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Stoked said:
While I did participate in a good number of new baptism I focused more on strengthening what was already there. I made it a point to bring at least 1 inactive member to church every Sunday. Also just being visible being a contributing member of the local community with active and inacctive Mormons.
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We spent significantly more time on reactivation than on new investigators.
 
PearlWatson said:
Why do Mormons call youth preaching sessions "Firesides?"
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Probably for the same reason the POTUS has firesides.
Besides, without a fire, how can you properly cook s'mores? They're just not the same in the microwave. The marshmallows MUST be browned or even blackened in a fire.

And BTW, it's not just the youth who attend Firesides. Young single adults (up to the age of 30) often have firesides.
 
Core4 said:
Probably for the same reason the POTUS has firesides.
Besides, without a fire, how can you properly cook s'mores? They're just not the same in the microwave. The marshmallows MUST be browned or even blackened in a fire.

And BTW, it's not just the youth who attend Firesides. Young single adults (up to the age of 30) often have firesides.
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Which is?
 
pickledXgrandma said:
No heavy petting on this forum, okay kids?
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Dangerous bidness:

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colton said:
I've wondered this before, and my best guess is that the practice dates back to when they were actually held by the side of a fire.
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Yeah. Like when crossing the plains the pioneers would gather by the campfire in the evening and listen to a little sermon or something inspirational...
 
Bump.

Was thinking about this thread today. Anyone else got any Mormon-related questions they'd like my* take on?


*or others'
 
CALLING ALL MORMON THEOLOGIANS AND APOLOGISTS.

This is a question I have had for a long time that I can't ask anyone because of how they react. So I'll ask it here...


Why do we keep sustaining our prophets as "propehts, seers and revelators" when they actively do none of those things? The last time (that I know of) that there was any claim of revelation was President Kimball--to extend the priesthood to all worthy male members. Why was a copy of this revelation not distributed to general membership? Was it even recorded?

(I have a little bit of an issue with the following). The time before that was Wilford Woodruff's claim in the manifesto that he "saw" what would happen to the church if the leadership were to be imprisoned, and therefore the practice of polygamy had to cease. And he justified this act of self-preservation by saying "God would not allow me to lead the church astray" as if the church had never gone into apostasy before.

Why do we have an open canon, and yet with 150 years and many different prophets, not added to our canon?
 
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