Comments on: Testimony Meeting http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/ A Mormon Blog Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:36:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bookslinger http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19404 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:10:13 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19404 Re: Lorenzo Snow (#2).

Shortly after joining the church, I realized that all the things I had a testimony of (God/Jesus/BoM/Joseph) were also applicable to the RLDS church. Shortly afterwards, Elder David B. Haight visited our stake conference, and I received a testimony that he was a true apostle. And that finally connected all the dots.

]]> By: MDS http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19403 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:39:10 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19403 Ronan,

I am surprised to learn about the local prohibition against “Grüß Gott.” I recall a member in the Ruhrgebiet giving a talk about living a godly life and mentioning his desire that we all incorporate that phrase into our vocabulary as a way to have Him in our thoughts more often.

]]> By: danithew http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19402 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:55:40 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19402 Yesterday we had a testimony given by a recent convert. He’s a tall African-American gentleman who speaks from the heart. He’s been a member for maybe a year. I always enjoy hearing his prayers and thoughts on the rare chances he gets up to share them, because he hasn’t been completely acculturated yet. It really is fun to hear a testimony in a person’s own words – a sort of spiritual language they are putting together for themselves.

]]> By: Ann http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19401 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:22:36 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19401 Kevin, I’m going to argue with you about the “not as affecting” conclusion. The very best testimony I heard yesterday was from a departing senior missionary, who with her husband has served here for 18 months. (They arrived one month in advance of Katrina.) Everything about her testimony was straight by the book, but it was one of the most uplifting things I’ve heard in weeks.

Methinks that Holy Ghost guy might have something to do with it.

]]> By: UnicornMom http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19400 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:08:09 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19400 Ronan – I served in the Germany, Munich (than Germany, Munich/Austrian) mission and spent most of my time in the Black Forest. They say it there all the time without any problem. Maybe we should salt the Austrians with some good old Schwäbisch colloquialisms. I’m in the mood to gender some old-fashioned Bestürzung.

Maybe I’ll just bear my entire testimony in German. Nostalgia. At the very least, it’d wake a few people.

]]> By: Kevin Graham http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19399 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:11:31 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19399 From a sociological perspective, testimonis are merely the flip side of teh same coin as apostate narratives, paricularly the atrocity tale.

Some of you might be familiar with Juliann’s off and on comments regarding apostate narratives and the purpose of an atrocity tale. Well, LDS testimonies are essentially the same thing on the other end of the spectrum. They are used to gain acceptance into a particular group, which is probably why we hear it so much from recent converts.

]]> By: Lamonte http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19398 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:10:52 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19398 Kevin wrote – “These speakers don’t quite have the LDS patter down, and it’s a bit of an adventure as to what exactly they are going to say … but to me that is part of their charm.”

Kevin – I whole-heartedly agree with you. Isn’t that a welcome indication that we are truly becoming a world-wide church and that members, new and old, are not afraid to inflict their own cultural idiosyncrasies into their (our) faith. A welcome site and sound in all of our testimony meetings.

]]> By: Ronan http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19382 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:22:21 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19382 In fact, I’m adding it to my Mormon guerrilla organisations:

“Saints for Two” (lock the Sunday School classrooms and hide the keys)

“International Mormons Against American Domination” = IMAAD (remove basketball hoops from international cultural halls and replace with locally-appropriate sports equipment; Canadians get a hockey rink, Europeans get soccer goals)

and now,

“Heiligen für Grüß Gott”

]]> By: Ronan http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19397 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:13:36 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19397 UM,

Don’t say “Grüß Gott” in a German-speaking ward. This (charming, IMO) greeting is verboten among Mormons because of the repetition of the word “Gott.” When I was auf Mission people would say Grüß Gott to us and we would say Guten Tag or Grüß Sie back. It killed me that I couldn’t say Grüß Gott in Austria. That, along with not being allowed to use Du, were severe annoyances. Now that I live here again I say Grüß Gott at every opportunity (making up for 2 years’ of lame Guten Tags). But I can hardly conjugate Du.

It must be very hard to be an Austrian Mormon and have Grüß Gott be unkosher. It would be like banning “hi.”

]]> By: Aaron Brown http://bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/07/testimony-meeting/#comment-19396 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:15:37 +0000 http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2007/01/testimony-meeting/#comment-19396 Steve, I’m not getting your point.

Aaron B

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