I had been inactive for almost ten years when I received a phone call from a friend in my ward. He said that the bishopric had been praying and knew that I was to be the new elder quorum president........crickets..........I politly declined. Deparate times require deparate measures. They failed.
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I have two friends that have children on missions. They both post their kids emails home on Facebook. I read them religously. The first one is in Russia where he said his golden investagator was recently released from a mental hospital, but is close to baptism. The other is in Costa Rica where he told his mother that he had two families ready for baptism, if he and his companion can find them aga
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I served a mission in the Melbourne area and Tasmania in 1976-1977. I baptized 13 people in those two years. To my knowledge, all have left the church. One who became a District President was recently exed for some unknown reason. Even back then folks got baptized and shortly fell away. I am glad no one that I taught is still in this cult. Mission acomplished! BTW, I always liked vegamite!
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Like minded people should join, regardless of who or what they worship. People are drawn together by their beliefs, right? Not just "who" they attribute their beliefs too.
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Haha -yes and yes.
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No hippy lady prophets. (I can't take a hairy legged woman.)
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Why not indeed! What we would need is a dynamic leader.......
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Well said! This is the type of church I have searched for since leaving mormonism. Converts to this church would be able to show people what they believe by actually doing something construtive instead of giving lip service to a corporation and paying a membership fee to be looked upon as a "member in good standing". I would cheerfully give a tithe to this church; at least I would know
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I came across this "gem" this morning and thought how much this applies to Mormonism and religion in general: "A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows." — Samuel Clemens I have found that most people on RFM have thought a lot about their religion, studied it, researched it and came to a logical conclusion. Churches do
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I don't post here much, but this one hits a nerve. Rape must happen in the mission field more often than we know. When I served in Australia in 1976, I remember being in the mission home one morning when one of the assistants who was a close friend, asked me to go with him to drive a young sister missionary to the airport. I drove the ten miles and watched this girl sit silent in the back sea
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Heresy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've seen this argued online with experienced > TBMs. They can find all sorts of places where JS > used the BoM. > > I'm afraid the line that he never used it is an > exmo faith demoting story. How so? Examples?
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Thank you Steve. Your information is enlightening as always.
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His brother John was my mission president back in the 1970's. We were required to read many of Steven's books and I am glad I did. I remember much of what I read back then as a young man. His writings made a long lasting impression on me. He will be missed.
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My brother, who is a church leader and myself, who is a self avowed inactive LDS heathen, argue about the history of the Church as if it were a blood sport. One subject came up the other night that I had never really thought and I wanted to get some input on this. To my limited knowledge, I cannot recall Joseph Smith ever quoting any passage from the Book of Mormon in any sermon he gave, nor in a
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As a young man I had my share a "bad" things happen to me and my family. I was told by my LDS leaders that I was being tested by god and how I reacted to those tests would determine my fate in this life and in the hereafter. I would receive a "reward" if I endured to the end and remained faithful to the church and to god. As I grew older I began to realize that really wasn't t
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Hey davesnothere...if you were in Melbourne in 1976, we knew each other. I was there too. How do we contact each other?
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When I joined the church at 17 in 1973, I was young and naive. I joined more for the social aspects than for the religion. After my formal indoctrination, seminary, mission and temple marriage, I started to put the pieces of the puzzle together. It was then that started to see the big picture and really became interested in the "religion" of my church. I was shocked by what I found, the
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hello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Doesn't do much for MS? Really? > > Why do so many people think it is helping them, at > least with pain and symptoms? No one is claiming > it is a cure. But a lot of sufferers claim their > quality of life is much higher with cannabis > therapy. > > So, I'm curious, on what do you base y
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My daughter has MS. A difficult disease to deal with for anyone, rich or poor. BTW, marijuana, medical or not, doesn't do much for MS. I would have dissed the guy too.
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There are certain things in my life that I cannot presently comprehend or explain. It is my hope that by study, reason and guidance I will be able to understand some of those unknowns in my lifetime. That "guidance" is my interpretation of god. Some seek god and some do not. Personally, I am a seeker of knowledge, and I have no time for organized religion and I don't think Jesus did eit
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Yours is one of the best stories I have read on this board. When my wife and I married in the temple some 33 years ago, we were both recent converts to the church. We married without any of our family present. We even married on my wife's father's birthday, because that was the only convenient appointment we could get at the LA temple. Our families were devastated. My father in law was denied
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Then we knew each other. I was there from 1976 to 1977 in the English mission. How do we do email on the thing??
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I was there in 1976.
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I started out in Watsonia, then Frankston, South Oaklie and Moorabin area.
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I'm not from there, but I served my time (mission) there back in the 1970"s.
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The truth shall set you free AlmostThere. Let the truth be your guide out of the this cult. Keep reading the posts here. There a a lot of people here that can help you. They helped me. All my best to you.
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My brother is a bishop. He told me that he has 850 members in his ward. Of that only 150 are active. Do the math there.
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Next time just punch her in the nose. That would be more merciful.
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Yes and we found out that having real friends did not have to to be based on church activity rates. WE still have those friends we made after we stopped going to church. AS for the friends we had while active, we never see them anymore.
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"The opportunity to know that Joseph Smith is the prophet of the restoration is available to everyone but it will not be found in intellectual exercise or in the laboratory but only through a humble petition to God himself." ...that's because there is no determinable truth that JS WAS a prophet. Well spoken former mission president! As many GAs do, give them enough rope and they will
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