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[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

On 4/7/2025 at 12:05 PM, Hawks said:

I wasn’t able to watch it

how was general conference? what were your fav talks??? where are new temples?

Ohohohoh

You should listen to Tamara Runia’s talk…

Lemme pull up some highlights I got from m’seminary teacher.

Spoiler

 

[Keke They/he]

46 minutes ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

Ohohohoh

You should listen to Tamara Runia’s talk…

Lemme pull up some highlights I got from m’seminary teacher.

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I recognize that paper

[strmblsd he/him]

On 4/10/2025 at 6:20 AM, SpiritOfWrath said:

Ohohohoh

You should listen to Tamara Runia’s talk…

Lemme pull up some highlights I got from m’seminary teacher.

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On 4/10/2025 at 7:06 AM, Hawks said:

I recognize that paper

ill probably see it tomorrow.  i have neminary then

[+Slowswift]

Happy Easter, everyone!

 

Edited April 21, 2025 by Slowswift

[Wasing the want of this]

I went to the temple earlier and this was one of my names!

 

Edited May 31, 2025 by Wasing the want of this

[Ookla she/her]

13 hours ago, Wasing the want of this said:

I went to the temple earlier and this was one of my names!

 

Oh, that's excellent. 

[+Slowswift]

Had to attend a different ward from the usual one today, as I have work. I'm glad I did, though, because the sacrament service today was entirely hymns suggested by the congregation, something I've been a part of a few times and I love! (Some pretty obscure hymns in the mix, too.) Also Sunday school was great, which is (sadly) a rare occurrence for me. The Spirit was there and the teacher was engaging and I didn't fall asleep!

Edited June 15, 2025 by Slowswift

[Mason Wheeler]

On 5/30/2025 at 10:24 PM, Wasing the want of this said:

I went to the temple earlier and this was one of my names!

 

I'll always remember one time when I was young, on our way back from a youth temple trip, our Bishop told us that he had once been doing baptisms and the name that came up was Ronald MacDonald.  He said everyone there just couldn't help themselves and cracked up laughing, right there in the temple, for a good minute or two.

[ChipsAHoid He/Him]

Oh my I finally found a place to talk about this at

I was at FSY (EFY for you Utah peoples. If you don’t know either, church camp for youth) last year (ward boundaries got reworked so I get to go again this year too!! Very excited, that was the best week of my life) and at 3am the fire alarm went off  so all the young men had to go wait outside for an hour, and then the next day we learned that the lady at the reception desk put pop tarts in the microwave and set off the fire alarm. Anybody else have crazy FSY/EFY stories if they went to those?

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

11 hours ago, ChipsAHoid said:

Oh my I finally found a place to talk about this at

I was at FSY (EFY for you Utah peoples. If you don’t know either, church camp for youth) last year (ward boundaries got reworked so I get to go again this year too!! Very excited, that was the best week of my life) and at 3am the fire alarm went off  so all the young men had to go wait outside for an hour, and then the next day we learned that the lady at the reception desk put pop tarts in the microwave and set off the fire alarm. Anybody else have crazy FSY/EFY stories if they went to those?

I have FSY coming up

 

 

Um

There was a guy who got booted from the camp because of things like

Indecency

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

16 hours ago, ChipsAHoid said:

Oh my I finally found a place to talk about this at

I was at FSY (EFY for you Utah peoples. If you don’t know either, church camp for youth) last year (ward boundaries got reworked so I get to go again this year too!! Very excited, that was the best week of my life) and at 3am the fire alarm went off  so all the young men had to go wait outside for an hour, and then the next day we learned that the lady at the reception desk put pop tarts in the microwave and set off the fire alarm. Anybody else have crazy FSY/EFY stories if they went to those?

Oh noooo

heheh

the Dihydrogen Monoxide thing last year was pretty funny (idk if they did it for all the FSY camps but they did where I went [basically they told us there was a Dihydrogen Monoxide leak in the dorms and it was a whole thing])

because I knew what was going on but everyone else was freaking out

heheheh

4 hours ago, SpiritOfWrath said:

I have FSY coming up

 

 

Um

There was a guy who got booted from the camp because of things like

Indecency

yikes okay

[ChipsAHoid He/Him]

1 minute ago, Through The Living Glass said:

the Dihydrogen Monoxide thing last year was pretty funny (idk if they did it for all the FSY camps but they did where I went [basically they told us there was a Dihydrogen Monoxide leak in the dorms and it was a whole thing])

because I knew what was going on but everyone else was freaking out

heheheh

!!!!!

They did almost the exact same thing for my company and it was also only me who knew!!!

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

37 minutes ago, ChipsAHoid said:

!!!!!

They did almost the exact same thing for my company and it was also only me who knew!!!

awwww yeah :3 

*fist bump*

[Mason Wheeler]

I'm honestly surprised that there are still so many people who aren't familiar with the whole DHMO joke.  I remember it was making the rounds back when I was in high school, in the 1990s.  Here we are 30 years later; how has everyone not heard of it?

[elias888]

18 hours ago, Mason Wheeler said:

I'm honestly surprised that there are still so many people who aren't familiar with the whole DHMO joke.  I remember it was making the rounds back when I was in high school, in the 1990s.  Here we are 30 years later; how has everyone not heard of it?

It’s probably because Big DHMO has done an excellent job keeping the dangers under wraps. Next thing you know they’ll be putting it in baby formula and calling it “essential”…

[ChipsAHoid He/Him]

I was bored last night so I opened up to a random page in the Book of Mormon, and ended up starting at 2 Nephi 13, and in 2 Nephi 13-14 I swear I found Elantris. Also, technically spoilers for Elantris but like that was published in 2005 so I'm not gonna put spoiler boxes for a book that came out 20 years ago. Also, I may be wrong on some of these, it's been almost a year since I last read it so I might be slightly misremembering.

17: Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the Daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts

Sound a bit like a princess from Teod?

Or I suppose just the Shoad in general. Anyways,

18-23 are just talking about how they'll lose all their useless stuff like "tinkling ornaments, rings, fine linen, etc.", which I suppose does happen to the people when affected by the Shaod, they lose all their things and are cast into Elantris.

24: And it shall come to pass, instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle, a rent; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth; burning instead of beauty.

The sweet to stink reminds me of how the city went from "Beautiful, once so very beautiful..." to the mess it is during the book.

It talks somewhat about how the fancy clothing is gone, like how all the Elantrians end up wearing basically rags.

INSTEAD OF HAIR, BALDNESS. This is what made me notice a lot of the parallels.

Burning instead of beauty reminds me of how fire is one of the few reliable ways to kill an Elantrian.

25: They men shall fall by the sword and they mighty in the war.

This seems very close to how almost all of the soldiers, including Raoden go Hoed or die.

26: And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate, and sit upon the ground.

This reminds me of how Elantris becomes a very desolate and sad place.

Next chapter!

1. And in that day, seven women shall take hold of one man, saying: We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach.

While the people who go to Raoden are not necessarily women, there are still people who go to him and are like "Ok, we'll work with you for food"

3: And it shall come to pass, they that are left in Zion and remain in Jerusalem shall be called holy, every one that Is written among the living in Jerusalem-

This reminds me of how the people left in Elantris that didn't die become full Elantrians again.

4: When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning.

The seems similar to how the filth of Elantris and the Elantrians gets cleaned when they figure out about the chasm line.

6: And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and a covert from storm and from rain.

This reminds me of how when restored to its full glory, like how it was before, Elantris is a refuge, a place of healing and wonders.

 

The parallels between the two are quite interesting. Thoughts on how Elantris matches this passage?

(No I didn't spend like a whole hour writing this )

[Keke They/he]

One thing I hear often is there's a point to everything. A reason. A detail. God wont put us through something without knowing thar it will havr reason. 

But im at a loss. I xant see a reason. I cant see a purpose. Why the hell is he having my mom barely be able to support keeping the house. The one thing left in my family thar hasn't changed. The one thing thats still in one peice. If she does t get a better job or a second one soon she is going to end up loosing the house. This would put my brothers without a home. My sister who knows where. And my mom either on the streets or in a camper. 

The dvr is failing at helping my mom. They basically said she's to dumb and old to be helped. (She's 45) 

Maybe this should be in mhc but id like some support in my quest to hold on the the small amount of a testimony in God helping me that I have.

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

8 minutes ago, Hawks said:

One thing I hear often is there's a point to everything. A reason. A detail. God wont put us through something without knowing thar it will havr reason. 

But im at a loss. I xant see a reason. I cant see a purpose. Why the hell is he having my mom barely be able to support keeping the house. The one thing left in my family thar hasn't changed. The one thing thats still in one peice. If she does t get a better job or a second one soon she is going to end up loosing the house. This would put my brothers without a home. My sister who knows where. And my mom either on the streets or in a camper. 

The dvr is failing at helping my mom. They basically said she's to dumb and old to be helped. (She's 45) 

Maybe this should be in mhc but id like some support in my quest to hold on the the small amount of a testimony in God helping me that I have.

That sounds horrible

I’m not religious, so I don’t know if I can help you

But I don’t think things should be justified because “it’s for a reason” or “it has a purpose”

*squeeze*

[+Slowswift]

2 hours ago, Hawks said:

One thing I hear often is there's a point to everything. A reason. A detail. God wont put us through something without knowing thar it will havr reason. 

But im at a loss. I xant see a reason. I cant see a purpose. Why the hell is he having my mom barely be able to support keeping the house. The one thing left in my family thar hasn't changed. The one thing thats still in one peice. If she does t get a better job or a second one soon she is going to end up loosing the house. This would put my brothers without a home. My sister who knows where. And my mom either on the streets or in a camper. 

The dvr is failing at helping my mom. They basically said she's to dumb and old to be helped. (She's 45) 

Maybe this should be in mhc but id like some support in my quest to hold on the the small amount of a testimony in God helping me that I have.

Well, I don't believe we are God's marionettes. Everyone is an agent unto themselves, and some people, as they say, just want to watch the world burn. I think that every experience we have can be sanctified to our good, and that inasmuch as there is a reason it's about putting your trust in God. (D&C 122, the entire story of Job, Helaman 5:12)

Either way, that sounds like a truly awful situation. You'll be in my prayers. 

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

10 hours ago, Hawks said:

One thing I hear often is there's a point to everything. A reason. A detail. God wont put us through something without knowing thar it will havr reason. 

But im at a loss. I xant see a reason. I cant see a purpose. Why the hell is he having my mom barely be able to support keeping the house. The one thing left in my family thar hasn't changed. The one thing thats still in one peice. If she does t get a better job or a second one soon she is going to end up loosing the house. This would put my brothers without a home. My sister who knows where. And my mom either on the streets or in a camper. 

The dvr is failing at helping my mom. They basically said she's to dumb and old to be helped. (She's 45) 

Maybe this should be in mhc but id like some support in my quest to hold on the the small amount of a testimony in God helping me that I have.

*huuuuuugs*
*huge hugs*
*pm?*

[PianoSavant she/her]

19 hours ago, Hawks said:

One thing I hear often is there's a point to everything. A reason. A detail. God wont put us through something without knowing thar it will havr reason. 

But im at a loss. I xant see a reason. I cant see a purpose. Why the hell is he having my mom barely be able to support keeping the house. The one thing left in my family thar hasn't changed. The one thing thats still in one peice. If she does t get a better job or a second one soon she is going to end up loosing the house. This would put my brothers without a home. My sister who knows where. And my mom either on the streets or in a camper. 

The dvr is failing at helping my mom. They basically said she's to dumb and old to be helped. (She's 45) 

Maybe this should be in mhc but id like some support in my quest to hold on the the small amount of a testimony in God helping me that I have.

I’m so sorry you have to go through all that! I don’t know why hard things happen, but I think some reasons might be that we all have agency and that we need to learn. Since God has given us our agency, some people are inevitably going to use it in less-than-optimal ways. When you give billions of people free will some are bound to use it to hurt others. I think sometimes hard things can also teach us things, or put us into positions to receive blessings that we wouldn’t get otherwise. 
 

I’m not saying that these are why all hard things happen, but it might explain some of them. I, evidently, often don’t know why God does what He does. What I do know, though, is that He won’t leave you to face it on your own. “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you” (John 14:18). Even if He doesn’t help you in the way you’d expect, even if you might not even see it, He’ll still be there for you through it all.

Edited June 23, 2025 by PianoSavant

[Keke They/he]

On 6/22/2025 at 8:10 PM, Hoid Slayer said:

That sounds horrible

I’m not religious, so I don’t know if I can help you

But I don’t think things should be justified because “it’s for a reason” or “it has a purpose”

*squeeze*

*hugs* 

On 6/22/2025 at 10:46 PM, Slowswift said:

Well, I don't believe we are God's marionettes. Everyone is an agent unto themselves, and some people, as they say, just want to watch the world burn. I think that every experience we have can be sanctified to our good, and that inasmuch as there is a reason it's about putting your trust in God. (D&C 122, the entire story of Job, Helaman 5:12)

Either way, that sounds like a truly awful situation. You'll be in my prayers. 

Thanks. I geuss i need to just wait. 

On 6/23/2025 at 6:39 AM, SpiritOfWrath said:

*huuuuuugs*
*huge hugs*
*pm?*

*hugs* im late ik but I will check them. 

On 6/23/2025 at 3:10 PM, PianoSavant said:

I’m so sorry you have to go through all that! I don’t know why hard things happen, but I think some reasons might be that we all have agency and that we need to learn. Since God has given us our agency, some people are inevitably going to use it in less-than-optimal ways. When you give billions of people free will some are bound to use it to hurt others. I think sometimes hard things can also teach us things, or put us into positions to receive blessings that we wouldn’t get otherwise. 
 

I’m not saying that these are why all hard things happen, but it might explain some of them. I, evidently, often don’t know why God does what He does. What I do know, though, is that He won’t leave you to face it on your own. “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you” (John 14:18). Even if He doesn’t help you in the way you’d expect, even if you might not even see it, He’ll still be there for you through it all.

Thank you

After I posted that I went to a youth conference. And looking back. Even though it sucked alot due to me getting sick sbd having a few panic attacks. My friends did not leave my side one bit. One thing is its hard for me to see the holy ghost or hear him because I have ten thousand voices and so it all blends together. So I get talked to througg my friend and music and everything. I need to remember that more 

[Experience he/him]

My wife and I are gonna be primary teachers together, we're super excited :).

[Eran of Arcadia]

12 hours ago, Experience said:

My wife and I are gonna be primary teachers together, we're super excited :).

My wife and I co-taught Primary for a while until they called her as YW President. It was great.

[echo74 she/her]

21 hours ago, Experience said:

My wife and I are gonna be primary teachers together, we're super excited :).

aww i love primary kids

good luck!