The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Missionary Discussions)

[FFH]

In Japan there was a lady we were teaching, just a few months before I left Japan. She was the most sweet beautiful lady with four darling girls. She was unable to get baptized, because she was afraid of her husband's disapproval. She talked of leaving him. I left Japan wondering what would happen to her.

She called me up in the states and said I'm here in Utah and i'm baptized, would you come help me learn how to drive a car, hahaha, what a shocker that was. She lived just a few miles from me, she had packed up her things and her kids and just left her husband abruptly, she was that convinced of the truthfulness of the restored gospel.

There is also a Japanese ward in Salt Lake in which I attended and it was so cool to know she could attend that ward, so close to where she and I lived, yet she was so far from home, yet she was so happy and felt so at home, in the presence of another set of sister missionaries whom she had associated with in Japan, and in the presence of other Japanese LDS members.

I made it clear to her, that she needed to associate with this other set of sister missionaries and other LDS members not me. A set of sister missionaries had been divinely placed in contact with her in JAPAN and continued to associate with her in the states and I backed away from the sitution and she THRIVED in Utah as a single parent with four children without me doing a thing, but directing her in the right direction, by making sure she had rides to church and by giving her driving lessons, hahaha, that was scarey.

 

[AlwaysSeekingTruth]

Maybe from now on I'll just let others answer your questions. It seems we don't get along, you obviously are upset with me because of things I've said in other threads against your beliefs.

I'm not going to apoligize for my convictions expressed in other threads.

Do whatever you want. As for my beliefs, you haven't upset anything, my belief is "truth", so if you aren't being truthful, then I'm going to be upset.

 

[AlwaysSeekingTruth]

she was that convinced of the truthfulness of the restored gospel.

So, you approve of women/men leaving their spouses if the other one doesn't agree with the teachings of your Church?

 

[FFH]

So, you approve of women/men leaving their spouses if the other one doesn't agree with the teachings of your Church?

While in Japan, I knew she was pretty set on leaving him, but didn't think she'd go through with it, and especially didn't think she'd leave Japan and come to Salt Lake. I guess she needed to get as far away from him as possible. I didn't know or ever meet her husband, maybe he was abusive. I don't know, I couldn't judge the situation properly, not knowing what was going on with her and her husband.

It would have been ideal for her to reconcile with her husband but it just didn't happen that way, it just didn't seem to be what she wanted, no matter how much I tried to have her do otherwise, by reconciling with her husband. She was set on joining the church and leaving him. Not the ideal situation, but for her it was.

It blew me away, when she called me in Salt Lake, she had such intense faith, she was a STRONG woman. If you saw how happy she was, when I first saw her in Salt Lake, then you would have realized it was the only thing she could have done to stay sane. I guess her situation with her husband was just unbearable, she just never showed it, just set her mind to what she wanted to do and left, far away from him.

She was an example to me of great faith in what seemed like an impossible situation. The SISTER missionaries that took over when I left really were the key to her becoming a member of the church, all I did was encourage her and point her in the right direction, by pointing out that she needed to associate with other women in the LDS church, not me. I saw the Lord work in her life, by placing sister missionaries in the apartment I stayed soon AFTER I left, which there were probably 2 sets in 100 in our mission, at that time, and one of the two sets was placed in the apartment in Yokohama where I lived and had just left, not knowing what would become of her.

I was so happy to see her in Salt Lake, and her four kids (daughters) you have no idea, such a cute family, her husband lost out.

I think this scripture applies to this lovely dear woman who left her husband for a greater reward in heaven.

Luke 14: 26
If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Luke 12: 51
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

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