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It must also come down to the impression something leaves with us. 20°F leaves an impression. We remember it and want to prepare for it in the future. Missions leave a strong impression as well, otherwise people wouldn't talk about them decades later. Your average Sunday at church? I dunno, maybe t...

The word "testimony" and how it's talked about is something that grinds my gears. The way people refer to it, you would think it was a finicky organ that produces faith juice or something. Like it's a physical thing that has to be taken care of. It's weird to me. In effect with what people...

Those numbers sound reasonable to me. A few years ago in an EQ meeting, the EQP had everyone write something down they were struggling with on a small strip of paper. He then read them aloud to everyone (keeping it anonymous of course), with the intent of showing that everyone in the room had someth...

Why didn’t God let Pharaoh kill Moses, instead sending plagues and pestilence to free the Israelites? Why didn’t God let Laman and Lemuel kill Nephi, but sent an angel to stop them? What about Alma the younger, whose chosen life of sin was interrupted by a supernatural experience that was very diff...

I like the direction of your method. Praying for others, expressing thanks generously and being deliberate about what is asked for are all great in my opinion. I'm hesitant to limit requests to just a single thing though. There is often more going on in my life than I think a single ask will cover. ...

What about the agency of the victims? Would it not have been better to allow the innocent to live, having a full and rich mortal experience, exercising their own agency along the way? Isn’t God’s nonintervention in the end still depriving people of agency, just indirectly by allowing others to take...

But why not sooner? The fact that He let it go on for so long disturbs me. In my mind, it comes down to agency. If He is a God that allows people to have the agency to do as they will, then it would make sense that He'd allow evil to be done on a large scale as well as small. Intervening Himself wo...

Missionaries now have mental health services available as a standard part of their missions, with MissionPresidents given basic training and guidance to use the services, but they are accessible only to the extent the missionaries are willing and able to ask or their symptoms are visible to others....

Thank you for sharing your story watcher. It certainly sounds like your life has been a fascinating one. I'll also say I greatly respect you for openly questioning the bosses in front of everyone. I've had the opportunity to do the same before and didn't. Looking back, I wish that I had done what yo...

I have an interview coming up for yet another ecclesiastical endorsement so I can continue to take my BYU-I classes online for another year. Just as I did last year, I'll tell the bishop that my wife and I are full tithe payers so I can at least cut one meeting out of my schedule. I've never gone to...