I learned in church today

[Jeff Lebowski]

In our HP group meeting, I learned that if you pay tithing at the end of the month, you forfeit the blessings (whatever they might be) associated with obedience to that law, throughout that month.

I'm not sure what that means for people who wait and pay it all at the end of the year, or what it means for people like me who have no clue when they pay tithing because their wives do it for them.

uh-oh.

[Uncle Ted]

In our HP group meeting, I learned that if you pay tithing at the end of the month, you forfeit the blessings (whatever they might be) associated with obedience to that law, throughout that month.

I'm not sure what that means for people who wait and pay it all at the end of the year, or what it means for people like me who have no clue when they pay tithing because their wives do it for them.

If you pay your tithing instead of making the farm payment then one of the three Nephites will buy your wheat at a good price...

Tithing Came First

“Should we pay our tithing or make our farm payment?”

That was the dilemma facing my father, Henry L. Smith, in 1920. A few years earlier, he and his family, along with other Latter-day Saints, had been driven from the Mormon colonies in Mexico. Later, he and Mama were among the first to settle the tiny LDS community of Virden, New Mexico.


Those Latter-day Saint farmers were hard-working people. And they trusted in the Lord. If it rained, they made it; if it didn’t rain, they didn’t make it. Our family was not prosperous—at least not in worldly goods. Daddy had less than thirty acres; a few sacks of grain was usually about all we had to show for a whole year’s work. But we were prosperous in our love for each other and in spiritual blessings from our Father in Heaven.


After faith and prayers and lots of hard work, we had a good wheat harvest in 1920. But the demand and the selling price were very low. Everybody was poor. Through bartering, we had enough to eat. But the farm payment had to be cash. And there simply wasn’t much of that anywhere.


Now the mortgage payment was due. Since several families had purchased the farmland as a group, dividing it up among the various families, they all had to make their payments on the same day. And it was important that no one default—or everyone’s property would be in jeopardy. If someone couldn’t come through with his share, the others would put in what they could to make up the difference. But since everyone was in essentially the same financial situation, it was hard to be the one who couldn’t pay.

[...]

“We felt we had to pay our tithing, but we could not fail with our land payment,” he wrote in his journal. “We went to the Lord and placed our problem before Him. When we were through, we had the impression we should pay our tithing first.”


Virden is a small town where everybody knows everybody. And because it is off the beaten track, few people pass through. But, according to Daddy’s record, a few days after he had paid the tithing, “a man whom I had never seen before came and purchased all of our wheat at a good price. We now had the money for our land payment.”

[...]

http://www.lds.org/ensign/1986/12/tithing-came-first

[lambdacoug]

Granted, I skipped Sunday School, but other than that I did not hear one thing about either Duck Dynasty or gay marriage in Utah at church yesterday.

[thesaint258]

No fireworks in my ward even though the Sunday School lesson was on the Family Proclamation. It was a pretty standard lesson, and even the most conservative guy in the ward stayed away from anything specific in regard to Friday's decision.

[Katy Lied]

Catholics and other churches always refer to it as "marriage between one man and one woman..." Only the Mormons say "marriage between a man and a woman..." The wording is odd and was quite disharmonious the first time I heard it, although I've gotten used to it so much so that the "one man one woman" sounds weird. Anyway, we had that lesson on the Family Proclamation. I was dying to raise my hand and say that the wording used in the Proclamation in no way prohibits polygamy or plural marriage or even polyandry. I decided against it because I am pretty quiet in class when I am not teaching.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Catholics and other churches always refer to it as "marriage between one man and one woman..." Only the Mormons say "marriage between a man and a woman..." The wording is odd and was quite disharmonious the first time I heard it, although I've gotten used to it so much so that the "one man one woman" sounds weird. Anyway, we had that lesson on the Family Proclamation. I was dying to raise my hand and say that the wording used in the Proclamation in no way prohibits polygamy or plural marriage or even polyandry. I decided against it because I am pretty quiet in class when I am not teaching.

The church has used the "one man - one woman" wording countless times. Including their official statement on marriage:

http://www.lds.org/tools/print/artic...on-of-marriage

[Moliere]

My son made this last week during sacrament

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

I just learned I'm in the mission field. I'm expecting package of cookies from all of you soon.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Official letter from Church HQ read over the pulpit in Utah wards today. Basically said that the church is still against gay marriage and they will not perform gay marriages and nobody should use a church building for a gay reception.

[falafel]

Visiting a Provo ward today. I learned that when the Apostles take the sacrament in the temple, they each get a whole slice of bread.

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[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

Visiting a Provo ward today. I learned that when the Apostles take the sacrament in the temple, they each get a whole slice of bread.

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What kind of bread?

[Non Sequitur]

Visiting a Provo ward today. I learned that when the Apostles take the sacrament in the temple, they each get a whole slice of bread.

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You're not going to wash down a whole slice with a thimble of water. I'm guessing somewhere there's a frosty carafe of Pellegrino.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

I learned in church today

Visiting a Provo ward today. I learned that when the Apostles take the sacrament in the temple, they each get a whole slice of bread.

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It's probably something fancy like Great Harvest. Lay ministry my ass!


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[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

You're not going to wash down a whole slice with a thimble of water. I'm guessing somewhere there's a frosty carafe of Pellegrino.

Great point, a whole slice of bread and only a small sacrament cup of water? That would be some serious dry mouth.

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Great point, a whole slice of bread and only a small sacrament cup of water? That would be some serious dry mouth.

This explains many conference talks.


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