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biggrin My school is close to Arizona. I'll totally drive down there and search suspiciously for people trying to convert people and yell TRISK!!!!! out my window. It'll be fabulous.

How long does your mission last?

Hiru: I'll almost be 20 come Sept. and I still can't spall. Ugh. But thanks!

Nymphie: Two years! I'm going to be living a life totally alien to me for two years! If it was two weeks I probably wouldn't be making a big fuss of this. But this is gonna be life changing! Woo!

Q: Food storage is a relatively new movement in our church. It's not a requirement right now - I've not heard about any excommunications over insufficient food storage or anything like that. But the purpose for it is "preparation." In the event of disasters it provides us with means that few others will have or even offer.

I live in Florida and it's a real deal here, after hurricanes the government will take days to come to our rescue and weeks to provide assistance (durn politicians), so the purpose is to give us a base to be independent from complete reliance on others.

The whole 'one years worth' thing is a long term goal. We are supposed to take it in steps, first a 72-hour kit, then a week's supply, then a month's, etc. So ultimately we do not merely provide for ourselves, but we have enough to help others. When you think about the intentions, it's not stupid, but a real Christian thing to do.

Yeah Q, yer friend seems like a d**k and/or he's never been in a disaster before. I lived in Florida most of my life, and I think it's fairly shitty to make fun of people for deciding to stockpile enough necessities for themselves and their neighbors in an area that's likely to be hit hard in storm season.

If making fun of Mormons is his thing then whatever floats his boat, but I can't really see the point of this particular jab.

Hmmmm, I seem to have missed this entirely.
Probably because I don't visit the I Am Me.

So. God be with you on your mission, my friend!

I am in Provo, so when you're in the MTC think of me!

Also, don't drink the orange juice in the MTC. I'm serious. It makes your insides mush. I had no idea why my bathroom breaks were going the way they were until I remembered someone had warned me about the orange juice. I stopped drinking it and the problem went away...

Well I'm not a mormon, but have fun!

And if you come to Washington, I'll help you break the ones about sacrifice. Though I'm sure you've already broken them as they're completely old school.

Anyways, my friends just came back from a week long mission trip from Phoenix. Granted, it was a hard core Christian mission trip from the church that I rarely go to... but they said it was fun with their random thunderstorms and everything.

I'm sure you'll have a blast persuading people to join the cult of religion =D
Just like the scientologist have been with their new ad campaign.