Ritt Momsey and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir have failed yet again. Hope he loses the primary!

Haha. Me too!

Dr. Mike Kennedy is a lot of things — State Legislator, Doctor, Lawyer, Eagle Scout, Husband, Father of eight, and a Self-made man who grew up in a single-parent home in less than fortunate circumstances. Disputing the notion all kids who grow up poor are destined for failure, Mike worked hard to find success and provide a better life for his family.

Working his way through college to support himself, Mike was able to graduate with a bachelors degree from BYU, only taking time off to serve a 2-year LDS Mission, before graduating from medical school at Michigan State.

After completing a Family Practice Residency, Mike moved his family back to Utah and started law school at BYU. Mike worked full-time as a family physician and attended BYU law school part-time. After graduating from law school, Mike continued practicing medicine and did some legal consulting.

In 2012, Mike was elected as a member of the Utah State House of Representatives, where he has received awards for his conservative, free-market approach and leadership. As a legislator, Mike works with others to pass positive and impactful legislation – keeping government limited and allowing Utah’s economy to thrive.

Mike works as a family doctor in Lindon and volunteers his time giving free medical care to uninsured Utah residents at the Provo Volunteer Care Clinic. He and his wife, Katrina, have been raising their eight children in Utah for 20 years. Mike enjoys starting his days with long walks and weight lifting. He ends his days with dinner and reading scriptures with his family. ***********************************************************

Romney cannot be allowed access to the DC Swamp.

Please visit Kennedy's website and donate, if so moved. I have written them, asking what out-of-staters can do to help the Utah campaign.

http://www.kennedyforutah.com/

Guess his anti-Trump stance during the campaign was a bad move. LOL

Maybe folks in Utah mow their own lawns, and clean their own homes.
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Just like the vast majority of people in fly-over country do!

https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/first-presidency-2016-letter-political-participation

...the presidential campaign of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith in 1844: “Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that ‘they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.’

Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church.

Grease Spot Prophecy – Mormon Quotes

Millennial Star, Vol. 22, No. 29, (July 21, 1860), pg. 455; “I prophesied by virtue of the holy Priesthood vested in me, and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that, if Congress will not hear our petition and grant us protection, they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them, and there shall be nothing left of them – not even a grease spot!“.

Why not?

I sure can!!!

https://love.house.gov/#dialog

It’s Utah. Many gods, though only one per-world.

The Doctrine and Covenants

Section 132

Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded 12 July 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant, and also the plurality of wives (see History of the Church, 5:501–7). Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, it is evident from the historical records that the doctrines and principles involved in this revelation had been known by the Prophet since 1831.

1–6, Exaltation is gained through the new and everlasting covenant; 7–14, The terms and conditions of that covenant are set forth; 15–20, Celestial marriage and a continuation of the family unit enable men to become gods; 21–25, The strait and narrow way leads to eternal lives; 26–27, The law is given relative to blasphemy against the Holy Ghost; 28–39, Promises of eternal increase and exaltation are made to prophets and Saints in all ages; 40–47, Joseph Smith is given the power to bind and seal on earth and in heaven; 48–50, The Lord seals upon him his exaltation; 51–57, Emma Smith is counseled to be faithful and true; 58–66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.

16Therefore, when they are out of the world they neither marry nor are given in ^amarriage; but are appointed angels in ^bheaven, which angels are ministering ^cservants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory.

17For these angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all eternity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are ^aangels of God forever and ever.

18And again, verily I say unto you, if a man marry a wife, and make a covenant with her for time and for all eternity, if that ^acovenant is not by me or by my word, which is my law, and is not sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, through him whom I have anointed and appointed unto this power, then it is not valid neither of force when they are out of the world, because they are not joined by me, saith the Lord, neither by my word; when they are out of the world it cannot be received there, because the angels and the gods are appointed there, by whom they cannot pass; they cannot, therefore, inherit my glory; for my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God.

19And again, verily I say unto you, if a man ^amarry a wife by my word, which is my law, and by the new and ^beverlasting covenant, and it is ^csealed unto them by the Holy Spirit of ^dpromise, by him who is anointed, unto whom I have appointed this power and the ^ekeys of this priesthood; and it shall be said unto them—Ye shall come forth in the first resurrection; and if it be after the first resurrection, in the next resurrection; and shall inherit ^fthrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths—then shall it be written in the Lamb’s ^gBook of Life, that he shall commit no ^hmurder whereby to shed innocent ⁱblood, and if ye abide in my covenant, and commit no murder whereby to shed innocent blood, it shall be done unto them in all things whatsoever my servant hath put upon them, in time, and through all eternity; and shall be of full force when they are out of the world; and they shall pass by the angels, and the gods, which are set there, to their ^jexaltation and glory in all things, as hath been sealed upon their heads, which glory shall be a fulness and a continuation of the ^kseeds forever and ever.

20 Then shall they be gods, because they have no end; therefore shall they be from ^aeverlasting to everlasting, because they continue; then shall they be above all, because all things are subject unto them. Then shall they be ^bgods, because they have ^call power, and the angels are subject unto them.

21Verily, verily, I say unto you, except ye abide my ^alaw ye cannot attain to this glory.

22For ^astrait is the gate, and narrow the ^bway that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the ^clives, and few there be that find it, because ye receive me not in the world neither do ye know me.

23But if ye receive me in the world, then shall ye know me, and shall receive your exaltation; that ^awhere I am ye shall be also.

24This is ^aeternal lives—to ^bknow the only wise and true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath ^csent. I am he. Receive ye, therefore, my law.

25^aBroad is the gate, and wide the way that leadeth to the ^bdeaths; and many there are that go in thereat, because they ^creceive me not, neither do they abide in my law.

I detest carpetbaggers. Romney has about as much business running for a senate seat in Utah that Hillary did in New York.

And we ALL know how THAT little stepping stone turned out!

And you can be a god, too. With your own planet! Let me show you some really swell magic undergarments...

BEFORE THE BEGINNING...

God wasn't God. He was Steve. He has a wife, a few kids, a decent job at a firm that manufactured and sold dental equipment, and a house in the suburbs. Steve was a good man who went to church every week, fostered and trained seeing-eye dogs in his spare time, and saw to all his family's financial needs.

Eventually Steve died, and Steve's God decided he'd been a good enough person to deserve Godhood himself. Steve signed up for evening courses at the God School near the mansion he and his wife shared in Heaven. During the day Steve went to the auction house with the other men, where they would bid on all the freshly dead single ladies who arrived in Heaven in dire need of a husband. On a good day Steve would get two or three new brides and take them home to his mansion, and his original wife would take them under her wing and teach them all the things Steve liked, and how to be good little helpers for him.

When Steve finally graduated from God School, Steve's God took him aside and shook his hand. "Well done, son. I'm proud of you."

"Thanks, God."

"Have you decided where you and your wives will put up shop?"

"Yeah, we have a nice Universe picked out."

"Good, good. Well, best of luck to you." Steve's God turned to walk away, but Steve called after him.

"Hey God? Can I ask you something?" Steve's God looked back at him. "There's still one thing I don't understand," said Steve, "one thing they didn't teach us at God School. If I'm now a god, and you're MY God, and YOU had your own God... how did this whole thing get started?"

Steve's God looked at Steve with his wise, ancient eyes - eyes that Steve had loved and worshipped for his entire existence - and shrugged. "Hell if I know."

IN THE BEGINNING...

God was exhausted. He kept telling himself that he was exhausted in a GOOD way, but he wasn't so sure he believed that anymore. Back when he had been a mere man, when he was Steve, God thought there couldn’t be any better way to spend Heaven then constantly having sex with his endless slew of wives. But after a few thousand years of this, God started looking for more and more excuses to slip off to the bathroom, lock the door, and play Angry Birds in solitude. Before long, though, every time, one of his wives would start knocking gently on the bathroom door.

“God?” she would say, timidly.

Sigh. “Just a minute.”

“God, you’ve been in there for a while.”

“Just a minute.”

A few seconds later she would knock again. “God, sorry to bug you, but are you almost done in there?”

God would pinch the bridge of his nose with his fingers and count to five. “I’m gonna be just a few more minutes, okay, hon?”

“Okay, sorry, it’s just… God, I’m not pregnant.”

“Okay.”

“So what am I supposed to do?”

“I don’t know. Just go read a book or something. I’ll be out in a minute.”

“But I’m supposed to be pregnant. Like, all the time, right? Isn’t that what they taught you at God School? And, like, practically all your other wives are pregnant, and I just feel like…”

“Look,” God would say, “Which one are you?”

“Matilda.”

“Redhead Matilda or Asian Matilda?”

“Matilda with the blue eyes.”

“Okay. Matilda. Honey. Please, just give me five minutes by myself, and then I PROMISE I’ll come out there and impregnate you, okay?”

“Five minutes? You promise?”

“Yeah, I promise.”

“Okay. But Eleven-Toes Betty and Veronica With the Pointy Nose are out here, too, and they aren’t pregnant, either.”

Sigh. “Five minutes, and then I will impregnate all three of you, okay?”

“What, at the same time?”

“If you want.”

“God, that’s disgusting. How can you even say such a thing?”

“You’re right. I’m sorry. It was a joke. Just… five minutes?”

God would take a deep breath, drinking in the silence from the other side of the door. Then,

“Did you mean five minutes from now or five minutes from when you first said five minutes?”

THE PLAN…

God sat on his throne at the front of the room and stared at the endless sea of faces beaming back at him. His progeny. His children. He had no idea how many of them there were - billions, trillions even - but each and every one of them knew and loved him with all their transparent little hearts.

God tapped the microphone with his fingertips and heard the low thud-thud-thud emanating from the speakers around the room. “Is this thing on? Can everybody hear me? You guys in the back, can you hear me okay?”

“YES, GOD,” said billions of small, breathy voices in unison. All of God’s children leaned forward a bit, eager to hear why he had called all of them together.

“Okay, great. So. Thanks for coming, everyone.” God cleared his throat. “Excuse me. Alright, so, I bet you’re all wondering why I asked all of you here today. Here’s the thing. I’m sure you’ve all noticed how you guys are different from your mothers and me. We have physical bodies, and you’re just made of some other kind of substance, right?”

“RIGHT, GOD!” a billion voices agreed.

“Alright, so, the thing is, the whole idea is that you guys get to become like me and your moms someday, but in order to do that you have to have a physical body.”

“Are you going to make some for us?” asked a voice in the crowd.

“No, I can’t. I mean, obviously yes, I COULD, but no, that’s not how it works. You all have to go through something called ‘mortality’. That’s where you get your bodies.”

“Where is mortality?”

“It’s not a where, it’s a what. It’s, like, something you have to do.” God paused, trying to figure out how to phrase the next part so they would understand. “It’s like a trip. You have to go away for a little while -”

The whole crowd gasped. God’s head swam with the sudden loss of oxygen in the room. “GO AWAY? WE HAVE TO GO AWAY?” they cried.

“Guys! Guys! It’s okay. You get to come back!”

A rush of relief washed over God’s children. They began chattering excitedly among themselves, asking each other what they thought mortality was like and whether they should pack their rain coats, just in case. God held his head in his hands. He knew this wasn’t going to be easy, but he had no idea how to make them understand what was going to happen to them. Eyes closed, God lifted the microphone to his lips and mumbled, “Can you guys please be quiet for a minute?”

The crowd instantly stopped talking and turned their attention back to God. He rubbed the back of his neck before speaking again.

“Okay, so, I’m glad you guys are all on board for this, but there’s something you need to understand. You can’t just go and come back, because the whole point is that you have to LEARN something. You have to prove that you’re capable of being like me - of being gods. It’s a test. You have to be good.”

A small hand shot up in the third row. “Excuse me, God?”

“Yeah, um…”

“Lucifer.”

“Lucifer, that’s right. You have a question?”

“Yeah. What’s ‘good’?”

God considered for a moment. “Good is like God, but with an extra O. So it’s being like God, plus some more.”

“Oh.” Lucifer furrowed his transparent little brow and then slowly raised his hand again. “What does that mean?”

Sigh. “Look, basically, when you go through mortality, you’re going to have to make choices. You’ll go, get your physical body, and then have to spend a while making decisions about all sorts of things. If you make good choices, then you get to come back here with me when you’re done. But if you make bad choices, you don’t get to come back.”

A low murmur rippled through the crowd. Lucifer shot his hand up in the air again. “How do we make good choices?”

“By doing what I want you to do. That’s what ‘good’ means - doing what God wants you to do.”

“But that’s silly. How could we NOT do what you want?” Lucifer asked. “You’re GOD. You say something and we do it! You’re in charge of everything!”

This was not going well. God beckoned to Lucifer to come up and join him at the throne. Lucifer bounced out of his seat, up the aisle, and hopped up on God’s lap. He beamed up at his father and stroked God’s beard in admiration as God spoke, reveling in the one-on-one attention. “Lucifer, maybe you can help me illustrate this point to everybody. You think you can help me?”

“Of course, God!”

“Okay. So you stand up here.” God set Lucifer down at the front of the stage and handed him the microphone. “Now you say, ‘everyone should just get to go get their body and then come back to Heaven to be with God.’”

“Everyone should just get to go get their body and then come back to Heaven to be with God!”

“Very good.” God took the microphone and said, “You guys will have to prove that you’re worthy to be with me. Some of you will get to come back, and some of you won’t. Now, everybody, raise your hand if you want it the way Lucifer said.”

Throughout the crowd, many of God’s children sniffed and shed quiet tears, but no one raised their hand. “Oh, come on guys,” God said in an exasperated tone. “Don’t you guys want to all come back here to be with me?”

“Of course we do!” said Lucifer. “But we have to do what you say, because you’re God!” The crowd nodded in agreement.

God pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers and muttered. “Jesus Christ.”

“Yes, God?” Jesus sat in the front row, of course, and grinned up at God with a grin that was a bit too grinny. God had a flash of inspiration.

“Jesus, yeah. Come up here a second.” Jesus clambered up onto the stage and stood beside Lucifer. “Okay, now Lucifer, you say that same thing you said before. And Jesus, you say the thing that *I* said before. And then everybody else,” God looked out over the crowd of his children, “is going to have to choose which plan they think is better.”

A voice cried out from the middle of the room. “You want us to make the good choice, right? So which one is the plan you want us to choose?”

God shook his head. “I can’t tell you. That’s the whole point. You have to think about it and decide by yourselves which one you think is good, and which one you think is bad. That’s the test. That’s what mortality is all about.” God could practically hear their billions of little brains churning, wrapping themselves around this new information. “If you make the good choice you’ll get rewarded, and if you make the bad choice you’ll get punished. Okay, so is everybody ready? Lucifer, go ahead.”

Lucifer took the microphone. “Everyone should just get a physical body and then get to come back to Heaven to be with God again.”

He handed the microphone to Jesus. Jesus grinned wide-eyed at the crowd and said, “Everyone has to prove they’re worthy. Some will come back to Heaven, and some won’t. Just like God said.”

God took the microphone back and wiped Jesus’ hot, moist breath off of it with his robe before speaking. “Thanks, guys. Okay, so now everyone who thinks Lucifer’s plan is the right choice, raise your hands.” The crowd hesitated. “Go on,” God said. “Raise your hands.”

Slowly, a few hands started popping up throughout the crowd. Some of them figured that God would want all of his children to return to him, and so that plan was the good one. Others only raised their hands because God had just said to and they wanted to do what he asked. Eventually, about a third of the room had their hands in the air. “Good, thanks,” said God. “Go ahead and put your hands down. Now everyone who thinks Jesus had the right plan, raise your hands.” Again, the response was slow, but soon there were a few billion hands extended around the room.

“Okay, so,” God said, “everyone who raised their hand for Lucifer’s plan? You guys are now the baddies. You don’t get to go through mortality, and you don’t get to have physical bodies. Your job will be to try and trick everyone else into making bad choices, because only the ones who make really, really good choices and don’t fall for any of your tricks get to come back here and become gods themselves. Okay? So those of you who voted for Jesus’ plan, you’ll get to take the test and maybe come back to live with me again.” God sat back in his throne, relieved that the whole thing was finally finished and sorted.

The crowd stood in shocked silence. Was this real? Was this happening? Terrified, one tiny voice called out. “God?”

“Yeah?”

“I… I didn’t vote.”

“You didn’t vote? Why not?”

“I wasn’t sure which choice to make. They both seemed… bad.”
God looked out over his children. “Anybody else? Who didn’t vote for either plan?” Hands started popping up all over the room. God rubbed his temples and muttered. “Jesus Christ.”

“Yes, God?”

“Shut up. You guys seriously didn’t vote? Well, I can’t have you vote now, because now you know what the right choice was.”

“What’s going to happen to us?” asked one of the fencesitters.

“Well,” God considered, “you didn’t make the bad choice, and you didn’t make the good choice. So I guess I have to figure out a way to reward you, but also punish you.” He sat back and thought for a minute. The fencesitters waited eagerly for him to speak.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity and very well might have been, God snapped his fingers. “I’ve got it! I know what I’ll do. Everyone who didn’t vote for either plan, listen up. I have good news and bad news. The good news is, you’re going to be really good at basketball.”

http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1004258

But, is THIS Kennedy an actual conservative, or is he, also, a RINO?

—

He’s not Mitt Romney, so whoever he is, the media won’t hang on and report his every word as a surrogate “force against Trump.”

Working his way through college to support himself, Mike was able to graduate with a bachelors degree from BYU,

only taking time off to serve a 2-year LDS Mission, before graduating from medical school at Michigan State.

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.

Please Utah,
Send this carpetbagging fool packing.
He is a carpetbagger and does NOT represent your values.

He is a carpetbagger and does NOT represent your values.

Oh??

Utah is 60% Mormon.

MormonISM is a carpetbagging religion.

I don’t really understand your reply. This is a move to keep Romney from winning the primary by defeating his opposition. Actually, if you took time to read the rules, though overwhelming, are all pretty common sensical. Does this mean you support Romney or what? I think Romney is a major leader in the Mormon Church, not sure about that though.

I wonder what her political ambitions would have come to a hundred years ago???

"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.

The first man that committed the odious crime of killing one of his brethren will be cursed the longest of any one of the children of Adam. Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings.

This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin. Trace mankind down to after the flood, and then another curse is pronounced upon the same race--that they should be the 'servant of servants', and they will be, until that curse is removed."

Brigham Young-President and second 'Prophet' of the Mormon Church, 1844-1877- Extract from Journal of Discourses.

Here are two examples from their 'other testament', the Book of Mormon.

2 Nephi 5: 21 'And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.'

Alma 3: 6 'And the skins of the Lamanites were dark, according to the mark which was set upon their fathers, which was a curse upon them because of their transgression and their rebellion against their brethren, who consisted of Nephi, Jacob and Joseph, and Sam, who were just and holy men.'

August 27, 1954 in an address at Brigham Young University (BYU), Mormon Elder, Mark E Peterson, in speaking to a convention of teachers of religion at the college level, said:

"The discussion on civil rights, especially over the last 20 years, has drawn some very sharp lines. It has blinded the thinking of some of our own people, I believe. They have allowed their political affiliations to color their thinking to some extent.I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after."
"He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage."
"That is his objective and we must face it. We must not allow our feelings to carry us away, nor must we feel so sorry for Negroes that we will open our arms and embrace them with everything we have. Remember the little statement that we used to say about sin, 'First we pity, then endure, then embrace'...."

(Rosa Parks would have probably told Petersen under which wheel of the bus he should go sit.)

1967, (then) Mormon President Ezra Taft Benson said,

"The Communist program for revolution in America has been in progress for many years and is far advanced. First of all, we must not place the blame upon Negroes. They are merely the unfortunate group that has been selected by professional Communist agitators to be used as the primary source of cannon fodder."

We are told that on June 8, 1978, it was 'revealed' to the then president, Spencer Kimball, that people of color could now gain entry into the priesthood.

According to the church, Kimball spent many long hours petitioning God, begging him to give worthy black people the priesthood. God finally relented.

Sometime before the 'revelation' came to chief 'Prophet' Spencer Kimball in June 1978, General Authority, Bruce R McConkie had said:

"The Blacks are denied the Priesthood; under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty.
The Negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow there from, but this inequality is not of man's origin, it is the Lord's doings."
(Mormon Doctrine, pp. 526-527).

When Mormon 'Apostle' Mark E Petersen spoke on 'Race Problems- As they affect the Church' at the BYU campus in 1954, the following was also said:

"...if the negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."

When Mormon 'Prophet' and second President of the Church, Brigham Young, spoke in 1863 the following was also said:

"Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God is death on the spot. This will always be so."
(Journal of Discourses, Vo. 10, p. 110)

Yeah; Native Americans are althroughout the Book of MORMON; too.

“I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today ... they are fast becoming a white and delightsome people.... For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised.... The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation.

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl-sixteen-sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather.... These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.

(Improvement Era, December 1960, pp.922-23). (p. 209)

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Very interesting!!

In December 2010, the LDS Church made changes to the non-canonical chapter summaries and also to some of the footnotes in its online version of the Book of Mormon. In Second Nephi chapter 5, the original wording was: "Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cursed, receive a skin of blackness, and become a scourge unto the Nephites."
The phrase, "skin of blackness" was removed and became: "Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cut off from the presence of the Lord, are cursed, and become a scourge unto the Nephites."^[26]
The second change appears in summary of Mormon chapter 5. Formerly, it included the phrase that "the Lamanites shall be a dark, filthy, and loathsome people ..." The new version deleted the phrase "dark, loathsome, and filthy" and now reads, "... the Lamanites will be scattered, and the Spirit will cease to strive with them."^[26]^[27]
These changes are seen by some critics to be another step in the evolution of the text of the Book of Mormon to delete racist language from it.^[26] On the other hand, some believers in the Book of Mormon, such as Marvin Perkins, see these changes as better conforming the chapter headers and footnotes to the meaning of the text in light of the LDS Church's 1978 Revelation on Priesthood.^[28] In an interview, a former BYU graduate student suggested that the changes were made for "clarity, a change in emphasis and to stick closer to the scriptural language."^[26]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamanite

No changes to the PRINTED version? I guess 'research' into MORMON 'scripture' online is biting headquarters in the BUTT!

If he wins then we can call him McCain2.

We can call him the Maverick since the MSM stopped using that nickname back in November, 2008......