MustardSeed

I feel that way now about a lot of things, some of them fundamental to what I believed we were all about.

I All I can say is that the heart has a mind of its own. I’m not sure why I was so drawn to him. Maybe it’s because he was the prophet during the most important phase of my life. Also, I was there when Cody Judy did that thing at the Marriott center-

President Hunter.

Of course. No issues, but I am annoyed that something taught so prevalently in my young life never was true. I had to erase because the question I asked was easily answered with a simple google search, and I would have looked more stupid in front of everyone here than I enjoy looking 😂

I mean you joke but seriously I was led to believe this garbage as a young person. It’s so embarrassing and I feel crazy. What else am I off the mark on? What else is nonsense? Im learning- that apparently- a lot is.

Never mind. Apparently I’m worse than not a scholar, im actually ignorant. I feel often times like I took a nap and woke up to a weird new religion, and that the old one was a fever dream.

The movie Ghost?

And this is precisely why when we judge we are sinning- and in the process, willfully rejecting the gospel.

Dont we all reject the gospel every day, willfully, as we sin? as an active member of the church, do my sins stack up differently than somebody who, for example, decides not to go to church on Sunday even though they’ve been taught the gospel?

Well look at both your chosen names.

Thank you kindly. Wow.

I have to admit that I see service mission as the alternative to being able to serve a regular mission due to challenges and limitations. So if I applied to go into Mission was given a service mission I would be completely confused. That said, the only mission I would be interested in serving at this point we’d be a service mission even if I woke up and was 18 years old.

Will you say more on this?

Ahhh. Of course.

I have nothing of value to add. I just want to see my profile pic on all the categories on the main menu page. 😅

So I totally agree that while on paper we give consent there is an ethics issue at play with regards to medical treatment and the power differential. I recently needed treatment and was told “we need an xray.” Years ago I would have followed like a lamb to slaughter but now as a woman old enough for that sweet senior citizen discount on Tuesdays at Ross , I instead said “can you please use an X-ray from a recent provider I went to last week?” Also I feel more free to push back on other medical procedures I deem unnecessary. My age and experience grants me confidence to do so. the consent forms we sign at the doc is ONLY to CYA the doc. It does nothing to ensure we get fair treatment.

Refusing to give a passport to someone? There must be some sort of law around that. At any rate, refusing to allow a missionary to go home (?!?) is a recipe for disaster. IMO of course

I mean, if you’re gonna come on here and act like people are idiots on a regular basis I think you better prepared to back up your opinions or at least acknowledge them as such.

I think Teddy has an obligation to respond to these reasonable questions.

I’m just here to share my experience, that gratitude journaling is very powerful and can change the brain. It changed mine.

Mission President: no. missionary: buys ticket gets uber goes home. Also gets dressed himself but that’s obvious. i’ve actually heard of people asking to be released from their callings, and the bishop tells them no. And I’m like, wat?

I can understand how the Lord would expect his people to represent him well and want his believers to bring unbeliever into his presence. God wants us to be happy and knows that we are happier when we are hand-in-hand with him. I understand that the church would take that and create a program to facilitate that. I also think it’s gets convoluted with the need to grow the church. That gets confusing, doesn’t it? When the church pressures its people to become full-time Missionaries, there are natural outcomes that are both positive and negative. How should parents react, feel, etc. when their children do not serve missions? Should a young woman consider a young man who did not go on a mission less worthy of her as a spouse? It’s a choice to go on a mission as a senior. In actuality, are there social or godly consequences if one doesn’t? Are my friends who have been on six senior missions, more faithful than I who have not been on one? Are they favored of God? Does the social pressure cloud my own understanding of what is actually best for me personally?

Was riffing off of this:

Speaking of which, but if they just had everybody serve the same amount of time? what if they were clear that women are now obligated? Or (better, imo) if they took obligation away and let people make their own decisions? Should a church obligate people? Should the church obligate seniors? Why is there an obligation?

IMO the church is simply trying to even the playing fields where there isnt reasonable necessity to remain otherwise. With significant imbalances, it’s pleasant to see these gestures. This one feels pretty “no duh” to me, I never understood the discrepancy to begin with.