I learned in church today

[Moliere]

My wife was just called to be a cub scout den mother for 9 year olds.

lol @ MMM.

May God have mercy on her soul (MJ has a similar calling)

And if den meetings are held at your house, may God have mercy on your house.

[bluegoose]

My wife was just called to be a cub scout den mother for 9 year olds.

lol @ MMM.

My wife just completed her 3 year sentence.

Aaaannnnnd, she was promptly called into the same calling, but with the girls. Activity days, or achievement days. Whatever it is called, its basically cub scouts without the pressure to attend Roundtable or scout committee meetings.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

None of the youth will go inactive if you use the one year calendar system a member of our bishopric created in 1994.

[marsupial]

My wife was just called to be a cub scout den mother for 9 year olds.

lol @ MMM.

9-year-old boys are fun. Sounds like a great calling.

[pellegrino]

None of the youth will go inactive if you use the one year calendar system a member of our bishopric created in 1994.

please, elaborate

[Colly Wolly]

I was teaching the primary lesson to my 5th graders on the day of pentecost. Was going over background that Jesus had been crucified, resurrected, ministered to his apostles, and then returned to be with Heavenly Father.

11 year old girl raises her hand and asks me how Jesus returned to be with Heavenly Father. I pause for a few seconds, and then proceed to answer thusly:

"Have you ever seen Star Trek? 'Beam me up Scotty?' He did that. He teleported".

She looked at me with a blank stare, and I move on with the lesson. Oh well.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

please, elaborate

You need to have every event clandared out for a year, then break it down into 30-60-90 with some kind of elaborate weekly meeting schedule to keep up on the plans. I stopped listening and was reading CUF and checking my fantasy team.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Returning home from a pleasant weekend of golf and fine dining with Cuffers (although Saturday night is a total blank), I missed church today but Mrs. PAC told me they had quite a lesson on chastity in RS. Among other things, the instructor mentioned the need for talking about this subject with one's children, and began with this intro: "When I was young, my mother asked me if I knew what a blow job was." Mrs. PAC could not recall that term being uttered from behind a church pulpit before.

[wuapinmon]

"When I was young, my mother asked me if I knew what a blow job was." Mrs. PAC could not recall that term being uttered from behind a church pulpit before.

:yikes: followed by followed by

[NorthwestUteFan]

So... did she learn the answer to that question?

[Solon]

9-year-old boys are fun. Sounds like a great calling.

I didn't learn this in church, but marsupial's line made me remember something I learned while camping near Moab over Labor Day.

It's okay to say you like kids, working with kids, etc. It's not okay to specify an age.

Okay: "I like being around young people."

Not okay: "I like twelve-year-olds."

[TripletDaddy]

I didn't learn this in church, but marsupial's line made me remember something I learned while camping near Moab over Labor Day.

It's okay to say you like kids, working with kids, etc. It's not okay to specify an age.

Okay: "I like being around young people."

Not okay: "I like twelve-year-olds."

What were you doing while camping in Moab that taught you such a lesson?

[Solon]

What were you doing while camping in Moab that taught you such a lesson?

LOL. Luckily, it was someone else relating HIS awkward backstory. I was just enjoying the campfire.

[Moliere]

None of the youth will go inactive if you use the one year calendar system a member of our bishopric created in 1994.

We could really use this in our ward. Could you send me a link?

[Northwestcoug]

Our priesthood lesson was on the post-mortal spirit world. I'm not sure if others had the same reaction, but I thought the chapter was actually poorly written.

First off, the tone in places seems bad. Here's a paragraph that seems included as a scare tactic:

"Family relationships are also important. President Jedediah M. Grant, a counselor to Brigham Young, saw the spirit world and described to Heber C. Kimball the organization that exists there: “He said that the people he there saw were organized in family capacities. … He said, ‘When I looked at families, there was a deficiency in some, … for I saw families that would not be permitted to come and dwell together, because they had not honored their calling here’” (Deseret News, Dec. 10, 1856, 316–17)."

Great way to make parents of wayward children feel even better.

Then I'm not sure, but I think the following is not correct doctrine:

"Also in the spirit prison are those who rejected the gospel after it was preached to them either on earth or in the spirit prison. These spirits suffer in a condition known as hell. They have removed themselves from the mercy of Jesus Christ, who said, “Behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; but if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit” (D&C 19:16–18). After suffering for their sins, they will be allowed, through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, to inherit the lowest degree of glory, which is the telestial kingdom.

Two things. Although I've heard this doctrine before, but it seems to me that this is short-changing the atonement. Isn't it infinite? Doesn't it completely cleanse sin? So how can it only help part-way with those who reject the gospel?

Second: I went back to D&C 76 to check on those who go to the telestial kingdom. Verse 74 refers to those who didn't receive Jesus's testimony in the flesh, but afterwards received it, but this is in the section of the terrestrial kingdom. I couldn't find any verse that talked about those who repented of their sins after death and accepted the gospel going to the telestial kingdom. Am I wrong here?

And as usual with these matters, more questions came than answers. Verse 72 says that those who died without law go to the terrestial kingdom. Doesn't that completely contradict the B of M and section 138???

In all, not a great effort by the Correlation Committee