Just wondering if any super TBM's have ever refused to have home or visiting teachers come over. Maybe because they have a very private life and don't welcome visitors in their own homes.
EXON46 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just wondering if any super TBM's have ever > refused to have home or visiting teachers come > over. Maybe because they have a very private life > and don't welcome visitors in their own homes.
I didn't refuse their visits but I refused to be a VT.
Below a conversation that happened with VT in my home:-
VT:- "What compassionate service have you done this month?"
Me:- "I helped my neighbour while she was recovering from surgery."
VT:- "Is she a member?"
Me:- "No."
VT:- "That doesn't count, she is not a member."
Me:- "Are you serious? I bet it counts to Heavenly Father."
They finished their lesson and I doubt they were even in their car when I got on the phone and called the RS president (good friend) and told her the above conversation. I was spitting mad. She said that we take care of members FIRST and VT is about caring for each other in the church, blah, blah, blah.
I told her I didn't like the question and, anyway and whose business is it who I help? It feels like the Pharisees showing their good works and keeping a record.
The conversation ended with my telling her that I would never do any more visiting teaching.
I never did VT again and we moved overseas shortly after that and I again refused to do VT and we made our decision to leave the church while we were still living overseas.
Xyandro Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I love the example of the friendship between David > and Jonathan, considering that some people think > they were actually a couple... :)
That's based upon a misreading of the KJV and wishful thinking.
The better example would be the Good Samaritan. Christ presented a detested half-breed (who rejected the Davidic line, the Temple, the Histories, Prophets, and all the Wisdom literature) as being compassionate to a person outside of his kith and kin the very paradigm of mercy, contrasted against a priest and a Levite (the paradigm of Jewishness) as being unmerciful. Remember, the original question thrown at Christ was, "...and who is my neighbor?"
What lot of rubbish. I don't NEED a covenant with my friends we just are!!! Why can't tscc just let life happen? Talk abut a storm in a er ummmm herbal tea cup!
My home teacher called me today (end of the month). He asked how I was. I said "fine, enjoying my new church (UU) which has its own home teachers by the way." Trouble is he will call next month, he doesn't believe that anyone could leave and join another church.
the MoMo's can and probably will eventually ex you.
I've made sure with checking in on every new CHI (thanks to moles here) that my DH can't be ex'ed just for attending my church with me.
He is liked and respected among the members, even though they know he is a Mormon.
He saw me drifting perilously close to complete disbelief (I still am a closet doubter, but the new church is at least comfortable.) He didn't want me to sever all ties with ALL Christian belief. Bless his little Mormon heart, he still hopes we can be together in Heaven.
I go to a mainstream Christian church in the Morridor. We have lots of faithful regular attendees who do not "join" because of LDS family issues. We respect their choices, and they can do everything in the church except be formal leaders and vote in all-church meetings. Something between 30-40% of our formal members are former LDS.
I refused to have home teachers come by when I was fully TBM. I had to get rather firm with the EQP to have my wishes respected, but in the end they finally were. I have always found HT visits to be rather annoying and intrusive.