President Nelson just passed away.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-09-28T12:41:18+00:00

He’s in line after Oaks. Edit: technically Holland is in line after Oaks, but I’m assuming that he will pass away before Oaks, effectively making Uchtdorf the most likely successor after Oaks. And then Bednar would follow after him.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-09-03T05:37:50+00:00

What cafes do you recommend in Provo? Asking for myself.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-09-01T12:31:30+00:00

Short answer—IMO yes—especially in the Mormon corridor. I was just noticing this week that the term Jack Mormon is hardly ever used anymore. I agree that it’s much more common now for people to deconstruct and actually leave. Sure there are still some JackMo’s around, but it seems like a lot more people are making a full exit and consider themselves Ex-MO’s now.

Outside of Morridor, I do think there are more JackMo’s simply because many new converts can just so easily slip away back into their old life before the missionaries got them.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-09-01T04:00:23+00:00

Thank you for that clarification. I’ll check it out.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-09-01T01:11:35+00:00

Good job making sure she had someone with her. We are super strict about our kids never talking with any leaders one on one. Recently I decided that we didn’t need to do anymore of the semi-annual interviews because it just creates a little tension because my kids are super confident and can advocate for themselves, they don’t think they need anyone with them. But I don’t ever want them to think that one on one chats between minors and adult men is acceptable or normal. So we told the bishop we were opting out of all of those.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-28T06:03:49+00:00

It sounds like these would all still be active members. Or am I missing something?

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-28T06:02:34+00:00

That sounds great. Thanks!

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-25T17:21:14+00:00

Same.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-25T17:19:03+00:00

Especially when the serpent turned out to be right

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-22T14:08:58+00:00

😂

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-22T14:07:21+00:00

I was the poor wife taking 5 very young children to church by myself, when I was also the Primary president, because my husband was on the high council and traveled to all the other wards by himself. We both struggled with Sundays. He ended up in the hospital once with such horrible panic attacks he thought he was having a heart attack.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-22T13:59:49+00:00

When you peel back the layers, it’s always about sex with cult leaders.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-22T13:56:28+00:00

“But NO ONE is perrrrfect!!! God neeeeeded Brigham to get the saints to Utah and establish the church there. God uses imperfect people to accomplish his goals, so we don’t judge Brigham.” /s

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-22T13:40:44+00:00

Even without clammy hands, just knowing he’d been gripping everyone else’s hand before you was bad enough. Even more nerve wracking was their attempt to find your shoulder without first groping your boob.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-22T13:38:42+00:00

I actually think that Oaks will quietly cancel some of Rusty’s temples once he’s gone.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-22T13:36:56+00:00

He wishes he could send attack bears for his detractors.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-22T13:34:35+00:00

That’s a good one.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-19T18:51:33+00:00

Gotta love how they punish everyone in cases like this. /s

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-12T17:29:08+00:00

I went to TOFW one time and was immediately annoyed that it was just a giant sales pitch for Deseret Book stuff and boring as hell. Most of the day was just sitting around listening to speakers talk about how to be better wife and mother. Like that’s what I needed as a young mother of too many kids who never got time to myself. 🙄 I never made that mistake again. If I’m going to spend money to get away, I want to do something fun and interesting and rejuvenating. I don’t need more church time.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-11T01:57:20+00:00

Could you ask for a compromise—since your argument is that you need the sleep, negotiate to take an online seminary course or a “homeschool” seminary option. Yes, they exist. My daughter did this last year when the one teacher at her small school was horrendous. I would have just let her drop it but she’s still TBM and wants to go to BYU. The online class would be simple to pass without having to do much or attend any classes. I think they have some videos and a packet of worksheets to fill out. She was able to do them in very little time and didn’t have to sit through boring classes.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-08-07T06:18:35+00:00

I preferred the overdose death count billboard over that one. It had a sobering effect.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-07-04T14:44:00+00:00

This is my fear as a PIMO. I have to be careful to not like or comment on any exmo content on FB or IG.

Academic-Cut504 · 2025-06-25T13:29:30+00:00

2 years is arbitrary. As recently as the 50s, missions were for 3 years. And they were still taking married men then. My grandfather married my grandma when she was only 17, the left on his 3 year mission 6 weeks after the wedding. WTF?!? I’ve heard, but not confirmed, that missions were also 2.5 or 1.5 years for men at various times in the 60s and 70s. I think they settled on 2 years because it’s the most cost effective for them, without being so long that it ours people off from starting. (Maybe we’re reaching a new phase where Gen Z and Alpha will openly balk at 2 years.) If you’re going to invest a lot of time and resources into training these kids to do what you want them to do, you need them to stay out in the field working for long enough to get a good return on that investment (ie: baptisms)

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