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I have had a beard for two years now, wife loves it, kids like it, mother-in-law hates it, and several ward members have voiced disapproval. I’ve got thick skin, and usually stand near a picture of Jesus while waiting in the hallway, but I think most are oblivious to his man-beard.
I was in three different wards in 5 years, all while having the same home address. It is amazing what the economy can do. The last boundary change was the real one for sure this time.
I would refuse the call to be a bishop. There are many who are more eager that would happily accept. Orson wrote:On Own Now wrote:Bowing your head and closing your eyes while a person on the screen prays is borderline strange.
We’re usually in the kitchen finding something to eat during the prayers
😆 …not to be disrespectful but c’mon, we’re watching a message on TV, we’re not there.There is a broadcast delay of 30 to 120 seconds, so what you see on the screen isn’t what is actually happening anyways.
Unspoken order of things, which just means any tradition or practice that can’t really be justified with doctrine. So, any guesses on who will be offering a prayer? My guess is Sis. Dibb.
Haha, I am giving a talk next week that will use the be ye perfect scripture in context of the entire paragraph, not just the punch line, with the proper meaning. Well see if I get invited up again.
I was thinking about this while getting ready for work, and really, besides the actual sacrament, nothing goes on at church on Sunday that I couldn’t accomplish just as well at home. Listen to a hymn, research a topic or two of moral value and personal interest, read the teachers manual for a lesson, maybe read an article, and done.
No fuel burned, no clogged up aisles between the pews and no need to swat away social butterflies.
Yeah, I am not sure why the next president of the church has to be from such a select group. Bill from Iowa wouldn’t get called to be the next president of the church anymore than Willie the Glouchester fisherman would get called to the apostleship. It’s like the candidates have to come from a specific pool I would say stale sacrament comes from a lot of places. A talk on home teaching is probably better as a lesson in priesthood than a talk that in sacrament meeting really doesn’t apply to 2/3 of the audience. Dreary dirge hymns, and endless announcements are another. But most of all I don’t feel we really emphasize a worship service, it instead reminds me of a business seminar or a sales meeting. Increase production, reduce expenses, leverage assets, recover lost investments, and buy more of our own products. Endure to the end of sacrament meeting is a real experience.
Well I’ve been around long enough to endure way too many endless rambling circular talks, where the person and the subject material was unfocused, and it is painful. So that is one extreme. If you are waiting until the last minute to be guided by the spirit in your talk, I feel for the most part, the pulpit is too late. Then there are those with some notes and the gift of gab, and those with fully prepared written talks. I think as long as it is presented in an engaging way, it doesn’t matter if it is notes or written out.
Personally, I can write the way I speak, and know how to research, and I feel it helps me deliver better talks that are on topic and to the point. Many years of television and production work probably augments that capability.
I don’t see any point in trying to minister, as the saints aren’t interested in hearing things they feel they are already experts at.
On Own Now wrote:– reading a talk. This is the worst for me. I can put up with many others because I realize that people have different levels of comfort, and joke-telling and introductions work to use up the clock… but reading is just the worst. Obviously reading a small snippet from another source is fine, but I’ve seen people reading off a sheet of paper, “Hi, my name is xyz… my wife and I moved here from Topeka…” I mean if they can’t even do that without reading from a prompt, maybe they need a little help or practice in a less-daunting setting. I feel that there are many people who think that that’s the way it is done… first you “write the talk” which is a funny oxymoron, anyway, then you “read the talk”… which… again… What ever happened to the talk part? Years ago, I gave a talk in SM, and afterward, a friend of mine asked if he could “have a copy of it”. I told him I didn’t have it written down and he seemed dumbfounded. As if the concept was beyond comprehension. It’s not like I was making stuff up on the fly… I had a note card with few bullets on it, so that I’d be sure to cover the various points in a specific order, and I knew what I wanted to say, I just neither wrote it out nor memorized it. Strange new world for my friend.
Well, this is all they do in General Conference, read their talks off the Teleprompter. You can tell when it stops working. I don’t mind people reading their talks as long as they know how to read aloud.
Well instead of repeating the same curriculum every 3-4 years, they could add some more material in the side bars to clarify historical or grey area subjects. It would help end a lot of false doctrine, doctrines of tradition, and false opinion from spreading around. If I hear one more grape juice claim…
In my neck of the woods, being in a YM presidency means that there are all kinds of stake and ward leaders pressuring you heavily to get those young men to go on missions. It’s a lot of pressure if you aren’t enthusiastic, and would rather teach the YM other useful skills.
