Jump to content

TeddyBearStallion

banned
  • Posts

    661
  • Joined

Posts posted by TeddyBearStallion

  1. 3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Who leads congregations/stakes in the LDS?  

    The bishopric's and stake presidencies.  Both all volunteer service callings.   At BYU one of my stake presidents was former baseball player Dale Murphy.  Ken Niumatalolo is the stake president over in Annapolis, MD and Vai Sikahema is the stake president over in Philadelphia.   A bishop serves for about 5 years and a stake president serves for about 10 years.  

    My mission president was the president of Anchor Hocking and owner of all the Outback steakhouses in the Northwest.  He retired at 57 to accept that 3 year volunteer-service calling.  Former KC Royals pitcher Jeremy Guthrie is now serving as a mission president down in Mexico.  

    My stake president growing up was the founder and owner of Apple Orthodontics.  

  2. On 12/18/2019 at 5:14 PM, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

    the church's investment fund tried to recruit a buddy of mine. he was dating the daughter of one of the fund managers. he's a trading wizard but a complete degenerate and they wanted him to join the church.

    bonus part of the story: he took a previous girlfriend to a strip club and got a private dance and the stripper went down on his then girlfriend. in his words, 'i knew right then i was going to date that stripper.' that stripper was the mormon daughter of the fund manager.

    Right....   funny how the fish we supposedly caught (but don't have proof of) is always big....   

    On 12/19/2019 at 8:47 AM, TwiceHorn said:

    To that end, I wonder how many churches have investment funds.  It would make sense to have one to fund pastor and staff retirements, parsonages, and whatnot.

    I know the United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church (USA) before the schism were having trouble in those departments and relied heavily on local churches to help their own pastors.

    The LDS church doesn't have any paid ministry on the local level.  The upper leadership (the first presidency, quorum of the twelve apostles and quorums of the seventy) do recieve a living stipend since they serve in their callings full-time.  These are accomplished lawyers, doctors (President Russel M. Nelson 96 years old, was an accomplished heart surgeon who was involved in the first heart transplant) and businessmen and professors (apostle David A. Bednar was a professor at Texas Tech and a dean at Arkansas) and apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf was a senior vice president of flight operations for Lufthansa.   

  3. 1 hour ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    In today's 

    550096-youtube_0.jpg

     

    While many Texas fans remember Carl Torbush's "wow" moment coming against blowU in their epic 77-0 beatdown of aggy, in fact, that early internet meme / staple of Longhorn message boards was inspired by the Utah Utes, who had just scored their fourth unanswered TD to open the 2003 game.

    giphy.gif

    The mastermind behind that devastatingly innovative Utah attack? That coach's name was Urban Meyer.

    This has been today's installment of...

    550096-youtube_0.jpg

     

     

     

    It was 2004, on Thursday night. Urban's 2nd year there.  

×
×
  • Create New...