I learned in church today

[jay santos]

Dear Mr. Santos,

I will thank you to peddle your crass genetic egalitarianism elsewhere.

Signed,
Prince Harry Tic

You can imagine the flood of emotion and pride when I looked on Family Search for the first time as a BYU student and realized I descended from English royalty. Then everyone else in the class did the same thing. Not so special.

[TripletDaddy]

lol. Jay santos took a family history class in college?

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

lol. Jay santos took a family history class in college?

He must like older women.

[jay santos]

lol. Jay santos took a family history class in college?

Yes, I also took BOM, Church History, New Testament, D&C. 14 religion credit hours are required. My fav was Stephen Robinson's New Testament class.

[Paperback Writer]

Nearly every person living the in US in the 1830's could do the same. Royalty bloodlines are well documented and going back 20 generations, you have a million people on your family tree. Chances are you have English royalty on one of them. And that's the bloodline people talk about when they say it traces back to Adam.

While in Jr High in the midwest, my social studies teacher assigned a class project related to genealogy and we had to provide a 4 generation chart. That just wasn't good enough for my mother and I was sent to school packing my Book of Rememberence complete with a large folded out paper of a few lines all the way back to Adam. Only the SS teacher found it interesting and she quickly deduced I was LDS. The rest of the class thought Mormons were weird.

[Sullyute]

I remember a family history teacher telling us that whenever a new general authority is called, they are presented with a book listing their genealogy all the way back to Adam.

That may answer the question of why only white American and Europeans are called as apostles. If they called a minority the chances of having their geneology complete to Adam are slim to none. I am glad to learn that nepotism geneology helps to decide who becomes an apostle of the lord.

[Uncle Ted]

That may answer the question of why only white American and Europeans are called as apostles. If they called a minority the chances of having their geneology complete to Adam are slim to none. I am glad to learn that nepotism geneology helps to decide who becomes an apostle of the lord.

"Some people say a person receives a position in this church through revelation, and others say they get it through inspiriation, but I say they get it through relation. If I hadn't been related to Heber C. Kimball, I wouldn't have been a damn thing in this church." -J.Golden Kimball

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[Moliere]

My stake turns off the wifi during stake conference. Today I'm thankful for the ability to tether my iPad.

[Moliere]

I am literally the salt of the earth...

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I am literally the salt of the earth...

To some degree. Not as much as you are the carbon of the Earth though. I forget what scripture that is.


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[Uncle Ted]

Nearly every person living the in US in the 1830's could do the same. Royalty bloodlines are well documented and going back 20 generations, you have a million people on your family tree. Chances are you have English royalty on one of them. And that's the bloodline people talk about when they say it traces back to Adam.

Lol. Does that include all the "savages" and slaves?

[smokymountainrain]

I learned that one of the 4 year olds in my class was late for church today because as he put it, his mom "is on her period and was throwing fits this morning". With 4-5 year old kids, there are no family secrets.

[wuapinmon]

Lol. Does that include all the "savages" and slaves?

Only 3/5 of them.

[Uncle Ted]

L. Tom spoke at our stake conference and said that the sister missionaries are like "pen up girls".

[pellegrino]

L. Tom spoke at our stake conference and said that the sister missionaries are like "pen up girls".

wth does that even mean?