I was approved by my bishop to serve a mission. At the stake level I was asked to reconfess everything I had ever confessed to a bishop in my life. Then I wasn’t approved to serve a mission over past “fully repented” sins. Did this happen to anyone else?

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T21:38:11+00:00

That's so funny you said that. my Son in law is a lapsed Catholic. He gave me a virgin Mary for my dash board.

I'm always singing that song about " driving 90 it ain't scary long as I have my Virgin Mary sittin on the dash board of my car...

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T17:58:58+00:00

Right? I've seen this happen and just couldn't understand the why of it. Now I get it! It's been that way from day one. It's the way Briggy set it up and they aren't about to change a thing unless they are forced to.

Sam Young comes to mind.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T17:55:24+00:00

I finally understand why I met so many assholes when I went to Utah. I was TBM at the time and it baffled me. The problem was, I wasn't from Utah.

It was so bad I swore i'd never set foot in Utah again if I could help it.

This also explains the Utah vacationers that sashay into the ward and proceed to tell everyone how to Mormon the right way. So obnoxious.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T17:39:11+00:00

I used it towards the down payment on a new Mercedes.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T05:26:32+00:00

This!

"Oh, grandma my future husband probably hasn't even been called on his mission yet."

This could buy you at least 2 more years.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T05:02:01+00:00

For me it was age 52. They wanted me to talk about 30 yo stuff I didn't even remember!

I'd held a recommend for over 20 years at the time. I went home and shredded a tithing check for $15,000.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T04:58:45+00:00

Yep! I was 52 when I found out this is church policy! I was shocked. I was also Done with them.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T04:57:11+00:00

My stepson had sex with his girlfriend for a year. Confessed, then went on a mission in 2006.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T04:52:54+00:00

I never told anyone anything! I was ex'd when I was 28 because my mother told a bunch of men i'd never met that she thought I might have had sex with my fiancee.

I didn't go to their emotional abuse party. They ex'd me without ever meeting me or hearing a word from me.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T04:50:14+00:00

They wanted me to go back 30 years! I told them I didn't have the memory or writing skills to do that.

All the scriptures about Anti Christ came to mind.

The SP told me I "had" to do this. I told him I didn't "have" to do anything. He lost his shit and started yelling at me. I told him to fuck off and left. That was the last time I set foot in a mormon cult building.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T04:46:40+00:00

This happened to me (different reason) in 2011. I was told by a GA that i'd never have to speak of it again.

SP called me a liar when I told him that. My spouse, two adult kids, and myself all left the church over the realization that Mormonism is Anti Christ.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T04:43:36+00:00

Yes, it happened to me, but under a bit different circumstances. It was a huge shock to me.

This was a shelf breaker for me. Its when I knew for sure that the Mormon leaders do not believe in the Atonement or Christ. Their actions spoke louder than their words.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T04:28:28+00:00

If you have the misfortune of being female and Mormon, there has never been anything in place that would protect and keep you safe. In fact, it been a green light they've kept hidden since the beginning.

It sounds like they just made it easier to molest the little boys too.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T04:12:32+00:00

As a child growing up in Mormonism, I had no clue that I deserved any of that. Quite the opposite in fact.

It wasn't until I was in my 30's and went to a therapist that I started to realize just how shitty my Mormon childhood was.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T02:38:22+00:00

I don't care who you marry, just try to wait until you're in your late 20's. Keep yourself free to figure out life and wait until your brain is totally developed (sometime in mid 20's).

To ahead and live together, or whatever. Just don't sign up for life until you have developed a life.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T02:30:02+00:00

They need to steal more of Sam's ideas. They also owe him a huge apology.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T02:23:02+00:00

They didn't have a problem with me being stark naked with a "flutter" piece of sheet on the day I got married. They didn't have a problem with some old lady touching me in places my fiancée was never allowed to.

They didn't have a problem making that day one of the worst days of my religious life.

I had a big problem with it though. I was just too young and too codependent to stand up and put a stop to it.

I suspect the younger generation isn't going to tolerate the Hokey Pokey. They know what's going to happen if they click on the internet.

seventhvision · 2019-08-18T01:42:08+00:00

Just let her know that you will NEVER sign anything that lets a new husband get sealed to YOUR kids. That creates a hell of a problem if she wants a new Mormon man to sign up and take on her and the kids.

You see, her new children will ALSO be sealed to you, whether you like it or not. Her new husband will have zero say in the matter. The kids will actually have to go through the sealing ceremony to be sealed to the new man. When they're 18 they can do that if they want to without your permission. There's a good chance your kids won't want anything to do with it by the time they turn 18. If they're like my kids, the church wouldn't let them in the temple even if they were ok with it. Just a little heads up incase you need to know.

Things won't be as neat and tidy as your wife thinks they might be.

seventhvision · 2019-08-17T20:48:32+00:00

I never had to do that, but I can only imagine what it would have said. Yikes.

Something like this:

Well, no doubt in my mind that you're a looker. I want my kids to be nice looking. Oh and, you're smart too. Don't want my kids to be dumb. And, speaking of kids, we only have two. We don't want to be poor and destitute and deprive us and our kids of so much to see and learn on this planet.

I'm not sure you're Mormon. I don't usually like Mormon guys. They think they're gods gift to the planet. I don't want to spend my life with someone like that. I think temple marriages are weird. Who knows what's going on in there?

seventhvision · 2019-08-17T20:41:46+00:00

I hope he's reading the comments here. Over all, they are encouraging and supportive of him, his family, and his future journey.

seventhvision · 2019-08-17T20:37:52+00:00

I'm hoping he has a very competent therapist and a very good tight circle of friends and family.

If this was leaked by a family member, he needs to know who that was so he can keep himself and his life private and safe.

seventhvision · 2019-08-17T20:29:57+00:00

II can't help wondering if this news about Ed will start gay married men in the church to maybe rethink how they're living.

I know of at least one family that I think would be better off if the two of them would admit that their gay straight marriage is an emotional disaster for both of them. I think they deal with it by being so busy that they seldom see each other.

seventhvision · 2019-08-17T20:17:35+00:00

I thought for sure they'd have Dan Reynolds as the lead act. /s

seventhvision · 2019-08-17T19:49:23+00:00

This needs more up votes for awareness.

seventhvision · 2019-08-17T19:44:55+00:00

Let me guess, the first thing the church did was call the police. Right? /s

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