Posted on 10/19/2019 10:49:38 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
Speaking of colors; do you still have the little, white Missionary Handbook?
I'm informed that it has been reprinted; 'clarifying' a bunch of the old rules and regulations; which I'll gladly share with any in this thread.
Missionary Guide Rules https://www.lds.org/bc/content/ldsorg/topics/missionary/MissionaryHandbook2006Navigate.pdf
- Learn and obey all missionary rules.
- Keep your thoughts, words, and actions in harmony with the gospel message.
- Read only books, magazines, and other material authorized by the Church.
- Don't debate or argue.
- Center your mind on your mission.
- Dress conservatively. Elders: white shirts, conservative ties, and business suits. Sisters: conservative colors and skirts that cover your knees. No floor-length skirts or dresses.
- Cut your hair regularly.
- Keep your hair clean and neatly combed at all times in the approved style.
- Be neat and clean.
- Bathe frequently.
- Use deodorant.
- Polish your shoes.
- Iron your shirt and business suit.
- Arise at 6:30 A.M.
- Study for 2 hours every morning.
- Proselytize for 10 hours between 9:30 A.M. and 9:30 P.M.
- Turn off your lights at 10:30 P.M.
- Exercise regularly.
- Write in your journal regularly.
- Follow the "Missionary Gospel Study Program" (31157) for your personal study.
- Regularly study the Missionary Guide and the Discussions.
- Attend Sunday priesthood or Relief Society meetings, Sunday School, and sacrament meeting.
- Attend the general session of Stake Conference.
- Attend general conference broadcasts if available.
- Avoid all other church meetings unless you have a special assignment or are brining an investigator.
- Proselytize as much as possible on weekends and holidays because this is when you'll find people home.
- End your preparation day at 6:00 P.M. and proselytize from 6:00 P.M. to 9:30 P.M.
- Wear your missionary uniform in public on preparation day while not engaged in recreational activities.
- Arise at 6:30 on preparation day and study for 2 hours from the approved books.
- Take care of your physical preparation for the week on preparation day: wash your clothes, clean your apartment, wash your car, get your haircut, and shop for groceries.
- Write to your parents every week on preparation day.
- Write less frequently to your siblings, friends, and acquaintances.
- Don't communicate with any friends or acquaintances that are within or close to your mission boundaries, except as a part of official mission business.
- Plan safe, wholesome, and uplifting activities for preparation day.
- Stay with your companion during all activities.
- Do not go on road trips.
- Do not leave your assigned area without permission
- Do not watch television.
- Do not view unauthorized videocassettes.
- Do not listen to the radio.
- Do not listen to unauthorized audiocassettes or CD’s.
- Do not participate in musical groups.
- Do not participate in athletic teams.
- Do not sponsor athletic teams.
- Do not engage in contact sports.
- Do not engage in water sports.
- Do not engage in winter sports.
- Do not engage in motorcycling.
- Do not engage in horseback riding.
- Do not engage in mountain climbing.
- Do not embark on a private boat.
- Do not embark in a private airplane.
- Do not handle firearms.
- Do not handle explosives.
- Do not swim.
- Do not play full court basketball.
- Do not play basketball in leagues.
- Do not play basketball in tournaments.
- You may play half-court basketball.
- Never be alone.
- Seek advice from your mission president if your companion is "having difficulties".
- Be loyal to your companion.
- Ask your mission president for help if your companion doesn’t obey the rules.
- Pray with your companion every day.
- Study with your companion every day.
- Plan your work with your companion every day.
- Take time at least once a week for companionship inventory.
- Seek to be one in spirit and purpose and help each other succeed.
- Always address your companion as Elder or Sister.
- Sleep in the same bedroom as your companion.
- Do not sleep in the same bed as your companion.
- Do not arise before your companion.
- Do not retire after your companion. (apparently, being together is more important than getting the correct amount of sleep that your unique body requires.)
- Frequently study with your companion the Missionary Guide section on companions.
- Never be alone with anyone of the opposite sex.
- Never associate inappropriately with anyone of the opposite sex (conversely, they don't mention whether or not it is against the rules to associate inappropriately with anyone of the same sex).
- Do not flirt.
- Do not date.
- Do not communicate via phone or letter with anyone of the opposite sex living within or near mission boundaries.
- Do not visit a single or divorced person of the opposite sex unless accompanied by a couple or another adult member of your sex.
- Try to teach single investigators in a member’s home or have missionaries of the same sex teach them.
- Always follow the above rules, even if the situation seems harmless.
- Use the commitment pattern to get referrals from members.
- Keep your dinner visits with member briefs and during the customary dinner hour in the area.
- Remember to say thank you to those who feed you.
- Visit members and nonmembers only at appropriate times.
- Do not counsel or give medical treatment.
- Do not stay in the homes of people when they are on vacation.
- Only write letters to family members and friends at home.
- Do not telephone parents
- Do not telephone relatives.
- Do not telephone friends.
- Do not telephone girlfriends.
- Contact your mission president in case of an emergency.
- Take problems and questions to your mission president.
- Do not write to the President of the Church or to other General Authorities. Letters from missionaries to General Authorities are referred back to the mission president
- Respect the customs, traditions, and property of the people who you are trying to convert.
- Obey all mission rules.
- Obey the laws of the land.
- Do not get involved in politics.
- Do not get involved in commercial activities.
- Do not give any information about the area.
- Respect the customs and cultures of those who you are trying to convert to your own customs and culture.
- Respect the beliefs, practices, and sites of other religions.
- Do not say or write anything bad about the political and cultural circumstances where you serve.
- Do not become involved in adoption proceedings.
- Do not suggest or encourage emigration. (This rule is a bit ironic, given the now-defunct doctrine of gathering the believers to Zion)
- Be courteous.
- Provide community service.
- Do not provide community service that isn’t approved by your mission president.
- Do not provide more than 4 hours a week of community service.
- Do not provide community service during the evening, weekend or holidays—those are peek proselytizing times.
- Your mission president must approve your housing.
- Keep your housing unit clean.
- Do not live with single or divorced people of the opposite sex.
- Do not live where the spouse is frequently absent.
- Your living unit must have a private bath and entrance.
- You may occasionally fast for a special reason, but generally the monthly fast is sufficient.
- Do not fast longer than 24 hours at a time.
- Do not ask friends, relatives, and members to join in special fasts for investigators.
- Maintain your health.
- Eat a healthy diet.
- Sleep from 10:30 to 6:30.
- Follow the approved exercise program.
- Keep your body, clothes, dishes, linens, towels and housing unit clean.
- Dispose of your garbage properly and promptly.
- Follow the safety rules for all of your stuff.
- Seek medical care if you are in an accident or become sick.
- Be immunized.
- Spend your money only on things relating to your mission.
- Budget your money carefully.
- Keep a record of what you spend.
- Do not spend more than your companion.
- Do not loan money.
- Do not borrow money.
- Keep a reserve fund of $50 to $100 at all times for transfers.
- Pay your bills before leaving an area.
- Pay cash for all resale literature and supplies ordered from the mission office.
- Do not waste money on souvenirs.
- Do not waste money on unnecessary items.
- Be a frugal photographer.
- Do not accumulate excess baggage.
- Obey custom laws and regulations.
- Pay fast offerings each fast Sunday to the bishop or branch president where you serve.
- Pay tithing on outside sources of income (i.e. interest) to your home bishop or branch president.
- Evaluate your funds a few months before the end of your mission. If you have more than you need, ask that less be sent so that you can return home without excess money.
- Do not drive without a license.
- Drive only Church-owned vehicles.
- Do not drive members’ cars.
- Do not drive nonmembers’ cars.
- Do not give rides to members or investigators in Church-owned cars.
- Use cars only on approved mission business.
- Use cars only within the assigned geographical area.
- Be conscious of safety at all times.
- Drive defensively.
- Wear your seat belt.
- Pray for the Lord’s protection while driving.
- If your companion is driving, assist him or her.
- Do not tamper with the vehicle’s odometer.
- Know bicycle safety rules.
- Use extreme caution on your bicycle.
- Do not ride your bicycle after dark.
- Do not ride your bicycle in heavy traffic.
- Do not ride your bicycle in adverse weather conditions.
- Go directly to your new area when transferred.
- Find your new companion without delay when transferred.
- Have a maximum of two suitcases and a briefcase.
I can't figure out why Jesus had to be INCARNATED; since Joseph Smith ETAL say that God the Father already had a body of flesh.
Why wasn't Jesus just like the Holy Spirit?
HE seems to do ok without a fleshy body!
“If you’ve seen Me; you’ve seen the Father.”
John 14:7-14
I shudda read ahead...
“I can’t figure out why Jesus had to be INCARNATED; since Joseph Smith ETAL say that God the Father already had a body of flesh.”
So he could be sacrificed and his blood poured out for our sins. That’s why.
“By man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.”
“As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive”
There is some type of law of balance in creation when it comes to the sin of man, there must be an atoning that arises from man but sinful man as he is can’t atone. So God came as man and did it for us thereby allowing us to choose to be in that “envelope” of atonement. Christ knew no sin, being God in Flesh, but since the wages of sin is death and since Christ did die, he destroyed the power of sin and death and invited the rest of us to share in his victory.
John chapter 3 explains the motivation for this incarnation....For God so loved the world.....
And Jesus was raised up in his fleshly body which later got “glorified” by the Father.....he does exist in a heavenly body now.
Mormonic Verses Placemarker
But; Joseph Smith said that the FATHER had a physical body; so why wasn't THAT good enough to get the job done??
Mormon_Dude(Hail Joseph Smith)
“ This sacred covenant is between you and the Lord, and the proper wearing of the garment is an outward expression of your inner commitment to follow the Savior, Jesus Christ. ”
Fake magic underwear
Fake covenant
Fake savior
None of it saves.
“ Joseph Smith said that the FATHER had a physical body; so why wasn’t THAT good enough to get the job done??”
Ol’ Joe lied... when he wasn’t scamming people or trying to steal other men’s wives, or destroying private property.
Then he was shot and killed when he attacked others.
Frontier justice.
Oh my heck. I knew I was a perfect little apostate. Nowhere is coffee or beer to be found on that do not list. I wondered why the bishop keeps asking for decaf...Wink wink.
Some folks are geared toward teaching and learning for the test, memorizing answers. In regular life it doesn't do much good. Scary that they have convinced themselves that they are prepared for living.
Square one: in the beginning was the Word. It sure was: bereshith, the word that literally is "in the beginning". Just what is says. The first word that was with God, in the beginning. The first word of the Law.
It's sad and ironic (but not surprising) that this beginning of John's account in particular has taken on a life of its own so to speak.
John was the author who at the end of his book was keen to point out how easily folks go off running and repeating fake news that was never said [until they started proclaiming it as fact]:
John 21
21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?
22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
Light:
No Christ would not help hang Christmas lights. He would be too busy attending to the real need.
Best to watch for women wasting expensive perfume. I mean come on, it would be better to sell it and give that money to the poor. /s
The real Messiah has time for all, even for something that others might deem not a real need, like the simple joy an elderly couple might get from looking at the Christmas lights on their house. They wouldn't have been able to climb a ladder.
That's why he's the Messiah. He's a kind and sensitive man who will "waste" his time and efforts on someone or something the experts know to skip right past in order to pass a test.
And therein lies a related irony. There are those who teach and repeat (parrot) that scoring less than 100% every time is an automatic failure and a sure trip to hell (thus creating a need to teach to the test, the answers provided because no one can work out all the answers).
Then they fail their test because no one gets it right 100% of the time even when cheating.
Tithes were but a shadow of what to give, because
The students giving 110% always pass the impossible 100% threshhold just on general principle, because they steadfastly aim beyond, giving their all, whatever all is on any day.
It's the winning formula that's completely lost on those who believe in business as usual, even staring at the clock for when they'll be able to punch out or sneak out.
Failure of a test of their own making and administration.. that's right up there with Haman swinging from the gallows that he had constructed for Mordecai because Mordecai had an attitude problem. And worse than that, his attitude was indictative of his people. Haman paid big bucks to be rid of them. It was the only was he was going to get any respect.
The Purim account is a big reason why I've been telling people to buy American flags before the big rush. Just thought I'd toss that in.
No one is as blind as those who will not see.
Was the issuing of the Law at Mt. Sinai a blessing to the stiff necked already sinking into idolatry Hebrews?
Not the first Word of the law in any circumstance. The next line is and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The law has never taken on flesh.
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No, it doesn't. The Greek word used is:
Besides...Christ IS God, so either way the message and truth is clear. Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Savior - the ONLY Savior. Almighty God repeatedly says He is the ONLY Savior in the Old Testament prophets so either He is a liar or Jesus Christ is God...your choice. We worship the One True God who has revealed that He is triune/trinitas/trinity - God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. One God, not three gods. Christians are not polytheists, we are MONOtheists.
My pleasure! Glad it was edifying to you. God’s word is a lamp for our feet, a light on our path.
Is that you, Michael Rood?
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