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13 Million and growing
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According to my calculations either today or tomorrow our Church should pass the 13 Million member mark. I wonder how long until we hit 20 Million? I think it will be much quicker than most imagine.
Of course, on the other side of the viel we are growing by leaps and bounds now with Temple's dotting t...
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Epistemology
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All truth can be considered as a great whole, right? Brigham said: "Mormonism embraces all truth, both in heaven and on earth" Joseph Smith said: "We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up". John Widstoe said: "Truth is truth f...
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Try, Try Again
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So I just found out I got a 33% on a final exam I took yesterday. The first test I got a 68%, so I had the strength to try harder for the next test, and study harder, and I got a 45%. The next test I didn't have as much time, but spent a whole lot of time studying what we'd been doing in class, and he pulled out 4 pro...
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Monday Night Family...
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No other activities should involve our family members on Monday night. This designated time is to be with our families.Elder L. Tom PerryEnsign, May 2003, 42 Often I find myself compromising Family Night and time with Family on Monday nights... Any thoughts on how to keep on target? --Ray
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LDS Video Library
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If you were building an LDS video library of quality entertainment which titles would you put in your collection? And I'm not talking about LDS only titles. --Ray
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Is the tradition disappearing?
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Our ward will soon be having it's Father's and Son's outing.
Do your wards have the yearly event?
In our stake the wards do it one year, the stake the next. Always near the anniversary of the restoration of the priesthood in the month of May.
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The Bishopric Called...
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The first counselor called and wants to talk to MrCoco and myself. For the first time, I just have no desire to hear what he has to say. I'm not interested in a different calling, I'm just... not interested. What's wrong with me?
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Hymns that Have Deeply Moved You
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Please share experiences that are not too personal or too spiritual you have had with the hymns, if you are so inclined and feel it may help edify others in their faith. There are several hymns that depending on my spiritual needs, have a profound and hopefully lasting impact upon me. Sometimes, I fin...
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2) x -- Edited by PollyAnna at 00:25, 2008-01-05
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Do you struggle with the challenge of polygamy?
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As the Mormons documentary claimed, I'm raising the question to all members here... Do you struggle with the challenge of Polygamy? --Ray
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What's Heaven Like to you?
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Mahonri's post about what you probably shouldn't share in Sacrament Mtg, and the inspired thread-drift has made me wonder what you think Heaven is like? What do you imagine it will be like for you? Clearly there's no wrong answers here... A lot of mormons are guilty of espousing the "being gods o...
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Family History Fun Festival
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Our wonderful stake president set a goal for our stake this year for "the Next Generation." So if you've done the four generation program a few years ago, do one more, and if you haven't done any, then start, and if you're stuck, help someone else. So about a month ago, the high priests in my wa...
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How many kids...
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Since I don't know how to do a poll,
I'll just tell you.
At Meridian they did this poll...How many kids do you have?
In my family... we average 5.2 with 7 kids.
In my wife's family they average 4.8 with 6 kids.
My wife a...
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what do you do when there is a calling you want
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The calling I want right now is only a temporary calling:an adult leader at Girl's Camp. I've been to camp a number of times as a leader in different wards and stakes, but I haven't been in 10 yrs. Part of not going was because I had girls in the program and I didn't want to make them feel li...
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Keeping up with the Jones's... er Johnsons...
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I once heard that Neal A. Maxwell (and this could totally be hearsay) was asked to conduct a survey to determine why Latter-day Saints seem to have difficult time with the old phenomenon of "keeping up with the Joneses [He apologized that the Jones name was sullied by the implication of envy - and...
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Something you would NOT share in a Sacrament meeting talk....
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at coco's suggestion. -- Edited by Mahonri at 00:11, 2007-04-26
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Eat Drink and Sing Hymns for tomorrow we die...
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Anyone care to reexplain the mysterious and bothersome hymn Come Come Ye Saints, which chorus says, "All is Well, All is Well", yet the Book of Mormon states "Wo unto those who say All is Well in Zion"? Do we sin everytime we sing that hymn? --Ray
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Need some strengthening, having a hard time with something
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I have tried asking this in various places and have never really gotten an answer, and I submit that there may not be one. I have always struggled with an aspect of the Gospel and pretty much taken it on faith, but in reading an article from an old Ensign, it hit me again. As odd as it may sound, it is regardin...
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Just one thing better?
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If you could immediately have the willpower, know-how and skill to do one things better in the church and your duties toward the Lord in his church, what would it be? --Ray
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Choosing between God and Mammon
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I ran across and interesting article today: http://www.ldsmag.com/ideas/070405god.html From the article: This may be an explosive proposition, but as a preliminary litmus test of our leaning, let's consider a well known example from the world of sports. How would you answer this question? Wou...
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Conference Text is posted....
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Here is the link....
Conference Text
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And commandest that she should remain with me
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A few years ago, I had a discussion with a Chaplain of another faith about the events in the Garden of Eden. The Chaplain asserted (quite adamantly) that if Adam and Eve had not transgressed, we would all be living in Paradise. He also had quite a diatribe about the weakness of Adam. His position is tha...
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Righteous dominion
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D&C 121:46: The Holy Ghost shall be thy constant companion, and thy scepter an unchanging scepter of righteousness and truth; and thy dominion shall be an everlasting dominion, and without compulsory means it shall flow unto thee forever and ever. I expect each of us has been a party to a lesson...
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Get out of debt, already!
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So, what's the deal with us LDSs being told over and over that we need to get out of debt and we still don't do it? -- Edited by Cocobeem at 13:09, 2007-04-03
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Who are "they"?
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I was reading in Joseph Smith History in the PoG last night and came across this verse. It was from Moroni's first appearance to Joseph one night. 37 For behold, the aday cometh that shall bburn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall burn as cstubble; for they that come shall...
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The Language of God
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Editor's note: Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. His most recent book is "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief."
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no confl...
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Divorce
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So what did y'all think about Elder Oaks' talk on divorce?
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Behold your little ones...
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This morning my ten year old daughter offered our family prayer. In it she quoted scripture like language asking the Lord that we would stay on the path of righteousness, and that we would not harbor fears, but conquer our fears through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. She uttered other things that at th...
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April Conference
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Rumor has it that all of the Brethren will be in the Tabernacle for the Saturday Afternoon Session so that President Hinckley can RE-dedicate the remodeled Tabernacle... and all of those folks with Saturday Afternoon tickets will just be watching conference on the big screens in the conference cen...
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A New Commandment I give unto you...
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What do you when a commandment hits you as though it were "the first time"? So often it is a common sense thing that I should've thought of... often I find others completely disregarding the same commandment. Do you get down on yourself? Do you immediately comply? Do you even know how to comp...
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