I learned in church today

[TripletDaddy]

Why not just remind folks to clean up after themselves if they bring snacks for the little chilluns? Seems to be a reasonable request.

I always bring food to Church. For me. Forget the Puffy Check. MMM brings their snacks. I get hungry or bored so I am always rocking some foodstuffs. I used to bring some outrageous stuff to Sacrament back when we lived in OC. A friend and I went through a phase wherein we would try to out-do each other every week.....I'm talking sneaking in full sandwiches, thermos full of soup, pizza slice, etc. The best thing my friend ever brought was scrambled eggs and bacon with a pancake. One of my better efforts was walking in during the opening hymn and eating a scoop of ice cream in a cone.

All of this came to an end once MMM had decided enough was enough. It was a fun 3 or 4 months of Church, though. These days my snacks are much more tame because I am in the Primary and don't want to share my stuff with the kids.

[Blueintheface]

Why not just remind folks to clean up after themselves if they bring snacks for the little chilluns? Seems to be a reasonable request.

I always bring food to Church. For me. Forget the Puffy Check. MMM brings their snacks. I get hungry or bored so I am always rocking some foodstuffs. I used to bring some outrageous stuff to Sacrament back when we lived in OC. A friend and I went through a phase wherein we would try to out-do each other every week.....I'm talking sneaking in full sandwiches, thermos full of soup, pizza slice, etc. The best thing my friend ever brought was scrambled eggs and bacon with a pancake. One of my better efforts was walking in during the opening hymn and eating a scoop of ice cream in a cone.

All of this came to an end once MMM had decided enough was enough. It was a fun 3 or 4 months of Church, though. These days my snacks are much more tame because I am in the Primary and don't want to share my stuff with the kids.

UD, you need to apologize, ahoramismo!!!

[Moliere]

I am having a tough time thinking of a sillier or more inconsequential thing for a stake presidency to be concerned about.

We had a SP that once spent 30 minutes during ward conference telling our ward that we needed to be reverent in the sacrament room to the extent that we should not converse. In fact, he extended it to the foyer, where he said we could converse but only if we whispered. At the end of that meeting the entire congregation got up and quietly walked out of the room and to their cars (no socializing at all). This SP is now in a seventy.

Three weeks later everything was back to normal

[Omaha 680]

In last year's ward conference, the same SP counselor called out a brand new member (baptized the previous evening) during his discussion of wearing white shirts (as a way to show respect for the sacrament) by saying he was confident that Brother R (who is on disability for an injury sustained on the bomb squad in Afghanistan and who is raising three young boys alone because his wife is in jail for trying to murder him, and who was wearing a nice blue shirt that day) would be wearing a white shirt the following Sunday.

Yikes.

[LA Ute]

I learned in church yesterday (again) how fragile life and health can be. A man I've home taught for years is hospitalized with Guillain–Barré syndrome. He's pretty much paralyzed (for now) and on a ventilator but will likely survive - we are not sure to what extent he will recover full use of his limbs or what long-term disability he may have. This man is in his early fifties and was the picture of health before this hit him out of the blue. Meanwhile everyone is praying.

Don't mean to be a downer but I seem to need reminders like this from time to time.

[Portland Ute]

I am having a tough time thinking of a sillier or more inconsequential thing for a stake presidency to be concerned about.

Women wearing leggin's might be very close.

[NorthwestUteFan]

Yikes.

Wow, no kidding. SoCal, how old is this President C? Could he be experiencing early stages of Alzheimers?

LA, thanks for the story. A good friend picked up Guillan-Barre while working "overseas" a few years ago. He went from perfectly healthy to wishing he was dead over the course of four weeks. He said it felt like every nerve ending was on fire. He has recovered somewhat but still but has numbness in extremities and can't stand for more than a few minutes. He is still working but can no longer go "overseas" and has thus taken a huge cut in pay.

[Green Monstah]

Women wearing leggin's might be very close.

I hate to be naive, but what precisely are "leggins"?

[Portland Ute]

I hate to be naive, but what precisely are "leggins"?

Davis County Relief Society pronunciation of "leggings".

[wuapinmon]

The apostrophe weeps.

[Portland Ute]

The apostrophe weeps.

'Tis a shame.

[clackamascoug]

The apostrophe weeps.

Weeping is a symptom of AAS.

(apostrophe atrophy syndrome)

[Portland Ute]

Why would the apostrophe weep when it gets to stand in for the omitted "g" in leggings?

[UtahDan]

UD, you need to apologize, ahoramismo!!!

Some players need to be coddled, others need to be pushed. My work is done here.

[SoCalCoug]

Wow, no kidding. SoCal, how old is this President C? Could he be experiencing early stages of Alzheimers?

My guess is he's pushing 50. He's an attorney with a large insurance defense firm.