August FP message for Home Teachers.

[_zeezrom]

tinkling cymbals

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[_Baker]

When the customer who had done everything right called to complain that nothing had grown, the operator chided the customer for misunderstanding the nature of the seeds. The customer was mistaken to have considered the seeds to be traditional seeds that grow into vegetables, but rather spiritual seeds, the fruits of which can only be seen with spiritual eyes.

[_ludwigm]

...
I'm thinking Mr/s. Carp is not Spacey. I've been noticing how s/he can quote posters properly.

--- or maybe it is only a good camouflage ---

[_canpakes]

“You must follow planting instructions for the seeds to sprout. You can’t set them on the shelf and expect them to grow.”

“These seeds conform to the laws of biology. If you plant the seeds in the morning and expect to eat tomatoes later that week, you will be disappointed. You must be patient and wait for the work of nature to unfold before you.”

“The seed you plant and the time of the planting determine the harvest.”

Sometimes, even when you do everything just right, the seeds produce bitter fruit, or no fruit at all, because the seed purveyor gave you bad seeds.

[_Some Schmo]

Sometimes, even when you do everything just right, the seeds produce bitter fruit, or no fruit at all, because the seed purveyor gave you bad seeds.

The only seeds the church provides are grass seeds, which grow into grass, eaten by cattle, and turned into BS. That's the full life cycle.

[_Stumpy Pepys]

Didn't Deiter recently give a conference talk where he conceded that sometimes, people occasionally have doubts about the church for real reasons?

In this article, the doubter is a ridiculous caricature.

One step forward, twenty steps back.

[_DrW]

Uchdorf's story / metaphor about the seeds is not new, or the least bit original. It has been around in one form or another for a long time. I remember hearing versions of this when I was a kid.

Perhaps Uchdorf didn't realize that this is an old, old story and metaphor because he is not originally from around here. He might have checked it out a bit more before he embarrassed himself.

[_Gadianton]

If you plant the seeds in the morning and expect to eat tomatoes later that week, you will be disappointed

So much for receiving a witness of the Book of Mormon the same day the Elders leave it with instructions to study three sets of verses and take the Moroni challenge. Uchdork has just thrown Parley P. Pratt and everyone else who received a burning in the bosom shortly after reading the Book of Mormon under the bus.

He's essentially shown the Church to be false.

[_ludwigm]

Uchdorf's story / metaphor about the seeds is not new, or the least bit original. It has been around in one form or another for a long time. I remember hearing versions of this when I was a kid.

Matt 13; Mark 4; Luke 8

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. (by the way women excluded from something again...)

[_Dr. Shades]

tinkling cymbals

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Don't laugh; it's even on a book cover: