Going Mormon...

[robocop (actually)]

I wonder if this is a requirement made of all people who have left the Church and then returned. I know you didn't ask for my advice, but I'm going to give it to you anyway. (Hope you don't mind.) Focus on what the Church means to you and how being a member again will enrich your life and make you a better person. Include your testimony of the Atonement and the Plan of Salvation.

I will definitely take that advice.

 

[Prestor John]

They are changing the Sunday meetings from 3 to 2 hours.

The Church is true!

 

[Katzpur]

They are changing the Sunday meetings from 3 to 2 hours.

The Church is true!

Or at least truer than it was a few weeks ago! When they made the announcement, my husband said to me, "You must have been talking to the Brethren." I said, "Yeah. We reached a compromise. I asked for one hour and they made it two."

 

[robocop (actually)]

Funny...

I just called my bishop and I don't need to write the letter. They decided I was good enough in my probation that I didn't need to do it. But since I've already written the letter I will show it to you guys because it might help you:​

I started on the road back to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about 4-5 months ago. I decided I couldn't deny the Torah or the Book of Mormon but do deny Raelism, a religion that adds to it instead of denying it. Raelians have no authority. Why would Aliens (I capitalize it because I think I've seen one) wait billions of years to create life? Plus there are errors in their text. Why would they regulate plants with the day and year after getting them already reproducing? Why would Aliens need to know from Jonah the political developments in Nineveh? It is supposed to be researched; I researched it thoroughly; it has no authority.

Then I came to trust in Jesus Christ. I understood that his atonement was so that he would be recognized as the Savior by all men. I also repented, tapering off masturbation and pornography to the point where I am ready to go for the long haul as long as needed without those things, but if not I am ready to repent. I want to take upon me the name of Christ just the way other Saints do with faith, not just having a testimony of reason. It is not a wager (like Pascal's Wager). Sacrificing in this life is not so you can go to an easy after-life. It is to help you be strong in this life and to prepare you for an even greater after-life of work. I trust in the atonement and plan of salvation, rely on Christ to repent, and feel ready to follow my redeemer down through the waters of baptism. I am very aware of the adversary too and am careful to try to block him.

I completed my missionaries' lessons and I believe and follow everything they've said, everything in the Book of Mormon up to 2 Nephi 9 which I've read, and everything I've heard from General Conference or read up to the first session. I love president Nielsen and the General Authorities because they seem to always say the things I want said. I will always defer my own views to the Church's but I have a lot to offer the Church from my different experience. My patriarichal blessing says I have a keen mind and sharp intellect and that through prayer I may always distinguish the philosophies of men from those of God and I am looking forward to sharing my philosophies; I feel they align with the Church.

I know the Church is not a revolving door and take full responsibility that this ould be the last time I can join. I want to have the gift of the Holy Ghost and bridle my passions so that I may be full of love and I know you can help me with that. Please let me back into the Church.

Sincerely,

Eric Eliason

 

[Katzpur]

Funny...

I just called my bishop and I don't need to write the letter. They decided I was good enough in my probation that I didn't need to do it. But since I've already written the letter I will show it to you guys because it might help you:​

I started on the road back to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about 4-5 months ago. I decided I couldn't deny the Torah or the Book of Mormon but do deny Raelism, a religion that adds to it instead of denying it. Raelians have no authority. Why would Aliens (I capitalize it because I think I've seen one) wait billions of years to create life? Plus there are errors in their text. Why would they regulate plants with the day and year after getting them already reproducing? Why would Aliens need to know from Jonah the political developments in Nineveh? It is supposed to be researched; I researched it thoroughly; it has no authority.

Then I came to trust in Jesus Christ. I understood that his atonement was so that he would be recognized as the Savior by all men. I also repented, tapering off masturbation and pornography to the point where I am ready to go for the long haul as long as needed without those things, but if not I am ready to repent. I want to take upon me the name of Christ just the way other Saints do with faith, not just having a testimony of reason. It is not a wager (like Pascal's Wager). Sacrificing in this life is not so you can go to an easy after-life. It is to help you be strong in this life and to prepare you for an even greater after-life of work. I trust in the atonement and plan of salvation, rely on Christ to repent, and feel ready to follow my redeemer down through the waters of baptism. I am very aware of the adversary too and am careful to try to block him.

I completed my missionaries' lessons and I believe and follow everything they've said, everything in the Book of Mormon up to 2 Nephi 9 which I've read, and everything I've heard from General Conference or read up to the first session. I love president Nielsen and the General Authorities because they seem to always say the things I want said. I will always defer my own views to the Church's but I have a lot to offer the Church from my different experience. My patriarichal blessing says I have a keen mind and sharp intellect and that through prayer I may always distinguish the philosophies of men from those of God and I am looking forward to sharing my philosophies; I feel they align with the Church.

I know the Church is not a revolving door and take full responsibility that this ould be the last time I can join. I want to have the gift of the Holy Ghost and bridle my passions so that I may be full of love and I know you can help me with that. Please let me back into the Church.

Sincerely,

Eric Eliason

Wow! That's a very eloquently-written letter! I'm glad you don't have to send it, but if you had, I'm sure it would have touched some hearts.

 

[robocop (actually)]

Wow! That's a very eloquently-written letter! I'm glad you don't have to send it, but if you had, I'm sure it would have touched some hearts.

That was just the rough draft