Someone on another board I go to mentioned that there were 2 announcements:1 church wide and 1 specific to North America that were made in Phd meeting. We had Stake conference last week and we may not be in our own ward this week, so I was just wondering if anyone here has heard anything.
This is not a thread to speculate what the announcements might be.
Nothing in our ward Phd meeting other than they decided to hold the father and son campout behind the church which is in the middle of town. I'm not real keen on listening to traffic all night through a thin sheet of canvas. Basically they waited until the last minute and got lazy. Nothing from church HQ and we had the stake president there.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Church wide: temple recommends are now bar coded, so everyone needs to get a "new" one. It wasn't made clear by the person who posted if we need to go through the whole interview or if we can just hand over the "old" one to a member of the bishopric to get the new one. Wow, what a lot of interviewing for the bishoprics and Stake presidencies.
North America: All missionaries will now live with members. Not clear on how soon this will happen, but I'm sure it will be sooner than later.
I did some searching on the web, and it sounds like they're rolling the bar code program out to individual temple districts, not all of them at once.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Crazy mom- really? not to doubt you but just wondering if you heard this or were speculating, no offense!! When I was on my mission, we did live w/some members but I thought this had been done away with in recent years.
As I said in my opening post, I got the info from someone else and was just wondering if anyone else had the announcements made in their wards. We had Stake conference last week and nothing was mentioned there.
Maybe the bar code is just a few temple districts, but the person said she heard it was church wide. I remember yrs ago we had a magnetic strip on a recommend slipcover and the temple workers swiped your "card" at each "station". The problem with the magnetic strips was if they got a lot of scratches they were no good.
And I can see them asking for the missionaries to be housed in members' homes, it is getting quite expensive to keep renting apartments. Also, maybe being in members' homes there might be less trouble among missionaries and/or fewer missionaries getting into trouble with persons of the opposite s*x.
OOPS! sorry for the speculations when i asked that there be none!
Let's keep it cool, folks. We don't pull ourselves up by bringing others down. Besides, remember that conference talk a few years ago about never speaking ill of anyone? I think we'd all do well to learn a lot from that. It's a challenge of mine, I know.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Yes. Let's not cast acrimony in the direction of across the river.
crazymom, I'd be surprised if the mission pres here asks members to house the missionaries. I'm sure there would be members in some of the more well to do wards (like ours) that would be able to... but, the logistics could prove seriously problematic. The mission president(s) here in the past, if you remember, have tried to have the members provide most lunchs and/or evening meals, and it became a large burden on the members because the missionaries schedules would get in the way (even though there was an explicit time that was given when the meal was to occur) and because they couldn't enter the home if the only adult present was of the opposite sex. The constraints and schedule clashing made it too cumbersome for the members to help out for very long (at least in our ward).
Anyway, I remember as a kid and my dad was Bishop, we used to house missionaries overnight when they first came out because the mission home was only a about 1 1/2 miles away and initially, it didn't have sufficient accomodations for whole flight groups to spend the night before being sent out to their areas.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Good golly. Here you almost have to fight your way through the crowd trying to sign up to provide dinner to the missionaries. I'd hate to see what it would be like trying to sign up to house them.
Our youngest son served his mission in upstate new york. If they got 1 member meal a month they felt blessed. They received $35 (later 40) a week for food. That was just enough to starve on. I don't know about other parents but we sent extra each week. He would often buy the food and cook up a hearty meal for the missionaries in his district with the extra.
Renting apartments is getting really expensive. A perfect situation would be a mother-in-law apartment.
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Our stake participated in the pilot program of this. For the first few months, they kept asking for volunteers to house the missionaries, then they just started asking empty nesters to have them for four months. Seems to be working ok here.
In our ward they even had people helping an elderly couple finish their basement so that the missionaries could live there.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
