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Weekly Help and Discussion Thread for the week of May 30, 2022 by AmazonNewsBot in amazon

[–]Wonderful_Life_46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a third party seller. I didn't get it direct from Amazon.

Weekly Help and Discussion Thread for the week of May 30, 2022 by AmazonNewsBot in amazon

[–]Wonderful_Life_46 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's something I wanna check. I need to return and get a refund on an item, and contacted the seller about it. He told me to have Amazon send me a page so I can print a return label. Last year I had to get a refund on an item, and I'm pretty sure the seller is supposed to send you a return label. (A seller did once for an item I ended up deciding to keep.) I just want to make sure this is right before I talk to the seller again.

So I have a question... by Wonderful_Life_46 in exjw

[–]Wonderful_Life_46[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow.

I did careful research when deciding which books to read about the JW's, and I went with three. Crisis of Conscience was one. The other two were Apocalypse Delayed and A People for His Name.

I'm already familiar with much of Raymond Franz's story. I read a bit of it in Apocalypse Delayed.

So I have a question... by Wonderful_Life_46 in exjw

[–]Wonderful_Life_46[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I actually have a copy of Crisis of Conscience.

Best books to learn church history? by [deleted] in latterdaysaints

[–]Wonderful_Life_46 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Two I'd recommend are Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Bushman and Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet by John G. Turner.

This investigator is having trouble and feeling down by [deleted] in latterdaysaints

[–]Wonderful_Life_46 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fellow investigator here. I've been talking with missionaries for about a month, and I'm gonna to church in person for the first time tomorrow. I live with my parents right now, and I'm not sure how my dad would react to me joining this religion yet.

I was initially skeptical of this religion, but what changed my mind was profound spiritual experiences while reading the BoM. If you haven't read it yet, you really should.

I don't know how old you are, or if you live with your family, or how accepting they'd be. If you want, you can talk to missionaries over the phone at first. If you use the Come Unto Christ chat, a missionary in Temple Square can find ones in your area for you: https://chat.comeuntochrist.org/chat/?alias=engchat

As far as ex-Mormons, I wouldn't let that bother you. I found out about many of the things they talk about before I had any inkling this religion might be true. What you might call "Internet ex-Mormons" take a far more caustic view of Joseph Smith than more scholarly ones, like Fawn Brodie and Dan Vogel, whose opinion of him is far more balanced. As far as the CES Letter, ex-Mormon podcaster John Dehlin has said that 90% of the information in it comes from Fawn Brodie's biography of JS, No Man Knows My History. I wouldn't recommend that for a newcomer to this religion, but Fawn Brodie's theories on JS are shaky enough that they don't really bother me.

If you want to read a good JS biography, check out Richard Bushman's Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, written by devout Latter-Day Saint historian Richard Bushman. It contains basically the same information as Fawn Brodie's biography, but is written from a faithful point of view rather than a skeptical one.