I learned in church today

[FMCoug]

My wife learned today that the reason LDS churches have stoves & ovens, even though actual cooking/baking are forbidden, is to feed masses of refugees when society collapses at the End of Days.

This is also the reason for the strategic arrangement of LDS-owned Girls' Camps throughout the Mountain West. The Camps have been pre-fitted to accommodate 20,000 - 30,000 refugees each, which will come in handy when political authority has disintegrated and we've fled to the hills to escape contagion, nuclear winter, and Nightrider & Toecutter's gang.

Does this mean we can start living at the Heber Valley camp after Obama is re-elected?

[Tim]

Elaine Dalton (YW General President) spoke in my ward today. Her talk was relatively saccharine and filled with repeated exclamations of how wonderful the youth in this area are -- how she'd never seen such youth in the church -- even the future leaders of the church... etc... Overall she was lovely, though, so it was nice to have her in our ward.

I was focused mostly on the choir number immediately before her talk. I lead the choir in my ward and we did an excellent a cappella rendition of "I Stand All Amazed." Totally happy with how it turned out.

[byu71]

Elaine Dalton (YW General President) spoke in my ward today. Her talk was relatively saccharine and filled with repeatedly exclamations of how wonderful the youth in this area are -- how she'd never seen such youth in the church -- even the future leaders of the church... etc... Overall she was lovely, though, so it was nice to have her in our ward.

I was focused mostly on the choir number immediately before her talk. I lead the choir in my ward and we did an excellent a cappella rendition of "I Stand All Amazed." Totally happy with how it turned out.

Good job. This warms my heart that you are active and involved. After reading some of your posts in the political sections I was concerned you were no longer part of the fold.

[pellegrino]

Elaine Dalton (YW General President) spoke in my ward today. Her talk was relatively saccharine and filled with repeatedly exclamations of how wonderful the youth in this area are -- how she'd never seen such youth in the church -- even the future leaders of the church... etc... Overall she was lovely, though, so it was nice to have her in our ward.

I was focused mostly on the choir number immediately before her talk. I lead the choir in my ward and we did an excellent a cappella rendition of "I Stand All Amazed." Totally happy with how it turned out.

are you the choir director?

[Tim]

Good job. This warms my heart that you are active and involved. After reading some of your posts in the political sections I was concerned you were no longer part of the fold.

I'm low on faith in the doctrine but I've become very happy with my relationship with the church from a social and emotional perspective. I enjoy weekly sacrament meeting attendance as well as choir practice the hour before sacrament meeting. I love my friends at church and have no desire to be out of the ward. I've found a spot in the church the past few months that makes me happy.

[Tim]

are you the choir director?

Yup!

[Donuthole]

I'm low on faith in the doctrine but I've become very happy with my relationship with the church from a social and emotional perspective. I enjoy weekly sacrament meeting attendance as well as choir practice the hour before sacrament meeting. I love my friends at church and have no desire to be out of the ward. I've found a spot in the church the past few months that makes me happy.

For someone who just wants to enjoy life and have fun along the way, that was a pretty serious response to a playful nudge.

[Tim]

For someone who just wants to enjoy life and have fun along the way, that was a pretty serious response to a playful nudge.

What did I say that was serious? I was happy to write what I wrote. It makes me happy to find a spot in the church that works for me. I didn't see his words as a playful nudge, just a fun comment. I felt like explaining my story in a bit of detail as a response. Where's the seriousness?

[Donuthole]

What did I say that was serious.

Your entire response was serious. And 71's entire post was pretty obviously not serious.

[Tim]

Your entire response was serious.

Um... no it wasn't.

[The Fourth Nephite]

A retired Army Nurse talked about being in Vietnam when we lost (her words) and seeing the last helicopters evacuate and how sad she was because she knew that as those last helicopters left, so did free agency for that country.

She also talked about serving during the gulf war and how the people there not only don't have free agency, they don't even know what free agency is.

All in all, one of the better talks I've heard in a while.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Elaine Dalton (YW General President) spoke in my ward today. Her talk was relatively saccharine and filled with repeated exclamations of how wonderful the youth in this area are -- how she'd never seen such youth in the church -- even the future leaders of the church... etc... Overall she was lovely, though, so it was nice to have her in our ward.

I was focused mostly on the choir number immediately before her talk. I lead the choir in my ward and we did an excellent a cappella rendition of "I Stand All Amazed." Totally happy with how it turned out.

one of my best friend's sister married Elaine's son. I've met her on a few occassions and once you get used to her stressed sincerity and expression, she's a very sweet woman. She is typically reliable for a decent talk.

[Clark Addison]

Elaine Dalton (YW General President) spoke in my ward today. Her talk was relatively saccharine and filled with repeated exclamations of how wonderful the youth in this area are -- how she'd never seen such youth in the church -- even the future leaders of the church... etc... Overall she was lovely, though, so it was nice to have her in our ward.

I was focused mostly on the choir number immediately before her talk. I lead the choir in my ward and we did an excellent a cappella rendition of "I Stand All Amazed." Totally happy with how it turned out.

I can understand her being a little starstruck, as she had just come from a meeting with my two daughters Friday night.

Speaking of which, as Tim has already pointed out, the General YW President was in NC over the weekend, and Charlotte specifically late last week. In addition, the General Relief Society President (Linda Burton) was also in Charlotte last week.

My assumption is that they were here for the Democratic Convention, helping to develop the party plantform.

[Sullyute]

I learned that the way God shows he loves an infant is by letting her mother die in child birth but then sending a hot water bottle and a ragdoll in the mail to make up for it.

[PaloAltoCougar]

We had a lively discussion in yesterday's Gospel Doctrine class, but it got off to a shaky start when I asked Joe, a much older guy, to read Helaman 6:2 which begins, "For behold, there were many of the Nephites who had become hardened and impenitent and grossly wicked..." To the delight of the class, he read it as, "For behold, there were many of the Nephites who had become hardened and impotent..." and then started muttering, "How is that possible.. oh, wait...", followed by various comments from the class like "Freudian", and "that must be those herbal remedies that we discussed a couple of weeks ago," etc.

I had some fun with it but, as a woman remarked to Mrs. PAC in the midst of the fun, "This is the first time I've ever seen [PAC] blush." Not helping, the missus observed that was another side effect of the medication.

In conclusion, I learned never to call on Joe again.