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Instruction question - gift?
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Absolutely! I bought a Masonic watch for my instructor.
Gifting is an awesome idea, I got my instuctor a masonic pocket knife as a thank you.
Bro.BruceBenjamin
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I got mine dinner. Although as you get older all of your money is stored up front in the belly lol.
David Duke
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A gift would be good and I bought my instuctor one (a masonic knife) and he was very appreciative but it wasn't until I had taught my first student all three degrees that he told me we were even. In other words he wanted me to "pay it forward".
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I honestly believe the greatest gift would be to pay it forward. I gave my teacher a masonic wall clock, and numerous lunches. I just asked him if there was anything masonic related that he wanted, or had his eye on. The clock was something he'd always wanted but never got for some reason.
S.Courtemanche
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I gave mine a masonic points cover for his bike.
Your Lodge doesn't give the new MM's Monitors when they're raised?
Wingnut
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No, in fact none of the lodges Ive been a member of have.
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I'm trying to remember if we got law books as well when we were raised, but we got Monitors. During our MM ceremony, we received the monitor, apron, presentation Bible, and I believe the law book.
This is interesting. My lodge gives the newly initiated Brother a copy of the "Monitor" the same evening as his EA degree. I assumed that this was the normal protocol for all Texas lodges. I am not sure why some lodges choose to wait until the MM degree to share this book with them or to not share it at all.
As structured as the GLoTX is in most protocol I am surprised at this variance in occurrence.
David Duke
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We don't give a monitor or law book either, I am planning on trying to get the lodge to up our degree fees (they are currently $50.00 per degree) to cover the cost of presenting each new MM a monitor,law book and bible upon being raised.
We wait to give the Monitor because there's things in it that might tend to confuse an EA or FC, and we want them to concentrate on learning their work. Most all Lodges around here give the Monitor & apron at the end of the MM degree. We also present a Bible. Normally we give a law book to incoming JW's.
David Duke
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Exactly the reason we don't give a monitor to an EA or FC; I have typed up the working tools of both degrees and give them to my students to learn on there own, normally by the time I have them to the end of the first section they STILL don't have them down and we work it through together after that.