects go, when I was in YW as a Mia Maid Leader we got together one night at my house and the 7 girls made 140 meat loafs in those small Al+ pans. I baked them that week and put them in my freezer and the next several weeks we delivered them to families who were going to have babies soon, families who had someone who had either had or was about to have surgery, families of the girls who were inactive and to some of the elderly single women in our ward. We saved some for the missionaries too. One night we made purses out of bandanas and took them to the women's shelter. One night I had gotten some children's books from the library and borrowed some tape recorders. The girls each went into a separate room at the church and spent an hour reading these books aloud and taping themselves. We then took the tapes to the children's wing at the local hospital. There are so many real service opportunities that can be done that TPing or forking a yard are just silly.

I dunno, I got 2 flat tires on the way to my own baptism and it was only a 6 mile trip.

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I hate, hate, hate DST. That extra hour of sunlight always kills my grass.

I'd want to learn Finnish because I'd love to live in Finland. We had a FE student from there once and she made everything about her country seem wonderful.

This article and the previous one were brought up in RS today. Cool beans.

Traditional burial is acceptable but so is cremation. There is normally a funeral either way.

Cool. If you drop a quarter and it rolls under the refrigerator you can take your eye and exchange it with your finger to look under the fridge to find it.

Your Pokéname is: Charina Profile You live in the snowy mountains of Alaska, and your diet consists mostly of grapes, bats and beer. Characteristics You can swim in maple syrup. You can spit ice bolts. You can resist salt spikes. You have a fear of fire. You can breathe poison. You can breathe rocks. You have a fear of 8-track tapes. You have a fear of cosmic energy bolts. You can puke jet fuel. Your natural enemy is Shatmon

She's beautiful and adorable and kissable and everything else a baby can be. Congrats on the sweet baby and getting in to Med school.

I spoke with my Bishop tonight and he says they won't be able to make bail so they will probably sit in jail until it goes to trial unless the court appointed attorney can get them out some other way. Their house is going through foreclosure so they probably won't be going back there anyway. Bishop says he's looking at getting her a small apartment type place to live so apparently all the stories about her waiting for a lung transplant were not true. She did walk almost 2.5 miles without her oxygen so I had been wondering about that. The Bishop has the impression that the man won't be getting out anytime soon and will be getting remanded to a psych facility until he becomes capable of participating in his own defense. Time will tell though and I look them up on the county judicial records website every morning to see if they've been released so I don't have to worry about it. As far as getting a protective order in Texas, it's almost impossible. I've talked to the police about it and have been told it's highly unlikely a judge would grant me one based on the threats I can prove. I'll just go to the ward that meets late in our building. Thanks everyone. This has been a real reality check for me. It's nice to have others to bounce things off of.

Won't the police do anything to stop this? Really, I'd be trying to move to a safer place. In the meantime I"ll be praying for your situation.

I don't have any experience with this sort of thing but I'm hoping they won't let him out any time soon. He fought with the cops and they've only charged him with breaking into the house. They could get him for resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and trespassing if they wanted to so I've been hoping that the reason he hasn't been charged is because they recognize that he needs help and is dangerous. I know I won't go back to church with them there. I'll just ask to be released from my calling and I'll go to the late meeting. Her VT was with me when we went to get the O2 concentrator so I do have a witness.

Thanks MorningStar. I have wrestled with some guilt feelings because it seems even though the dogs were in horrible shape, he really didn't see it and they were somehow helping him keep his sanity. He went downhill so quickly after the dogs went to the shelter..... But we had been praying so hard for him to get help and I think I can see God's hand in this from the beginning. Anyway he is going to get psychiatric care now whether he wants it or not. The judge has not set bail for him and won't until after the eval.

I listen to Stephen Curtis Chapman, Jars of Clay, Third Day, etc. I don't see a problem with it.

The man is finally going to get the help he needs and he never would have agreed to it otherwise. I was asked to got to their house and get the oxygen concentrator to take to the jail. There was writing all over the walls and the toilet. There were bottles, cans and jars of what looked like urine setting everywhere and they were labeled 'bio hazard' or 'bio waste'. Some of them were labled that they had tested positive for 'salutonium' or 'tilonium' or some other made up isotopic sounding name. It's really sad.

Updated for anyone who cares: This couple wouldn't leave me alone at church last week. Friends had to intervene 3 different times. Apparently that won't be a problem again for a very long time. This Tuesday the couple left their house and walked 2 and a half miles, out of their little community , down the road and to a nice home with a fenced in yard, two dogs and a big barn. They declared this to be their new home. She went inside, got a glass of lemonade and went out to sit on the porch. He went out to check the barn. He found a race car in the barn and started taking it apart. The neighbors had seen them and called the police. When the police arrive the man yelled at them to get off "his property". There was a scuffle and the man ended up with a broken jaw and both of them are now in jail. Neither can come up with bail money and he's being held for psyche eval.

We have a couple that never come to church because they can't. The Sacrament is taken to them every week and they aren't able to go to the Temple for the same reason they cannot attend church. They still have Temple recommends though. It's important to them that they are able to wear their garments and maintain a TR. All this to say that attending church isn't a hard requirement if it isn't possible to get there.

Just do the math: Infinity divided by 3 = N First take the additive inverse of 3 times infinity which gives you the linear matrix of the radius. Divide that by the angles of induction and reflection to determine the rational root of infinity. Using the Schlafi formula to arrive at the topological equivalence we get the answer. N = 14.76593 metric butt tons. give or take a 0.00001 butt ton or two.

Didn't they end up calling it nuclear winter or something like that?

Back in the Cold War, a KGB agent was given instructions to contact a sleeper agent in Ireland. He was told to go to a remote village in Ireland and find a man named McGinty. He was to use the code phrase " The sparrow flies towards the sun" to identify himself. So the agent gets on a plane, lands in Ireland and gets to the villiage. Not knowing where to find McGinty, he enters a nearby pub. "I'm looking for a man named McGinty" he said to the barman. "Sure now, is it McGinty the postman you are wantin, or McGinty the grocer?" the barman replies " or could it be McGinty the lorry driver? Sure even meself is named McGinty". "Hmm" thought the KGB man, I'll see if the barman is the man I'll looking for, so he said to the barman "The sparrow flies towards the sun". "Ah!!" said the barman, "It's McGinty the SPY your wantin!"

There is not ALWAYS something to do at any job. I was a nuclear reactor operator for 25 years and my job was to monitor equipment, check it on rounds every 6 hours and then wait for an alarm to go off. If an alarm didn't go off then I got bored. We were allowed to listen to music, surf the net, work out in the gym or whatever else we could come up with as long as we did not sleep.

I had the opposite reaction when I bought my first G's, I could believe how cheap they were. To me buying garments are less expensive than buying regular under clothing. That said though, if an endowed member needs help buying them, I'm sure the Bishop would help.