From my Utah Mommy list:

[helderheid]

The majority on the list are LDS (but VERY open minded)

If Mitt Romney is elected President…

What ward would Mitt & his family be in?

If you are his new Bishop, here are your top 11 questions:

1. Will you allow an inaugural ball to be held in the cultural hall? Do you mount security cameras on top of each basketball rim and have a secret service detail stationed on the stage?

2. Can you call Mitt and Ann as the Nursery Leaders... even if you really feel inspired?

3. Who is going to home teach them? Will you call someone who needs activation but may not pass the vetting and national security screening?

4. If Harry Reid and Mitt Romney are in the same High Priest group, will you need to be there to keep order?

5. Exactly how will tithing settlement work? Will the Secretary of the Treasury come too?

6. Will you be inviting the new Romney family to speak in Sacrament Meeting... and if they go a little over at what point do you ask them to sit down?

7. Will the Secret Service do a sweep of the building before each meeting? And if the Romney's always leave before Sunday School, will the Sunday School president need to interview them? If they stay, where will you hold the class?

8. Can you call the Secret Service agents to help out in Primary?

9. If you give Mitt a calling and the two Democrats in the Ward raise their hand AGAINST sustaining him - partly out of habit - does the Supreme Court need to be involved?

10. If you can't give them a calling, and they don't attend very often (for presidential stuff) will that mean they're "inactive?" If they're not active, can you give them a Temple Recommend? And if you do, can they go? Will the Secret Service have to screen the temple too?

11. If the President wants to hold Sacrament Meeting at Camp David or the White House for security reasons, is that a conflict of Church and State?


If you're assigned to be the Romney's home teacher:

1. Can you just drop by, no appointment?

2. Can you even call them for an appointment or do you have to go through the Chief of Staff?

3. Can you bring by Christmas sweets and cookies? Will they be analyzed? And for how many people - family, secret service details?

4. If you don't come can the IRS do an audit on you?

5. Will they want to do a national security background check?

6. Do you have to have a permanent companion who has been vetted? Can you just grab any teacher or priest to come to you? And what if that priest has been a little wayward. Do you need to search him first?

7. Do you have to help him move in and out of the White House?

8. If Ann Romney gets sick, are you allowed to bring in meals or at least tell the Relief Society about it?

9. What can you share with the Bishop about the Romneys?

10. Do you have to ask them about their year's supply?

11. If you get a late night call for a blessing will reporters follow you around wanting to know what was wrong and what you said?


If Mitt Romney is assigned to be YOUR home teacher:

1. Is telling the group leader you haven't been home taught a national security breech?

2 If he wants to come at the end of the month, do you accept his reason "I've been out of town"?

3. Will he drop by unannounced or will the media crews give him away?

Such things to ponder!

[aquart]

1. That's so true.

Harry Reid is a Mormon?

[blondeatlast]

3. Yes indeed he is. nt

[blondeatlast]

2. HH, the vast majority of Mormons I've known throughout my life are happier, saner, and vastly more

tolerant than most of my other friends. It's quite true--I've always envied them for being so contened. Because I grew up in the small town West (several different states) many of my best friends were Mormon.

This may pass over some of our DUers with limited or no exposure to the faith, but I get a lot of it and it's quite funny. Hopeflly it will open some minds as well.

Let me just add--SLC's mayor ROCKS. I hope his Democratic political aspirations go higher!

[helderheid]

4. I was afraid it may go over many heads! :) Many in the Utah Dem party are LDS and I've many LDS

friends whom I couldn't imagine not having in my life!

[recoveringrepublican]

9. I second this

I'm not Mormon, but for some reason have met quite a few throughout my life (I grew up in ND and now live in FL, so Mormons weren't exactly common place, lol), and each and every one has been just amazing.

[FreeState]

5. For those non LDS here are what some of the terms used are

ward = congregation

Bishop = priest/pastor

cultural hall = gym at the local church building

Nursery = where all the 0-4 year olds go during 2 hours of the 3 hour sunday church meetings

home teach = men in the congregation are assigned a couple families to visit each month with a message

High Priest - pretty much any active male over the age of 40ish

tithing settlement - once a year you meet with the bishop to confirm you have paid a full tithe

Sacrament Meeting = communion

Sunday School = one of the three meetings on Sundays - one hour long (usually scripture or church history lessons)

Primary = where children between 4 and 12 years of age go for 2 hours of Sundays meeting (its divided by age with lessons).

sustaining = when someone gets a new responsibility in church there is a showing of hands for support in Sacrament Meeting

calling = everyone is assigned a responsibility at church

Inactive = someone who does not come to church often or at all

Temple Recommend = a piece of paper signed by the bishop and a local leader that says you can enter the temple (must be renewed every two years)

companion = the person you do your home teaching with

teacher = male of the age 14-15

priest = male of the age 16-18

Relief Society = women's organization

year's supply = members are encouraged to have a year supply of food and other necessities in case of emergency.

blessing = the laying on of hands to heal and comfort the sick (done by adult male members who have the priesthood)

2 If he wants to come at the end of the month, do you accept his reason "I've been out of town"? = reporting of your visits for the month

[helderheid]

6. Thanks for that! You taught me a couple things!

:hi:

[FreeState]

11. No problem - also

I can tell whom ever wrote this is either inactive or an older member because some of the terms are no longer in use (Inactive has been replaced with "less active" etc).

[Momgonepostal]

7. That was very funny!

I'll be passing it on to friends!

I actually have wondered about temple attendence. To get into the temple, you have to be an LDS member in good standing. Would an LDS president have to have some LDS secret service people to go with him to the temple, or would he just skip the temple for 4 years?

[helderheid]

8. really good question!

[FreeState]

10. I believe he could go and the

secret service would wait outside the Temple or in a special room. If there is a medical emergency police/ambulance/fire etc are allowed in with no recommend, same with building inspectors and specialty service members (plumbers, carpet layers etc). Its also possible there are LDS secret service members who could attend the Temple with him.