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POTENTIAL PRIMARY RANT WARNING: Church for me this week was my husband vacating the chapel to deal with health issues while I dealt with our 2 daughters (8 years old functioning around 5-6 years old and almost 2 years old respectively) in the chapel. Normally, in this situation, if my husband goes o...

Yes, I have felt those feelings before. I attribute them to experiencing a moment of cognitive dissonance where you feel that what you believe/know no longer matches what everyone else around you believes/knows AND that if they could read your mind, you would be ousted from the tribe (spear points s...

For me, I would do what I could to get to know a little about them - see what their face book says, google what their name says, or ask any family members in the branch who know them a little about them. All information is used to decide if I have enough in common to be friends with them on their ow...

<shrugs> I am going to minister to those who enter my sphere of influence that I can minister to. I just figured that the church organization would like to get an accurate understanding of what is going on. They will know that the people I watch over are ministered to. In the situation of my family,...

Minyan Man wrote: ↑

21 May 2018, 10:58

Amy, are you saying this book is so boring, it puts you to sleep?
I've had books like that too.

No, It just helped me to resolve my doubts and anxieties so that I could sleep well.

Bump. I got this book from the library on Saturday, and have gotten started on reading it (maybe 50 pages in). In the first few pages, he talks about how the myth of marriage being the uniting of 2 separate individuals back into 1 individual in spirit has fallen out of favor as an under pining of so...

I was senior companion 15 months of my 18 month mission (including to a senior sister 40 years older than myself - that was rough). I have also served as a Primary teacher in various age groups for a good 10 years. There have been times of flakiness church-wise, but never "big" callings. I always fi...

I was hopeful for a change in program... now I am not so certain... When it came out in April, my husband (executive branch secretary) mentioned introducing ministering couples to the mix in the branch presidency meeting.. to crickets... I sent an email to our R.S. presidency, who thanked me and sai...

They need a "surviving mental health illness" merit badge at 5 years, 10 years, 15 years, and 20 years. With sub-badges for "Spouse", "teenage child", and specific crises. Also a "survived transitional life experience" including being unemployed, losing a child to death, losing a parent to death, PT...

In that situation, I would have probably said something like this after the yelling started... "I am thankful that we have modern technology which makes some of these conflicts of time and resources easier to resolve by email or by Skype. I am also thankful for the gift of the Holy Ghost that helps ...