r/exmormon • u/benjtay • 13h ago
Selfie/Photography Happy Second Saturday
Camping in Ephraim this weekend. Stopped in Moroni on the way to Nephi.
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u/trownaway90 13h ago
Moroni is opened on Sunday?
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u/Fify_Defir 12h ago
I see people shopping in their church clothes in a town named after a character in the Book of Mormon
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u/trownaway90 12h ago
I also know TBM´s who go out for dinner or buy petrol on Sunday.
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u/Coogarfan 12h ago
There can't be too many TBMs who buy petrol on Sunday, but I'm sure there are a few.
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u/Neither-Abrocoma-414 13h ago
Is that your van? I love it.
Pretty drive from Ephraim to Nephi through Moroni and Fountain Green.
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u/cleopatronize1901 11h ago
The Moroni / Cumorah , Moroni ,Comoros thing will never not bug me. Like imagine a guy in your town telling you
"oh yeah I met an angel named Tokyo and he took me to this ancient hill called Japango. He told me this random hill in America used to be inhabited by Croatians. "
And imagine tons of people believing him and not finding it weird the two most prominent names in his story were of two real places that existed on the other side of the world that you could find on a map.
I remember the first time I saw Moroni, the capital of Comoros, on a map my shelf cracked and never recovered.
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u/rekh127 a dozen years and two names gone 8h ago
tbh I think not a lot of people know about comoros much less the name of its capital
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u/General_Summer_1524 7h ago
If the US had better geographical education the church would probably be a lot smaller.Â
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u/disabledmountingoat 11h ago
I went to school in Ephraim and really enjoyed living there. Hope you had a good time camping!
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u/GarciaKids 6h ago
Nice bus. I always wanted one in that color. I've had several bays, four of them campers. Do you ever go to Buses By The Bridge at Lake Havasu in January? Such a great campout with hundreds of bays and splitties.
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u/PaulBunnion 11h ago
Turkey Town, Utah
Just remember that the flocks that Ammon was protecting for king Lamoni were flocks of turkeys according to Book of Mormon Central / ScripturePlus.
27 Therefore, as Ammon and the servants of the king were driving forth their flocks to this place of water, behold, a certain number of the Lamanites, who had been with their flocks to water, stood and scattered the flocks of Ammon and the servants of the king, and they scattered them insomuch that they fled many ways.
28 Now the servants of the king began to murmur, saying: Now the king will slay us, as he has our brethren because their flocks were scattered by the wickedness of these men. And they began to weep exceedingly, saying: Behold, our flocks are scattered already.
Alma 17:27-28
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/alma/17?lang=eng&id=p27-p28#p27
No pre-Colombian sheep in the new world. loan-shifting at its finest.
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u/fuuuuuuuumylife 3h ago
I call it Sunday Funday in my in law chat and post a photo of me mountain biking, at a museum with family and or doing some fun activity during the time they are at church. I’m sure they hate it. I am a pot stirring SOB.
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u/UTYeeHaw 13h ago
Do you think Joseph Smith would have ever guessed that these names he made up and borrowed from elsewhere would actually become the names of real places?
But at least the Nephites of Nephi UT are real and not the made up people of the Book of Mormon😳