Comments on: Priesthood Session Notes

By: Mark Magleby

Mark Magleby — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:40:12 +0000

I can’t help but think that Pres. Uchtdorf has orginated a catch phrase in the LDS lexicon when he quoted Nehemiah: “I’m doing a great work and can not come down.”
Sounds like the lady who needed emergency services: “I’ve fallen down and can’t get up.”

By: swoolfolk

swoolfolk — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:41:45 +0000

Mr. bfwebster -

I cannot tell you how much I agree with your post. If real men do not bake cookies, it would stand to reason that real women do not dig trenches or fix plumbing. If this were true, I would be up the creek with out the proverbial paddle! You see, I am a single mother and have no choice.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:47:05 +0000

In Tallahassee, where our church building is near the football stadium, we had a very unusual and seemingly coordinated experience during Elder Eyring’s talk–as soon as he started his war story, fireworks began at the stadium as part of a football game and they continued for several minutes! When he said “Man down!” there were literally booming noises to be heard.

By: dh

dh — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:59:20 +0000

Was Pres. Uchtdorf’s message on not spending too much time on a blog, the first ever reference to such media in GC?

By: Carol F.

Carol F. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:09:04 +0000

I do believe that Elder Packer is a good artist–both oil painting and wood-carving. It doesn’t surprise me at all that he would encourage being well-rounded.

By: manaen

manaen — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:56:09 +0000

Not sure why the flutter about Pres. Paker’s comments on YM learning domestic arts — I recall him making similar comments to YM about sewing and cooking and to YW about learning basic auto maintenance in the 1970s.

By: TrevorM

TrevorM — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:43:07 +0000

I agree Kent, He seemed to be really showing his age.

By: Kent Larsen

Kent Larsen — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:46:07 +0000

So, was it just me, or did others think that Pres. Packer seemed like he was having trouble. He sure seems to have aged in the past year or two.

By: bfwebster

bfwebster — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:51:43 +0000

I remember a gospel doctrine class recently where one prominent member of the ward said that real men “didn’t bake cookies.”

Hah! I’ve been baking cookies since I was about 9 years old, and I have nine kids (OK, technically, five are step-children, but still…). I’ve done most of the cooking in our family for the past decade. My cookies (which I often bake for ward choir practice) are widely praised and highly sought after, particularly my blueberry macadamia nut chocolate chip cookies.

What’s more, I come from a long line of male cooks. My father John Webster — who spent 30 years in the Navy, who survived Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, and the invasion of Guam, plus two tours in Vietnam — cooked. In fact, since he retired about 15 years before my mom did, he did most of the family cooking after that point.

My grandfather Jack Fickes — who was an LA detective in the 1920s, and then worked in the LA sheriff’s department in the 1930s, and who served in the Navy in WWII — also cooked; in fact, he moonlit as a caterer during those decades. He lived with us for the last 13 years of his life (after my grandmother died) and did a lot of cooking for the family in that time. Since his eyesight was failing, I used to help him. I still use his recipes for salsa and for what he called ‘Mexican beans’ (beans with chorizo and ground meat).

I still have and use two of Grandpa Jack’s cooking implements, both around 80 years old. One is his large wooden paddle for stirring beans. The other is a large, curved Damascus steel carving knife. A Russian butcher used that knife to kill himself; Grandpa Jack and his partner were the investigating detectives. After the coroner’s inquest ruling the death a suicide, Grandpa Jack — being of thrifty Pennsylvania Dutch stock — saw no point in wasting a perfectly good knife and took it home. It’s been in the family ever since; I used it to start the carving of the turkey last Thanksgiving.

Oh, and Grandpa Jack baked cookies, too. ..bruce..

By: Seth R.

Seth R. — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:44:25 +0000

I think most anything Boyd K. Packer says is going to be viewed with suspicion in certain corners of the online community. This talk was just fine. Anyone who would take the “inferiority complex” remark wrong has one or two issues with taking offense too easily in my mind.

I did consider his statements on gender being eternal, and protecting masculinity interesting however.