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Kenngo1969

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  1. I'm glad she is doing well physically, but sad she isn't doing well mentally. (Thank God, literally, for the resurrection. )
  2. @morgan.deane I'm sorry you've had (and are having) such a difficult experience. I know I can't possibly relate, but, if it's worth anything, I hear you.
  3. I have become what my Dear, Departed Great Granny (see ya soon, Granny, but not too soon! ) used to call "An Old Batch." Is there anyone in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has attempted to make me feel as though I, as a long-term bachelor in a family church, am a second-class citizen? If there is, that is their problem, not mine. I can simply "refuse delivery" of that message. https://greatgourdini.wordpress.com/2013/10/31/on-being-single-male-and-lds/
  4. In mortality, Jesus, Lord of the Universe, was a carpenter, Rod. Don't sell yourself short. The below link is apropos of absolutely nothing, and has nothing whatsoever to do with this thread, but I thought of it as I was composing this response, so ... Elder Jeffrey R. Holland (May 2006) "Broken Things to Mend, Ensign, https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/05/broken-things-to-mend?lang=eng, last accessed March 15, 2024
  5. If I were in your neck of the woods, I would come! (Having car trouble, anyway, even if I am in your neck of the woods. She won't turn over. If you know a good mechanic who makes house calls ... ) Anyway, good luck/best wishes.
  6. "Hey, ChatGPT, tell me what it says about human sacrifice in the Holy Bible in the Book of III Corinthians."
  7. AI is being used, somewhat, in Family History: "Is this your relative?" kind of thing. Given how humans have screwed up Family History, I'm not sure how I feel about adding AI into the mix. I've seen my grandfather's first name, Rollan, misspelled as Rowlan, but I'm not sure whether a human idiot or an artificially-"intelligent" idiot [entity] is responsible for that one.
  8. Feel free to ignore my [perhaps irrelevant] contribution. I don't hang out a lot where something I do might be misconstrued, and [(s)imply by default], I don't hang out with many people who are likely to misconstrue something I do. (Perhaps I should be more ashamed of that than I am, but that's another subject for another day.) I'm embarrassed to admit that, for the first time in my life [given my rapidly-advancing age], I'm endeavoring, over time and from start to finish, to stand in as proxy for all of a [deceased, of course] relative's Temple ordinances. I'm not sure I'm close enough to anyone to get an "I'm disappointed that you [a Latter-day Saint] would do such a thing" speech from anyone outside my family. (Incidentally, in addition to serving as proxy for my own relative, I got a chance to "knock [at least some of] the rust off" of the Priesthood that I hold and to officiate in a couple of the ordinances my mom did for one of our ancestors. (The "professionals" actually let a "rank amateur" do something that, usually, is their province. Now, that was cool ... especially since [and again, I'm ashamed to admit this], I don't remember the last time I performed any ordinances ... I need to work on that.) The last time I remember being cognizant, explicitly, of how someone might construe any example I might set (good or bad) by something I might do (or not) as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was when my parents and I accompanied a tour group to Spain. A couple of times, we did have the "Where are you from?", "We're from Utah," "Oh, are you Mormon [sic]?" conversation. A couple of times, aspects of our faith may have come up in conversation, but we didn't really press the issue, and perhaps I wasn't as "bold" as I should have been ( "Would you like to know more?!" ). I'm not setting myself up as any kind of an example [except a poor one] in saying this, but the more concerted effort at Temple attendance that the start-to-finish ordinance chain has spurred has caused me to reflect more on my own covenants and on how seriously I take them, on what more I might be able to do to show that I do take them seriously, on how aware my "spirit relative" might be about my efforts on his behalf, on how he might feel about those efforts, on, as a result of those efforts, how any "reunion" between us might be, and so on. I know, for myself, that my increased time in the Temple lately has led me to the conclusion I have spent entirely too much time caught up in "the thick of the really thin things" here in mortality. I'd forgotten to "not sweat the small stuff"; and I'd forgotten that, here in mortality, it's all "small stuff." That having been said, do a lot of very important things happen here in mortality? Sure. Do I rue the fact that some of those important things haven't happened to me ... yet? I don't know how any mortal who finds himself in a circumstance that's similar to mine couldn't feel that way. But I know that, ultimately (Ay, there's the rub! ), "No blessing will be withheld." One thing I have realized (and again, it's not because I'm perfect, or anywhere near it: Far from it) is that I don't want to be sitting in the Temple wishing that I were the kind of person who is better prepared for the experience: Already, I want to be the kind of person who ... whatever faults, flaws, and failings he has (and, surely, those are legion) notwithstanding, already is the kind of person who is well-prepared for the experience. Perhaps ultimately, that's what "avoiding even the mere appearance of evil," "not trying to maintain a Summer cottage in Babylon and a home in Zion the rest of the year," being "in the world but not of the world," and so on, are really all about. Just food for thought, and just my meager $0.02, actual value, as always, much less.
  9. @Mudcat I should add, too, that I'm sorry to hear about the issues and struggles in your personal life. As someone who has been ignored by the female of the species in its entirety, I can neither identify nor can I relate. But ...
  10. Welp, if nothing else, it is you who started The Thread That Will Never Die (3-word story)! Here's hoping you grace us with your august presence at least a little more often, though!
  11. Though I'm inclined to answer your questions in the negative, I am of the opinion that there is tremendous significance [even if, largely, for the present, that significance is symbolic] in getting back property in an area from which some of my ancestors, violently, were expelled. (And more than a few people here would, I assume, be able to say the same.)
  12. @Mudcat Alas, you're probably gone for the foreseeable future, again, already, but ... Mudcaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!
  13. "I'm Elder Gourdin of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and this is my companion, Elder Smith of the Community of Christ ..."
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