LDS mission rules concerning bedtime

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by PaloAltoCougar

Sometime after my mission, recognizing the wussiness of those that were coming, they changed the wake-up time to 6:30, so you're probably cool. But it's a pity you weren't part of the royal generation, as we were so described in the '60s.

I spent the better part of my mission re-activating the trail of wet bodies your so-called royal generation left in its wake.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Originally Posted by Archaea

I love the early morning. Most of the time I rise by 5:00 but this morning it was 4:20 to head out to run. Nothing beats seeing the sun just rising as you're running or cycling.

Uebermensch. What time do you go to bed, and how much sleep do you need? I'd do a poll but lack the skilz. I'm good if I get close to seven, but if I get less than 6 for multiple days I'm a mess.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by PaloAltoCougar

Uebermensch. What time do you go to bed, and how much sleep do you need? I'd do a poll but lack the skilz. I'm good if I get close to seven, but if I get less than 6 for multiple days I'm a mess.

It varies a lot. No earlier than ten but usually eleven. One time, it hurt quite a lot when I went to bed at three in the morning but forced myself to rise by four thirty to make the workout. By the end I felt better than I did when I first woke.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by Levin

P-day wake-up naps were indeed glorious. I remember at least getting up and going to the bathroom, sleep walking through a section of the Missionary Guide with the comp, and then flopping back in bed for a luxurious nap until 8:00 a.m. or so. Recounting this makes me realize how lazy I am now.

4:30 a.m., Il Pad??? Wow! I'm jealous to tell you the truth; it takes me forever to get going and before I do the world has left me behind each morning.

My early rising has everything to do with my upbringing. Mom grew up on a dairy farm and Dad grew up in a family of sheep ranchers. They got up in order to start their daily chores.

That habit carried over to their married life. Dad would get up early to do paperwork for his construction business and Mom would get up to correct her 2nd grade class school work. They didn't intentionally wake us kids up, but I'm a light sleeper and would hear them in the kitchen so I would get up.

[Levin]

Originally Posted by Archaea

I love the early morning. Most of the time I rise by 5:00 but this morning it was 4:20 to head out to run. Nothing beats seeing the sun just rising as you're running or cycling.

I agree; on those days when I've been able to do this, life is beautiful.

One of my professional mentors has an office-day job, but he's a poet on the side. He gets up early and goes on a walk to shake off the grogginess. After about five or ten minutes, he says, he spends then next hour of his walk composing poetry.

What time do you go to bed?

[PaloAltoCougar]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

I spent the better part of my mission re-activating the trail of wet bodies your so-called royal generation left in its wake.

Dude, I was just following the Acorn proselyting manual. Sorry to keep throwing out threadjacking anecdotes, but I'm reminded of a guy in my mission who, on the eve of his release, bemoaned the fact that he'd come on his mission to baptize, and hadn't had a single one; but as Innsbruck Branch President he had ex'd around 18, so he was 18 in the hole. He was pretty melancholy. To complete the tragedy, he was killed by a drunk driver a few months after his return home.

This inspirational message has been brought to you by the offices of Dr. Kevorkian.

[Levin]

Originally Posted by PaloAltoCougar

Dude, I was just following the Acorn proselyting manual. Sorry to keep throwing out threadjacking anecdotes, but I'm reminded of a guy in my mission who, on the eve of his release, bemoaned the fact that he'd come on his mission to baptize, and hadn't had a single one; but as Innsbruck Branch President he had ex'd around 18, so he was 18 in the hole. He was pretty melancholy. To complete the tragedy, he was killed by a drunk driver a few months after his return home.

This inspirational message has been brought to you by the offices of Dr. Kevorkian.

One of my mission companions hadn't witnessed a baptism his entire mission (my mission was/is one of the lowest baptizing in the Church) -- until the last Sunday in the field he baptized the eighty-year old woman whom we had asked four weeks earlier if we could carry her grocery bags home for her, having noticed her arthritic hands.

Cue SU comment on taking advantage of crippled old ladies . . .

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by Archaea

I love the early morning. Most of the time I rise by 5:00 but this morning it was 4:20 to head out to run. Nothing beats seeing the sun just rising as you're running or cycling.

As do I.

My favorite time of day is just before the sun comes up over the mountains and the sky is just light enough for the mountains to be silhouetted against it.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by Archaea

Nothing beats seeing the sun just rising as you're running or cycling.

With all due respect, I can think of a few things that would top that.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

With all due respect, I can think of a few things that would top that.

Okay Kugr.