My son is a member of the board

Thanks for letting us know.

I agree about keeping your relationship out of it, unless he mentions it.

I love this. Thanks for the heads up. How did you find out?

He’d actually be in elder’s quorum, he had shared with me recently that he has been skipping priesthood but not SS. I’m not sure if that has something to do with being in the SSP or if it’s a matter of being in a BYU YSA ward where the priesthood topic is probably frequently related to marriage. That even happens in my ward. Yesterday’s lesson not at all related to marriage had a comment with some follow ups about having a wife making one whole. (The initial comment was literally “Get a wife.”) I don’t disagree that having a wife has been a good thing for me overall, at the same time I wouldn’t randomly bring it up in my ward because I recognize in that very room there was more than one “older” YSA with low marriage prospects (partly due to there being no correlating “older” YSA sisters and partly due to the level of marriageability of these individuals – they’re not great catches like I was! )

I did speak to my son last night and waited to see if he would bring it up. He did, and told me his ID after which I told him I already knew because I had seen his membership request info. He did know his friend was a member but didn’t know his ID (until then).