Maya

Yes there is at least in two books of the bible the words of adding... they mean just those books or else most of the Bible is wrong as teh first time that thing is said in the old Testament..cant recall where. We have not added anythign to those books. Christ and Father have a reurected body of flesh and bone... so probably not quite as ours then... And ofcourse we believe that Josep Smith translataed the book of Mormon that is a history of a people of Nephi and Laaman... Preast hood is a power not an occupation. We dont have pay preasts.

I have been in childrensroom ab15 years of my ab25 in the church. Sometimes teh childrensroom can be very quiet,but sometimes wegetmore callenging kids there. It is very important that the kids get a good experience beeing in the childrensroom. Why it is sometimes so difficult? 1 Maybe the child did not get enough sleep. Sometimes the time just flies on Saturdays... 2 Not enough time to wake up. I think everyone can understand this! 3 Family had to leave in a hurry. Many children hate stress and especially stressy parents. 4 Child is getting sick. 5 Child is extra active with or without a diagnose. 6 It is exctreemy difficult for the child to be away from his parents. There is very little those working in the childrensroom can do in most of these cases. Mostly it is parents that should see to it that the child gets enough sleep, and that the morning is peaceful and calm. I know what I am talking about I had 4 kids and we were always calm and on time and.... not! It is very important for the person working in the nursery that she is firm enough, but not too firm. I think the best way to introduce a new child in the nursery is, that the child first comes and plays a little while in the childrensroom, maybe one of the parents is with... it depends very much on the child how many times the parent should be with... some kids say bye to the parents the second time some after a year... Important is that when the child has been left in the childrens room the parents should keep away and not pop in every now and then, most kids get disoriented of this and think it is time to go. A little crying never hurt anyone... but enough is enough. Some kids just need to know their parents are there when they need them. Then it is best to take the child out of nursery instead for teh parent to come in...but then you can decide with the parent if the parent wants to be with today... Once I had a very sweet little boy in my class. He did not want to stay. He cried often of anger for many minutes and tried to escape through a door. But after a while we decided that the parents would keep away, they had important lessons to be in. It was hard on us all, but it worked... and by the time he would be moving he loved to come to the nursery and would not go at the closing time! A real icebreaker was as I took some montessorimaterials in use in my childrens room... the little boy was so interested in making drops with a dropper or pooring rice from a can to an other.... that he forgot to cry. An other time I had a extra actrive 3 years old. He pulled down all toys from shelfes and stepped on them and smaller kids..... I found out some "toys" just for him. I tok to smal bowls and had some pearls in one of them. Then I showed him how to pick one pearl at the time with a tooth pick and set it in the other bowl... the boy who NEVER sat quiet more than 2 seconds sat quietly for 30 minutes and picked up the pearls! A hint : when you do a thing like this you have to present it to the kid that is t is only for a BIG kid like him, show him first what to do, dont talk while showing...ask if he wantst to try... and then keep the other kids away so he can consentrate. And watch for the toothpick... In fact, after this he was able to sit quietly at the lessontime too... which he never before had been able to do. A very good thing is to have things in the nursery that interest the kids. Has it ever happened to you that the kids just take a toy out of the box.. hold it a minute or so, stydy it a second then leave the toy on the floor. Then they take the next toy... and after a little while all the toys are on the floor laying around... Did the child play with them? No not really just studied and when he learned the functions he was ready to throw it away. The child has an inner need to learn things.... this urge pushes him forward. If you then find something the child is interested in like poring water from one small can to an other... sorting by colour, form.... droppers functions... take rice from a bowl to an other with a spoon... watch rice and pearls in a bottle as you turn the bottle.... learn to use pushbuttons in a quietbook type activity... kids just love that. Not only they love that but they get their inner urge of learning fulfilled and this makes them satisfied and calm them down. I been working in nuresry under leaders that do not want any waterpooring or rice... too much work to watch that the kids dont poor the water over them... aso...and under leaders that have really liked this stuff. I have to say that the nursery with this type of toys was much better than the usual toy nursery. I always had some usual Toys toolike legs and something usefull. It is true that this type of working is really demanding for adults. Often I was quite swet, as I had to be aware of what hapens and where, all the time and I had to be a link between the small and the "toys" on the shelf. Many needed help in carrying two small cans of water to the table so he could work with it... and then help to get it back again. Wery important is that everytime a child chooses something from the shelf... you see that the child gets to the table with it ok...and that when he is finnished that he takes it back on the shelf... NEVER allow an other child take over before the "toy" is back on the shelf, or soon there is no one that takes the "toys" back on the shelf but yoy! The lesson... it do not need to be long, just something the kids will remember! Use stories, let the kids takepart in the lesson, in one way or an other. Dont be afraid of a bit caos sometimes, learn to handle it and calm it back down again. Lessns grow longer as children learn to sit on their places. The all smallest have even been sometimes allowed to wonder around and the older kids do usually understand that the littleone is too little to be able to sit quietly a little while, but as the child grows more attempt should be done to keep the child on his place for the short period of a lesson.

Welcome! I am a mother to 2 boys one of them is 17... We live in Norway. Well seif he sighns up too and the younger who is 15 soon 16 too. See you around...

WOW!! That was really amazing! Congrats Pushaka!! HUGS!! Cant wait for Pushaka to tell!!

Nice to see a scottish person here. I have a good frend in Galasgow... not a member though. Well come!

Yeah easy to boast about how many countries you been...I been in 23... so far..I think...and 7 states...

We have not that much information on this...(like a-train wrote) not a big deal, just to get in the celestial is a lot of effort,why worry about beeing a god(ess). I am sure we wont be Gods that have their own earth BEFORE we can handle it..and I am not so sure many of us can handle that for quite some time. Maybe we are more like helpers to some frends who are ready for an earth...

It is worth to try!! My husband was dragged to THE activity by an oldlady...she insisted and he could not say no... she would not have take a no as an answer anyway... He was sure everything about love was over and done with.... until he saw moi...

and well come... excuse my ignorance...what is a mia maid?? Is that somethign with the young wemen?? I am from Norway and my english is not perfect:D

Dig deep! Find a part of this forum where your questions suit and shoot away!! Se you around!!

I did not hear about this before I was 30!!! But in heart I was a mormon since birth...

I know this LDS church is what it claims to be. And I love my HF and Jesus and my family and all people in the wrold and I hope, that I can help someone get back tomy HF even from here.

I have not been inactive, but I had had a good reason for it. How ever my curiosity about knowing what God has for us this sunday was greater. And I madesure for myself WHY I attendand I attend because of the gospel, Jeus, My Hevenly Father.

Wel come JEN!!:)

We meet at 11.30...thanks to the official buss connections...

Well come to our services..and dont forget the hanky... I hope you can tolerate a kid or two running around... Altough I DO have to say the respect in the ward I came here from was totally different, even kids behaved.... It is sad as some grownups cant ... wait with their important messages to one an other... hapens in the sundayschool all too often...

Just thinking that IF all of us who what to join the LDS Church if we all had to tell ALL our past trespases...the bishops would be very much buzy listening to us for the next few years. The fact that we want to get babtised shows that we have repended and are asking for forgiveness for all our past sins and that we are ready to let them go. Joining is NOT of what we have done, but what we are willing to do with our lifes onwarth! Like someone here said there are however things one HAS to face before babtisement that is if one has done something that the law says one has to go to jail for... then we have to go to jail for it before babtizing. The case of sheding innocent blood will be posponed to later excistence.

I too have had abit of a same thing going on... My parents are lutheran, like most of the people in Scandinavia. I ws 30 as I sat in mymoms kitchen on a high stairschair and with tears falling I said: Mom this is MY livfe this is MY decition...I KNOW the LDS church is true and I want to be a member of it. However she wanted me to actually meet with the biggest anti in the north to discuss with him as I "was not told everything" I still wonder after 25 years what that everything was I was not told... They never made the meeting ...they wanted to ask him to come to them, he never did. Sometimes I wonder if I should have faced him to show my parents, how wrong he was in many things... but probably it was better this way. Anyway I in a way could understand my mom, (dad was already then hospitalized...I joined the church two months after his death) after all she was from a very active and good lutheran family and that is not all, her dad was the main theolog in my country and ALL lutheran preasts came through his fingers at his time... my dad again was a son of a preast the leading preast of a congrigation... I had tought of reading theology too... this ofcourse has made me the black sheep of the flock... My wish to join was too strong I just had to do as I KNEW was right. My mom was sad, but never excluded me. She has talked two of my kids out of the church, NOT that that had bee3n the only reason for them... But she is always there for me and I am always there for her. My dad was a searcher and I have had my husband babtised for him and I just KNOW he has agreed to the babtisement and is now buzy in working for our HF. My mom (91) is still going on strong...I just wish I could visit her more often. She lives close the the Finnish Temple and as I viist her ... well she do not want me to vist my frends of Temple, but she lets me go for an hour or so.... Anyway you know the Church do not go anywhere we are here and wait for you, you know where to find us, you know when the time is in and you just have to get babtized. The things may feel tough at the beginning but usually things calm down after while. I waited my exfor 6montsh+, but that was no use... After babtisement it was also easier to meet with difficulties as I knew our HF would take care of me!

Sometimes LDS are missunderstood to claim they have evidence, as the evidence refers to a possibility. But the same is with the non LDS arceologes. I think the arceologes can not say ANYTHING for certain, most in archeology remines uncertain, possible not proof until some day we willknow the truth! There is a four corner pool in Knossos palace, big enough to be a small swimming pool... with steps down to the bottom, almost deep enough for me (a shorty) to drown in it... so what do we have here? Did the rich have their own swimmingpools to cool off with, or was this a part of a temple and ritual washings pool, or ...a babtisementfountain or did they keep the fish fresh and alive for eating there?? Everything and all is possible, unless the surroundings give a clue... but even then there is a possibility to interprete wrong the clues. It is funny how at least I almost trip on my toes, as someone tells a story about past, a story which I dont buy and I see all the evidence that referes to BM, that the one who tells cant even see....I somuch want to tell my story about it... but I quess I have to keep my mouth shut.. after all I m not a learned one here... Archeloges often do the mistake of telling the past as a fact from their interprations .... It is ok to have an opinion, but that is all arceologes have, an opinion, they were not there, they cant know. Even written history MAY be onesided! They may have many proofs, but some of them can be interpreted many other ways too... that makes the truth they come with uncetrtain. I love arceology and I love to speculate, but I always think of many possibilities.. I always think...what if.... About the Book of Mormon I believe that no matter how much we find proofs the world will deny them and at the end there will be only one way we can know the truth... through prayer and study and through our own testimony. I am not saying that the BM arceology is of no use.. on the contrary for many of us it strengthens our testimony, but we can never build completely on the arceological finds... they may be wrong interpreted. If I think there was 2 cumoras and the one in south was in Mexico... I cant let my world fall if I later find out that the other was in Peru.... or that there was only one and I cant say those are wrong who think othreways.... So come with all possibilities and I make my own opinions about them and if they prove to be wrong... I admit beeing wrong... which ofcourse I am not..

I agree with The mighty quinn.. However, we do remember the earthlife and hopefully can arrange some things that we did not arrange when stil here. From what I have heard we are going to be mighty busy on the other side too... anyway those involved in familysearch... Someone who wisited the other side told, that there are people in different groups... there are people who run around with messages and arranges things... there are people with different "shine", some shine more some less... There are peole who get special messages to deliver or special occasions they are allowed to be with on earth. They are not allowed to vist earth when ever they want... They love their family, but their work is more important, than talking to a visitor from family... work first then fun... some grupes that stick together look lost, while those doing the work seem to know excactly what to do and why...

Nice to see you here. This is a very good place to talk about the gospel...You find different forums to be a part of or just to read and learn... See you around!

Yikes.... I understand! It can be really... yikes.... Well the girls feel the same... You just might get lucky if you look a bit around. Visit an other country, an other over 40s get to gether. Unfortunately devorces accure all around now a days and leave your aged people dissapointed and alone looking for someone. I was there at the age of 38,with two kids .... boy did that look impossible to find someone.... met my husband in a scandinavian churchactivity, he was 47. To tell you the truth after my first marriage (which was more of curiosity and well everybody else is getting married type) I had no idea someone could EVER be somuch in love.... That is soon 20 years ago. And I still love him... He stil claims he loves me... yesterday I got a valentines flower from him... Yet I have reasonable doubts about our placements in the eternity.... My comfort in times is: Mosia 4:4 and Alma 34 What ever happens I am sure where ever we end up to it will be so good it is beyond our wildest imagination!

It sounds hard with special kids especially. I had just usual kids.. a bit lively though, but I just had to learn to cut connection to the voices telling me to stay home... especially when things got too rough... so I think twice in 25 yearsw I been home when I could have gone.... Nice to see you here. Your interests are about the same as mine... see you around!

That is excactly why we are here on earth...to find the right way. Some find it the hard way. Go talk to the bishop of your area. He will tell you what to do and what must be done. Well come to the roadback!! It may be hard and stony, but it is wrth it! If you do not know where is the closest wardand bishop go to: Meetinghouse Locator

I been reading a link after a link, starting from that story and found many interesting things about history. Keep taking the new excavation news on Mayas and such so get you more on Mayans and find interesting things. Like this: Making Iron The Old-Fashioned Way Is A Tricky Business Take the anicent civilizations on the left... interesting!