Avatar4321 Posted November 16, 2019 Posted November 16, 2019 https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/faith/lds-church-receives-certificate-to-conduct-religious-activities-in-vietnam/article_8454f091-cfad-5736-a8d8-2d5186e7a2bf.html The Morning Breaks the Shadows flee. Lo Zions standars is unfurled 3
Duncan Posted November 16, 2019 Posted November 16, 2019 The Church has been in Vietnam for 50 plus years and the mission was organized a few years back. It would be cool if they built a Temple there, Pres. Nelson is going there as we speak! 1
Calm Posted November 16, 2019 Posted November 16, 2019 Does anyone know what difference this makes? The article cites a new law, did that open up religious activity so the Church can expand its work there now once approved or place new requirements that the Church has fulfilled so they can basically go back to what they were doing before? 1
Scott Lloyd Posted November 16, 2019 Posted November 16, 2019 I grew up in the 1960s when the dark cloud of the Vietnam conflict was constantly over us. It influenced an entire generation of Americans -- and not for the better. I'm not sure anyone who is significantly younger than I can fully appreciate this momentous development. 2
blarsen Posted November 16, 2019 Posted November 16, 2019 I met one of the first Vietnamese converts at a church meeting on the Bien Hoa Army/Af base at the start of the Post-Tet offensive, early '68. The small meeting house was right next to another small building that had been rocketed earlier that morning, all of which was the start of a larger ground attack against the base. In the mid-80's I met the same fellow again in SLC, where he was active in helping other Vietnamese refugees. He had been converted by reading an English copy of the BoM. 4
2BizE Posted November 16, 2019 Posted November 16, 2019 17 hours ago, Duncan said: The Church has been in Vietnam for 50 plus years and the mission was organized a few years back. It would be cool if they built a Temple there, Pres. Nelson is going there as we speak! Their plane is probably playing Creedence Clearwater Revival: Up Around the bend. 1
blarsen Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 On 11/16/2019 at 3:38 PM, 2BizE said: Their plane is probably playing Creedence Clearwater Revival: Up Around the bend. They would have been playing "Run through the jungle" back in the '60s; where "over on the mountain thunder magic spoke . . . [to] fill the land with smoke " could refer to Nui Ba-Den, the Black Virgin Mountain.
The Nehor Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 Oh good, we finally won that war. I was getting worried.
blarsen Posted November 19, 2019 Posted November 19, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, The Nehor said: Oh good, we finally won that war. I was getting worried. No, not really. But Hillary DID try to enlist Vietnam as an ally in the war on 'terrah' (the Vietnamese had enough common sense to decline the invitation), and Columbia Sportswear manufactures much of their clothing there, and the Vietnamese hosted a Miss Universe contest about 5 or so years ago. So it's all good . . . . right? Edited November 19, 2019 by blarsen
The Nehor Posted November 19, 2019 Posted November 19, 2019 26 minutes ago, blarsen said: No, not really. But Hillary DID try to enlist Vietnam as an ally in the war on 'terrah' (the Vietnamese had enough common sense to decline the invitation), and Columbia Sportswear manufactures much of their clothing there, and the Vietnamese hosted a Miss Universe contest about 5 or so years ago. So it's all good . . . . right? Nope, I looked it up. It is worse then I thought: https://www.theonion.com/may-1-1975-1819587830
blarsen Posted November 19, 2019 Posted November 19, 2019 28 minutes ago, The Nehor said: Nope, I looked it up. It is worse then I thought: https://www.theonion.com/may-1-1975-1819587830 This is bad news! Somehow it never filtered down to my awareness level or that of anyone else I knew. Just goes to show what important news you miss if you don't read the Onion.😲
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