Senior Singles Wards?

[nuclearfuels]

My Dad was in what I can only call a "Senior Singles Ward" a few years back. 

THey met in Kaysville, UT and were comprised of +45 year old single members.

Hoping their might be wards like this around Logan or Ogden UT?

I think the Kaysville Ward was dissolved since they couldn't get enough preisthood members to accept callings in EQ, EQP, etc.

Dare I ask if President Nelson might institute wards like this in more places than Kaysville?

[The Nehor]

That sounds like the most depressing environment imaginable.

[Hamba Tuhan]

1 minute ago, The Nehor said:

That sounds like the most depressing environment imaginable.

That's what I was thinking ...

[The Nehor]

Actually, I exaggerate a bit. There are worse situations: mime conventions, ska concerts, Trump rallies, Civil War reenactments, Wicca gatherings, North Korean prison camps, things like that. There are just not many that are worse.

[ksfisher]

30 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

Actually, I exaggerate a bit. There are worse situations: mime conventions, ska concerts, Trump rallies, Civil War reenactments, Wicca gatherings, North Korean prison camps, things like that. There are just not many that are worse.

I wonder what the topic for a key note speaker at a mime convention would be.

[strappinglad]

14 minutes ago, ksfisher said:

I wonder what the topic for a key note speaker at a mime convention would be.

" How to think outside the box "

[bluebell]

It would be depressing to be 45 and be in a senior singles ward.  

[Atheist Mormon]

10 hours ago, The Nehor said:

Actually, I exaggerate a bit. There are worse situations: mime conventions, ska concerts, Trump rallies, Civil War reenactments, Wicca gatherings, North Korean prison camps, things like that. There are just not many that are worse.

Trump rallies???????What kinda Mormon Republican RU??😡

[Atheist Mormon]

2 minutes ago, bluebell said:

It would be depressing to be 45 and be in a senior singles ward.  

I found being senior is depressing. I didn't enjoy at all the day when I got free National Park pass.....(To offset that feeling I bought a brand new Jeep Rubicon).

[The Nehor]

48 minutes ago, Atheist Mormon said:

Trump rallies???????What kinda Mormon Republican RU??😡

An Eisenhower-era one, which makes me detest the current dominant faction as a bunch of fundamentalist quasi-fascist idiots being tolerated by the rest who are a bunch of spineless simpering sycophants.

Edited August 24, 2018 by The Nehor

[The Nehor]

47 minutes ago, Atheist Mormon said:

I found being senior is depressing. I didn't enjoy at all the day when I got free National Park pass.....(To offset that feeling I bought a brand new Jeep Rubicon).

If I thought a new car would numb the pain I would go out and buy one today.

[The Nehor]

11 hours ago, ksfisher said:

I wonder what the topic for a key note speaker at a mime convention would be.

Isn’t this whole mime thing kind of stupid? Why are we doing this?

[bluebell]

1 hour ago, Atheist Mormon said:

I found being senior is depressing. I didn't enjoy at all the day when I got free National Park pass.....(To offset that feeling I bought a brand new Jeep Rubicon).

I can imagine (though I think i'll always be excited about getting something for free).  From a single's standpoint, if I was 45 i'd much rather be in a ward with people in their late 30s and early 40s than where the majority is probably over 60.  I would have way more in common with them!

[pogi]

19 hours ago, nuclearfuels said:

My Dad was in what I can only call a "Senior Singles Ward" a few years back. 

Do you mean the psych ward in a long-term care facility?

Or is that a distinction without a difference?

Sorry, couldn't resist.  It sounds like your dad had a good experience.  I could see how some might benefit from that. 

Edited August 24, 2018 by pogi

[Atheist Mormon]

7 hours ago, The Nehor said:

If I thought a new car would numb the pain I would go out and buy one today.

It don't now, because I'm in Houston, waiting to hit Canyonlands, Maze, White Rim Roads....where seeing another car will be a blasphemy.....😁

[nuclearfuels]

On 8/23/2018 at 11:07 PM, The Nehor said:

That sounds like the most depressing environment imaginable.

You're comments always make me laugh outloud.

Motivation to stay married, perhaps?

 

[nuclearfuels]

On 8/24/2018 at 9:46 AM, bluebell said:

It would be depressing to be 45 and be in a senior singles ward.  

Yet that is a reality for many LDS and many converts

[The Nehor]

1 minute ago, nuclearfuels said:

You're comments always make me laugh outloud.

Motivation to stay married, perhaps?

 

I am not married so does not work for me.

I do remember a SA sister leader half-jokingly suggesting we invite people with a struggling marriage to come to one of our activities in hopes that when they see what their future holds if they divorce they might be motivated to repair their marriage. It is actually not a bad idea.

[nuclearfuels]

Sounds like a resounding: No- that's  not coming back nor expanding at the next General Conf.

Thanks all.

[nuclearfuels]

7 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

I am not married so does not work for me.

I do remember a SA sister leader half-jokingly suggesting we invite people with a struggling marriage to come to one of our activities in hopes that when they see what their future holds if they divorce they might be motivated to repair their marriage. It is actually not a bad idea.

Eisenhower said:

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

• As quoted in Baseball's Greatest Quotes (1992) by Paul ****son; cited in "Game Day in the Majors" at the Library of Congres

Perhaps instead of trying to numb the pain by buying a new car, you could attend a Senior Singles event?

Turn the tears of pain into laughter.

 

 

[The Nehor]

38 minutes ago, nuclearfuels said:

Eisenhower said:

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

• As quoted in Baseball's Greatest Quotes (1992) by Paul ****son; cited in "Game Day in the Majors" at the Library of Congres

Perhaps instead of trying to numb the pain by buying a new car, you could attend a Senior Singles event?

Turn the tears of pain into laughter.

 

 

I go to Single Adult activities. This is my general reaction:

I do not go very often.

[Hamba Tuhan]

We discussed and approved a proposed stake single adult weekend activity in stake presidency meeting this morning. Thankfully, no one asked me if I’d be attending!

[nuclearfuels]

10 hours ago, The Nehor said:

I go to Single Adult activities. This is my general reaction:

I do not go very often.

Time to reframe your interpretation of those events, brah.

Reframe.

Affirmations.

Actualization.

[The Nehor]

4 hours ago, nuclearfuels said:

Time to reframe your interpretation of those events, brah.

Reframe.

Affirmations.

Actualization.

Reframe:

Affirmations:

Actualization - I'm still working my way up the pyramid:

 

[nuclearfuels]

7 hours ago, The Nehor said:

Reframe:

Affirmations:

Actualization - I'm still working my way up the pyramid:

 

I am not comfortable questioning the wisdom of Stuart Smalley.