Originally posted by Regulus A Black
thats exciting News for you Kella,Eis, we have told you, and whether you believe it or not, it is deep doctrine, and we as members can not fully explain it to non members, until they are ready to believe, it is something that everybody must find out for themselves if it is true or not, it doesnt matter if we explain it to you perfectly, if you are not ready to understand it, nothing we say will be of any importance, it is something you must pray about yourself
Thats really awesome Kella, and like Ramses has said, i am here for you as well, you can PM me, or ger my email/MSN, from Ramses, or ask me for it.
Ramses, you are right in like two years we should deff. be able to answer some of the deep doctrine questions asked here, hopefully.
In like two and a half years, a little more then that more then likely ill be returning from my mission, I put my papers in, in May. Im way excited, and wish i could go now, but I can wait its only like 3 months down the road til i put them in, and then 3 months after that that i should leave.
Ill be sure to post where i am going when i get it.
You guys are awesome, this forum has really helped my testimony grow, which can be hard at times, especially when you are at BYU, which is like Mormon capital USA, lol. Thanks so much you guys
Whoot Whoot!!
Thats way cool your excited Regulus!
I can't wait to see where your going! Any idea where you'd like to go?
(dont' way where you don't want to go though, or you'll probably get called there, lol)
I think for myself (if I go) Russia could be cool, just not Asian, that would be super hard. ( 🥷, great! now I'm jinxed)
Anywho, I'm glad this has hepled you! 😱
It can be hard to find a testimony in mormon capitol USA. (that's kinda how it is where I am, heck, that's all of Utah I guess...)
So, are you from outside Utah then, and went to BYU?
Have fun at the dance Kella!!!
*is getting really miffed at the kid sitting next to her in computer tech, who is swearing up a storm* 😒
Oh, and I heard the funniest story yesterday:
The Debate Nationals where held here in SLC a couple years ago, and some of the kids from my team where there, and they got talking to some kids from some other state. It was funny, they where all scared when they found out the kids on my team were mormons and asked, do you guys have horns!?!
*they were using a hick accent the whole time they where talking to them*
One kid on my team was like,yeah, but don't worry hun, they only come out at night. 😉 Oh, and as long as you stay away from center street you'll be just fine, that's where we gather most the time... *the kids are like 🥷*
And they where kinda doin the same thing about a piligamist question. One guy said he was engagged to his cousin (he's like a sophmore at the time). 🙄
They had them going for like, an half hour before they lost the accent and told them they where kidding..... 😆 those people belived them about the horns!!!
anywho..... 🤣
I'm in Lafayette waiting for my best friend to get dressed for the dance. She's taking a while, but we're having fun. 😄
I am so excited to be getting active in my ward again. you have no idea how lost I was feeling without it. "Anyways....I gotta run. I will tell you guys what happened tonight when I get home tomorrow.
yeesh, been too busy past couple days. it's hard staying up with you people anymore...
anyways, WOOT WOOT for you Kella, i hope the dance was awesome. let us all know, k?
and Regulus, ill be there for your going away when you leave for your mission. if im not, then you're still in utah, and i still work at Rent One.. ohh, how fun could that be? anyways, my mom's camaro(which is my temp. driver) broke down yesterday. blew a head, and now i get to pull it's engine after finishing mine up. gosh, im stuck with this engine crap...grrr, guess thats what the good ole chevy 350's are made so cheaply for... YAY GO CHEVY 350!!!!
Okay...so our night went like this.
When she finally got dressed and stopped dancing around in her underwear (to her Primary Colors cd) we went to Baton Rouge and went shopping cuz I really needed some new jeans and other stuff. We got me some way cute outfits and I got dressed in a Sears bathroom. We did our makeup in the car and went to Copeland's (very nice cajun restaurant...I recommend it to everyone who ever finds themselves in New Orleans). We had some pina coladas (virgin of course) and stuffed ourselves with hot crab claws, bayou broccoli, crab and corn bisque, catfish acadiana, and crab stuffed catfish bordelaise. omg....soooo good! (they do have more than seafood, but I've kinda started working on my vegetarianism. So I try to just stick to seafood...and away from red meat, pork, and chicken sometimes.
Anyways...we left the restaurant dying of overstuffed-ness...and went to the dance. There was no one there that we knew. We still stayed for the rest of the dance...danced a few times (though mostly slow songs), I danced with two guys I had never met and had a good time. We came back to Lafayette and I almost passed out on the Interstate from exhaustion, but we made it home and blew up the air mattress and talked about her missionary and the future. Then we pulled out the digital camera and started acting...really...funny. Finally I could take no more and passed out on her.
All in all it was a great night. I had a blast. Darcy is great! She's so much fun; I just love her to death! She's so LDS and yet so...not. She's only been a member for 2 years. She still has her old ways. She still doesn't know all of the rules, but who does right? I love that though...it makes for funny moments.
Anyways...sorry I'm rambling.
THE CHURCH IS TRUE! WHOO!
Yeah I did. She's the one that changed so much. She's really just awesome. We're going to go to Utah in June...we're thinking of just living there for the summer. I have a friend who lives in Murray. I'm going to try to talk him into kicking one of his roomates out and letting us take one of his bedrooms. Two twin air matresses on the floor sound just fine to me. I'd be living with two of my very best friends...in a place where I feel happy...and I am really stoked about it.
I'll have to make some cajun food and have a little party and invite all of you guys while I'm out that way. Brandon won't mind...as long as you don't mind his friends over for their "special" parties. 😂
I find it so amusing that two of my best friends are LDS. One is super Molly Mormon (mostly) and the other is totally inactive. And no, I don't push the subject with him. He knows the truth, but he has made the choice not to care. Sad, but he's still a great guy and he's one of my very best friends...for quite a long time now. He told me once..."If you don't want me making you do something you don't want to do...don't make me do something I don't want to do. It's my choice and I'm doing what I want."
I'm all about free-agency, but when you love someone and see them turn away from something that is so deep in your soul when you know that they know it's true...you kinda wish that gift had some kind of rule that you could inforce.
Anyways...I wanted to agree with a post RAB made a little while back. This forum really has helped to stregthen my testimony. Despite all of the anti-mormon doctrine...the things said in here are really powerful and have really helped me to remember who I am. Thanks guys.
*gives BIG suffocating hugs*
thats really cool Kella, i should still be at BYU in June, you should deff. swing by and say hi, it would be cool to meet you, as well as everybody else in this forum, i already know webjac and Ramses, so that leaves like Kella, dorkerina, Barker, and Brunette Angel, are the ones that i can remember are LDS, that have posted in here, maybe one day we will all know each other All i know is that im sure i was suppose to find this forum when i did, i am sure it has helped improve my missonary skills, which i will be using come fall, i cant wait its going to be the best time of my life.
so... anybody ever notice that we usually only have one person asking us questions at a time? I just kind of realized that, and am now wondering why, but im meaning like big questions, ones like Son Of Man, and Eis asked us, not all the little ones, that can be answerd by non members, the questions about the doctrine
I noticed that too...about one person at a time. Dunno.
I just wanted to share something. It's kinda personal...so this may not be the best place to say this, but I want to tell you all and I don't have time to PM each of you individually.
I have been on probation with the church for 6 years. Informal for the first 4 and formal for the last 2. Because of you guys and coming to this forum I've found the strength within myself to end my probation.
I talked to my Bishop today (we met before church) and told him how things were going. He asked why I would want to meet with him when everything has been going so great. I told him that I wanted off of probation. That I wanted to be able to take the sacrament and hold a calling and do what the Lord wanted me to do. I was going to stop being afraid of the responsibility it takes to be a member of the LDS church. I was ready and I would do whatever was asked of me to prove that I was ready. He asked me a few questions and I answered as best I could. Then he looked down and nodded and said, "Well, I don't see any reason why we can't end your probation right now."
I almost fell out of my chair. I nodded eagerly and listened to what he had to say. The Spirit was so strong in that room. We were both in tears. He told me that he was so proud of me and that I had come so far. He said that he could see the change in me that I needed to end the probation, but I had to see it for myself. I told him about this forum and how remembering the truth...remembering who I was gave me the desire and the strength to come to him to ask for this.
You guys have really helped me to build my testimony. You've really been an inspiration to me. I am so grateful that I stumbled into this forum and that we've had the opportunity to share what we believe. Even if our words fell on deaf ears...we heard one another and we helped each other even if we didn't know it.
RAB...you will make a great missionary. I will definitely come to visit you when I am in Utah. I'm actually going to try to get a temple recommend so I can do baptisms in the SLC temple. I've always wanted to do that. It's something that you don't get a very big oppourtunity to do when you live here in New Orleans. And Ramses...you were right. The Lord gave me these incredible gifts...how could I ignore that? I won't...not anymore. I'm ready to make the changes in myself. I'm ready to prepare for what's coming. And dorkerina...thank you for making this thread and being my friend. You are so blessed to have the faith that you have. We all are, I suppose.
So yeah...just wanted to share my joy. I've been bawling my eyes out since 10:45am. I've just been so moved by the spirit and testimony meeting was so powerful. My Bishop is AWESOME! He gave his Lord of the Rings testimony (it's legit...I swear. He makes great comparisons.) I can't contain myself. I took the sarament this morning and said the opening prayer at Sacrament Meeting. I was freaking out, but I knew the Lord was with me and I wasn't as afraid as I would have normally been.
So anyways...gotta go to my Aunt's for a Superbowl Party...running late. Bye!
Omgosh!!!! I'm sooo happy for you! There really is nothing like the spirit to make you cry for joy. I got my patriarticle blessing today and I was crying to hard that I was shaking the whole time!
I'm really glad this forum has touched you guys, it makes all the times I was wondering if I was doing the right thing by starting this worth it!
The gospel is such a beautiful thing, and it's nice to remember why it at least makes sense to you. There's no better way to strengthen a testmony than by bearing it.
Thanks for sharing your picture Kella! Now I can see, in a sense, who I'm talking to. (instead of seeing you as a cartoon like your avvie, lol (*feels wierd for saying that*)) Your friend Kayla does bear an uncanny likeness. Wish her parents the best for me! (It's good she has a sweet person there to look after her in case anything happens)
Anywho, it would be fun if we all met each other. What if we met at temple square and looked around and talked!?!? That would be fun. We maybe could even try to get tickets to see the movie about the prophet playing at the Joseph Smith memorial building.
It would be cool to meet at temple square, but im not sure if i would be able to get up there, lol not having a car sucks, im stuck in provo all the time, and i swear that provo is the most boring city in the world, but if i can make it would be lots of fun, i have been to temple square before and i love it, i may have to get a new recommend before then, i think mine expires around that time lol, o well it wont be too hard to get a new one, BYU is swarming with bishops and stake presidents
Sweet....that would be awesome. Of course I would be the oldest one there, but that's okay. 😄
And Kayla is my cousin (our moms are sisters) so yeah...we would have some similarity, but she really looks a lot like her father which makes no sense why she looks like me. Hmm.
That is so cool that you got your PB today! I want mine so bad! I think I'd be right there with you with the sobbing part. Sometimes the spirit is just so powerful...there's no choice, but to release. Actually I think I would be crying just to be able to go to the temple and do baptisms. I feel rather strongly that I need to get my endowments, but I don't think a woman should get them until she is getting married. I personally would prefer to wait...but when I was released I instantly felt that I needed to have my endowments. That's so odd for me, but I think I would be okay to get them.
I think perhaps that's my next talk with my Bishop...and boy will he be shocked. I want my PB too...and to go to the temple again. I want the blessings of obedience. I want the blessings of the church. I want the blessings of faith and works.
Hmm....
Here are a few songs that have been helping me through the hardest times lately. You don't have to right click and save....you can just click the link to listen. Man I love the church. There is no better place on Earth than in the temples. We are so blessed to believe...to know.
Enjoy!