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DarkJedi wrote:SilentDawning wrote:
I am about to attend priesthood preview with my son in hour. Feeling a bit sheepish I am attending with a colored shirt..largely due to laundry problems in my home and my refusal to take over the job of laundry myself. I wonder if I will get chastised….
We did ours about a month ago. Here you would have been fine.Nobody said anything, and they accept our family as members of the ward, which is good…
I hope this happens. I have an institute teacher who comes to campus once a week to teach in a school classroom, and every week he wears a white shirt and tie. It screams: “I am completely unrelateable!!!” Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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I am about to attend priesthood preview with my son in hour. Feeling a bit sheepish I am attending with a colored shirt..largely due to laundry problems in my home and my refusal to take over the job of laundry myself. I wonder if I will get chastised….
Perhaps you will be chastised only by your wife, but I might suggest that you start doing your own laundry and then you can have whatever shirt you need available when you need it
😆 The best thing I ever did for my marriage was to have my husband do his own laundry, its very freeing
As for the white shirt dilemma, I think it will take men like you and the others on here to start wearing what they choose. As more, younger, or newer converts, see that, things will begin to change. So much of what we do is tradition and not doctrine.
I remember hearing President Monson talk about that very thing. He went to a ward to assist with some sort of ordination or something and they set the chair up in front at some strange angle. He changed the angle to face the congregation. The person conducting put it back and said something like “we have the chair face the temple”. President Monson again moved the chair to face those attending, had the person sit down, and began the ordination. His exact point was that tradition is not always doctrine. So brethren, wear those colored shirts and hold your heads high.
By the way, I am still trying to figure out how you all do that quote thing from my ipad….sorry if it’s messed up again.
Eternity4me wrote:I remember hearing President Monson talk about that very thing. He went to a ward to assist with some sort of ordination or something and they set the chair up in front at some strange angle. He changed the angle to face the congregation. The person conducting put it back and said something like “we have the chair face the temple”. President Monson again moved the chair to face those attending, had the person sit down, and began the ordination. His exact point was that tradition is not always doctrine. So brethren, wear those colored shirts and hold your heads high.
This is interesting. On one hand, I can understand that we do not want more and more traditions to crop up and be seen as rules that people must abide by. OTOH if it was a local tradition (albeit unessessary) that seems to have been a very abrupt and public way of making the point that it was non-sense. How is this so different than so many other things in the church (like white shirts) that we continue to support as an expectation.
I would vote that they ask one (or two or three) of the seventy to wear a colored shirt for conference. He (they) wouldn’t even need to be a speaker – just a subtle reminder that the tradition is not doctrine.
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