I learned in church today

[PaloAltoCougar]

We received a new sister missionary yesterday, and now our ward's companionship consists of sisters from Albania and China. For more than half of my lifetime, the idea of having a membership of any size in either of those companies would have been absurd, and now missionaries are coming from those countries. It's also cool that between them, the sisters are fluent in English, Albanian, Mandarin, French, German, Finnish, Spanish and Greek.

[thesaint258]

The chickpea sandwich is correct. Red Rock. Although, the rest was incorrect. No extended calling. Yet. Although our building did pick up another ward so now we're 8, 10, 12, and 2. So awesome.

That is an awful schedule. Have you started looking at houses yet?

[falafel]

Every time I've ever moved, a company has done it, or I move everything that can be moved by me, and then I hire 1 YM ($15 per hour) that I trust, and then he and I do all the 2-person stuff together. Last time we moved ourselves, the HP/EQ were asking to help, and I told them no. I've seen what they do to do people's stuff, and the walls.

You learned this at church yesterday?

[Northwestcoug]

You learned this at church yesterday?

I didn't learn this in church, but I did receive this email:

Brothers and Sisters,

Our stake received a time sensitive request from Elder Daniel L. Johnson of
the First Quorum of the Seventy who is asking each of the returned
missionaries in our stake (young and old, male and female) to complete
these two statements:

1. "My mission changed me because..."
2. "My mission was successful because.."

Each response should include the returned missionary's name, the mission in
which he/she served and the year in which he/she entered the Missionary
Training Center. *Please have everyone email their responses to a new
email account we have set up for this purpose: 'randomldsward@gmail.com'
*, *no later than Thursday, October 16, 2014!*

Since we have less than one week to get as many responses as possible from
the returned missionaries in the stake, please forward this request through
any avenue available in your wards, quorums, groups and organizations. If
you feel it is appropriate, please discuss this during your ward council
and presidency meetings, and announce this during priesthood and relief
society opening exercises this Sunday. We do not currently know how this
information will be used, but we will keep you informed as we learn more.

Thank you brothers and sisters for getting the word out and encouraging the
members to respond right away. Please let us know if you have any
questions.

Best regards,
Stake executive secretary

I don't have any desire to respond, but I think it's funny that this request is so priority that it's being rushed through the stake before anyone knows what they are going to do with the information!

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Yesterday I received an email from one of the councilors in the stake presidency inviting me to a political campaign fundraiser for a guy running for Lt. Governor. Oh, that guy running for Lt. Governor just so happens to be the other councilor in the stake presidency. My wife got the same email.

It's nice to see that LDStools is hastening the work.

[Uncle Ted]

Yesterday I received an email from one of the councilors in the stake presidency inviting me to a political campaign fundraiser for a guy running for Lt. Governor. Oh, that guy running for Lt. Governor just so happens to be the other councilor in the stake presidency. My wife got the same email.

It's nice to see that LDStools is hastening the work.

You may want to send a reminder (using an anonymous email account, of course) to the stake presidency about how it states in the handbook that ward/stake directories are to be used only for church purposes. I publish an unique email address (alias) that I know is only in the directory so I know exactly where they harvested my address from. Also, you may want to reply and let him know you can't make it because the other party's fundraiser happens to be the same night.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Yesterday I received an email from one of the councilors in the stake presidency inviting me to a political campaign fundraiser for a guy running for Lt. Governor. Oh, that guy running for Lt. Governor just so happens to be the other councilor in the stake presidency. My wife got the same email.

It's nice to see that LDStools is hastening the work.

There is a Mo running for Gov in Oregon and my FiL hosted a dinner for him and sent out information to everyone in the stake about it. Then brought the candidate to church with him where the guy made an impromptu stump speech to open PHood. My FiL is now really mad at his SP for "not understanding the whole point of the church" after the asap called and told him that wasn't appropriate.

[Uncle Ted]

There is a Mo running for Gov in Oregon and my FiL hosted a dinner for him and sent out information to everyone in the stake about it. Then brought the candidate to church with him where the guy made an impromptu stump speech to open PHood. My FiL is now really mad at his SP for "not understanding the whole point of the church" after the asap called and told him that wasn't appropriate.

So the Mo running for Gov in Oregon is a democrat?

[MarkGrace]

I learned that people can take parkour classes.

[BigPiney]

I learned that people can take parkour classes.

That would be fun.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

So the Mo running for Gov in Oregon is a democrat?

Fetch no! He's no fan of gays and atheists http://byronbeck.com/home/1717-denni...to-editor.html

[Blueintheface]

We received a new sister missionary yesterday, and now our ward's companionship consists of sisters from Albania and China. For more than half of my lifetime, the idea of having a membership of any size in either of those companies would have been absurd, and now missionaries are coming from those countries. It's also cool that between them, the sisters are fluent in English, Albanian, Mandarin, French, German, Finnish, Spanish and Greek.

Can't tell you were already in work-mode on a Monday morning.

[chrisrenrut]

That would be fun to watch.

Ridiculousness is my guilty pleasure on TV, and the clips with parkour gone wrong are among the best. I bet there are lots of awesome wipeouts in a beginning parkour class.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Can't tell you were already in work-mode on a Monday morning.

Ha. Either that, or it's due to my having read China, Inc. No explanation for Albania, though.

[Green Monstah]

Fetch no! He's no fan of gays and atheists http://byronbeck.com/home/1717-denni...to-editor.html

There goes the Log Cabin Republican vote.