First of all, thank you to the creators of postmormon.org for yet another awesome website that allows people to post their exodus from the Mormon Church. I've only posted on one other site, and thought, why not post here, too. I'll try to make it short and sweet. Okay, maybe not so sweet.

I've read many, many accounts of others who've left the "fold" and my story isn't unique by any means. I can certainly sympathize with and appreciate all who've felt that they were spiritually and monetarily raped by the Mormon church, so to speak. I was only active until I was 15, when my oldest sister married outside the church (in a beautiful Catholic cathedral in downtown SLC). As a teenager I was baptized for the dead. Beyond all that, I was pretty much bored with it all. That, and the fact that I questioned EVERYTHING as a child, even though we were admonished not to, at least as far as doctrinal issues were concerned. None of my valid questions were answered in any form of an intelligent manner.

Late in 1991, my sister, whom I'm extremely close to, started calling me all the time and everything out of her mouth was Jesus this, and Jesus that. Of course, my first reaction was Joseph Smith this, and Joseph Smith that. Even though I hadn't been active in the church, for over fifteen years, it's funny how I would have defended and died for the Mormon Church.

With her encouragement, I started doing my own reading and research and found that indeed, there are many things that are not so true about the "one true church". I quickly sent in my letter of resignation and before I knew it, I was a born-again Christian. The greatest thing in the whole wide world was having the weight of a two-ton cinder block (the church) lifted off my shoulders. I fully understood that I can't save myself; that the gift of salvation is a gift of God. The guilt was gone, I am free and I am saved.

Dear readers, who are struggling with your decision to leave the Mormon church, let me say this: The thing that worries me the most about what the church is all about is that, first, they prey on people who don't know about what the God of heaven and earth is really all about. Secondly,  they are teaching dangerous things about the Lord that are absolutely not true, and so, particularly with converts to the church, some who've been disillusioned and actually do leave, end up feeling as though God is a cold and unfeeling entity and they end up agnostic or atheistic, not believing in God at all, and won't ever be able to be reasoned with. Everyone has the freedom to make their own choices, and it is my strong prayer that you prayerfully ask the Lord's guidance, and for peace and knowledge as you decide to stay in a truly terrifying cult, or flee into the arms of our sweet savior Who loves you no matter who you are or what you've done or where you've been. This applies not to just the converts who have been disillusioned; I am reaching out to ALL Mormons, no matter who you are. Jesus died for you and that was the ultimate sacrafice for all mankind, so that we can be with Him forever. There's no guessing or hoping; giving your life to Him is blessed assurance that you will be in heaven when you pass from this life. 

I love you all, and I pray that you'll also do your own researching and praying, and decide to let go and let God.

Peace be to all of you,

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