My home ward is full of old-timer mormons that won't share their testimony, but rather they just get up and tell their life story. it's ridiculous and embarrassing that these fully grown adults don't realize they're taking up precious time for others to share their actual testimonies while they blab on and on about something completely irrelevant to testimony, ending with something half-assed fai
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Hi Evie, Wow. Your situation sounds a hell of a lot like the situation i've been in for the past 4 months, with the exception that i'm the missionary. I was dating this girl all summer and she wasn't LDS either. Things have been really hard because she knew I was planning on going on a mission, (which I didn't really want to go either, but it's such a cultural thing here in Utah that I automat
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... and I told him I was having major doubts about the church and told him I'm reconsidering going on a mission. He was really cool and really understanding of my situation, but he continued to tell me I needed to go on a mission despite all of my doubts and concerns. He basically said something to the effect of: "Even though you're having major doubts about the church, I think you shoul
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