I left on my mission in January. She was married in June to a guy 12 years older than her. She never had the guts to tell me, she just simply stopped communicating, I got the engagement news from my mother on Mother's day. I wanted to die. By that point I was already having serious doubts about the church while on the mission, but faith or no I was in love. It was one of the most intense, se
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Your on the right road! Give it a few years and you'll be like me, drinking 40 oz of black Chevron coffee before work.
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I got stuck with Hyrum. How thrilled I was to be counted among the noblest of names in the Ademic tongue!
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Haha! Oh man...
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The apostle Paul went on some rants about the homosexuals and the "effeminate" of all things. I'm not too big on Paul though, nor the Bible for that matter.
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And yes, it is to get the rest of you re baptized. Missionaries keep a "part member" family list that shows one inactive member and a bunch of unbaptized. You guys are golden :)
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When I was in my later teen years I went inactive and stopped attending church. It was more of a rebellious streak, rather than an intellectual conundrum. But while I was happily surfing the internet I happened upon these articles that had me in stitches. http://rotten.com/library/religion/mormonism/ I'm newer to the boards, so I don't know if these are ancient news by now, but this plante
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I wouldn't call it "desperate" for free labor, its just part of the indoctrination process, IMO. Just like with the younger missionaries, the more you convince someone to give to the church the more likely you are to stay in the fold. My grandmother and grandfather were called to "serve" the Lord (which really means serve the church) by managing our bishop's storehouse,
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