[Colofornian]

If you can de-convert a Mormon, then they weren’t a Mormon in the first place. A testimony is a personal revelation from God, not from some slick salesman. If a slick salesman got to somebody, they didn’t have a testimony at all.

Of course, the "flip side" of my last post is this:

A very high % of the Mormons you encounter served a Mormon mission.

We need to note those 9 things I listed in my last post (post #12)... and then ask former and present Lds missionaries another question:

"Tell us, (ex?)Lds missionary...

"...since you encouraged countless people to 'pray about' the Book of Mormon & its supposedly 'accompanying testimony,'...

"...why did you ask them to pray about a book in which so many key aspects of the Mormon 'gospel' were missing...?"

"...isn't that an openly deceptive Lds missionary tactic of bait & switch?"

(Where they read & pray about select content -- & yet most of the most vital Mormon teachings within its 'gospel' are AWOL!)

[Neidermeyer]

I have property nearby and have visited Old Navou although I live elsewhere ... The biggest red flag of all about LDS is that they do not invite questioning and research into their founding principals and documents... nice people , good people ... I like them as neighbors but their church cannot withstand scrutiny.