Since leaving six months ago, I've had a number of messages inviting me to different meetings. Sacrament meetings, general conference, baptismal services etc.

The stupidest one I've had was a few weeks ago, a member who I met on street that week, who I know, invited me to stake conference. I simply replied no and walked on.

Over the weekend, when I was slightly drunk, I noticed I had a message request on fb from him, saying "I'd like to invite you to stake conference, there is a message you need to hear!". I replied (and actually the conference was a few weeks before, I just never noticed the message until drunkingly playing with the phone) HELL NO CHURCH = DONE. Good grammar as you do after three hundred vodkas.

He has yet to reply but can see he has read it.

Anyway, my point is here I hate this phrase "An important message you need to hear". The amount of times people say that to me and others who have left (or even still attending!) to make them think they need to be there.

I'm still friends with a lot of mormons in my stake, and the day of the meeting, I saw nothing earth shattering on their news feed, just usual shit about how spiritual it was and how wonderful there chosen leaders are, or how uplifiting the primary kids were with their singing. (Brainwashing at it's finest there btw). Nothing about something anyone needed to hear like the second coming is this date or new scripture will be revealed.

I think six months on from leaving people are really seeing that I have left and no going back. A lot of photos on my fb over weekend of me drinking on a lads weekend away. Most think I'm just taking a break or going to a new ward. I'm actually having dinner with a few members from my old branch tomorrow, as a mutual friend from Utah is over. Will be first time I have seen many of them since my last day at church, so will be interesting to see who is sussing me out, if they question my church activity or demand I come back...no shit is being taken.

The "important" message is that there was no valuable message.

Just more of the same old generic crap from the pulpit.

And of course the active Mormons will be trying to suss you out over dinner, it's what they do.

From total strangers since I'd never attended in that ward, stake or state.

It was from me. I was earnestly attending my Elder's Quorum, praying for the spirit of the Lard to guide me to someone I could share the gospel with, when a much more effective priesthood holder, who had by his diligence attained a higher calling, walked into the quorum. He told us that he had been praying and the spirit told him that this quorum was called of God to bring 15 less active members to the Stake Conference, one for each member of the quorum, because there was a message that the Lard wanted these less active members to hear.

I diligently repressed my annoyance, and humbled myself. And again I diligently repressed my thoughts that this diligent and effective priesthood holder just wanted to impress the visiting GA with some cool stats. And I humbled myself and prayed. And the sweet voice of the spirit of the Lard whispered to me that "The only less active member you know is "thegame2017" and I prayed and asked the Lard that it might be another because I knew that it would piss you off. So I pleaded with the Lard that it could be someone else. But the spirit of the Lard and the voice of that effective priesthood holder who through his diligence had obtained a higher calling whispered to me that the Lard would help me. So I sent the message. And now I am sure I wasn't diligent enough in my prayers, and it is clear to me why I am not called to a higher calling. After this experience I let Satan whisper discouragement to me and I slipped back into my porn addiction and had to tell my support group that I have zero days of sobriety.

This has taught me to trust in the Lard and not to my own strength. I am grateful for these trials that have taught me to be humble. I hope someday you can feel the joy that I feel now.

Anytime a stranger tells me, unsolicited, that "I need to do" something, my first instinct is not to do that thing. Try telling a TBM that they "NEED" to read the CES letter, or church essays on Joe Smith's polygamy, or seer stones, and you'll be met with resistance. My response to strangers, on the street, telling me "I Need" to do what they want, is to tell them "You need to get out of my face".

I like the robot-call that starts with, "Stop what you're doing and........"

At that moment I'm listening to the robot-call, so I stop listening and hang up.

HELL NO CHURCH = DONE.





I don't know of any message that could be more important to their salvation than that one.