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Waiting for my neice to come out a married woman. I forgot how beautiful Utah is.

Utah ain't got a damn thing on the Vestfold.

I love the geography. There's nothing quite like walking out your door and seeing the mountains just a couple miles down the road, all cloaked in fog or bathed in the orangey glow of a setting sun. We don't have anything like that in Sacramento.

I also love summer rainstorms. We don't get those in Sacramento, either.

My son is down in the Los Angeles Temple today taking out his endowments. He leaves for his mission to Mexico City in a couple weeks. I told him that the temple ceremony was pretty slow before, but it must REALLY be boring now. I mean, no more naked touching, no old man in a cubicle with you helping you step into your new undies, no more throat slitting, no more disembowelment, no more Pay-Lay-Ale-ing, no more wives covenanting to OBEY their husbands, etc. What a dud!!

I did ask him to listen closely during the creation scenes to the different days mentioned and what was created on those days. I always got a kick out of what was mentioned in the temple didn't match up to what was written in the Bible. I wonder if that ever got fixed? Or is the temple right and the Bible wrong?

Of course my son thinks I am just pulling his leg about all this past temple stuff. Hey, I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't gone through it. I also told him that if he told me his "new name" I would tell him mine. And throw in his mother's as a bonus. Haa haa.

I won't do the "sit outside the temple and wait" thing for anyone. My hat is off to you.

It is a beautiful day out. I just got back from donating blood (they love my blood type), and I'm trying to motivate myself to weed the flower beds.

I'll be doing the sitting outside the temple in just over a month.

Jonah wrote:Of course my son thinks I am just pulling his leg about all this past temple stuff. Hey, I wouldn't have believed it either if I hadn't gone through it. I also told him that if he told me his "new name" I would tell him mine. And throw in his mother's as a bonus. Haa haa.

If your son is in disbelief about Mormon history as recent as 20 years ago, imagine how distant and disconnected the truth about 1830s and 1840s Mormon beginnings would be?

Jonah wrote:I won't do the "sit outside the temple and wait" thing for anyone. My hat is off to you.

Never quite understood the waiting outside thing.

Utah is indeed a beautiful land. God bless Zion!

There is nothing else that really compares to sitting outside the SL temple as you await the bride and groom. The SL temple is unique.

Incidentally, there was a homeless person begging for money at the square's entrance. From what I could tell, I was the only person who gave the woman money. Just what change I had on me at the time, which was less than a couple bucks. I was probably the only apostate in the vicinity too.

Kevin Graham wrote:Incidentally, there was a homeless person begging for money at the square's entrance. From what I could tell, I was the only person who gave the woman money. Just what change I had on me at the time, which was less than a couple bucks. I was probably the only apostate in the vicinity too.

I've heard that people going to general conference are encouraged to NOT give the panhandlers money, so they won't be motivated to go there and sully the holy precincts. In fact, I don't think panhandling is permitted on the Main St. plaza between the temple and the COB. Maybe someone who lives near downtown could give some more information about that.

Carton wrote:I've heard that people going to general conference are encouraged to NOT give the panhandlers money, so they won't be motivated to go there and sully the holy precincts. In fact, I don't think panhandling is permitted on the Main St. plaza between the temple and the COB. Maybe someone who lives near downtown could give some more information about that.

Jesus.

This doesn't do much for their case of being genuine Christians. Show me in the Bible where Jesus told his followers to turn away the poor. Quite the opposite, in fact.