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THIS is a wonderful testimony of Jesus. Thank you Godzilla for posting it. This statement really says it all for the Inmans, doesn't it? "I am sometimes asked why I now “fight” the Mormon Church. Mormons I meet ask why I try to convert church members who are, after all, already Christians. I might ask the same question of Mormon missionaries. When they find a Christian on the doorstep do they back away saying “Oh, you already know Jesus”? They do not, because they believe that there is no salvation outside the Mormon church. I believe there is no salvation inside the Mormon church and so, by the same token, I proselyte Latter-day Saints." We proselyte not only LDS, but the "dear readers" who may be lured into mormonism by the non-Christian missionary campaign by 52,000 missionaries and TV and radio recruitment campaigns. We provide the truth that mormon leaders hide away from even their own members.

ALL: If you are a Mormon, you are not alone in your struggle to considering exiting the Mormon church.

Interest from all Mormons and former Mormons is high. How do we know. Well, one of the top three 2010 FREEPER Lds threads drew 1,442 replies:

See 580 Reasons (& counting) Why You Should Leave the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [II]

More reasons to leave mormonism -

http://www.latayne.com/365-reasons

Today’s reason:

Reason # 170– The Testimony of Olavo dos Santos Martins

I got to have my first contact with the church through his missionaries in ´77. I had been a student of English and I´d been needing people to talk to, out of my regular classes.

Well, my father was the one who knew them and introduced them to me.

We started our chats on saturday mornings and that was where I got to have my contacts with them, the Ensign mag and the BoM.

My mom and I got the 1st. discussion. But, we didn´t want to go on.

In 1980, I got to know the principal of the Language School I had just started to work in was an LDS. My interest in the BoM revived and she introduced me to a new set of missionaries.

They taught me and baptized me about two weeks later on the 3rd. of May, 1980, along with three other people.
Well, I kept on going to the church, received both priesthoods, the lesser and the higher and in ´81 went on a full-time mission. Four months later I came back, sick and disillusioned. I was threatened to death by one of my companions with a knife. I was honorably relieved and served as a District missionary and later on as Ward Mission Leader twice. I served in almost every calling, but for bishop, stake counselor and financial clerk. I even served as a High Councilor. I got married to a returned short-term sister missionary whom I got to know as Stake missionary. We were sealed in São Paulo´s Temple along with our first son. (We married in Paraguay and had to wait for one year to be sealed in SP.)

I stayed in the church for 30 years. Last year I accidentaly ran into some “anti” mormon info through the web but stopped looking into it. : I still had the cognitive dissonance!

This year I decided to investigate further. I downloaded “The Changing World of Mormonism,” by Jerald and Sandra Tanner. And after a whole month, I was convinced I had been in the wrong religion. I got deeper and deeper into my investigation. I stopped going to church. My two children left it too. Only my wife has stayed more or less active in the church. My children refuse to go back. Me too. I consider myself a post-mormon, even though my name is still in Church records. I´ve got my letter of renunciation ready to handed to the bishop. I´ve been seriously considering delivering it to him to have my name eventually removed.

Nowadays, like you and other ex-mormons I´ve become a deep investigator of the church. I´ve got a huge library of web-archives in my computer. And, as the times go by, I thank Our Lord and God for having rescued me out of the “Mormon Mirage (and delusion!)” that mormonism is.