Friday, August 19, 2005

UH OH BREAKING NEWS: TEN REASONS WHY LDS WOMEN DO THEIR VISITING TEACHING

Ten Reasons Why LDS Women DO Their Visiting Teaching
(By Bettyanne Bruin)

1. Because the LDS woman loves knowing that she WILL go directly to Heaven for performing this one kind act each month.

2. Because the LDS woman loves the idea that Visiting Teaching gives the LDS woman the perfect opportunity to do something charitable for someone else each month.

3. Because Visiting Teaching satisfies the LDS woman's curiosity about whether or not the sister she is visiting teaching is a good housekeeper.

4. Because the LDS woman loves the feeling she gets from telling her friends that she is, in fact, a 100 percent Visiting Teacher, so she can feel good while all of her dearest friends feel horribly guilty.

5. Because Visiting Teaching is such a great way to say how concerned the LDS woman is about this person and that person in the Ward and is actually able to catch up on the latest Ward gossip.

6. Because the Visiting Teacher loves to bake homemade goodies and Visiting Teaching gives the LDS woman the perfect opportunity to give to someone all of these delicious, 3,000 fat grams per serving baked goods.

7. Because if the LDS woman did not Visit Teach, the LDS woman might be tempted to watch soap operas or trashy talk shows and then the LDS woman would fear she would never go to Heaven.

8. Because Visiting Teaching gives the LDS woman the opportunity to brag about all of her latest accomplishments -- including awards won by herself and her children, etc.

9. Because the LDS woman loves to hear herself give never-ending speeches about simple Gospel subjects and Visiting Teaching gives her the perfect opportunity to do so.

10. Because the LDS woman loves taking two full days out of every month, just to visit two people.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

TRUE CONFESSIONS BREAKING NEWS: TOP TEN REASONS WHY LDS MEN DON'T DO THEIR HOMETEACHING

TRUE CONFESSIONS: Top Ten Reasons Why LDS Men Don't Do Their Hometeaching
(By Bettyanne Bruin)

1. Because the families never answer their door when LDS man stops by on the last day of each month at 11 p.m.

2. Because the LDS man does not know any of the names of the LDS families the LDS man is supposed to hometeach.

3. Because LDS man feels he must stay home with his family, just in case the Second Coming suddenly arrives.

4. Because the LDS man actually does do his hometeaching...as he passes his hometeaching families in the hallways at Church.

5. Because the LDS man has done so many other things right in his life that the LDS man is afraid if he does do his hometeaching he will be translated and his family needs him too much.

6. Because the LDS man is afraid of what might happen if while doing his hometaching, the LDS man accidentally became injured and he needed to sue the LDS hometeaching family, so, out of compassion for the LDS family, LDS man is not going to take any risks.

7. Because once, when he was hometeaching with his father as a young boy, the LDS man had a traumatic experience with a vicious dog, and so, for mentally medicinal reasons, therapists have advised him never to do his hometeaching.

8. Because the LDS man refuses to have HIS Ward be one of THOSE WARDS Wards that brags about having 100% hometeaching.

9. Because the LDS man tries to do his hometeaching, but everytime he gets in his car, Satan tempts him and he goes to the gym instead.

10. Because the LDS man's hometeachers never come over to hometeach him.

Monday, August 15, 2005

FUNATTER-DAY SAINTS BREAKING NEWS: MORE MIPPETS

More Mippets !!!
(by Bettyanne Bruin, from an original idea by greedykristian. Used with permission.)

Mippet: Noun. Definition: Mormon snippet. Example: Members of the LDS church are very unique and famous for all of the many mippets they possess.

Thank you, Abrasivist, for your e-mailed comment about Mippets. E-mailed comments are one of the things I enjoy most about happyjellybeans.


From Abrasivist:

Lamment: Noun. Definition: mixing lame with comment.


happyjellybeans example: "Many times in Sunday School class, there is a lot of lammenting going on."

Funatter-day Saint: Adverb. Definition: A Mormon who likes to have a lot of fun. "I just love what a funatter-day Saint Martha is."

Shayer: Noun. Definition: Short prayer: "I'm so tired tonight that I think I'll just say a shayer." Or, "Geez, can't you remember it's Fast Sunday? I'm starving, so just hurry up and say a shayer!"

Badair. Noun. Definition: Bad hair. Example: "Sometimes people in some Wards really suffer from some pretty aweful badair (i.e. toupes that don't match, Marge Simpson hairstyles)."

Rushtoseconds. Noun. Definition: Storming the buffet table at a Ward dinner. Example: "Last time our Ward had a Ward dinner, it was embarassing how many people would rushtoseconds. I don't know if I'll ever bring my non-member neighbor
again."