Mitt Romney isn't the first Mormon to make a run for the presidency. The front-running Massachusetts Republican was preceded by his own father, George, who was briefly the GOP frontrunner in 1968 before losing the nomination to Richard Nixon in 1968.
And the very first Mormon presidential candidate was the very first Mormon, Joseph Smith, the founder of the religion who as mayor of Nauvoo, Ill., announced his candidacy as an independent in 1844. Smith's candidacy came to a disastrous end.
He was jailed after ordering the destruction of an opponent's newspaper and ordered to stand trial. But before that could happen, a mob burst into the jail and killed him.
One way for the Mormon church to overcome the sentiment of anti-Mormonism around the world would be for it to cease its campaign of lies and falsehoods against gay Americans that it is constantly waging and for it to stop supporting hate measures such as Proposition 8 in California.
@RCSVirginia "cease its campaign of lies and falsehoods against gay Americans"
Like when Mormons burned Gay churches, forced gays out of jobs, harassed them, defaced their edifices and petitioned congress for them to be financially penalized?
If you not seen the wonderful movie about Mormon missionaries "Latter Days" yet, it is definitely one that you should check out. Whilst you are it, you may want to give "8: The Mormon Propositions" a look, too.
"This building is intended and designed to magnify our powers to help others," President Eyring said. "Deseret Industries was a part of the general welfare plan of the Church to help lift people to employment so that they might then lift themselves to the capacity to care for themselves and their families.". .
On Wednesday, 8 June 2011, President Henry B. Eyring of the Church's First Presidency dedicated the new Sugarhouse Welfare Services Center. The new multipurpose building contains three organizations focused on helping people become self-reliant: Deseret Industries, LDS Employment Center and LDS Family Services.
As The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrates the 75th anniversary of the welfare program, a new facility in Salt Lake City highlights the Church's approach to helping individuals and families.
cont- that Mormons stand at the ready to accuse just about anyone of being an anti Mormon, just because they take an active role in witnessing to them. I do my best to keep my witnessing Biblical and polite, and yet even I am accused of being an anti Mormon. You can't go to the doors of millions of Christians and tell them their faith in essence is false, and expect them not to respond, it's just unrealistic. Some will respond angrily, others with true concern for you, but all will respond
well, if you really are Christians, then you have to understand that the world will hate you, because it hated Jesus, and you should rejoice when you are hated and persecuted for His name. I do not believe, however that you are Christians, and I also do not believe that a large percentage of what you call "anti Mormon hate" is actually hate at all. There are overzealous Christians who do seem to be acting hatefully toward you, & there are some that may hate you, but it's been my experience cont
Answering a knock at the door, Harrington found himself face-to-face with two neatly dressed young men, proselytizing missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "My first thought was, 'Oh no, how can I get rid of them?' " Harrington said. "Then I thought, 'I could write about these two.
On a bitterly cold winter night in 2007, Dan Harrington made a snap decision that changed his life. Harrington, a freelance writer and author of "Who's at the Door? A Memoir of Me and the Missionaries," published recently by Springville-based Cedar Fort, had just been published for the first time in a local newspaper in his hometown of Augusta, Maine.
Also located in the Southwest, the Mormon Church's underground vault located 'twenty-two miles southeast of Salt Lake City, buried deep in the ragged rock of Utah's Wasatch Range', the location of the Mormon Church's 'world's largest collection
"The Best of the St. Louis Luminary," edited by Susan Easton Black, is the most recent release by BYU Studies and is part of its series "Documents in Latter-day Saint History."
The book's title takes its name from the St. Louis Luminary newspaper, an early Mormon newspaper started by Erastus Snow and printed in St. Louis under the direction of Brigham Young. . .
I often wonder if mormons allow questions on their videos like non mormons do. It seems every mormon video has to approve comments before they're left when other Chrsitians freely let questions and even doubts be posted in hopes that they can answer those who don't know the gospel to Christ.
@KakkoiGuy1 He loves you too which is why He shed His blood on the cross for you. Do mormons believe there's one God or many? Is it true that Mormons believe they can become gods of their own planets? These are just two of many questions I have.
@omiolo So not true. You know, I've asked you tons of questions on other posts and to date you've never answered one. Most of those posts were on Christian videos where you cried "anti mormon" to those that have just asked you plainly about what you believe in light of Biblical scriptures. As for the gay thing, I don't think you really have much of a right to speak on that because from what I can remember in the news, the LDS church was completely against gays although Salt Lake seems
to be a huge breeding ground for those on the gay agenda (most of those are return missionaries by the way). From what I've seen, people in general need to show gay people that Jesus is their answer and that he can deliver them from that sin. :) From here on I just want to ask questions and get answers. I don't want spinning, lying for the lord (which I've heard from the mouth of prominant people), or the sacred(secret) thing. If salvation is important why hide stuff from those seeking it?
If I see the same love I see with my parents with my friend and her same sex partner does that make that love wrong? If you answer is yes, that means that ALL love is wrong. Not just their love which I can see is the same as my own parents, it means that the love my parents have for each other is WRONG. Because the love that my friend has for her girlfriend is wrong. Tell me the answer oh wise one, on how my parents love is right, but not my friends.
I'm not wise. When I don't know an answer, I go to the Bible for the answer. I don't lean to my own understanding. I lean to God's understanding. So the answer to your question is in the Bible. I can answer the question (now that I've read it a few times) but I'm sure you'd rather get the answer for yourself straight from the Word of God (the Bible).
So if you do not know 9/3x36-10+pi-3879x2/37. Then you go to the BIBLE for that? Really. You don't go to the bible for EVERYTHING. The bible does not have the answer for EVERYTHING. Plus. I'm Taoist. So don't push your God on me. I'd rather be at PEACE with myself then believe I am a SINNER just because I was born.
@omiolo Have you ever gotten from behind your monitor, gone out and spoken to the people here in Salt Lake that are gay? I highly doubt you have. You are the most self righteous person I've met on here. Your self righteousness and works won't get your into God's Kingdom though. I've actually spoken to many here in Salt Lake that are and most of the ones that I've spoken to came home from their missions and came out. You're so religious that you don't know what relationships are about. Hypocrite!
Our Best Bites: Mormon Moms in the Kitchen - Sara Wells and Kate Jones Winners of the Better Homes & Garden Blogger Cook-off, and authors of the popular blog bring 150 new recipes together. This book focuses specifically on the parables
I grew up in a typical blue collar Mormon home in Oregon. My dad is very much an FDR style Democrat. I'm the only creative type in my immediate family. Which was tricky. My parents always liked that I was artsy, into theatre, etc
She grew up with a deep love of her faith; however, the troubles of adult life clouded the strength of her beliefs and sent her on a difficult search for a way to connect with God. Time and again she found struggles and hardships which kept her from a link to the God she so deeply wanted in her life.
Nancy Hilton was born into Judaism. She sang the sacred Shema and attended synagogue for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Although she didn't understand why, she set a place for Elijah at her Passover table.
For the Casa Grande Mormon Stake, it was a quadrennial event meant to give young churchgoers a taste of what early Mormon pioneers went through as they
Sister Dew persuaded Elder Scott to let Deseret Book host a display of 15 of his paintings, which will be in place through the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season. The paintings are for display only; they are not for sale.
"A friend and I decided to go to the temple on our own," said President Uchtdorf. "My friend was old enough to have a motorcycle license; we borrowed a motor scooter and the two of us headed down to Switzerland.
Church leaders say that one of the major aims of the new handbook is to reduce the administrative workload on bishops, who put many hours of service into their Church duties in addition to managing their full-time occupations and their families.
The Church issued a new administrative handbook during a worldwide leadership training meeting Nov. 13.
The handbook was introduced in a special training meeting originating at Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, and broadcast to 95 countries in every time zone and in 22 languages during the course of the day.
speakers for the upcoming FAIR conference are an excellent
reflection of the fact that religious and scholarly mindsets can be
congruent. Among this year's presenters there are: 8 Philosophical Doctorates 1 Juris Doctorate 1 Doctoral candidate 1 president of a strategic communications consulting firm 1 computer software engineer 1 law enforcement official 1 recent president of a medical society 2 Masters degrees
The TRUE cause of the Mormons' troubles in MO was their arrogance & anti-social behavior. Their claims about establishing the Kingdom of God in Jackson County, that they would 'literally tread upon the ashes of the wicked after they are destroyed from off the face of the earth,' excited fears that the Mormons intended to obtain their 'inheritance' by force. The Mormons told locals that it was folly for them [the Missourians] to improve their lands, they would not enjoy the fruits of their labor.
then why did the Missourians list as one of the main reasons to expel the Mormons was that fact that Mormons were ANTIslavery? You seem to conveniently FORGET about that.
One event that led up to the 1838 Mormon War was that Mormons were printing their own money. Another factor was that several "faithful" Mormons were ex-communicated, including Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, two of the "Three Witnesses".
Which makes it hard to understand why the LDS Church continues to use their testimony to endorse the BoM.
Yet another factor is that Signey Rigdon declared war on those persecuting Mormons, saying "It shall be between us and them a war of extermination".
Of course He does. Scripture says that God is love, and we love Him because He first loved us.
But I do not dig a pit for you. I merely ask you to look at the pit you dig for yourselves.
You call your Church "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". But do you read what Jesus taught? Do you do as Jesus taught? Or do you instead ask people believe and do as Joseph Smith taught?
But I ask you, is my believe in Jesus enough? Or do I also need to believe in Joseph Smith?
He told members of the assembly that there will be times when they will be frightened and discouraged. "You may feel that you are defeated," he noted. "The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel as though you are David, trying to fight Goliath. But remember—David did win!"
Utah business leader and Primary Children's Foundation Trustee Arlen Crouch will lead the committee raising the additional $10 million in private funding sought through "The Child First and Always" campaign. He remembered being a young LDS Primary boy in Idaho and marking each birthday by dropping his pennies into a small bank fashioned in the shape of the old Avenues hospital.
The Kyiv Ukraine Temple is the Churchs first in Eastern Europe and the 11th overall on the European continent. It will serve approximately 31,000 members of the Church living in 13 European countries.
Other European temples of the Church are located in Bern, Switzerland (dedicated 1955); London, England (1958); Freiberg, Germany (1985); Stockholm, Sweden (1985); Frankfurt, Germany (1987); Preston, England (1998); Madrid, Spain (1999); The Hague, Netherlands (2002); Copenhagen, Denmark (2004); and Helsinki, Finland (2006). A temple to be built in Rome, Italy, was announced in October 2008.
Among the 10 African nations with the fastest-growing Mormon memberships (by percentage), only one -- the Democratic Republic of Congo -- has more than 10,000 Latter-day Saints. The others have such a high rates because they start with so few members.
But those small countries look like they will continue to build an LDS presence,
"I've always been taught if you can't wear it with temple garments, don't wear it," Rachel Arnell said. "We're supposed to be practicing now for when we're married in the temple."
"We'll gain more than we lose if we follow the rules," Sawyer Sudweeks said.
Darien Weller said modest dress brightens a girl's countenance.
"Some say backless is OK," Mikayla said, "but it's still showing too much bare skin and like in a story my bishop told, where does the guy put his hand?"
In closing, President Uchtdorf promised that "happily ever after" is not something just found in fairy tales. "You can have it. It is available for you. But you must follow your Heavenly Father's map."
The map is available to all. It gives explicit directions of what to do and where to go to everyone who is striving to come unto Christ and stand as a witness of God at all times and in all things, and in all places. All you have to do is trust your Heavenly Father. Trust Him enough to follow His plan."
Raised in Canada where her parents owned and operated a country store, Kapp later represented the church at Attorney General Edwin Meese' Commission on Pornography in 1986.
"It was a very intense time," Kapp said. ". . . but I felt a calm feeling."
In the months ahead, through the good graces of Meridian Magazine, shutters that have been closed to us will be opened, exposing views of wonderful and amazing landscapes and peoples once associated with that book.
Latter-day Saint temples provide a place where Church members make formal promises and commitments to God and where the highest sacraments of the faith occur, such as the marriage of couples for eternity. Temples differ from the tens of thousands of local meetinghouses where members typically meet for Sunday worship services and midweek social activities.
The Ogden Utah Temple was originally dedicated in 1972 as the 14th operating temple for the Church and the fifth in Utah. There are now 152 temples announced or under construction worldwide.
REXBURG - Ever since no-fault divorce laws were enacted in the 1970's, divorce rates have risen.
As an attempt to re-strengthen families, LDS Apostles have been visiting Eastern Idaho and speaking to their members. LDS Apostle Quentin Cook spoke Sunday to a congregation of around 1000 people in Rexburg. He's one of five apostles that have come to Eastern Idaho in the past month to speak about strengthening families.
As an Air Force attorney assigned to support the 621 Contingency Response Wing (CRW), I received six hours notice to depart my home base at Scott AFB, IL so I could drive to the airport and link up with the CRW at McGuire AFB, NJ.
I was not among the Nephite crowd who touched the wounds of the resurrected Lord, nor did I weep with Mormon and Moroni over the destruction of an entire civilization. But my testimony of this record and the peace it brings to the human heart is as binding and unequivocal as was theirs. Like them, [I] give [my name] unto the world, to witness unto the world that which [I] have seen.
They needed it. First in line were a group of mothers, each with an infant on her lap. Some of them were newborn and mewling. One infant was born exactly during the earthquake—a rocky beginning to be sure. The doctor had just given the mother an episiotomy and then the earth began to heave.
Thus, youngsters in scout uniforms were stationed all along the rope which cordoned off the clinic, and their crowd control was perfect. The 750 or so with medical needs, who had not been seen, lined up peacefully for help.
For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands
Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius
A list of new Mormon mission-president assignments around the world, including the consolidated missions and new missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
The years have come and the years have gone, but the need for a testimony of the gospel continues paramount. As we move toward the future, we must not neglect the lessons of the past
In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?
Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble—that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.
I'm sorry, I'm confused. Is this video actually claiming that not only Joseph Smith went to Jail as a martyr, but also that the Mormons are persecuted? Do you KNOW what Utah is like?! It's practically the complete opposite. And you can talk about being hated and persecuted once you've had more than a little handful of people killed in your religion. Oh, and Smith went to jail because he broke the law, not because he was a poor innocent little Mormon boy. He destroyed a printing press!
The same principle applies to the Book of Mormon. Nephite prophets wrote from their own perspectives, their own understanding of history and the world around them, as well as their proclivity to take hyperbolic and poetic license in their writings. Accepting the historicity of actual Nephites and Lamanites doesn't necessarily mean that we believe that everything they wrote was recorded with historical perfection.
Sister Oaks explained how Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Twelve has said that salvation is not a cheap experience. We will have to walk something of the path Christ walked.
"We live in a very dark world full of sadness and discouragement," she said. "But you are all little beacons, and I want you to know that."
"Suddenly, I had more patience. I didn't bark orders. I felt like I had more influence over the situation. I could step back and almost see, well, how would a holy woman handle this situation?" wrote the woman to Sister Nelson.
Herriman City will soon see the construction of four new buildings for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to Bryn McCarty, a planner for the community. Three of the buildings will be LDS church houses. The architect for the churches is Miller Architect. In addition to the church buildings, the LDS Church has commissioned CD Architects to build an LDS seminary next to the new high school, which is set to be finished in 2010.
Garrett, of Charlotte, N.C., said the international relief effort — whether it be providing food and supplies, medical care or communications — should provide an emotional foundation for Haitians to build upon.
"When people come into an area and provide a presence, it gives hope that people care," he said.
"First, we raised the bar," he said. "We increased the requirements of those called to serve as full-time missionaries. Stronger worthiness requirements would be a new standard. We required a higher level of physical and emotional health. The quality of the missionary was greatly improved by requiring this higher standard in order to serve. This was followed by a change in teaching methods.Memorizing discussions gave way to teaching by the Spirit. This resulted in spiritual approach to teaching.
At the stake presidents request we organized a stake choir and found the members eager to sing and learn more about music. The only music we had in Spanish was from the hymnbook, so I began making hymn arrangements for the choir, which Doug directed
In the first months of our mission I devoted long hours to language study, experiencing some discouraging moments as I came to the realization that it was not going to happen for me as fast as it did for the young missionaries. Gradually, encouraged by the warm-hearted Chilean Saints, the young elders and sisters, and a caring mission president and his wife, we began to find our niche and put our hearts into our missionary service.
One skirmish in that battle played out last week. In Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, four gay plaintiffs have sued to overturn Proposition 8 -- the 2008 amendment that California voters added to their state's constitution to ensure that marriage remains the union of one man and one woman.
"While financially I supported the Vote No, and was vocal to everyone and anyone who would listen, I have never considered being a violent radical extremist for our equal rights. But now I think maybe I should consider becoming one. Perhaps that is the only thing that will affect the change we so desperately need and deserve."
On-again-off-again arrangements with charter companies have had the 18-member team on hold for several days, with the group — sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — finally leaving Salt Lake City on Sunday afternoon, anticipating they would catch an early-morning charter Monday to Haiti.
When justices intervened to stop proceedings from airing online, some saw sympathy for supporters of Proposition 8 - and a lack of faith in the district judge who will first decide the measure's fate.
They both found the musical laughable, Mr. Johnson recalled, but instead of walking out, they amused themselves by writing notes to each other.
After the show, Mr. Johnson suggested that they take a stroll on the Columbia University campus and sneak up on the roof of the Mudd Engineering Building for a view of the city, followed by hot chocolate nearby.
By and large, these were single books, not the development of a "series" or a publisher's "list."
That didn't happen until the 1970s, when Elizabeth Dulaney began to build a Mormon studies fiefdom at the University of Illinois Press. For almost three decades, Illinois churned out some of the most important works in Mormon history, including Jan Shipps' seminal exploration, Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition and Bushman's Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism .
In 1945 , Alfred A. Knopf offered No Man Knows My History , Fawn Brodie's provocative profile of Joseph Smith. Five years later, Stanford University Press brought out Juanita Brooks' groundbreaking history, Mountain Meadows Massacre . In 1957 , University of Chicago marketed Thomas O'Dea's sociological masterpiece, The Mormons , and the next year Harvard issued Leonard Arrington's magnum opus, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of Latter-day Saints 1830- 1900.
All LDS meetinghouses in Haiti escaped unscathed and are being used in relief efforts, either to help house and care for survivors or to help distribute supplies as they arrive.
"There have been 500 to 600 staying at a few of the meetinghouses, he said. "All buildings are sturdy; there's no structural damage, and they're safe to use as shelters."
SALT LAKE CITY — Water, food, shelter, medical care.
Those are the drastic needs for the survivors in Haiti in the wake of Tuesday's massive earthquake. And The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is trying to respond by delivering emergency-relief products and people to meet those needs.
Just as our life began before our birth into mortality, our life does not end with the stopping of a heartbeat. We will continue on. Who you are—you, the distinct individual—you will always be you. Some may say, I dont like myself. Sorry. You can shape who you become, you can be more than you are today, but you will always be you.
since gay on gay crime is way higher than other types, I suggest you take your BIGOTRY and LIES and get rid of it and START preaching TOLERANCE and LOVE among the homosexuals.
BTW, not that type of LOVE that spreads Hepatitis C either!
Did some googling and it turns out your Joe Smith was a homo.
"Joseph F. Smith (1899-1964) was a Church Patriarch and allegedly a homosexual. While an instructor at the University of Utah, he allegedly had a homosexual relationship with a student. He later allegedly became sexually involved with another young Mormon male."
Oh and your current position on homosexuality is "its ok to be gay, just don't have sex EVER."
This is realistic to you? Remember the celebrate pedophile Catholic priests?
Ummm,. seriously, if you are in a sex cult that is meant to enslave women (actually train them to enslave themselves), why make them dress like Pilgrims? Why not make then wear lingerie? Might make more sense??
Because I wont attempt to fight my own biological functions. Sex is a fundamental to humans as breathing air. Why are you so obsessed with breathing? See how silly you sound?
Anyhoo, the morman cult was based on sex - on polygamy. Translation: scare people with god, acquire submissive women, sex with multiple women in the open with everyone condoning it. Its quite brilliant really. The only difference between this and the pimp/ho arrangement is the selling the ass for cash thing.
Associated Press journalists based in Port-au-Prince said the damage from the quake -- the most powerful to hit Haiti in more than 200 years -- is staggering even in a country accustomed to tragedy and disaster.
Yes, good point. The mormon (moron) vultures come out after disasters for these big PR campaigns. Tell you idiots what - TRY GIVING GAY PEOPLE EQUAL RIGHTS FIRST!
Wanna help someone? Stop signing that fucking prop 8 bill. You religious types don't like to be persecuted, singled out, or have their civil rights kept from you, so why turn around and do it to others because you are too mature, and sexually repressed to understand their sexual orientation? Oh, tell the blacks the same thing.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country.
Editor's note: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has authorized an initial response project to provide aid to Haiti, according to Emergency Response Director Lynn Samsel. The Caribbean Area Presidency is also expected to utilize local fast offering funds to help with immediate relief.
You god is not real, but the people you hurt, stifle, repress, oppress, and mistreat in the name of an ancient fictional character are real - very real.
Sorry guys, but wearing magic underwear doesn't protect you, and when you die you don't get to rule your own planet with all your bitches.
Sounds like someone has a persecution complex. This is to be expected from the delusional who self hypnotize themselves into becoming addicted to their love for their imaginary friend in the sky.
Only delusional, arrogant retards would act like children as adults.
God = Santa Claus for retarded adults who refuse to grow up and accept their meaningless (through human perception) existence, and cannot fathom being rewarded for good, and punished for evil - both silly human meaningless things.
Oh God, please get a library card. Emma herself wrote about Smith's multiple wives, and she hated it! That's why she left him. And ironically, according to Smith's supposed revelation, Emma was supposed to be utterly destroyed for rejecting God's command of her, but she wasn't. She lived a nice long life with her children, and Smith was destroyed! In Jail!
Mitt Romney isn't the first Mormon to make a run for the presidency. The front-running Massachusetts Republican was preceded by his own father, George, who was briefly the GOP frontrunner in 1968 before losing the nomination to Richard Nixon in 1968.
And the very first Mormon presidential candidate was the very first Mormon, Joseph Smith, the founder of the religion who as mayor of Nauvoo, Ill., announced his candidacy as an independent in 1844. Smith's candidacy came to a disastrous end.
omiolo 2 weeks ago
He was jailed after ordering the destruction of an opponent's newspaper and ordered to stand trial. But before that could happen, a mob burst into the jail and killed him.
omiolo 2 weeks ago
One way for the Mormon church to overcome the sentiment of anti-Mormonism around the world would be for it to cease its campaign of lies and falsehoods against gay Americans that it is constantly waging and for it to stop supporting hate measures such as Proposition 8 in California.
RCSVirginia 3 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@RCSVirginia I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 3 weeks ago
@RCSVirginia "cease its campaign of lies and falsehoods against gay Americans"
Like when Mormons burned Gay churches, forced gays out of jobs, harassed them, defaced their edifices and petitioned congress for them to be financially penalized?
omiolo 2 weeks ago
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For a clever look at the traditional, biblical marriage that the supporters of Propostion 8 are trying to protect, be sure to see:
"Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else" by MrsBettyBowers
And for a two great takes on the Mormon support of Prop 8, do not miss:
"Mormon Church Defends Prop 8 and Marriage(s)" by lezazacomedy
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"'Home Invasion': No on Prop 8 ad directed toward Mormon Church" by jonahtrainer
They are much better than this crap.
RCSVirginia 3 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
If you not seen the wonderful movie about Mormon missionaries "Latter Days" yet, it is definitely one that you should check out. Whilst you are it, you may want to give "8: The Mormon Propositions" a look, too.
RCSVirginia 3 weeks ago in playlist Uploaded videos
@RCSVirginia "movie about Mormon missionaries "Latter Days" "
I can see you are a purveyor of FILTH. You must be so proud of yourself. Larry Flynn would like your phone number.
omiolo 2 weeks ago
"This building is intended and designed to magnify our powers to help others," President Eyring said. "Deseret Industries was a part of the general welfare plan of the Church to help lift people to employment so that they might then lift themselves to the capacity to care for themselves and their families.". .
omiolo 8 months ago
@omiolo Deseret Industries does a lot of good for a lot of people.
MormonsLoveFamilies 3 weeks ago
On Wednesday, 8 June 2011, President Henry B. Eyring of the Church's First Presidency dedicated the new Sugarhouse Welfare Services Center. The new multipurpose building contains three organizations focused on helping people become self-reliant: Deseret Industries, LDS Employment Center and LDS Family Services.
omiolo 8 months ago
As The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints celebrates the 75th anniversary of the welfare program, a new facility in Salt Lake City highlights the Church's approach to helping individuals and families.
omiolo 8 months ago
New Facility Highlights Personal Impact of Welfare Program
omiolo 8 months ago
cont- that Mormons stand at the ready to accuse just about anyone of being an anti Mormon, just because they take an active role in witnessing to them. I do my best to keep my witnessing Biblical and polite, and yet even I am accused of being an anti Mormon. You can't go to the doors of millions of Christians and tell them their faith in essence is false, and expect them not to respond, it's just unrealistic. Some will respond angrily, others with true concern for you, but all will respond
apologeticsman 8 months ago
@apologeticsman "Mormons stand at the ready to accuse just about anyone of being an anti Mormon"
NOT the honest.
omiolo 8 months ago
well, if you really are Christians, then you have to understand that the world will hate you, because it hated Jesus, and you should rejoice when you are hated and persecuted for His name. I do not believe, however that you are Christians, and I also do not believe that a large percentage of what you call "anti Mormon hate" is actually hate at all. There are overzealous Christians who do seem to be acting hatefully toward you, & there are some that may hate you, but it's been my experience cont
apologeticsman 8 months ago
@apologeticsman "the world will hate you, because it hated Jesus"
and will hate the Prophets of Jesus Christ!
omiolo 8 months ago
Answering a knock at the door, Harrington found himself face-to-face with two neatly dressed young men, proselytizing missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. "My first thought was, 'Oh no, how can I get rid of them?' " Harrington said. "Then I thought, 'I could write about these two.
omiolo 11 months ago
@omiolo The missionaries.
MormonsLoveFamilies 8 months ago
On a bitterly cold winter night in 2007, Dan Harrington made a snap decision that changed his life. Harrington, a freelance writer and author of "Who's at the Door? A Memoir of Me and the Missionaries," published recently by Springville-based Cedar Fort, had just been published for the first time in a local newspaper in his hometown of Augusta, Maine.
omiolo 11 months ago
So far, the LDS Church has issued just one, terse comment about it.
Those awaiting protests and counter-punches will likely be disappointed.
Waiting for the Mormon Church to sling mud, one can wait a long time.
omiolo 11 months ago
@omiolo The LDS Church is an example to us all.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
Also located in the Southwest, the Mormon Church's underground vault located 'twenty-two miles southeast of Salt Lake City, buried deep in the ragged rock of Utah's Wasatch Range', the location of the Mormon Church's 'world's largest collection
omiolo 11 months ago
@omiolo Family history, just like in ancient times.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
Mormons in politics: When the saints come marching in
The Economist
omiolo 11 months ago
"The Best of the St. Louis Luminary," edited by Susan Easton Black, is the most recent release by BYU Studies and is part of its series "Documents in Latter-day Saint History."
The book's title takes its name from the St. Louis Luminary newspaper, an early Mormon newspaper started by Erastus Snow and printed in St. Louis under the direction of Brigham Young. . .
omiolo 11 months ago
'The Best of the St. Louis Luminary' newspaper gives a peek into the LDS Church in Missouri
Mormon Times
omiolo 11 months ago
I often wonder if mormons allow questions on their videos like non mormons do. It seems every mormon video has to approve comments before they're left when other Chrsitians freely let questions and even doubts be posted in hopes that they can answer those who don't know the gospel to Christ.
KakkoiGuy1 1 year ago
@KakkoiGuy1 I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies Thank You. I'm sure you mean that. Is it ok if I ask questions?
KakkoiGuy1 11 months ago
@KakkoiGuy1 He loves you too which is why He shed His blood on the cross for you. Do mormons believe there's one God or many? Is it true that Mormons believe they can become gods of their own planets? These are just two of many questions I have.
KakkoiGuy1 11 months ago
@KakkoiGuy1 "when other Chrsitians freely let questions"
What world do you live in? ANTImormons block ANYONE who doesn't agree with them, gays too. Way to cry wolf though.
omiolo 11 months ago
@omiolo So not true. You know, I've asked you tons of questions on other posts and to date you've never answered one. Most of those posts were on Christian videos where you cried "anti mormon" to those that have just asked you plainly about what you believe in light of Biblical scriptures. As for the gay thing, I don't think you really have much of a right to speak on that because from what I can remember in the news, the LDS church was completely against gays although Salt Lake seems
KakkoiGuy1 11 months ago
to be a huge breeding ground for those on the gay agenda (most of those are return missionaries by the way). From what I've seen, people in general need to show gay people that Jesus is their answer and that he can deliver them from that sin. :) From here on I just want to ask questions and get answers. I don't want spinning, lying for the lord (which I've heard from the mouth of prominant people), or the sacred(secret) thing. If salvation is important why hide stuff from those seeking it?
KakkoiGuy1 11 months ago
@KakkoiGuy1
Let me ask you this...
If I see the same love I see with my parents with my friend and her same sex partner does that make that love wrong? If you answer is yes, that means that ALL love is wrong. Not just their love which I can see is the same as my own parents, it means that the love my parents have for each other is WRONG. Because the love that my friend has for her girlfriend is wrong. Tell me the answer oh wise one, on how my parents love is right, but not my friends.
seikjo 11 months ago
@seikjo I don't quite understand what you're trying to get at nor do I understand what that has to do with anything I said
KakkoiGuy1 11 months ago
I'm not wise. When I don't know an answer, I go to the Bible for the answer. I don't lean to my own understanding. I lean to God's understanding. So the answer to your question is in the Bible. I can answer the question (now that I've read it a few times) but I'm sure you'd rather get the answer for yourself straight from the Word of God (the Bible).
KakkoiGuy1 11 months ago
@KakkoiGuy1 God still loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
@KakkoiGuy1
So if you do not know 9/3x36-10+pi-3879x2/37. Then you go to the BIBLE for that? Really. You don't go to the bible for EVERYTHING. The bible does not have the answer for EVERYTHING. Plus. I'm Taoist. So don't push your God on me. I'd rather be at PEACE with myself then believe I am a SINNER just because I was born.
seikjo 5 months ago
@KakkoiGuy1 "those on the gay agenda (most of those are return missionaries by the way)."
pure CONJECTURE on your part.
omiolo 11 months ago
@omiolo Have you ever gotten from behind your monitor, gone out and spoken to the people here in Salt Lake that are gay? I highly doubt you have. You are the most self righteous person I've met on here. Your self righteousness and works won't get your into God's Kingdom though. I've actually spoken to many here in Salt Lake that are and most of the ones that I've spoken to came home from their missions and came out. You're so religious that you don't know what relationships are about. Hypocrite!
KakkoiGuy1 11 months ago
@KakkoiGuy1 "Have you ever gotten from behind your monitor"
No, should I? Can I be enlightened like you if I do? Can I make up statistics and then demand that everyone else see it my way?
omiolo 11 months ago
Our Best Bites: Mormon Moms in the Kitchen - Sara Wells and Kate Jones Winners of the Better Homes & Garden Blogger Cook-off, and authors of the popular blog bring 150 new recipes together. This book focuses specifically on the parables
omiolo 11 months ago
I grew up in a typical blue collar Mormon home in Oregon. My dad is very much an FDR style Democrat. I'm the only creative type in my immediate family. Which was tricky. My parents always liked that I was artsy, into theatre, etc
omiolo 11 months ago
She grew up with a deep love of her faith; however, the troubles of adult life clouded the strength of her beliefs and sent her on a difficult search for a way to connect with God. Time and again she found struggles and hardships which kept her from a link to the God she so deeply wanted in her life.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo I think this is common with many who fall away. We must care for the lost sheep.
MormonsLoveFamilies 11 months ago
Nancy Hilton was born into Judaism. She sang the sacred Shema and attended synagogue for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Although she didn't understand why, she set a place for Elijah at her Passover table.
omiolo 1 year ago
"My Burning Bush: My Spiritual Journey from Judaism to the Lord Jesus Christ," by Nancy Goldberg Hilton, Granite Publishing, 133 pages, $11.95
omiolo 1 year ago
For the Casa Grande Mormon Stake, it was a quadrennial event meant to give young churchgoers a taste of what early Mormon pioneers went through as they
omiolo 1 year ago
Sister Dew persuaded Elder Scott to let Deseret Book host a display of 15 of his paintings, which will be in place through the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season. The paintings are for display only; they are not for sale.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo I have seen some of those paintings.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
"A friend and I decided to go to the temple on our own," said President Uchtdorf. "My friend was old enough to have a motorcycle license; we borrowed a motor scooter and the two of us headed down to Switzerland.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Interesting story.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
At that time, he said, it wasn't as common as it is today for youth groups to travel to the temple and do proxy baptisms for the dead.
omiolo 1 year ago
Church leaders say that one of the major aims of the new handbook is to reduce the administrative workload on bishops, who put many hours of service into their Church duties in addition to managing their full-time occupations and their families.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Bishops do so much good.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
The Church issued a new administrative handbook during a worldwide leadership training meeting Nov. 13.
The handbook was introduced in a special training meeting originating at Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, and broadcast to 95 countries in every time zone and in 22 languages during the course of the day.
omiolo 1 year ago
The FAIR conference is held annually on the first Thursday and
Friday of August at the Sandy, Utah South Towne Convention Center.
Tickets are selling at a brisk pace already this year so be sure to
plan ahead and purchase yours soon.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Have you attended?
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies No, but I want to attend.
omiolo 1 year ago
speakers for the upcoming FAIR conference are an excellent
reflection of the fact that religious and scholarly mindsets can be
congruent. Among this year's presenters there are: 8 Philosophical Doctorates 1 Juris Doctorate 1 Doctoral candidate 1 president of a strategic communications consulting firm 1 computer software engineer 1 law enforcement official 1 recent president of a medical society 2 Masters degrees
omiolo 1 year ago
The TRUE cause of the Mormons' troubles in MO was their arrogance & anti-social behavior. Their claims about establishing the Kingdom of God in Jackson County, that they would 'literally tread upon the ashes of the wicked after they are destroyed from off the face of the earth,' excited fears that the Mormons intended to obtain their 'inheritance' by force. The Mormons told locals that it was folly for them [the Missourians] to improve their lands, they would not enjoy the fruits of their labor.
channelhismojo 1 year ago
@channelhismojo I want you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies Why don't you answer anything I mentioned in my comment? Are you so ill-informed?
channelhismojo 1 year ago
@channelhismojo "their arrogance & anti-social behavior"
then why did the Missourians list as one of the main reasons to expel the Mormons was that fact that Mormons were ANTIslavery? You seem to conveniently FORGET about that.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Utah was a slave state. Check history. Brigham Young OWNED SLAVES. Check history.
channelhismojo 1 year ago
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@channelhismojo "Utah was a slave state"
you are a COMPLETE idiot. Utah did NOT become a state until AFTER slavery was ended. Why do you feel the need to LIE? What do you have AGAINST truth?
omiolo 1 year ago
The mission president's wife was making cookies in England when the jaw-dropping phone call came.
The ensuing conversation changed Heidi S. Swinton's life.
omiolo 1 year ago
One event that led up to the 1838 Mormon War was that Mormons were printing their own money. Another factor was that several "faithful" Mormons were ex-communicated, including Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, two of the "Three Witnesses".
Which makes it hard to understand why the LDS Church continues to use their testimony to endorse the BoM.
Yet another factor is that Signey Rigdon declared war on those persecuting Mormons, saying "It shall be between us and them a war of extermination".
blueskunk12 1 year ago
@blueskunk12 I would like you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
@MormonsLoveFamilies
Of course He does. Scripture says that God is love, and we love Him because He first loved us.
But I do not dig a pit for you. I merely ask you to look at the pit you dig for yourselves.
You call your Church "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". But do you read what Jesus taught? Do you do as Jesus taught? Or do you instead ask people believe and do as Joseph Smith taught?
But I ask you, is my believe in Jesus enough? Or do I also need to believe in Joseph Smith?
blueskunk12 1 year ago
He told members of the assembly that there will be times when they will be frightened and discouraged. "You may feel that you are defeated," he noted. "The odds of obtaining victory may appear overwhelming. At times you may feel as though you are David, trying to fight Goliath. But remember—David did win!"
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Great analogy in helping us overcome those that seek to dig a pit for us.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
Utah business leader and Primary Children's Foundation Trustee Arlen Crouch will lead the committee raising the additional $10 million in private funding sought through "The Child First and Always" campaign. He remembered being a young LDS Primary boy in Idaho and marking each birthday by dropping his pennies into a small bank fashioned in the shape of the old Avenues hospital.
omiolo 1 year ago
The Kyiv Ukraine Temple is the Churchs first in Eastern Europe and the 11th overall on the European continent. It will serve approximately 31,000 members of the Church living in 13 European countries.
omiolo 1 year ago
Other European temples of the Church are located in Bern, Switzerland (dedicated 1955); London, England (1958); Freiberg, Germany (1985); Stockholm, Sweden (1985); Frankfurt, Germany (1987); Preston, England (1998); Madrid, Spain (1999); The Hague, Netherlands (2002); Copenhagen, Denmark (2004); and Helsinki, Finland (2006). A temple to be built in Rome, Italy, was announced in October 2008.
omiolo 1 year ago
@omiolo Five more Temples announced yesterday. The gospel is going forth.
MormonsLoveFamilies 1 year ago
Among the 10 African nations with the fastest-growing Mormon memberships (by percentage), only one -- the Democratic Republic of Congo -- has more than 10,000 Latter-day Saints. The others have such a high rates because they start with so few members.
But those small countries look like they will continue to build an LDS presence,
omiolo 1 year ago
"I've always been taught if you can't wear it with temple garments, don't wear it," Rachel Arnell said. "We're supposed to be practicing now for when we're married in the temple."
omiolo 1 year ago 2
"We'll gain more than we lose if we follow the rules," Sawyer Sudweeks said.
Darien Weller said modest dress brightens a girl's countenance.
"Some say backless is OK," Mikayla said, "but it's still showing too much bare skin and like in a story my bishop told, where does the guy put his hand?"
omiolo 1 year ago 2
Leslie Searle agrees. "I think if you're not sure, don't wear it."
"I think girls just look better with modest clothes," Mitch Ackley offered.
omiolo 1 year ago 2
In closing, President Uchtdorf promised that "happily ever after" is not something just found in fairy tales. "You can have it. It is available for you. But you must follow your Heavenly Father's map."
omiolo 1 year ago 12
The map is available to all. It gives explicit directions of what to do and where to go to everyone who is striving to come unto Christ and stand as a witness of God at all times and in all things, and in all places. All you have to do is trust your Heavenly Father. Trust Him enough to follow His plan."
omiolo 1 year ago 9
Raised in Canada where her parents owned and operated a country store, Kapp later represented the church at Attorney General Edwin Meese' Commission on Pornography in 1986.
"It was a very intense time," Kapp said. ". . . but I felt a calm feeling."
omiolo 1 year ago 4
Its the best way to raise people up with good values.
Its these values the couple will be working to impart on the 140 members of the regions Mormon church community.
We feel its an important message we have, Elder Hendricks said.
The pair are also hoping to do community work during their stay.
The community has already been extra kind and good to us people are so nice and friendly.
omiolo 1 year ago 4
I am very grateful to have this gospel in my life for so I can have my marriage to all eternity.
ARHector2010 2 years ago
Future Events
In the months ahead, through the good graces of Meridian Magazine, shutters that have been closed to us will be opened, exposing views of wonderful and amazing landscapes and peoples once associated with that book.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
The first Utah temple was completed in St. George in 1877, followed by Logan in 1884, Manti in 1888, Salt Lake City in 1893 and Ogden in 1972.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Latter-day Saint temples provide a place where Church members make formal promises and commitments to God and where the highest sacraments of the faith occur, such as the marriage of couples for eternity. Temples differ from the tens of thousands of local meetinghouses where members typically meet for Sunday worship services and midweek social activities.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
The Ogden Utah Temple was originally dedicated in 1972 as the 14th operating temple for the Church and the fifth in Utah. There are now 152 temples announced or under construction worldwide.
omiolo 2 years ago
REXBURG - Ever since no-fault divorce laws were enacted in the 1970's, divorce rates have risen.
As an attempt to re-strengthen families, LDS Apostles have been visiting Eastern Idaho and speaking to their members. LDS Apostle Quentin Cook spoke Sunday to a congregation of around 1000 people in Rexburg. He's one of five apostles that have come to Eastern Idaho in the past month to speak about strengthening families.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Quentin Cook: 'Families were hurt by no-fault marriage laws'
omiolo 2 years ago
As an Air Force attorney assigned to support the 621 Contingency Response Wing (CRW), I received six hours notice to depart my home base at Scott AFB, IL so I could drive to the airport and link up with the CRW at McGuire AFB, NJ.
omiolo 2 years ago
I certainly did not anticipate that I would come to more fully appreciate the Saviors admonition, Suffer the little children to come unto me
omiolo 2 years ago
I was not among the Nephite crowd who touched the wounds of the resurrected Lord, nor did I weep with Mormon and Moroni over the destruction of an entire civilization. But my testimony of this record and the peace it brings to the human heart is as binding and unequivocal as was theirs. Like them, [I] give [my name] unto the world, to witness unto the world that which [I] have seen.
omiolo 2 years ago
They needed it. First in line were a group of mothers, each with an infant on her lap. Some of them were newborn and mewling. One infant was born exactly during the earthquake—a rocky beginning to be sure. The doctor had just given the mother an episiotomy and then the earth began to heave.
omiolo 2 years ago
Thus, youngsters in scout uniforms were stationed all along the rope which cordoned off the clinic, and their crowd control was perfect. The 750 or so with medical needs, who had not been seen, lined up peacefully for help.
omiolo 2 years ago
(As one LDS scoutmaster told us at the Fontamara Ward, they know we are prepared and so they trust us. We keep the people sweet.)
omiolo 2 years ago
For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands
omiolo 2 years ago
Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius
omiolo 2 years ago
NORTH AMERICA
Idaho Area
Idaho Boise -- John W. Yardley -- Kent H. Cannon
omiolo 2 years ago
A list of new Mormon mission-president assignments around the world, including the consolidated missions and new missions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
Mission -- Current president -- New president
omiolo 2 years ago
Caribbean Area
Puerto Rico San Juan -- New Mission -- Jorge M. Alvarado
Puerto Rico San Juan East -- Ralph L. Dewsnup -- Mission Consolidation
Puerto Rico San Juan West -- J. Stanley Martineau -- Mission Consolidation
omiolo 2 years ago
The years have come and the years have gone, but the need for a testimony of the gospel continues paramount. As we move toward the future, we must not neglect the lessons of the past
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Learn Lessons of the Past
In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?
omiolo 2 years ago
Mortality is a period of testing, a time to prove ourselves worthy to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father. In order for us to be tested, we must face challenges and difficulties. These can break us, and the surface of our souls may crack and crumble—that is, if our foundations of faith, our testimonies of truth are not deeply embedded within us.
omiolo 2 years ago
Hmmm...admission of Smith's killing...so much for 2 Nephi 3:14...
rodwyr 2 years ago 3
yes, Joseph Smith was killed. yet, we overcome that!
omiolo 2 years ago 3
But his enemies were not confounded, now were they?
rodwyr 2 years ago 3
I'm sorry, I'm confused. Is this video actually claiming that not only Joseph Smith went to Jail as a martyr, but also that the Mormons are persecuted? Do you KNOW what Utah is like?! It's practically the complete opposite. And you can talk about being hated and persecuted once you've had more than a little handful of people killed in your religion. Oh, and Smith went to jail because he broke the law, not because he was a poor innocent little Mormon boy. He destroyed a printing press!
sarahstringbean 2 years ago 3
The same principle applies to the Book of Mormon. Nephite prophets wrote from their own perspectives, their own understanding of history and the world around them, as well as their proclivity to take hyperbolic and poetic license in their writings. Accepting the historicity of actual Nephites and Lamanites doesn't necessarily mean that we believe that everything they wrote was recorded with historical perfection.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Sister Oaks explained how Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Twelve has said that salvation is not a cheap experience. We will have to walk something of the path Christ walked.
"We live in a very dark world full of sadness and discouragement," she said. "But you are all little beacons, and I want you to know that."
omiolo 2 years ago 2
"Suddenly, I had more patience. I didn't bark orders. I felt like I had more influence over the situation. I could step back and almost see, well, how would a holy woman handle this situation?" wrote the woman to Sister Nelson.
omiolo 2 years ago
Herriman City will soon see the construction of four new buildings for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, according to Bryn McCarty, a planner for the community. Three of the buildings will be LDS church houses. The architect for the churches is Miller Architect. In addition to the church buildings, the LDS Church has commissioned CD Architects to build an LDS seminary next to the new high school, which is set to be finished in 2010.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Garrett, of Charlotte, N.C., said the international relief effort — whether it be providing food and supplies, medical care or communications — should provide an emotional foundation for Haitians to build upon.
"When people come into an area and provide a presence, it gives hope that people care," he said.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
"First, we raised the bar," he said. "We increased the requirements of those called to serve as full-time missionaries. Stronger worthiness requirements would be a new standard. We required a higher level of physical and emotional health. The quality of the missionary was greatly improved by requiring this higher standard in order to serve. This was followed by a change in teaching methods.Memorizing discussions gave way to teaching by the Spirit. This resulted in spiritual approach to teaching.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Elder Perry rehearsed "major steps taken to increase the message being taught to the world.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Adding Music to Our Mission
At the stake presidents request we organized a stake choir and found the members eager to sing and learn more about music. The only music we had in Spanish was from the hymnbook, so I began making hymn arrangements for the choir, which Doug directed
omiolo 2 years ago 3
In the first months of our mission I devoted long hours to language study, experiencing some discouraging moments as I came to the realization that it was not going to happen for me as fast as it did for the young missionaries. Gradually, encouraged by the warm-hearted Chilean Saints, the young elders and sisters, and a caring mission president and his wife, we began to find our niche and put our hearts into our missionary service.
omiolo 2 years ago 3
Plaintiffs claim the amendment violates the U.S. Constitution and seek judicially imposed same-sex marriage in all 50 states.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
One skirmish in that battle played out last week. In Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, four gay plaintiffs have sued to overturn Proposition 8 -- the 2008 amendment that California voters added to their state's constitution to ensure that marriage remains the union of one man and one woman.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
"While financially I supported the Vote No, and was vocal to everyone and anyone who would listen, I have never considered being a violent radical extremist for our equal rights. But now I think maybe I should consider becoming one. Perhaps that is the only thing that will affect the change we so desperately need and deserve."
Threats from "No on 8" supporters
omiolo 2 years ago
On-again-off-again arrangements with charter companies have had the 18-member team on hold for several days, with the group — sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — finally leaving Salt Lake City on Sunday afternoon, anticipating they would catch an early-morning charter Monday to Haiti.
omiolo 2 years ago
When justices intervened to stop proceedings from airing online, some saw sympathy for supporters of Proposition 8 - and a lack of faith in the district judge who will first decide the measure's fate.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
They both found the musical laughable, Mr. Johnson recalled, but instead of walking out, they amused themselves by writing notes to each other.
After the show, Mr. Johnson suggested that they take a stroll on the Columbia University campus and sneak up on the roof of the Mudd Engineering Building for a view of the city, followed by hot chocolate nearby.
omiolo 2 years ago
She then sent out an S O S to friends for a replacement, and one came through with Mr. Johnson, who had not read her blog but quickly caught up.
I was a little more excited, Mr. Johnson said, when I saw how cute she was on her blog.
He also said he thought the competition was pretty fierce.
omiolo 2 years ago
By and large, these were single books, not the development of a "series" or a publisher's "list."
That didn't happen until the 1970s, when Elizabeth Dulaney began to build a Mormon studies fiefdom at the University of Illinois Press. For almost three decades, Illinois churned out some of the most important works in Mormon history, including Jan Shipps' seminal exploration, Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition and Bushman's Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism .
omiolo 2 years ago 2
In 1945 , Alfred A. Knopf offered No Man Knows My History , Fawn Brodie's provocative profile of Joseph Smith. Five years later, Stanford University Press brought out Juanita Brooks' groundbreaking history, Mountain Meadows Massacre . In 1957 , University of Chicago marketed Thomas O'Dea's sociological masterpiece, The Mormons , and the next year Harvard issued Leonard Arrington's magnum opus, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of Latter-day Saints 1830- 1900.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
All LDS meetinghouses in Haiti escaped unscathed and are being used in relief efforts, either to help house and care for survivors or to help distribute supplies as they arrive.
"There have been 500 to 600 staying at a few of the meetinghouses, he said. "All buildings are sturdy; there's no structural damage, and they're safe to use as shelters."
omiolo 2 years ago
"We've learned that water and food are the greatest needs," said Nate Leishman, the LDS Church's manger of humanitarian emergency response.
All the needs are being identified by Haitian church leaders locally and with government and relief organizations, Leishman added.
omiolo 2 years ago
SALT LAKE CITY — Water, food, shelter, medical care.
Those are the drastic needs for the survivors in Haiti in the wake of Tuesday's massive earthquake. And The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is trying to respond by delivering emergency-relief products and people to meet those needs.
omiolo 2 years ago
A Captain in the Lords Cause
Number 2: You are to be a spiritual captain in the Lords cause, with a specific mission to accomplish.
omiolo 2 years ago
Just as our life began before our birth into mortality, our life does not end with the stopping of a heartbeat. We will continue on. Who you are—you, the distinct individual—you will always be you. Some may say, I dont like myself. Sorry. You can shape who you become, you can be more than you are today, but you will always be you.
omiolo 2 years ago
I wonder, is there an opposing video titled,
"Homosexual Gem - How We Overcome Homophobia and Anti-Gay Hate".
JohnDoe280 2 years ago 2
since gay on gay crime is way higher than other types, I suggest you take your BIGOTRY and LIES and get rid of it and START preaching TOLERANCE and LOVE among the homosexuals.
BTW, not that type of LOVE that spreads Hepatitis C either!
omiolo 2 years ago
Gay on gay crime? Wow, are you retarded? Do you even know any gay people? So you hate gays, but Im the bigot? Riiiight.
JohnDoe280 2 years ago
I think you need to get yourself EDUCATED. Also STOP deciding who does and does NOT hate gays.
Since I am Mormon, obviously I do NOT.
Google, gay on gay crimes and then we might be able to begin to have an INTELLIGENT discussion.
omiolo 2 years ago
Did some googling and it turns out your Joe Smith was a homo.
"Joseph F. Smith (1899-1964) was a Church Patriarch and allegedly a homosexual. While an instructor at the University of Utah, he allegedly had a homosexual relationship with a student. He later allegedly became sexually involved with another young Mormon male."
Oh and your current position on homosexuality is "its ok to be gay, just don't have sex EVER."
This is realistic to you? Remember the celebrate pedophile Catholic priests?
JohnDoe280 2 years ago
thanks for spreading RUMOR and LIES from QUINN a man who bathes in them!
you have LIES, and Mormons have the truth.
think about that!
omiolo 2 years ago 3
Actually you have a cult and I have a laugh at you guys.
JohnDoe280 2 years ago 2
@JohnDoe280
and this is why Mormons SUCCEED and your types FAIL.
You have names to call others and DEGRADING labels to put on people.
Mormons have LOVE and TRUTH.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Ummm,. seriously, if you are in a sex cult that is meant to enslave women (actually train them to enslave themselves), why make them dress like Pilgrims? Why not make then wear lingerie? Might make more sense??
JohnDoe280 2 years ago
why does EVERYTHING seem to focus on SEX with your types?
/don't think that is healthy or natural
omiolo 2 years ago
Because I wont attempt to fight my own biological functions. Sex is a fundamental to humans as breathing air. Why are you so obsessed with breathing? See how silly you sound?
Anyhoo, the morman cult was based on sex - on polygamy. Translation: scare people with god, acquire submissive women, sex with multiple women in the open with everyone condoning it. Its quite brilliant really. The only difference between this and the pimp/ho arrangement is the selling the ass for cash thing.
JohnDoe280 2 years ago
"Sex is a fundamental to humans as breathing air"
I breath from the day I am born. Your analogy FAILS or is SICK! I am hoping for the first!
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Yea, human sexuality is sick!
Sometimes it results in idiots like you.
JohnDoe280 2 years ago
or NAME CALLERS like you......
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Associated Press journalists based in Port-au-Prince said the damage from the quake -- the most powerful to hit Haiti in more than 200 years -- is staggering even in a country accustomed to tragedy and disaster.
omiolo 2 years ago 2
Yes, good point. The mormon (moron) vultures come out after disasters for these big PR campaigns. Tell you idiots what - TRY GIVING GAY PEOPLE EQUAL RIGHTS FIRST!
Wanna help someone? Stop signing that fucking prop 8 bill. You religious types don't like to be persecuted, singled out, or have their civil rights kept from you, so why turn around and do it to others because you are too mature, and sexually repressed to understand their sexual orientation? Oh, tell the blacks the same thing.
JohnDoe280 2 years ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country.
omiolo 2 years ago 4
Editor's note: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has authorized an initial response project to provide aid to Haiti, according to Emergency Response Director Lynn Samsel. The Caribbean Area Presidency is also expected to utilize local fast offering funds to help with immediate relief.
omiolo 2 years ago 3
Earthquake crushes Haiti; LDS assistance on its way
omiolo 2 years ago
You god is not real, but the people you hurt, stifle, repress, oppress, and mistreat in the name of an ancient fictional character are real - very real.
Sorry guys, but wearing magic underwear doesn't protect you, and when you die you don't get to rule your own planet with all your bitches.
JohnDoe280 2 years ago 2
are you INTENTIONALLY trying to be WRONG?
that is the ONLY way I can explain your comments!
omiolo 2 years ago
Why speak so badly of the Mormons, so you do happen so oq was referred to the legend ... Heavenly Father ilumime the paths you.
ARHector2010 2 years ago 3
k, brb, watching Big Love and loling at these idiots.
JohnDoe280 2 years ago 2
Sounds like someone has a persecution complex. This is to be expected from the delusional who self hypnotize themselves into becoming addicted to their love for their imaginary friend in the sky.
Only delusional, arrogant retards would act like children as adults.
God = Santa Claus for retarded adults who refuse to grow up and accept their meaningless (through human perception) existence, and cannot fathom being rewarded for good, and punished for evil - both silly human meaningless things.
JohnDoe280 2 years ago 3
Joseph Smith had at least 34 wives.
chinesecar 2 years ago 2
chinesecar;
I would like you to know that God loves you.
MormonsLoveFamilies 2 years ago
I would like you to know that the Flying Spaghetti Monster loves you.
chinesecar 2 years ago 2
And if chinesecar is a woman, Joseph Smith would love her too. *cringes*
sarahstringbean 2 years ago 3
isso é mentira ...
ARHector2010 2 years ago 2
this is a lie, because he only had emma
ARHector2010 2 years ago 2
Oh God, please get a library card. Emma herself wrote about Smith's multiple wives, and she hated it! That's why she left him. And ironically, according to Smith's supposed revelation, Emma was supposed to be utterly destroyed for rejecting God's command of her, but she wasn't. She lived a nice long life with her children, and Smith was destroyed! In Jail!
sarahstringbean 2 years ago 3
"Emma herself wrote about Smith's multiple wives"
you make things up!
Why can't you tell the truth???
omiolo