17 and 15 yo daughters are both excited. Both already planned on serving but this makes it much more likely.
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We will see how many girls go away to college and decide to bolt after one school year, right in their primes.Fitter. Happier. More Productive.
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15 year-old daughter had her life planned out and wanted to go at 21. She is now recalculating her life plan. I bet she'll go at 19.“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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My 18 y.o. daughter has talked a number of times about going on a mission, and now she's really stoked about the chance to go next year.Comment
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I can't stop laughing.Comment
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I hope notOriginally posted by San Juan Sun View Post"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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Probably mtnbiker's avatar.Originally posted by jay santos View Postτὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσινComment
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I don't know . . . something about a laughing assassin.Originally posted by jay santos View Post
My concern about encouraging more young women to serve would be that it would it would make the completion of the college degree less likely, but that's sheer speculation.Comment
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Interesting point.Originally posted by Babs View Post“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-ExuperyComment
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I've been thinking that the Sisters might enjoy missions more now that they won't have to be "supervised" by much younger and stupider Elders in as many cases.
We have a cousin who was a 22-year old Harvard grad when she went on the mission -- of course she is really nice and would never say it, but had to be kind of weird for her to have to take orders from 19-year old country bumpkin Elders in Hungary. Now at least there won't ordinarily be such a big age difference.
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My cousin posted on FB yesterday that he was discouraged to hear that the average marriage age in Utah is about to drop even lower. In the same vain, I can't help but wonder how many engagements were suddenly put on hold.I told him he was a goddamn Nazi Stormtrooper.Comment
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Average marriageable age for LDS girls before:Originally posted by Dwight Schr-ute View Post
18 years
After:
20.5 years
Men before:
21 years
After:
20 years.
Doesn't that net us a little bit higher average marrying age?
Women: +2.5 years
Men: -1 year
Net: 1.5 years older on average all around. Right?Comment
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Think how great it would have been had they also announced coed companionships were also being introduced.
Is there going to be a ton of pressure to get married as freshmen, or is it now going to become the norm for the girls to go on missions? I think the latter. That's going to create one strange year for freshmen girls at BYU.Part of it is based on academic grounds. Among major conferences, the Pac-10 is the best academically, largely because of Stanford, Cal and UCLA. “Colorado is on a par with Oregon,” he said. “Utah isn’t even in the picture.”Comment
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I think we are going to find that the sisters serving will eventually outnumber the elders.What's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
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