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		<title>Mormon Malaise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mom&#8217;s wisdom: An unwillingness to set standards or goals for ourselves, of course, can result in a Mormon malaise, going nowhere but very anxiously. Neal A. Maxwell, RSCS, 1982, p. 115 Discuss.]]></description>
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		<title>Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post, I mentioned how my husband I have been looking for ways to help Grasshopper (6yo) understand and appreciate the power and necessity of prayer. One of the things that she always prays for is that we have a good day tomorrow. When I ask her about praying for what we need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organize Your Church Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[genealogy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam and I are taking the Sunday School genealogy class. As I told you, I&#8217;m trying to get myself psyched up and motivated. I&#8217;m trying to fall in love with genealogy. And that&#8217;s a tall order.  My patriarchal blessing says that lots of work has been done on my ancestral lines. When the patriarch uttered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is It About Muslims?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mormonmomma.com/?p=1778</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did that get your attention? Probably exponentially more dander is brushed up by such titles (or those targeting Jews, blacks, etc.) than by any of the bigotry being flamed at Mormons during this presidential primary season. In his post &#8220;Tsantorum Tsurge and anti-Mormon Prejudice,&#8221; Gil Troy makes a great case for the unfair treatment Romney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love of Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mormonmomma.com/?p=1776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been going through my mom&#8217;s things since cleaning out my parents how to sell it. I found a file box full of 3&#8243;x5&#8243; cards my mom had typed up and organized by topic. Each one contains a quote she felt was important, helpful, useful. Most have a religious or character component about them. Over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mormonmomma.com/?p=1743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was High Council Sunday. As is customary, the High Council speaker brought along a companion speaker. Because we have a small ward where each of has to frequently give talks, High Council Sunday is always a pleasure. But today was especially so. As the companion speaker&#8217;s husband led her to the podium, it became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cell Phone Savings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post brought to you by Sprint. All opinions are 100% mine. The first time was had a cell phone was in the very early 90s. We were heading off for a family vacation in Yellowstone and the Ocean Engineering Department didn&#8217;t think they could risk being out of immediate contact with Sam. So they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Moments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mediator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherefore, men are free…to choose liberty and eternal life , through the great Mediator of all men… (2 Nephi 2:27). Our ward Primary for the second year has challenged the children to memorize the scriptures used with the Primary&#8217;s monthly themes. The scripture above is January&#8217;s scripture, which we were working on yesterday. Cricket (3yo) is particularly proud to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Peeps</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post brought to you by Walgreens. All opinions are 100% mine. Given the number of times Walgreens has saved our backsides, I should have learned my lesson. But I didn&#8217;t. I can&#8217;t even count the number of times I&#8217;ve had an emergency resolved by the local Walgreens store in my adult life. Late at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Converted unto the Lord #2</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2012/converted-unto-the-lord-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conversion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mormonmomma.com/?p=1738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post, I talked about my first exposure to the Church, which led me to yearn to believe in something.  At the time, I didn&#8217;t really know what I wanted to believe—just that I wanted to believe in something. I realized that though I grew up in a Catholic home, I really didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacrament Meeting Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reverence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so grateful that my kids are old enough that we have passed the days of Sacrament Meeting temper tantrums, leaving to change diapers, and fetching them from under the pews. I even stopped bringing the &#8220;church bag&#8221; with books and crayons and toys in it, because they really didn&#8217;t ever use it anymore. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Converted unto the Lord #1</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2012/converted-unto-the-lord-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2012/converted-unto-the-lord-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mormonmomma.com/?p=1693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, these are they who were converted unto the Lord (Alma 23:8): I grew up in Michigan suburb, never having met a Mormon. In fact, I didn&#8217;t even know that &#8220;Mormon&#8221; was a church. All I knew was that they were a group of people that went west during the 1800&#8242;s. I later learned that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel – Then Why Not Every Man</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2012/didnt-my-lord-deliver-daniel-then-why-not-every-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agency]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mormonmomma.com/?p=1708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My former favorite negro spiritual (&#8220;Ain&#8217;t Got Time to Die&#8221; that I sang in BYU&#8217;s A Cappella) was replaced a couple of years ago with Didn&#8217;t My Lord Deliver Daniel? when my daughter&#8217;s high school a cappella choir sang it. Didn&#8217;t my Lord deliver Daniel, then why not every man? Chorus: Didn’t my Lord deliver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fasting:  Blessing Two Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2012/fasting-blessing-two-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2012/fasting-blessing-two-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always struggled with fasting. It is very hard for me to connect going without food to getting divine assistance. (Not to mention that I plain just love food!) I went for a long time without fasting due to pregnancies, nursing and health issues. But over the last few months, I have known that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Prayers Answered</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mormonmomma.com/?p=1672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At 6yo, Grasshopper is about as obedient a child as you can ever find. She is meticulous about observing the commandments, from the Sabbath day to the Word of Wisdom to modesty. Nevertheless, we have been concerned that she still struggles with prayer. She doesn&#8217;t seem to feel a connection with Heavenly Father, and her prayers are mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consider a Kia</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2012/consider-a-kia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2012/consider-a-kia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were in college, both of Sam&#8217;s brothers bought Hyundais. And we laughed at them. Sure they were poor. So were we, but who would buy a junk car like that? Apparently we would. In 2002 we bought our first Hyundai — a Sante Fe — and it&#8217;s still going strong with over 100,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Baby is in Primary!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Year&#8217;s Day was 3yo Cricket&#8217;s first day in Primary. We have been talking about it for about a month now, and he informed me the day before that he didn&#8217;t like nursery, and he wasn&#8217;t going to go anymore (lol). Grasshopper has been dutifully praying for his success and trying to teach him everything he would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reach Fitness Goals with Community Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alison Moore Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post brought to you by Cafe Well. All opinions are 100% mine. A couple of days ago, Sam and I stopped by Costco. Immediately we were faced with rows of vitamins and an enormous display of workout machines. There were treadmills, ellipticals, stair climbers, weight sets, even inversion tables (didn&#8217;t those go out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycling Food Storage Cans?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.mormonmomma.com/index.php/2012/recycling-food-storage-cans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband requested that I post this question. We have started to cycle through some of our food storage. It seems a shame to throw away those big, sturdy #10 cans. My husband made stilts with them for the kids. Cricket (3yo) turned those into drums for the pleasure of all. And that is all we have come up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immediately Blessed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracy Polyak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in December, I read an article in the Ensign entitled The Joy of Sabbath Day Observance, in which Elder Marcos A. Aidukaitis talks of his family&#8217;s choice to attend church, even when vacationing with family members that were not members of the Church. In the past, we have not attended church services on the [...]]]></description>
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