I learned in church today

[wuapinmon]

Seems to me that LDS girls, at least the ones I knew, were already following that advice 20+ years ago. Maybe just my bad luck.

According to most of my mission companions, they had to avoid LDS girls just to be able to go long enough without sexual contact to get on a mission. That was not the case I enjoyed. In fact, the only advance I got back then was a soccer mom in the parking lot of the grocery store where I worked telling me that loved my cologne as she leaned in a smelled my neck while I put her groceries in the car. While my mind spent the next 48-72 hours running scenarios in my head, the reality was that it scared the hell out of me.

[pellegrino]

God has an estimated 90 billion spirit children. When you compare that to the current church membership, it's 2000 people controlled by Satan for every one Latter Day Saint.

[OceanBlue]

We had about 700 Young Single Adults show up this year. Down a little from previous years.

Kind of a funny story. One of my duties today was being a parking/ traffic attendant. A guy pulls in and looks like he is going to change clothes in his car so I tell him to feel free to change in the middle school bathroom. He says ok and goes inside. After the service I see him talking and hanging out with everyone and he is still in his shorts and soccer shirt. Not a big deal at our southern surfer beach ward. We start talking and come to find out he is a non mormon college kid who came to play Sunday soccer and living and working at the beach for the summer. It was his first weekend at the beach, goes inside to change into his soccer clothes but sees hundreds of beautiful LDS women and attends service. All these YSA invite him to activites at Duck Beach, our three female missionaries meet him and he is invited to dinner by a million members. At this point he thinks our Church is totally amazing. I hope he still likes our Ward next week when hundreds of YSA's are gone and we are back in our regular building.

[FN Phat]

My in-laws Re visiting us for a week or two. My FIL was in HP and the discussion was on manners and how to conduct in various settings (I thought that he was mistaken and went to the priest lesson ). The teacher asked the group, "imagine that you were invited by President Obama to the White House for dinner"... Before he could continue a HP that is a Vietnam vet and retired Postal Servicemen cuts him off and response "I wouldn't go. No way in hell" iPU would have been proud!

[Pheidippides]

And we've got non-correlated singing from the pulpit during F&T today! Actually a reasonable impromptu performance of a semi-spiritual type song (the woman is Jamaican - do they have spirituals?) and on topic. Sad my stake president isn't here so I could see his head explode.

[San Juan Sun]

Random question: what proportion of young men in the church will go on missions at age 18, that would have been unable/unwilling/unworthy/etc by age 19?

[San Juan Sun]

And we've got non-correlated singing from the pulpit during F&T today! Actually a reasonable impromptu performance of a semi-spiritual type song (the woman is Jamaican - do they have spirituals?

Singing at church is a huge part of Jamaican religious expression. Most churches have very active bands and choirs. Our sedate Victorian hymns did not excite the average investigator willing to come to church. We lost some good investigators simply because 3 hours of Mormon church was boring to them. I remember one lady ask us how we could claim to be the only Church with the Holy Ghost with services like that.

[ERCougar]

first presidency letter on bsa was read today. it came across very awkwardly. I wonder how many of the young men were just going 'wtf? why are they talking about sex?' and for the ones who did know why they were talking about sex, I'm not sure that letter did any good.

[Pheidippides]

Singing at church is a huge part of Jamaican religious expression. Most churches have very active bands and choirs. Our sedate Victorian hymns did not excite the average investigator willing to come to church. We lost some good investigators simply because 3 hours of Mormon church was boring to them. I remember one lady ask us how we could claim to be the only Church with the Holy Ghost with services like that.

That totally makes sense. And I thought it was awesome how she just busted out into full-on song, not caring whatsoever what anybody thought.

[Non Sequitur]

And we've got non-correlated singing from the pulpit during F&T today! Actually a reasonable impromptu performance of a semi-spiritual type song (the woman is Jamaican - do they have spirituals?) and on topic. Sad my stake president isn't here so I could see his head explode.

When I was a kid, I attended the missionary farewell of my girlfriend's brother. Her other brother was 17, not very active, had long hair and fronted a garage band. The younger son was joining the father and missionary brother in a musical performance and was asked to introduce the song. He walks up to pulpit, like Steven Tyler in a suit, and announces, "The tune we're going to do for you is I Need Thee Every Hour."

[Dwight Schr-ute]

And we've got non-correlated singing from the pulpit during F&T today! Actually a reasonable impromptu performance of a semi-spiritual type song (the woman is Jamaican - do they have spirituals?) and on topic. Sad my stake president isn't here so I could see his head explode.

Just as long as she still kept to the testimony glove...

[All-American]

Random question: what proportion of young men in the church will go on missions at age 18, that would have been unable/unwilling/unworthy/etc by age 19?

Small, but they will have been less inconvenienced for not having to wait until 19.

[jay santos]

Random question: what proportion of young men in the church will go on missions at age 18, that would have been unable/unwilling/unworthy/etc by age 19?

40%.

Who knows, but I think it would be a significant number. I think a lot of boys get lost that year between high school graduation and age 19. This will cut that down significantly.

[Guest]

Random question: what proportion of young men in the church will go on missions at age 18, that would have been unable/unwilling/unworthy/etc by age 19?

I know someone that couldn't leave on time because he told his stake president that he had made out with his girlfriend. I'm not sure that all stake presidents and bishops are quite this strict but if you to use this as a baseline, then I would suspect the numbers of unworthy missionaries would be very high. Maybe as high as 65%. Who in high school hasn't made out with their girlfriend?

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I know someone that couldn't leave on time because he told his stake president that he had made out with his girlfriend. I'm not sure that all stake presidents and bishops are quite this strict but if you to use this as a baseline, then I would suspect the numbers of unworthy missionaries would be very high. Maybe as high as 65%. Who in high school hasn't made out with their girlfriend?

I'd suspect he told you that because he didn't want you to know he went beyond making out with his girlfriend.