I was offended once by a certain LDS Institute Director, but I could also speak well of another LDS Institute Director. So, no, alas, no LDS person or persons is/are to "blame" for my salvation.
Why can't I leave LDS alone? I'd like to say that I'd make a bargain--you call all the LDS missionaries home, and then I'd consider staying home. But that would not be true.
Lost sheep are not simply the prodigals who roam away. Lost sheep include the "faithful" brother who stayed home and was slighted that his repenting brother received the full attention of the Father.
Paul's custom when he entered a new city was to visit the religious folks first (the synagogues). And make no mistake. It was not an academic enterprise: "I speak the truth in Christ--I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit--I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, the people of Israel." (Rom 9:1-4).
Why can't I leave the Church alone? I'm not so good as Colofornian. There's a part of me that rebels and keeps on rebelling.
http://scriptures.lds.org/moses/5
Moses Chapter 5...
29 And Satan said unto Cain: Swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou
tell it thou shalt die; and swear thy brethren by their heads, and by
the living God, that they tell it not; for if they tell it, they shall
surely die; and this that thy father may not know it; and this day I
will deliver thy brother Abel into thine hands.
30 And Satan sware unto Cain that he would do according to his
acommands•. And all these things were done in secret."
I took a blood oath in the Temple. I'm just daring you all to come and slash my throat. I told all your dirty little secrets and I'm still alive.
Glory Hallalujah