At the end of sacrament meeting last Sunday, the visiting stake president took a minute to tell us that we’d all likely want to be there the next Sunday because there was going to be an exciting change in the ward. It was obvious that a new bishopric was what he was talking about. He then encouraged us to have a fun week of speculation. And it was fun, as rumors flew wildly and with abandon. This place seems to do rumors quite well, as the rumored councilors were correct. The bishop, however, was a surprise (the fact that his parents and sister were in Sunday school kind of gave it away about an hour early, though, but that’s it).
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I have no major problems with the Church
I think I’m alone on the female side of the bloggernacle, but I have no major issues with the Church. I like going to the temple and find it stimulating (assuming I’ve had enough sleep recently) and lifting. I really need to go more often, but that’s an issue of apathy, not an issue of doctrinal conflict. I’m not bothered by anything taught there and don’t find it painful or sexist. Sure, Adam and Eve are a bit cheesy, and sometimes it gets a little warm in the room once you’ve got everything on, but that’s the worst I can come up with.
Droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground
When I was in 7th grade, I cut across a field that was several acres in size to get to school. There was a subdivision there by the next year, but for that year it was a fence-less, open field that significantly shortened the walk to school.
It was foggy one morning. As I walked towards the school and the very thick fog blocked out all buildings so I had no frame of reference and couldn’t be sure which way I was going, it wasn’t long before I was uncertain if I was really going straight or if I’d wandered from the direction I needed to go.
Girl Scouts
I stopped by to visit a coworker this afternoon, and she had her granddaughter’s Girl Scout cookie order form on her desk. I’m always game to support the Girl Scouts, so I signed up to buy a few boxes.
I was a Girl Scout for a couple years – 5th and 6th grade – and I had a great time. I wanted to join a year earlier, but there was no troop associated with my school that year. After 6th grade, my family moved and I never got going with it again, which I kind of regret.
Is It Real?
In Wendy Ulrich’s FAIR conference presentation last summer, she spoke on spiritual experiences, and our attempts to discern whether such experiences come from within, as part of our own emotions, or whether they are truly created by the Spirit, outside ourselves.