Posted by:
Mother Who Knows
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Date: November 15, 2018 04:57PM
Back then, the temple was hardly ever mentioned. It was a total mystery, but touted to be a miraculous experience, "when the time came." We were told that "many new and wondrous things" would be revealed to us in the temple, and it was a "learning experience."
No bragging about new construction, back then.
"Every member a missionary", and pushing young teen agers to prepare to go on a mission. However, no pushing missions to primary kids, like now.
Temple marriage. We teen girls were admonished to NOT date anyone but Mormons, and to marry only a returned missionary.
"Chastity" was taught in MIA/Mutual/YW, to the point of overkill. "Don't be like a piece of bread with the butter licked off." I was afraid to kiss a boy, until BYU, and I married him--big mistake!
Money-grabbing, back then, as now. Tithing for primary kids. I was forced to pay tithing on my babysitting money, and on my allowance (though my father had paid tithing on it already).
"Pennies by the inch" for Primary Children's Hospital.
"The Building Fund" to repair the ward house. Our ward raised money and labored to build a new wing of classrooms. (That land was valuable residential real estate, and LDS, Inc. made millions selling it to the Scientologists!
My brother and I remember lessons taught on the pre-existence. We were taught about the war in heaven, and how Satan's followers followed him to Hell, Christ's followers went to Heaven to be born on Earth (that's us). Those less valiant spirits who "sat on the fence" were born on Earth, but were cursed with the "mark of Cain", which was a black skin. Later, Mormons here in Utah thought I was crazy when I mentioned we were taught that. They tried to gaslight me, saying, "We never taught that. You aren't remembering correctly." I had to call my brother long distance, and he verified that we were taught that many times. My brother has a photographic memory! (Obviously, the guy with the photographic memory was the first one in the family to leave the cult!)