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http://forum.staylds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4436 Sorry I wasn’t more clear. I meant, do you see examples of people here telling each other what to do or examples of people encouraging others to do what they want to do? We try for the encouraging and not the telling, even as we share what works for us, so we need to know if we aren’t doing that.
It wasn’t anything here, I was just commenting on stuff I have read from people’s stories. 
Heavy_Laden wrote:http://forum.staylds.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4436 Just as a point of clarification – are you refering to MayB’s inlaws pressuring her son (their grandson) to serve a mission?
Yes, the private conversations is something I have a problem with. I was “encouraged heavy” to go on a mission by family, even though I wasn’t active. I don’t think that would fly post “Bar raising” Missionary standards. Old-Timer wrote:Quote:I believe that everyone should do what THEY want to do, not what people TELL them to do. I see a lot of posts here with those kinds of things going on.
Will you please clarify what you mean? I just want to make sure I understand correctly.
I presumed HL just meant that there are examples on the board of some posters sharing the frustrations of family/friends telling them how to live and the poster sharing that experience here later. Not that we are telling people what to do.
Heavy_Laden wrote:Yes, the private conversations is something I have a problem with. I was “encouraged heavy” to go on a mission by family, even though I wasn’t active. I don’t think that would fly post “Bar raising” Missionary standards.
Not long ago a sister was talking in SM and she relayed taliking to her son about serving a mission. His response was, “If God doesn’t love me enough to keep my younger brother alive (he had died some years earlier) then why should I sacrifice 2 years of my life for Him.” How amazingly raw! She followed that up by saying – “don’t worry, it has a happy ending, because he did eventually go on his mission.”
I thought to myself – “Really??? Your kid doesn’t think God loves him but you are concerned about some outward marker like missionary service??? That’s the worst happy ending I’ve ever heard.”
So yeah, sometimes priorities get pretty messed up.
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