Our newest member, Wayneman: Shades' missionary companion??

[_KimberlyAnn]

Welcome, Wayneman!



Wespectfully,

KA

[_Danna]

Welcome, Wayneman!
Wespectfully,

KA

Welcome Wayneman as well,

until KA's post, I had a different mental image:


But that's been fixed now!

[_Sam Harris]

I love happy reunions! Welcome Wayneman!

[Guest]

Thank you all, for a very warm welcome.

And especially "thank you" to Shades for his kind intro.

I don't expect, nor do I desire celebrity status here. I have come mainly to reconnect with an old missionary companion. I may post from time-to-time, if I feel compelled to, but probably not too often.

If you don't hear from me again, I sincerely wish all of you the best in your individual lives. Granted, I would love nothing more than to see all of you who have left the church, return.

But alas, I respect your right to your own choices in life, as I would hope that you would respect mine.

Cheers.

Dr. Shades -please keep in touch, bro.

[_krose]

Yokoso!

May I say, thank you for having this conversation where we can read it instead of taking it immediately to one-on-one emails. It's been fun to read.

However, this jovial camaraderie almost makes me a bit jealous, and I wonder if Tarski and I may have been laboring in the Nagoya environs 15 years too early.

Harmony, I'm sorry your MP experience was not so good. I thought both of mine (Sato and Tanaka) were great. I still admire and respect both of them greatly, even post apostasy (mine, not theirs, of course).

Yoroshiku.
- the erstwhile Rose Choro

[_Daniel Peterson]

My TR is as good as yours, and that causes some folks who frequent this place a considerable amount of angst...

It causes me no angst, but, were I your bishop, I probably wouldn't have given you one.

I regard you as a nominal member of the Church, and as, in a certain sense, still affiliated with the Restoration generally, but not as a believing Latter-day Saint.

enough, that if they knew my real name, they'd seek to cause mischief in my real life.

As you know, I'm a counterexample to that.

[_Ray A]

I may post from time-to-time, if I feel compelled to, but probably not too often.

Stick around, we need more Mormon posters here. (I am an ex-Mormon, by the way)

[_Yoda]

As you know, I'm a counterexample to that.

Really?

I thought your collides with real life and the board were numerous. Didn't you have to replace your garbage cans several times because Scratch kept knocking them over while staking out your house?

[_Daniel Peterson]

As you know, I'm a counterexample to that.

Really?

I thought your collides with real life and the board were numerous. Didn't you have to replace your garbage cans several times because Scratch kept knocking them over while staking out your house?

Well, yes. And -- we're not monsters, after all -- we've had to lay in a massive supply of Gatorade to replenish poor Mister Scratch's precious bodily fluids during his summer stake-outs. And he surely does love my wife's chocolate chip cookies. (I've drawn the line, though, at inviting him in to dinner. But then, he probably doesn't enjoy fried puppy and roast kitten anyway.)

In this case, however, I specifically had in mind my knowledge of harmony's identity and approximate whereabouts.

[_Dr. Shades]

I don't expect, nor do I desire celebrity status here.

Too late. :-)

Dr. Shades -please keep in touch, bro.

You got it. I already have your weblog bookmarked. :-)

By the way, in what areas did you serve after Inuyama?

May I say, thank you for having this conversation where we can read it instead of taking it immediately to one-on-one emails. It's been fun to read.

I'm glad to hear that. Since you served in Nagoya too, thank you for chiming in.

However, this jovial camaraderie almost makes me a bit jealous, and I wonder if Tarski and I may have been laboring in the Nagoya environs 15 years too early.

I don't know the answer to that. From my own experience, the members and, more especially, my fellow-missionaries "made" my mission. The camaraderie was like nothing I ever experienced before or since. No, not even my stint in the Marines gave me anywhere near the sense of family like the mission did. Everyone fully united in a common cause--it was cool. Are you saying that it wasn't the same when you were there?

Harmony, I'm sorry your MP experience was not so good. I thought both of mine (Sato and Tanaka) were great. I still admire and respect both of them greatly, even post apostasy (mine, not theirs, of course).

I still have 100% respect for my first mission president, President Smith. He had little to no ego, which made it easy on us peons.

By the way, krose, what do you think of this page?

Also, Wayneman: What did you think of President Ames?