Maya

Welcome to the site. Chicago spanishtalking mision... are there so many spanish talking in Chicago?? Soon over 50% of USA are talking spanish!

Welcome to the forum. You already got some good advice so I just say that go to the bishop. It si sad that the world ahs come to the point where you can not even trust the bishops enough, to be alone with them, or the bishops dont dare to be alone with someone... just in case! miz? What does that help if he closes his door?? (I think most wards dont have a connection between clerks and bishops room. )

Hi welcome. Well I go to a gym every day... if I am not sick. I love to do many of the things you named... but I never liked to run track... A few years ago I was in YW as a campleader and I constated that : I dont run (anymore) ... but I might give it a try as my knees feel better. It is nice that the Church is first on your list. If I had bene born into an LDS family I am sure it had been mine too at 17!

Yeah make it fun and bring warm rolls or something every now and then. I cant believe that our 6 year seminary is over and done with !!!!!!!!!!!! Feels so cool.. now we can sleep longer in the mornings! I remember a good lesson about sexual purity: You need: A flower pott with a folwer, more soil, something to clean with.... Looka at the flower ..... how pretty it is. Like if you can see any flowers outside. Take a handful of soil. What is this? Kids give you answers. Tell them it is soil and should go in teh pot. Now what is this? You take some soil and just dump it on someones lap or on a table in front of them, somewhere that makes them say yack... NOW what is that? Approve words like dirt... Yes it is dirt. Why is it now dirt ... it just was soil? Because it is out of place. It belongs in the flowerpott or in the plastic bag or it is dirt. So is sex, it belongs to where?? On your sofa after a one-nighter?.... It belongs in a marriage.. anywher else it becomes dirt! Well someone else may remember it better or even have the internett site for that .. that is just my version. Wakes them up... teacher gone mad throws dirt on them!!

He rode thowards the sunset...... So I can take care of the

No pain! This will be wonderful to go trough! And yes he has to go trough teaching as he has to know, and understand the convenant of babtizement, what it means, before he can be babtized. He can bear his testimony about Jesus to the missionaries and they can fill in where is needed. He also has to talk with the bishop who will give the green light for him to be babtized. He needs to wait for a year before he can go to the Temple. So you may choose either to marry civilly first... you have to wait for a year after that too anyway... or to wait with the marriage for a year after his babtizement and then marry in the Temple. Enjoy the studying of gospel.... you never wait too long for something good!:)

I dont have priesthood so my answer may not be accurate, but: Priesthood is a power, not a position. In Priesthood there are many different levels. First the 12 year olds are diacones they can deal out the sacrament (bread and water for wine) and take care of old and sick. Then at 14 they get the Arons priesthood, they see that there is bread and water for sacrament. At 16 Priests and they are to bless the sacrament and are able to babtize people. At 18 usually the active ones get the Melcisedec priesthood and are able to give the Holy Spirit, oil people and give them blessings and they can go on a mission. I cant recall all their tasks, but there was some. So all of these have priesthood but are not called priests just brother this or brother that. All of them are asked to talk at least once a year in the meeting

I think the main purpose of this site was and is to be a peacefull harbour for tired souls. This is not a debating froum... you want to debate go to FAIRboard ... This board is a place where you can come and inquire peacefully and wheree you do not need to see unpleasant adjectives in front JS or anyone else. I understand it may sometimes be fustrating when you have a crises of faith and it is such a crises, that you dont feel, that you can ask about it here... but really you can ask.. just leave the anti... aaa... sorry critical nettadresses out. Or if everything goes wrong and you cant vent even here and hit your fellow boarders with words in a bad day, week, year. Sometimes life is hard. Just make sure you wont get too close to Beef... that wet tungue is also fast... she has been training Tong ShoShin To! I just banned one last week... now I can relax... inform posts? Ah that can be arranged any time... ps remember there is also the Chat... people get banned because of that too... and blogs,,, and... if they dont pay me enough!

Wayne Osmonds birthday! ... sorry K .. aaa maybe better this one: Ops my Dear Husband is coming.. I better post this fast.. I really liked Beck... to begin with... his conversation story was awesome too bad they tok it off YT . I believe he is right in many things I just wish he had not done a few things the way he did. For us ONE bad move and that will be remembered for ever!

Welcome.. I hope you will enjoy the site. Hi from the other site of the globe, Norway.

Smile at them and give them some juice... poor things their voices mut get tired for all that shouting.. juice is good for them. This was my friends and my plan, as they were planning a demonstration around the Finnish Templeopening... but it rained that day, so they did not come.:)

Yes we all got our "crosses". It is not the problem, but how we take/handle it.

I saw my first balck person when I was 12 and my daughter when she was 3... and she asked me : mother how did taht person burn to coal? Anyway I had a frend in the Church we drove her to the Church all the time, but then we could not drive her any more and she had to work on Sundays and she stopped coming. She was a beautiful girl from Angola and a mother of 4. Her kids were so qute.. the 2 older ones came to the country later. One of her kids is stil active in the church. I know that these few blacks we have in the meetings feel different... but so would I feel too in a black ward. IF there is only a couple of that colour inteh ward you are well noticed and maybe those persons would, rather just dissapear in the crowd.. which they never can do as they are .. different. I think I would pay her a visit.... tell her that I mis her (I did to my friend, but she had other issues too like working on Sundays...)

Sometimes to keep someone in his age level can cause that the whole lesson is destroyed because of one child, whom you need to give love to and leave the others just watch with no time to take care of their needs. To have a personal assisistent is like saying to everyone this kid cant manage it.... ok the same happens when you put the kid on a lower level... but at least you get lessons working. I think flexible age classes are best.. so that you can move kids from class to an other after what they can. Best would be a chanse to choose if they watn to be in a clas and hear sundays lesson or work with personal program in a big class where everyone can be together and where they could get from shelves tasks or games/toys they can learn lessons with. Only one rule.. dont disturb anybody!

I just wish they would let me translate them... well I can go to YouTube and translate them and I done that too, but I could use a bit assistance how to text them better.. Sometimes I cant get them transformed either... Without any real training for computer stuff there are some difficulties. Maybe I can do a homemision and do that... or a combined Temple MM mission...

Maybe the commerseals should be more directed in the truth. It is forbidden in LDS Church to have more than one wife... or ... LDS believes in Jesus Christ the Saviour....

Hi and welcome. Yes we hate the sin and love our children, friends. You have a great burden to bear, I hope you will be able to get new strength from this forum.

Actually the boys tok in a snake once. A black nonvenamous one ... I am not quite sure if it is considered a snake... it is like a snake but it looses its tail when afraid and grows a new one. We had an old aqarium and we put it in there. It was about 30 cm long.. without the end of its tail... I remember how strong its body was.. it was not likely I could have tied it on a knott. It was kind of iky feeling to hold it. We had it a week or so but let it out again. Uh it stank! Many snakes are pretty. I used to love to watch Stevie Erwing ... oh look a beautiful REALLY poisonous snake... ops there it almost got me... think that only a drop of that poison will kill an elefant...

They had the OT that they called scripture too. They even attended the Temple when ever it was possible.

Missionaries are out there just to teach pople enough to beb babtized. Actually the only things that need to be tought for babtizement are first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. Even scriptures seem to come after those. The problem is, that many deny the spirit, that once testified to them about the Church and allow to be lead by brains and not spirit... it is a big trial to many to humbly give themselves to the Spirit to lead. Actually many questions can be asked in our own mind and the answers can be found in our own mind after studying them, we do not need but the Holy Spirit to confirm our thoughts. Good study!

UH red almost all the psosts... got tired thowards the end... interesting thread. Dear C. Howell I hope you are doing fine and finding out what we believe about Jesus Crist the only begotten Son of our Hevenly Father, our saviour to whom we are eternally thankfull for everything He has done for us, our dear brother. I can understand that it must have been a schok to attend a mormon service after all there is a lot weird information about us around. I have to apologise my writting I am not English and I also do have some problems with unbehaving letters. Since we started apologizing maybe I should apologize for the sometimes sour athmosphere in the thread. You see you are not the only one rushing in here to "pour" your heart out about something you think is wrong, before you really have made acuaintance with LDS religion. In other words you trust what you have heard and those who "know " and often are very eager to tell the "truth" of the LDS faith. I am sure the thing that bugs some here is, that the accusitions tend to have been alike since JS`s time... ok I am old but NOT that old... Maybe you now think that; doesnt that show that there is something wrong, if the accusitionsa are the same... well my answer is no, it does not. Why not? ... ARG because I am older and I say so! OK?! Kind of tiering to answer the same over and over again... but it really does not show anything, but that when you have the same base you tend to hang on the same handholes. And besides if you dont find it out some other is going to point it out to you and as you agree it becomes your idea and not some old antiaccusition. Hey NO I am not saying you did not find these questionable things yourself, I am just pointing out to you a reason, why some may be a bit bitter when answering. It is tiering to tell a todler every 2 min not to touch the TV controll... we can remove the tv controll but not LDS... The original quetion about the Bible, Gods Word. Now the Bible has been translated in MANY different language and each language claims its translation 100% right and the Word of God. In what you quoted about Eve.. increase her ... in my language it just constates that the woman shall give birth in pain... (free translation by me) NO indivcation of increasing any pain. And the scolars in my country say they have translated from Greek directly and it is a correct translation. Once in Africa when teh Bible was translated to one of the tribal languages in te translation of "Our Father who is in heaven" They thanked for poop (you know the sh..). This due to a misunderstanding with the word bread ... since they did not have any bread and the expalnation of the translators was clarely poiting to poop. When the Bible was gathered the scolastics were taking over the Hellenistical pagan doctorines in it by choosing from thousands of books just the few we now have as the Bible. It was never the writters that did not follow God but those who gathered the Bible or those who made mistakes in translateiong or copyingit. Why would God allow that to happen... isnt he omnipotent? He allowed it because of our free will, just like he allows the tragedies happen today. He did know though that it would happen and that is why He had books hidden from world, so they could be found in the right time, the time when we were ready to recieve them. I warmly recomend Daniel C Pederson; Ofenders of the word (page80-81) We have only a part of His words but we can allow them to fill our heats so we are ready for more. 3rd heaven... my Father has many places for you... (dont know the english word for that but I am sure you know what I mean)... there is starshine, moon shine and sunshine... We all will get what is our hearts desire!!!! I have heard that actually Revelation should be the first book... or almost first book in the NT if cronically correct. It was put as last because of the last centance that the priests could scare everyone not to claim to have resieved any revelation. The OT has also a similar ending in one of the books.. cant recall which one now. It was alos a common way to end ones writtings in those days as many often added in the writting more and maybe altering it. John wanted to be sure his writtings were not added anything to.

I dont belong to the 1%. But if I have to choose between a spider or a snake I go for the snake. I heard snakes teast really good.... I love animals!

To be married is SUCH a hard jobb...... and it wont get any better with an other, you just by time til it gets worse again.... maybe in an other thing, but I promise ALL mariages have their huge problems, no matter how happy they seem to be. It is not the problems it is how we deal with them.

YOU are my hero! This is life... make mistakes and take the consiquenses like a man! Bless you!

Welcome karrimo. Looks like we are ready for the book! ... But in an otherpart of the forum please... Enjoy!