Elder Nelson Speaks on Marriage as ordained by God and Sacred

[cpostelwait]

anyone notice the subliminal message? there's a slowly waving white line in the background as he talks about the types of marriages that are "good" and then the line disappears when the two male rings on top of each other show up. The waving line can't be mistaken for anything other than a waving flag, giving the subliminal mind the same effect that a waving American flag would have on the conscious mind. But since that tactic is so overused, they try this more subtle approach.

[THELDSLIFE]

while those who reject this glad message...

shall never such happiness know!

(Last Verse of "We Thank Thee O God For A Prophet!)

[omiolo]

One idea is to establish regional record repositories. The records, while still part of the church collection, would be kept locally — making them more accessible to the people of the area. The hope is to tie everything together with an integrated catalog. No matter where you are in the world, you'd be able to see what the church has.

[omiolo]

"Our old model was like the British Museum where we brought everything from Salt Lake, and you could only see it in Salt Lake City. In our big church, that doesn't work anymore very well," Crosby said.

[omiolo]

n the world there are 15, if you don't count the Middle East, international areas in the church. Each one has an area presidency responsible for operating the church within their area, Crosby said. This year, Elder Marlin K. Jensen, the Church Historian Recorder, met with each of the area authority presidencies and invited them to call a local person, or missionary if needed, to be an area church history adviser.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

YEP!  you poor deluded thing....

[omiolo]

Last year, it was decided that they needed to implement a decentralized model and start making church history more accessible to the world. Under the direction and approval of area authorities, options will be given to preserve area histories locally — and hopefully, in the future, digitally.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

You're actually my only connection to stupidity and a delusional mind, you poor thing. Converse? You never really say anything.... but after an interaction with you I come away thankful that I'm no longer led astray, like you are!

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief NOPE

[omiolo]

But for Jacob Kunzler, a 2007 graduate of South Salem High School, Brazil was home for two years.

After spending his freshman year studying English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Kunzler left for South America.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

double yawn! what boring spam...

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief oh come on. You enjoy conversing with me. It might be your ONLY connection with reality.

[omiolo]

Staying faithful in the beach volleyball world

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

well fed full of fairy tales!

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief YAWN!

[omiolo]

1836: Elijah Abel Ordained an Elder

In March of 1836, Elijah Abel is given the priesthood and ordained to the office of Elder. This is reportedly done by Joseph Smith himself.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

awwww you poor baby!

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief actually SPIRITUALLY I am well fed. But you would NOT know about that.

[omiolo]

Let's get a report from the road about how the "Our Voices, Our Visions" Women's Literary Tour is going. "All of us writers on the tour are unconventional Mormon women -- with lives as complicated as women's lives can be. But we are moving through the desert, through the Book of Mormon belt, from home to home of Mormon women who take us in like kin." Tonight through this weekend they will be in Utah.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

you're such a joke!

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief STOP IT! your just upset because ALL you can resort to is futilely trying to tear others down! The ANTImormon way!

[omiolo]

His mother receives the e-mail and sees the record. In a return e-mail to her son, she confirms that it is the right record for his grandfather, her father. She sends her son some of her memories about his grandfather and mails some photos to him. She also notices that there is an option to add the grandfather's name to a family tree. Thus, she registers on FamilySearch and begins to build a family tree. The mother even adds a digitized picture of her father's house.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

better than running away like you do, with your head up your ass...

you even got the expression wrong... it's "tail" between your legs, genius... not head!

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief since that does NOT happen, I think you are going to have to find ANOTHER lie to spread.....

[omiolo]

She took a brief break in the late 1990s after her husband died to serve a full-time LDS mission at the Granite Mountain Records Vault but soon found herself at the senior center after she'd returned to Logan.

Now, Koeven spends about six hours a day at the center quilting and maintaining the gift shop. She keeps all of the gift shop books up to date, making sure everything that's made, displayed and sold in the shop is accounted for.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

ha ha ha whatever, weirdo! :)

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief whatever name caller. This is TYPICAL you. Running away with your head between your legs.

[omiolo]

Sister Stevens feels that the experiences of her own childhood have helped her to recognize the great capacity children have to understand the gospel and to feel the Lord's love. This precious time in a child's life provides sacred opportunities for parents and Primary leaders to teach lessons that will live in a child's heart forever.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

yep, and some think they have the truth... when in fact they're misled by a 19th century liar who wove a tapestry of pure mythology.

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief I guess that beat knowing you do NOT have the truth and trying to ATTACK those that do....

[omiolo]

"It was not the perfect way to start a marriage," she said. "But they loved each other and the Lord, and wanted to serve Him."

In fact, she said, love defined her childhood home.

[omiolo]

Brigham Young University: You don't have to be a Mormon to attend BYU and it's a good deal when it comes to private school value. In addition to their environmental majors of conservation biology, wildlife and wildlands conservation, and Earth and space sciences education, many students also take advantage of BYU's excellent international studies program. Tuition for church members is about $4,500 per year and twice that for non-LDS students.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

Oh, I love being a ex-Mormon. It's LOTS of fun! We get to laugh at idiots like you who believe in these fairy tales, and we get to show the obvious holes in your theology! :)

But you just keep telling yourself we're somehow not happy to be freed from the Mormon cult... it's part of your delusion! And I'll keep on being happy! :)

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief "Oh, I love being a ex-Mormon"

and some people think they love drugs too....

[omiolo]

LDS constable in New Zealand works to stamp out crime

Mormon Times

[omiolo]

SPRINGVILLE, Utah -- Retired FBI agent James Wright weaves his Mormon faith into his new book about the cases in which he worked to bring criminals to justice.

Both are important, he says.

"My religion is my way of life," said Wright, who has written the autobiography "FBI: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity." "The cases were important because I was in a position to defend this country and enjoy what I was doing."...

[omiolo]

We love those young people, they love the young people, they have the keys," Elder Johnson said. "We're there to really help them make progress with their young people, we're there to bless them and to support them. … If we're accurate and timely in any information we give them, whether it's reports on attendance or enrollment, it's helpful for them as they make decisions on how best to address those things."

[omiolo]

Another powerful resource in helping students is communicating and working together with local Church leaders and ward councils.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@ztheaterboy

LOL!

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief you are simply upset because you understand neither SCIENCE, REASON or BELIEF and I easily point that out. so STOP the whining

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

you're the only whining, omiolo. after all, you're the one with the desperate tactic of spamming everyone. we don't whine... we laugh at how silly your are! :)

[heart4herps]

Total BS. All marriage today has only a 50/50 chance of success and that includes religion centered marriages.

[omiolo]

@heart4herps Actually according to the LA Times. devout Mormons have a 93% success rate at marriage. Hence we KNOW what we are talking about.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

Actually, you DON'T know what you're talking about (no surprise there).

The LA Times arcticle you refer to quoted a study published in 1999 by Barna Research. The 93% success rate only counted TEMPLE marriages. When you factor in ALL marriages among Mormons, the numbers change. Also, many times a temple divorce is not obtained, just a civil divorce, which the study didn't count, so it skews the numbers too. The REAL rate for divorce among Mormons is the same as the nat'l average.

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief just because you can type something, that does NOT mean it is true. Please go back and reread my comment, this time focus on COMPREHENSION!

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief "The 93% success rate only counted TEMPLE marriages"

that is where DEVOUT Mormons get married. Obviously if you are NOT following the tenants of the religion, you can NOT receive the blessings of being LDS.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@omiolo

stop whining, omiolo. what i wrote is true, and it's backed up by the study i mentioned, so deal with it. the point is that the numbers you quote are deceiving. mormon divorces are the same rate as the national average. your religion doesn't know marriage better than any other. fail.

and now your cult's attempt to restrict civil rights has been ruled unconstitutional. 

[omiolo]

@ScienceReasonBelief I would NOT whine, then I would end up like your types. We ALL know being an ANTImormon is NOT fun.

[ScienceReasonBelief]

@ztheaterboy

omiolo spams every Mormon video. he doesn't realize that he's not helping his side, poor thing.

[omiolo]

At training centers, missionaries receive religious instruction and language training and learn teaching skills. They also develop a respect and cultural understanding for the areas and countries where they will serve before traveling to destinations in more than 120 countries. Training lasts from three weeks to three months, depending on language needs.

[omiolo]

@ztheaterboy so I am NOT highly educated? Are you as sure of that as you are of EVERYTHING else?

[omiolo]

Every young man and every young woman has a destiny in this Church to serve the Lord in some capacity," Elder Ballard said. "And in every seminary class, in every institute class across the world, you may well be teaching a future bishop, a future Relief Society president, a future Seventy, maybe even you're preparing and teaching a future member of the Quorum of the Twelve. A teacher doesn't know that.

[omiolo]

"Every student is precious," Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve told seminary and institute teachers during a Church Educational System broadcast on Aug. 3 in the Conference Center Theater on Temple Square. Although the broadcast originated from Salt Lake City, instructors all around the world were able to participate via satellite broadcast.

[omiolo]

@ztheaterboy huh?

[omiolo]

so far with no budget or connections, it is simply a Facebook page 'LDS Visual Arts' with a hope of gathering enough interest to join visual artists in a conference by 2013 ... Painters, textile artists, photographers, sculptors, calligraphers, stained glass artists, etc., would be welcomed and find encouragement and nourish each other."

[omiolo]

@ztheaterboy obviously you are playing games. If you had a legitimate point you would NOT need to play these games.

[omiolo]

Religious freedom: Michael Otterson defends "Religious expression: a fundamental right" at The Washington Post's On Faith blog this week. He explains that "for Mormons, the driving force is the spiritual duty to witness of Jesus Christ and his gospel. Mormons have such appreciation for the gospel message and the Biblical mandate to take it to the world that they feel compelled to respond to Jesus' invitation to share it."

[omiolo]

@ztheaterboy yeah, they have NOTHING to do with each other??

[omiolo]

As a tsunami bore down on Asia Sunday, Mormon priesthood leaders took action to protect missionaries and members

[omiolo]

@ztheaterboy you apparently turn a BLIND eye to ATHEISTIC gov'ts.

[omiolo]

Chile missionaries: Get an inside glimpse at a letter sent to the missionary families full of "News from Chile after Earthquake." It's full of hope and faith: "we now are thrilled to hear that our 170 'mighty Elders and Hermanas' are also safe and moving forward with faith wherever they are. They have been contacting each other, lovingly checking on the sisters, walking to each others apartments, helping with some of the clean up, etc.

[omiolo]

@ztheaterboy loss for words?

[omiolo]

In the US, Mormons constitute about 2 percent of the population, according to church data and numbers from the CIA World Factbook

[omiolo]

@ztheaterboy I have NEVER heard of an ATHEISTIC gov't treating their people well.

[omiolo]

"It's something that will brighten someone's day and make Mesa a better place," said Josh Boyle, 30, an attorney and a member of a Mormon youth groups

[omiolo]

@ztheaterboy nobody accused you ANTIreligious people of being good for society!

[omiolo2]

@ztheaterboy and God proclaimed and ordained.

[omiolo2]

Marriage is sacred.

[THELDSLIFE]

@ztheaterboy - See? I knew you couldn't resist wiping your feet off here also.

[THELDSLIFE]

As only an Apostle of the Lord CAN DO!