October 2019 General Conference

[Pelado]

And they will do it and live. Good grief, people, it’s a couple of paragraphs.

Didn't mean to imply anything negative.

I was called as Scout Master a week before it was announced that the Church was leaving scouts. On Wednesday, I was called as Young Men’s President. I don’t think the Lord wants me working with youth.

Tender mercies.

[beefytee]

There was a little more detail in a letter sent to adults with YMYW callings.

There is supposed to be 1 adviser called for each quorum and then "specialists" as needed so that there are at least 2 leaders for each class and activity. For most groups this means that things don't change much, but we have 2 deacons quorums in our ward, so if we are following the new guidelines, we will pick up another adviser.

This may mean that the YM will follow a similar pattern to what the YW do currently where you have a person or group specifically call to organize camps.

With equal budgets, I have a hard time seeing the deacons being able to do overnighters every month like they did with Scouts. I'm guessing it will likely be at most a winter overnighter and a summer camp. If the group is really into camping, they could possibly do lots of hiking overnighters where the boys bring all their own supplies. FTR, I'm just fine not going on as many overnighters.

It will be interesting to see what the budgets look like in the coming years. Hopefully with no more scout registration fees, budgets go up a lot for the YW and don't go down too much for the YM. The FSY conferences are the biggest unknown for the budget. They are probably going to be pricey to run.

[Jeff Lebowski]

There was a little more detail in a letter sent to adults with YMYW callings.

There is supposed to be 1 adviser called for each quorum and then "specialists" as needed so that there are at least 2 leaders for each class and activity. For most groups this means that things don't change much, but we have 2 deacons quorums in our ward, so if we are following the new guidelines, we will pick up another adviser.

This may mean that the YM will follow a similar pattern to what the YW do currently where you have a person or group specifically call to organize camps.

With equal budgets, I have a hard time seeing the deacons being able to do overnighters every month like they did with Scouts. I'm guessing it will likely be at most a winter overnighter and a summer camp. If the group is really into camping, they could possibly do lots of hiking overnighters where the boys bring all their own supplies. FTR, I'm just fine not going on as many overnighters.

It will be interesting to see what the budgets look like in the coming years. Hopefully with no more scout registration fees, budgets go up a lot for the YW and don't go down too much for the YM. The FSY conferences are the biggest unknown for the budget. They are probably going to be pricey to run.

Without scouts, there’s no point in going camping on an overnighter every month.

[BigPiney]

There was a little more detail in a letter sent to adults with YMYW callings.

There is supposed to be 1 adviser called for each quorum and then "specialists" as needed so that there are at least 2 leaders for each class and activity. For most groups this means that things don't change much, but we have 2 deacons quorums in our ward, so if we are following the new guidelines, we will pick up another adviser.

This may mean that the YM will follow a similar pattern to what the YW do currently where you have a person or group specifically call to organize camps.

With equal budgets, I have a hard time seeing the deacons being able to do overnighters every month like they did with Scouts. I'm guessing it will likely be at most a winter overnighter and a summer camp. If the group is really into camping, they could possibly do lots of hiking overnighters where the boys bring all their own supplies. FTR, I'm just fine not going on as many overnighters.

It will be interesting to see what the budgets look like in the coming years. Hopefully with no more scout registration fees, budgets go up a lot for the YW and don't go down too much for the YM. The FSY conferences are the biggest unknown for the budget. They are probably going to be pricey to run.

I believe they have already said that the FSY is $150 per kid. $75 paid by the stake, $75 by the youth.

[beefytee]

Without scouts, there’s no point in going camping on an overnighter every month.

Yeah. I don't know that any leader is going to complain about that, but I know some boys that have gotten used to going regularly are going to be disappointed with that change and may push for them when planning. My current boys don't seem as keen but my group 2 years ago wouldn't let us miss a month.

[Solon]

I foresee a lot of 12-year-olds being asked to memorize that.

11-year-olds too!

It's probably time to update those terms. In some form or another, a few of them are about a hundred years old. My wife had an Aha! moment last night when I told her that the M.I.A. in Mia-Maids refers to Mutual Improvement Association.

[LVAllen]

DFU cementing his legacy as my favorite Apostle.

[Donuthole]

October 2019 General Conference

Mack Wilberg stops just short of taking a literal $*** on Charles H. Gabriel’s grave with that rendition of “I Stand All Amazed.”

[Jeff Lebowski]

Mack Wilberg stops just short of taking a literal $*** on Charles H. Gabriel’s grave with that rendition of “I Stand All Amazed.”

Huh?

[Dwight Schr-ute]

Elder Peter M. Johnson has a pretty interesting background. Grew up in Queens. Was a rapper that did weddings and other small community gigs, became a Muslim at age 12. At age 14, he moved to Hawaii to live with his mother. Played basketball for BYU-H. He transferred to play for Dixie State where he joined the church.


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[Donuthole]

October 2019 General Conference

A Praise-to-the-Man-athon? Ugh. So much for our renewed efforts to make the Savior the focus of the Church.

[creekster]

A Praise-to-the-Man-athon? Ugh. So much for our renewed efforts to make the Savior the focus of the Church.

Good to see you're getting your criticism cranked up so far in advance. Why wait until you have any idea whatsoever about the actual content? Because, you know, how can it be about Christ when it is celebrating a vision of Christ?

[Jeff Lebowski]

A Praise-to-the-Man-athon? Ugh. So much for our renewed efforts to make the Savior the focus of the Church.

Huh?

[SCcoug]

Huh?

[Donuthole]

Good to see you're getting your criticism cranked up so far in advance. Why wait until you have any idea whatsoever about the actual content? Because, you know, how can it be about Christ when it is celebrating a vision of Christ?

Huh?

Just trying to give John Delhin and Moliere some fresh podcast material.

Next April will be the bi-millennial + 1 score celebration of the Atonement, so I’m sure it will still get a mention or two.