I learned in church today

[Pheidippides]

Usually not, no. It's most often a lazy person's copout.

I did it once where I thought it mostly worked, though, in a lesson I did on the First Vision. I broke the class into four groups and gave each one version of the First Vision and told them to read over it, then we brought the entire class back together to construct a "comprehensive" timeline.

I did this too. But usually it's a tactic I try to avoid.

[doctorcoug]

I'm on sex offender guard duty today. I get to sit outside the primary room, surf the net and make sure nobody bothers the kiddos when they go to the bathroom or get a drink of water.

What if the guard is an unknown sex offender? Do you get to stop people from talking to kids? Do you let the suit wearing members enter the bathroom while you detain the blue shirt wearers? What about non-tie wearers? Did the bishop have a lecture on how to spot a sex offender? I'd be curious to see what he said.

Anxiously waiting...

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[clackamascoug]

What I learned in Church Today.

A longtime ward member was convicted of sex abuse of an adopted daughter on Friday. It was generally accepted that the troubled young gal was "making it up" as she had confessed to other young girls in the ward that she wanted to get back at her mother. With what appeared to be a formailty, and with every ounce of physical evidence in favor of the of the father, the jury still came in on 25 counts of guilty. Now my fellow ward member is on suicide watch, and he vows that he will not do a prison term for a crime that he did not commit. I've never seen anything hit a ward so hard in my life. HP group just exlpoded into a call to arms to help said brethern. Very Interesting to say the least.

[doctorcoug]

Anxiously awaiting....

via a galaxy s3 far far away

[Green Monstah]

What I learned in Church Today.

A longtime ward member was convicted of sex abuse of an adopted daughter on Friday. It was generally accepted that the troubled young gal was "making it up" as she had confessed to other young girls in the ward that she wanted to get back at her mother. With what appeared to be a formailty, and with every ounce of physical evidence in favor of the of the father, the jury still came in on 25 counts of guilty. Now my fellow ward member is on suicide watch, and he vows that he will not do a prison term for a crime that he did not commit. I've never seen anything hit a ward so hard in my life. HP group just exlpoded into a call to arms to help said brethern. Very Interesting to say the least.

Very sad for all involved.

[doctorcoug]

Very sad for all involved.

Absolutely. Either a child was molested or an innocent man is going to jail.

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[The Fourth Nephite]

What if the guard is an unknown sex offender? Do you get to stop people from talking to kids? Do you let the suit wearing members enter the bathroom while you detain the blue shirt wearers? What about non-tie wearers? Did the bishop have a lecture on how to spot a sex offender? I'd be curious to see what he said.

Anxiously waiting...

via a galaxy s3 far far away

There's 5 sex offenders in our ward boundaries and only one that comes regularly. Everybody knows who he is. About 5 months ago he got into a confrontation in Sacrament meeting where he and a mostly inactive lady stood up and started swearing at each other during the closing hymn.

If I saw him go into a bathroom that had kids in it. I would follow him in. If in passing, he had a short conversation with a kid, I probably wouldn't do anything, but if he had anything beyond that, I would tell him to move along.

[The Fourth Nephite]

Anxiously awaiting....

via a galaxy s3 far far away

Sorry. I've been in meetings all day long and just got home.

[doctorcoug]

Sorry. I've been in meetings all day long and just got home.

It was a bad joke, sorry.

via a galaxy s3 far far away

[LA Ute]

I had to go to a client retreat and missed church. But I was up at 5:30 anyway and just finished a day just as long as a typical church-filled Sunday. Not a great day.

[The Fourth Nephite]

I learned that the mission I'm in (St. George, Utah), has, give or take 10,000, approximately:

100,000 active members
100,000 inactive members
100,000 non-members

I wonder if there is a mission anywhere with lower total population or a smaller amount of non-members.

[DrumNFeather]

I learned that my 4 year old announced to the entire primary (with my wife in the room) that her parents "don't let her read scriptures every day." All eyes quickly turned to my wife and she was a little . Kids.

[YOhio]

I learned that my 4 year old announced to the entire primary (with my wife in the room) that her parents "don't let her read scriptures every day." All eyes quickly turned to my wife and she was a little . Kids.

Ha! That's great.

[Hypoplastic]

Yesterday's sacrament meeting topic was Work and Self Reliance.

Sister Speaker, after giving a list of her daily routine, told us how appropriate it was for her to be given the opportunity to address the congregation on the topic of Work. I missed about half her talk, but my 13 year old let me know it was pretty much a sermon to boast how hard she works.

I learned from Brother Speaker that working hard so you can retire early is a "perversion of God's way of thinking." We must continue to work a paying job even if we achieve economic independence because it is by the sweat of our brow that we eat. Keeping busy with other productive activities apparently doesn't cut it.

I also learned from him that men are lazy and should learn to work as hard as women.

[Sullyute]

I also learned from him that men are lazy and should learn to work as hard as women.

As a generality, I don't think I can disagree.