LDS leader Ronald Poelman dies at 83 | The Salt Lake Tribune

[_harmony]

No. Some of the brethren suggested that he should get married again, but didn't have anyone specific in mind. He stated that he already had a wife, and he would see her again in the hereafter.

A GA I could actually admire! Woo Hoo!

[_Yoda]

No. Some of the brethren suggested that he should get married again, but didn't have anyone specific in mind. He stated that he already had a wife, and he would see her again in the hereafter.

A GA I could actually admire! Woo Hoo!

Yeah! He's cool like that! :-)

[_Kishkumen]

A GA I could actually admire! Woo Hoo!

Yeah! He's cool like that! :-)

Marion D. Hanks was another good one, in my opinion, for the following two reasons:

1) He ended the practice of baseball baptisms in the England mission, even though an angry Henry D. Moyle tried to bully him into continuing it;

2) He would host famous African-American performers in his home when the Hotel Utah refused them accommodations.

[_Dr. Shades]

I am skeptical about this allegation of assigned and offer. Can you document this? Otherwise why not figure they just met their wives they married after a first wife died the normal way...through dating and courtship.

Really such an astounding claim needs to be documented. . . I am calling BS on this Shades. Put up on this one and prove it or retract it.

FAIR enough. I tried to find her quote the night before last, but couldn't locate it.

I'll keep trying. I know what I read, so it has to still be out there somewhere.

[_Kishkumen]

FAIR enough. I tried to find her quote the night before last, but couldn't locate it.

I'll keep trying. I know what I read, so it has to still be out there somewhere.

I have a vague memory of the same thing, and I am not really all that surprised by it. How many zoobies have claimed a revelation as they popped the question? Many.

[_Dr. Shades]

Otherwise why not figure they just met their wives they married after a first wife died the normal way...through dating and courtship.

Because they're too busy for such luxuries. Plus, they probably don't have direct contact with the most successful single childless women, so they rely on the bureaucracy to locate them on their behalf.

Plus, it's much quicker and easier to issue a "calling" to be the wife of an apostle or seventy than it is to date them and A) waste time, and B) risk rejection.

[_Drifting]

Otherwise why not figure they just met their wives they married after a first wife died the normal way...through dating and courtship.

Because they're too busy for such luxuries. Plus, they probably don't have direct contact with the most successful single childless women, so they rely on the bureaucracy to locate them on their behalf.

Plus, it's much quicker and easier to issue a "calling" to be the wife of an apostle or seventy than it is to date them and A) waste time, and B) risk rejection.

Hi Shades,

I think the Church has moments of being an insiduous cult, but I struggle to believe that modern day GA's would have wives given them by assignment rather than by normal social interaction and attraction.

I maybe wrong in that view but will need proper sources etc to be swayed.

[_harmony]

Plus, it's much quicker and easier to issue a "calling" to be the wife of an apostle or seventy than it is to date them and A) waste time, and B) risk rejection.

Ask Oaks. *insert snarky laugh here*