Mahonri

Get rid of your doubts and love your husband with your whole soul! Remember, "Unreciprocated love, eventually leads to separation" God said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments". If you simply turn your doubts, worry and anxiety around and focus it on making him HAPPY, you will be HAPPY.

1. You guessed it. Be grateful. 2. Prepare a number of talks on various subjects, that way, when you do get called to give a talk you'll be ready AND You'll have the blessing of preparing talks... and that always helps a person individually. It does me anyway. 3. Do you bear your testimony on Fast Day? I feel that's important every now and again. At least they would know you can stand in front of others and bear testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel? 4. Do you go to the Temple and put your husband's name on the prayer roll? Do you fast for him? In the past 6 years I've been asked to speak twice. Neither time with my wife. I think she's been asked to speak in sacrament meeting perhaps twice in the past 20 years. And she is a much better speaker than I. Go figure.

After waiting a year after his death.

I served in the mission field with Floyd Weston's son. He was my first companion in the field. As a greenie I heard him retell his father's story more than once. Floyd found the church after he had been wounded in the war and was sent back to the Bay area to a hospital for healing. One of his nurses was LDS. He ended up going to church with her, had an interview with the bishop, & asked him about each one of the 17 points. He ended up marrying that nurse in the Temple. I believe 3 of his sons have now served as mission presidents (including my former companion). The story is all true. I suppose I should send a FB message to my companion and have him send me the story. I've retold it many times (to the best of my recollection). I used in recently in a lesson I taught just last week.

I sometimes spend weeks away from the Internet. It's a healthy thing to do.

While we don't worship the Prophet Joseph, I have learned that truly, the only way we will ever come TO KNOW our SAVIOR again, is to come to know Joseph Smith.

The temple is a place where the windows of heaven can be opened to our view via our spirit eyes. Section 97 tells us that in the Temple the pure in heart shall see God. Usually when a departed spirit visits us, it is to call us to repentance.

I turn around and go a different way. I probably need the exercise!

Get ready for the big white envelope....

Satan and his demons who knew us for eons before earth life know us and our weaknesses. Their spirits speak at us, tempt us and try us to see how we will react. When we are living righteously, The Holy Ghost can speak at us with warning or reassurance the same way. We have our agency. It's what we do with those thoughts that matter's most. If the adversary and his demons can see that they are having influence on us, they continue. If we ignore them. They will go away. Thinking righteous thoughts repels away the tempting 'thoughts'/ words that come our way from the evil one.

He makes a good point about BYU swimmers. ? ? ?

Activities? what activities?

Why would disclosing something that happens in a disciplinary council be contrary to the "Law of the Land"? Which land are you talking about? The Church is in HUNDREDS of countries. some folks are a tad myopic.

Racism could/can be found in all American churches (even among Catholics) from the earliest of times. It wasn't something singular to Latter-day Saints. Currently, I would describe our congregation as colorful. I home teach a Native American family, last Sunday I sat in back of a Latter-day Saint that some would describe as black, I would describe her as a wonderful sister in the Gospel of Christ.

I also believe that prayer is fundamental for you. It is the only way we can truly repent and it is essential for us to return to live with Our Heavenly Father. Once prayer becomes a part of you and you make and keep baptismal covenants, then personal revelation can flow. Then, there won't be anymore questions in your mind about homosexual marriage, masturbation and tea drinking. You will know where the Lord stands and your desire will be to stand with Him. The Church is open to all who will come unto Christ. God bless you as you prayerfully enter into sacred holy covenants to follow our Savior.