We need our priesthood’s help to make this happen.” We sisters cannot activate these guys alone. All of us single sisters would just rather stay single than end up with a man who does not have a strong testimony and is not a valiant priesthood holder. There is no way they can be righteous priesthood holders when they are inactive with NO friends at church. We need Elders’ Quorums and High Priest Groups to get out there and do their jobs contacting these guys. Ridiculous! Where are all the men? Inactive, I believe. One single sister from Oklahoma City had this to say about being a single sister in the church: “The singles’ conference I just got back from had 700 women and 200 men attending. Or make that a few thousand more good men. We Sisters Would Like Your Help to Find a Few More Good Men. We’re more likely to marry successfully if we’re given a little time and space to seek inspiration for ourselves.ģ. Even so, if you feel prompted to introduce us to someone you think may be a fun date or a good match, go ahead and introduce us, but don’t pressure us to go out with them. Sometimes, we really do appreciate your efforts to find us a match, but keep in mind that even if you know a single man or woman who has a pulse and is an active member of the church, these facts alone do not necessarily make him or her a good marriage prospect for us. In other words, please don’t ask us (at least not very often) if/when we are going to get married If we had found the right one, we would be married by now. Most of Us Want to Marry (for the first time or again), but We’re Not Desperate To Marry. We thrive on being valued as the individuals we truly are.Ģ. We’re good at finding common ground with each other, but don’t assume that just because we’re single and LDS we are alike. But beyond those two characteristics, we are each very much individuals with our own histories related to marriage (some never-married, some married and divorced, and some widowed) and other aspects of our lives (some college-educated, some not some lifetime LDS, some adult converts some with children, others without) our own strengths and weaknesses talents and interests challenges and triumphs. Generally speaking, we singles share in common the fact that we’re single and LDS.
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Not surprisingly, I found the conversations eye-opening and enlightening and while I cannot include all of my findings in this one article, here are some of the themes and opinions that came up again and again. With these thoughts in mind, I recently took some time to talk with a dozen or so singles and former singles (namely, those who spent some real time being single past the age of 21), and invited them to tell the rest of us what they’d like us to know about their experience of being single in the church. We may think we know the singles in our ward or branch – who they are, what makes them tick, what they want out of life, and how best to meet their needs as members of our wards and branches, but how often do we stop and ask them – our single friends and acquaintances- to speak for themselves, to tell us in their own words what they’d like the rest of us to know about them? What the Singles in the Ward Want the Rest of Us to Know
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As a young, never-married lifetime member of the church, this article especially hit home for me, and I feel that it should be something handed out to EVERY member of the church!!!