[Arwen]

Tom Haws wrote:

Please, if you must caffeinate yourself (which I don’t recommend), do it with a natural substance like coffee or tea rather than a scary chemist’s dream like Coke or Pepsi.

Agreed. As a person who has an autoimmune disorder, any and all,caffeinated or not, sodas are far worse and much harder on the body than tea or coffee. They do a ton more damage than either tea or coffee to the body, and mostly because they are carbonated. Want kidney stones drink any soda. Want brittle bones drink any soda. Want high blood pressure, drink any soda. Want to gain weight, drink any soda. Want to injest a ton of man made chemicals drink any soda. Want to go to hell, drink coffee and tea. meh.

[Arwen]

The one thing I took from Mothers who know is this…We can teach our children correct doctrines but in the end they will govern themselves. And if they choose to be piered tattooed people, then it is their choice. I was turned off by the talk completely, but I understand what she is saying. However, no matter what, we can not force our children to do the right thing and at least one Parent knew that (I’d argue two did but ….) and they sent a mediator…a savior to fix all of it through the power of repentance and forgivness.

I think it’s one of the things that irks me to no end, the de-valuing of the Atonement. The whole faith without works is dead mentality, when in fact we can perform every ordinance, keep every covenant, do all we can do, but with out the Atonement it would be all for naught. I hate how people think the Atonement is the milk and the rest is the meat, when to me it is exactly the opposite. If you don’t know the true meaning of the Atonement of Christ the rest of it is meaningless.

I would hate to live in the world some live in, with no hope of their children or themselves having the opportunity to change, to think things are so black and white that the tatooed child will be lost forever, that there is no hope. What a scary place that must be to live.

and I think the story of the Good Samaritin would be a story you could tell your grandkids…how the ‘good’ people who knew better passed the beaten man, but it was the ‘sinner’ who helped him. I think Christ told this parable for exactly this type of thing, that sometimes we get so caught up in being the good mormon that we forget to be the good Christian. That the sinners are his lost sheep too. That being of the world but not in it doesn’t mean we exclude ourselves from loving those sinners. After all the comandme Christ himself gave was “as I have loved you, love one another’ there aren’t any astriks by that excluding sinners.

[Arwen]

INFP here…every single time I take the test I come out INFP. But supposedly so was Mary the Mother of Christ, which means if the church is full of Guardians and we Idealists don’t fit in, at least I’m going to be in good company. :shh:

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observant wrote:

Warning lecture ahead:

Arwen! Why are you sitting alone at church? If you sit alone it’s because YOU need to sit by someone! I mean that in the kindest way! 😆 I also found myself sitting alone at church (and I am not in anyway some sort of pariah but would be looked upon as TBM) and it occurred to me that that was really dumb. I was the one who needed to do the reaching out and not wait for others to do it for me. So in R.S. I almost always find someone sitting by themselves and sit by them. It’s really helped me a lot and I hope it makes others feel good, too.

I also think the sisters need to take advantage of the monthly R.S. meetings. That may be more difficult for single mothers but it certainly is the only time that you can really get to know the sisters in your ward better. Ours are very poorly attended for the most part but it’s the time when I actually get to visit and learn about the sisters. And one other thing while I’m on my soapbox: be sure to participate in the R.S. and S.S. lessons. This helps people know who you are and helps them to get to know and feel comfortable around you. I am an over-participator and have to hold back because I have too much to say but I find it frustrating when others always sit and don’t share! Please share and it doesn’t have to be PC. I speak my mind a lot.

Home teaching and visiting teaching is lame for most everybody, although I’d hope that if you were needing something your HT or VT would be there to help you even if they don’t visit every month… or ever.

And if anything, you now have a really good “ward” here!

/rant

Funny story…not funny ha ha..but ironically funny. Once I sat by someone so I wouldn’t be sitting by myself, trying to be social and all, and they moved. Like I said if I let the members of the church treatment of me dictate me being a member..I’d of left a long time ago.

[Arwen]

For me part of the pain of going to church was being a single working mom…getting two kids ready, getting all the housework done on Saturday to have a free Sunday (which very rarely happened) attending church where being a single mom is well the bottom of the barrel. I don’t understand why people are so afraid of the single moms, but I have friends that are also single moms in the church and they say they have the same experience. We tend to sit alone with our kids, sit alone in SS and RS, week after week. I haven’t had a HT in over 5 years, my VT seem to come around once every 5 months or so, but that’s all the contact I get. So going to church is more an exercise in putting on all my self defense armor and telling myself it’s the people not the church, but it’s still hurtful.

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