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Show 14 That reminded me of something else Apostle Petersen advised: "In the field of psychotherapy there is a very effective technique called aversion therapy. When we associate or think of something very distasteful with something which has been pleasurable, but undesirable, the distasteful thought and feeling will begin to cancel out that which was pleasurable. If you associate something very distasteful with your loss of self-control it will help you to stop the act. For example, if you are tempted to masturbate, think of having to bathe in a tub of worms, and eat several of them as you do the act." The next day they showed us the baby on the water. It wasn't in the main lake, but an adjacent pond with tepid water. The sun looked like it was sleeping on the water's surface. There was a plastic baby on a small raft made of crates and Syrofoam. The leaders didn't explain how the baby got out there, but it was our task to get it safely to shore without going in the water. The winner would be awarded a honeydew melon-"and bragging rights!" Again I regretted Krishna's place in our family because she sincerely tried to find a way to save the baby instead of just picking up random sticks and pretending to gauge their usefulness while waiting for someone else to fish out the baby. Jill looked engaged as well, which made me feel obligated. We found some willowy branches and tried to use the leaf extensions at the end of them as nets. They weren't long enough to reach the middle of the water, so I thought to tie them together with some twine from the wagon. Cody tied the knots, and somehow they held together. We made two poles long enough |