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Originally posted by Green Monstah
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Got any specifics on the app or what the church told him? Usually the church loves this innovation as they'll usually mimic with their own stuff...kind of like how LDS Tolls was basically a ripoff of that iStake app (or whatever it was called)."Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf -
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No response could have been more genuinely Mormon than that.Originally posted by Omaha 680 View PostNothing lasts, but nothing is lost.
--William Blake, via ShpongleComment
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We got new home teachers last week. We had had the old ones for about 3 months, so I guess it was about time. One of our new ones is a young new member of the bishopric, I would say in his late 20s. Good guy, and very gung-ho, church-wise. He talked to my wife the other night as she was picking up our daughter from youth night. My wife explained that, for the next while, I will be out of town from Sunday afternoon to late Thursday evenings. He suggested that maybe he could come visit on Friday or Saturday night. I can already tell he will not be our favorite home teacher ever.Comment
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What did your wife say?Originally posted by Clark Addison View Post"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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In the standard passive aggressive Mormon way she said "Let me check and see if we are free" and hasn't gotten back to him.Originally posted by Moliere View PostComment
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I think the HPGL has it in for me.
Last night, our home teacher came. He's in the bishopric. He told us that he would probably not be our home teacher much longer, as they were reorganizing everything geographically, so that in the case of an emergency, your home teacher would be close by.
So today I got my new assignment. If I were to drive my car to the homes of each of my three assigned families, and then return home, without ever getting out to even knock on the door, I would arrive home about 70 minutes after I left.
On the plus side, my new companion used to be our home teacher, and he visited us about once every 4 or 5 months (probably my favorite home teacher since I have been in this ward).Comment
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Our new SP has instituted a mandatory 100% HT for every ward in the stake for the month of March. We have hundreds of non actives on our rolls. I mean hundreds and our ward boundaries are crazy. It's two hours and a ferry ride to one area. I have no problem calling people but to be told we have knock on doors is beyond crazy. I just received an email for me to see twelve more people by the last day of the month. We have not had one person come back to church since this has started. I'm not cut out to be in the bishopric as I feel like people have a right to go inactive and if I call and leave a message about HT and they don't call back that's there choice. Am I off base ?Comment
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Yeah just tell them no. BTW I had a high councilman try to guilt trip me once that I needed to do ht for those people who didn't do it. crazy people. ..Originally posted by OceanBlue View Post"Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum
"And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam CarollaComment
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C'mon, man, to believe non church goers have agency is to lack faith.Originally posted by OceanBlue View PostI'm like LeBron James.
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Mandatory? What does that even mean?Originally posted by OceanBlue View Post"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creeksterComment
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Im surprised by the internal struggles some of you tackle as it pertains to these church banalities.Fitter. Happier. More Productive.
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I found out a few weeks ago that I've been marked down as doing between 30-50% HT each month despite the fact that I haven't been HTing for a year nor reported any number whatsoever.Comment
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That's called 'we know SCcoug doesn't HT but I talked to some of his families at an activity so I'm gonna call them visited' home teaching.Originally posted by SCcoug View Post"...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
"You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
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