Someone from our ward finally reached out to us

[Notatbm]

1 hour ago, MustardSeed said:

Looks like I misunderstood something you said. Also, though, I didn’t assume something happened to you personally. Nevertheless, I erased my post. 

Ok… I was wondering . Thx

[Notatbm]

37 minutes ago, bluebell said:

Oh well. Almost 50 years old and no one ever said a thing about it. The church really sucks at embracing their own secret agenda. 😉

Yep … of course that is something that can be blamed completely on the members for not reading all the policy manuals. Heaven forbid the church train the bishops in anything except how to count money and to not report child molesters. Those two categories they are expert at. 

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[bluebell]

1 hour ago, Notatbm said:

Yep … of course that is something that can be blamed completely on the members for not reading all the policy manuals. Heaven forbid the church train the bishops in anything except how to count money and to not report child molesters. Those two categories they are expert at. 

If there’s one thing that I admire about you, it’s that you are nothing if not consistent.  You never disappoint in your ability to lambast the church for both doing and also not doing something.  It’s definitely your superpower.   

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[Notatbm]

1 hour ago, Rain said:

No, I don't, and I am not seeing it with an easy search, though I am seeing some people talk about it.  It's not a priority to find it, so I am happy to retract that, according to board rules, as being a churchwide thing unless someone else does find it.  I just know that when it happened when my husband was in, it came down from at least a stake level. 
 

hmmm ok yea I do t care if you take it down or not it isn’t anything I’ll lose any sleep over. Was just curious. 
 

coming from a stake pres family… those guys pretty much do whatever they want. 
 

 

[Rain]

33 minutes ago, bluebell said:

They are still doing a sign-up list on the bishop’s door in my current Ward so it could be a policy that all stakes aren’t enforcing or maybe it was just from that one Stake. It’s really hard to tell sometimes where these directives come from.

This was 4 different stakes in 2 states so it's more widespread than that, but who knows how far.

[Calm]

36 minutes ago, bluebell said:

They are still doing a sign-up list on the bishop’s door in my current Ward so it could be a policy that all stakes aren’t enforcing or maybe it was just from that one Stake. It’s really hard to tell sometimes where these directives come from.

Could it be by state if there is state level privacy law?

[bluebell]

24 minutes ago, Rain said:

This was 4 different stakes in 2 states so it's more widespread than that, but who knows how far.

My ward here is a little backward so it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a church policy that we just don’t do. My ward is mostly very old people, and they struggle with technology.  We haven’t even been here two years yet and I bet we have a funeral every other month from an older person who has passed away.  

[Rain]

43 minutes ago, bluebell said:

My ward here is a little backward so it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a church policy that we just don’t do. My ward is mostly very old people, and they struggle with technology.  We haven’t even been here two years yet and I bet we have a funeral every other month from an older person who has passed away.  

A past ward of ours had part of a retirement community and had that same thing. One particular street of nicknamed "Celestial Street" because so many of them lived on it.  It wasn't very long. Just everyone moving in didn't end up living long.

[Amulek]

3 hours ago, bluebell said:

No one is using circles?  I thought the church was really pushing that. 

Are you rage-baiting me?

I'm sorry, but Circles is what happens when you build a messaging app and treat reliable message delivery as an optional enhancement.

Perhaps all the bugs are intentional, and it's really supposed to function less like a messaging app and more like an interactive lesson on faith, patience, and enduring to the end.  

Or maybe the Church designed it to work like the Liahona, where it's functionality is tied to the faith of the user - so maybe I'm the problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[bluebell]

23 minutes ago, Amulek said:

Are you rage-baiting me?

I'm sorry, but Circles is what happens when you build a messaging app and treat reliable message delivery as an optional enhancement.

Perhaps all the bugs are intentional, and it's really supposed to function less like a messaging app and more like an interactive lesson on faith, patience, and enduring to the end.  

Or maybe the Church designed it to work like the Liahona, where it's functionality is tied to the faith of the user - so maybe I'm the problem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Our old ward used it a lot but my new ward pretends like it doesn’t exist.   I actually forgot all about it until you were listing the communication options.

(My new ward is pretty geriatric so we don’t really use much technology for anything). 

[Rain]

2 minutes ago, bluebell said:

Our old ward used it a lot but my new ward pretends like it doesn’t exist.   I actually forgot all about it until you were listing the communication options.

(My new ward is pretty geriatric so we don’t really use much technology for anything). 

I've only ever heard about it on the internet.  

[Calm]

2 hours ago, Rain said:

A past ward of ours had part of a retirement community and had that same thing. One particular street of nicknamed "Celestial Street" because so many of them lived on it.  It wasn't very long. Just everyone moving in didn't end up living long.

Our ward in Canada was for awhile all young families who were students at the University my husband worked at (the chapel’s parking lot was often used by students and made fundraising easy by selling spots for football, we had to split it with the rest of the stake though to be fair) and grey hairs.  Very few were middle age like us, except a couple of families who had fallen in love with the ward.  The cost of housing for what you got was too high.