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Oh, I’m sorry. You must be one of those inbred Provo mormons. I’ll try less words, more pictures. (always lowering the bar for the lds)

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No I am a convert at the age of 38.

I was all alone never met a missionary only a friend who was a recent convert he was still new all he did was just give me a copy of the Book of Mormon and mark a few pages I had that book for a year that book always got in the way no matter where I put it.

One day cleaning house I was going to throw it away as I stood over the wastepaper basket I remember a marked **passage in the back of the Bk so I read it and kneel over the wastepaper basket and sincerely pray to the Father and asked it the Book was true in the name of Jesus Christ, I received the most over whelming Joy that I ever experience in my life I just had to know more about this Church...

**3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.

4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.

BTW I investigate the Church inside out I went the Calvary book store on West 57 st. in NYC. I read the Walter Martin stuff and even at that time I encounter a copy of the Kinderhook pamphlet. As with the stuff I took it to the Lord asked for understanding by than I had many books from the Church Library.

I have read all of the stuff on Polygamy Joseph and Helen Mar Kimball 14 it was not for time it was for eternity aka a spiritual wife. BYW when Helen Mar Kimball did marry for time she was very fertile she had 11 children.

What I noticed was every time I read Martins, Tanners, stuff etc. I get this verboten feeling but every time I read the Bible and the Book of Mormon peace came over me.

It was like one of my first lesson taught from the Holy Ghost in discernment.

The opposition had nothing in him therefore he can not impart peace love or joy his only tools are doubt and fear create situations to lead one away from etc.

But things of the Lord bring comfort and joy, peace I know when I did something the spirit of the Lord departed but when I was doing what I should be doing that void is fill with the Lord presents.

For the first time in my life the pages of the Bible many of those passages laid dormant for years at no time when I was Presbyterian was some of those passages even discussed in the Bible let along considered.

I know I was there in the late 50’s early 60’s we have Sunday school but it was basic stuff milk, hardly any meat.

I also been to a Reformed and the Nazarene Church you see I was the only one in the family who attended church. Dad was Catholic and mom Protestant in those day there were always those good on Sun and the rest the WK but they allowed me to go to Church even drove me when younger.

I always took things literal and witnessing behavior of saying one thing and doing another bother me. After I left home I went on a quest for about 18 years looking for the things I read in the Bible I just knew they have to be true.
And no matter what the Clergy of the day all try to say that was long ago etc.

So I know you are very turn off by Mormonism, but for me I know this is Jesus Christ Church and that Joseph Smith was the Lord’s Prophet to bring forth the Restoration in these Latter days and I also know a Prophet is only a prophet when he is acting as a Prophet the rest of the time he has issues to work out like the rest of us.

I know WHEN I have applied the council given me in the scriptures I have received many endless blessings, many I am not even aware of at the time.

Where you are at Anton.Rutter and how you feel I need to respect that amputations and healing are not an over night change.

It is not easy for anyone who is going through this I just pray peace for the soul.

In all due Respect.