General Authority salaries

[wuapinmon]

I pretend that they have a competition to see who can write a best seller (through Deseret or Seagull) using only their General Authority middle initial as a homophonic set of chicken-soup for the soul proverbial commangestions. Gordon Be Hinckley is the undisputed king president so far, and Dieter F Uchtdorf admits he'll never write anything in the category, but Elder Holland has a book of rhetorical questions in the works about sins of omission that looks to make some serious scratch/make Mormon moms feel even more guilty about petty shit than they already do. He's negotiating a scripture paper version of it, but some find that gauche, so it's publication date has been delayed a few times. Gerald Lund tried the same thing with The Work and the Glory, but when people starting taking the Strouds family history names to the temple to do baptisms for the dead, President Monson put his foot down and said, "I'll think about it."

[grapevine]

I,m not sure if I asked this before, big thread is it true that the royalties from books all have to go to the missionary general fund? I heard that one before. Or do they make some money. I lost my cd of lengthen your stride but Ed Kimball said Apostles and members of the first quorum of the Seventy could not refuse a living allowance. When they made public second quorum some worked part time in law offices or as pilots. Don,t think they can do that. Brad Flster I heard went to check on his cattle when he had some free time told not too.

July, around , Christmas and Monday's are only chance ga,s get to write books and even then they may do a lot of work at the office.

[wuapinmon]

I,m not sure if I asked this before, big thread is it true that the royalties from books all have to go to the missionary general fund? I heard that one before. Or do they make some money. I lost my cd of lengthen your stride but Ed Kimball said Apostles and members of the first quorum of the Seventy could not refuse a living allowance. When they made public second quorum some worked part time in law offices or as pilots. Don,t think they can do that. Brad Flster I heard went to check on his cattle when he had some free time told not too.

July, around , Christmas and Monday's are only chance ga,s get to write books and even then they may do a lot of work at the office.

I don't know if they do or not. I imagine that they get to keep the proceeds of anything that isn't a standard work, unless they've been asked to live the law of consecration, though that seems highly unfair to their heirs.

[Northwestcoug]

My understanding is that some GAs have directed all book proceeds to the church with their books, while others have not.

Also wuap, you should consider that temporary break from the church, mental or physical, if you never took it. If you're feeling that caustic about GA's books, you should really step back and assess what the church means to you. Whatever you decide, it's got to be better than the limbo of bitterness you're feeling right now.

[All-American]

I don't know if they do or not. I imagine that they get to keep the proceeds of anything that isn't a standard work, unless they've been asked to live the law of consecration, though that seems highly unfair to their heirs.

Meh. Who cares about the heirs.

[Jeff Lebowski]

My understanding is that some GAs have directed all book proceeds to the church with their books, while others have not.

Also wuap, you should consider that temporary break from the church, mental or physical, if you never took it. If you're feeling that caustic about GA's books, you should really step back and assess what the church means to you. Whatever you decide, it's got to be better than the limbo of bitterness you're feeling right now.

Bitterness? That seemed more tongue-in-cheek to me.

[wuapinmon]

Meh. Who cares about the heirs.

Scandinavians have always cared more about legacy.

[Northwestcoug]

Bitterness? That seemed more tongue-in-cheek to me.

If so, well played wuap. I didn’t read it that way.

[wuapinmon]

If so, well played wuap. I didn’t read it that way.

No author can control the reading of their words. I'm not bitter, sour maybe, but someone bitter lets things control their lives. The only control those old men have over me is my underwear.

[All-American]

No author can control the reading of their words. I'm not bitter, sour maybe, but someone bitter lets things control their lives. The only control those old men have over me is my underwear.

Maybe if you were better at controlling the reading of your words you'd be donating your proceeds to the missionary fund.

[Northwestcoug]

No author can control the reading of their words. I'm not bitter, sour maybe, but someone bitter lets things control their lives. The only control those old men have over me is my underwear.

I’ll still keep that advice out there...

[wuapinmon]

Maybe if you were better at controlling the reading of your words you'd be donating your proceeds to the missionary fund.

My middle initial is M. It's not as bad as Uchtdorf's, but it's not Holland's or Bednar's or Rasband's. Of course, given that I've gone by a nickname my whole life, if I were an Apostle, I don't know if I'd be Elder. J. Mac Williams III, Elder John M. Williams III, Elder J. McLarty Williams III or Elder John Mac Williams III. I suppose there's some convention on such things, but I've never been one for perfunctory titles. Soy Don Mac.

[Jeff Lebowski]

My middle initial is M. It's not as bad as Uchtdorf's, but it's not Holland's or Bednar's or Rasband's. Of course, given that I've gone by a nickname my whole life, if I were an Apostle, I don't know if I'd be Elder. J. Mac Williams III, Elder John M. Williams III, Elder J. McLarty Williams III or Elder John Mac Williams III. I suppose there's some convention on such things, but I've never been one for perfunctory titles. Soy Don Mac.

Unless you aren’t getting proper service!

[wuapinmon]

Unless you aren’t getting proper service!

I wanted a hot shower, dammit. I'll never forget the look on Tim's face when she suddenly changed her tone and said she'd someone right over to turn the gas on. His eyes doubled in size.