I talked with my older brother this a.m., he told me that he and his wife once went to a LDS luncheon. Scared the beegeebees out of me when he told me that. There is a BUT in this and it is, he only went for the FREE FOOD, and sorry to eat and run. lol
If there is a offer out for FREE FOOD, he will be there.
Do you get to talk with many EXmo’s about what the LDS was doing to them? What did it take for you to escape?
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Yes, I do. I am involved, in varying degrees with several of the ministries to Mormons and thus have a lot of Ex-Mo friends. The stories are about the same from all of us.
Re: What did it take for me to ‘escape’, the short answer was it took threads like this one. Even though I started to leave in the early days of the internet and thus wasn’t online, I knew some Christians who pointed things out like what we see here, confronted me, weren’t afraid to totally tick me off and make me angry. It was the anger and the desire to ‘prove’ the ‘antis’ were lying and taking things out of context that got me to reasearch, look up claims and quotes, compare footnotes of the antis and the LDS defenders rather than just repeat what I was told by other LDS. When I did the research (and I spent over a year on it) I discovered that it wasn’t the antis who were lying to me, it was my own church.
Leaving Mormonism was painful, and it cost me a great deal. However, our ways are not Gods, and when I moved back home from Utah after going ‘inactive’ in Mormonism, I had a good Christian friend (now my husband) who helped lead me to the Lord, a new job, my family back (I was disowned when I joined Mormonism) and it took being a Mormon and leaving that for God to break me enough so I could become a Christian. I hope that makes sense.