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SamBee wrote:
Coffee – proper bean stuff – smells gorgeous.
If coffee tasted like it smells, the Word of Wisdom would have been burned and all traces eliminated the second anyone besides the Prophet read it, because everyone would drink it and no one would listen to an order to stop.
Quote:But so do cigars and pipe tobacco.
Many tobaccos have a wonderful smell when properly cured. If you can still find anyone who smokes Lucky Strikes, take a sniff of an unlit one. Doesn’t taste like that, and if it did, I’d say the same as with coffee.
SunbeltRed wrote:Any advice?
Avoid strip clubs. Especially ones where all the dancers know your name.
But seriously; just handle it like you would if you had to ride around with a bishop you didn’t know well. He’s probably not going to burn you at the stake.
“Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.” — Oscar Wilde Between the past and the future is now. Between sin and sainthood is what you do with right now. You can’t do anything with your past. You can plan your future, but plans change. Every one of us has room to convert a little more right now.
SilentDawning wrote:6. Make your programs good. People spontaneously come back to church — focus on doing the work of the Ward well so when people come to church, they feel they are part of something fabulous.
This; I also see the same with other organizations, when some long-distracted member decides to drop in on a meeting or other activity and finds it a mess or quietly canceled for lack of attendance, odds are they won’t be back again for a long time if ever. That one time you just can’t be bothered to go unlock the building for a singles home evening or whatever could be the one time some forgotten inactive was looking for a bit of acceptance.
SamBee wrote:Personally always found tapes more practical than CDs when changing them. CDs scratch and screw up if they land on the floor.
MP3 via flash drive for the win. My current JVC stereo was under $100 and I’m not sure I’ve ever actually put a CD in it. CD players tend to get clogged up with dust from the dirt roads and driveways around here anyway. A 16G ultra-tiny flash drive from Staples holds more music than I can listen to in 4-5 days for under $30 and makes it easy to add and rearrange on the computer without any special software or card reader.
LookingHard wrote:Tapes? Do people still have tape players in cars? My car that I have had for about 5 years has a 6 – CD player that I have never used. I just use my Bluetooth to listen to any music outside the radio.
Somewhere in storage I have a car 8-track player. Next time I have a car with a hole in the dash big enough, I’m going to dig it out and install it.
I did have a 5.25″ floppy drive with a USB adapter at one point, too. Kept meaning to re-rig that adapter to the 8″ floppy drive I used as a doorstop in the shop.
nibbler wrote:When I filled out the survey I suggested that it might be a good idea to explore making garments out of sweat wicking material. I’m not sure how that might work out as an undershirt but when I was out and about exercising those shirts did wonders.
I’ve worn several different types of technical fabrics as foundation layers, and frankly, most of them ought to be available on the garment menu. There are a lot of advantages to having the right base layer for the weather and the activity, as well as the right fit for your body type.
justme23 wrote:Ive been asked to leave ysa wards because im over 30.
It’s funny; I’m 38 and the most welcomed I’ve ever felt in a ward was when I visited a YSA ward for a friend’s mission farewell talk last month. Everybody was telling me to come back any time I was in the neighborhood and not to worry about the “young” bit. The bishop told me later that it’s not like he checks ID and they never mind having a bit more on the head count.
Quote:Ive been asked to leave family wards because they felt that a single girl should not be in a family ward and they dont have the means to support me.
IMO, it’s not lack of means, it’s lack of the desire to understand.
At first in my regular ward, I thought it was me, but then I realized that all the other single adults had the 2-3 seat buffer zone around them too. Like everybody else thinks divorce is contagious. Unfortunately, just about the time the last two reasonably active ones went inactive, I got called as the ward SA rep, which might as well be ward alien encounter specialist for all the effect I’m able to have. 90+ singles on the list, and 88 of them blocked my number as soon as they found out I was the SA rep, so I can’t even call them to try to plan an activity. The other two are me and a woman who doesn’t have caller ID so she can’t block the number. She’s polite about it, but I’m pretty sure I’d have better luck trying to talk to a fencepost.
cwald wrote:Quote:LDS church spokesman Scott Trotter said clothing is not meant to be the focus of church attendance. “Attending church is about worship and learning to be followers of Jesus Christ,” LDS spokesman Scott Trotter said Tuesday in a statement. “Generally church members are encouraged to wear their best clothing as a sign of respect for the Savior, but we don’t counsel people beyond that.”
This is sort of interesting; if I ever get around to buying a formal kilt, it will likely be the single most expensive piece of clothing I own.
And with my leg hair, it might inspire a detailed dress code.
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