Category: Story
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Meeting with Maxwell, the Special Witness
In 1993 I personally asked Neal Maxwell a question: “As an apostle of the lord Jesus Christ, have you seen the savior?” He was embarrassed and could not answer that question, he finally told me to read an article about someone else’s dream. Many in high positions feign authority from…
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Letter to Bishop & Stake President
This is my first post so I should introduce myself. I met my wife to be, in the last year of high school and married her when we were both 19. My wife came from an LDS family with her father serving as Bishop at the time. I was baptized…
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I’m Still Angry
(original post found at www.mostlymormon.com) This is that angry letter you write and then tear up, only I’m not going to. Maybe instead I should go to the garage and beat on a punching bag or go shoot some guns, but I don’t own a punching bag and my newly developed liberalism has me…
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What it’s Like to Leave…
Brown patches in the lawn. Garden weeds. Melted bubble gum strings draped across my black car bumper. The nagging sting of a sunburn on my shoulders. Children shrieking at the cold water erupting from a sprinkler placed strategically beneath a trampoline. Proof that life has moved on. Proof that a…
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Thanks TSCC, thanks for nothing
I would just to like thank the TSCC for ruining my marriage by publishing the essays. Because of the essays I now think that my wonderful wife of 11 years is an indoctrinated sheeple who won’t face the facts that it is all a big lie. I think she is staying…
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I’m offended, I want to sin and I’m happy to admit it.
I’m offended: that LDS Inc. is more LDS Inc. than church. by racism by homophobia by misogyny by sexism that’s harmful to both men and women by sexual perversion that my son was taught to be a literal arm and head-chopping warrior for a supposedly all powerful being that JS, a womanizer,…
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Unexpected Results
Three weeks ago, I was a true believer. I wasn’t the best at church attendance, but I would look forward to the days I could go and I would sit, rapt and eager, listening to the lessons and talks. I read the scriptures. I have a large library of Nibley,…
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Eyes Opened by my Mission
10 years ago today I left to become a full time missionary for the LDS church. In doing so I left behind home, family and my teenage sweetheart Tamara for a 2 year period in which I was allowed to communicate with them once a week by post and twice a year…
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From sickness to sickness to happiness
Well folks, buckle up and strap in. Prepare yourselves for another story about a true believing Mormon discovering the truth. I was born into the church, into a family of 6th or 7th generation Mormons. My family helped to found Mesa, Arizona, by way of commandment from the brethren in Utah.…
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Family Letter
Hello Family, Ben and I have realized there have been speculations involving us and our family concerning the church. This comes from our family and friends that are unaware of our decision and that is why we feel it is necessary to write this letter so there will be a…
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Leaving
Written in January, 2012: In December of 2011, my husband, Justin, and I respectfully resigned from our callings and stopped going to church. It’s been a long, tiring, enlightening process. I’ll start with the day that really got us going down this path. It was a Sunday in May or June of…
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Navigating Death
One of the hardest things to try to come to terms with — NOT knowing. Is there life after death? Will we see our loved ones again? It wasn’t as scary when I ‘knew’. When I had my head in the sand. Feeling these fears is part of exposing myself,…