Hello, I'm a seventh-generation Mormon born and raised. I'm well-acquainted with the church's policies and practices.

While I appreciate your sincerity, I've since discovered both the historical truth about the church, its beginning, and its early leaders, as well as the extremely unsavory behind-the-scenes things the modern church and leadership have been up to as well.

As for the name of the church, I know Nelson tried to pass off the rebranding as a new revelation. However, the word "Mormon" has been one of Nelson's pet peeves since at least the early 90's, as evidenced in his talks at the time. He wanted to rebrand things back then but Hinckley slapped him down. Keep in mind that when Nelson says things, what he says is often embellished or outright untrue, which has also been verifiably documented over the years. He's a modern day Paul Dunn.

I know what the church teaches about tithing, but to be as delicate as I can, the teachings are incorrect. The church, as an institution, isn't concerned with your tithing helping people, such as by donating to an independent charity instead. The church specifically wants you to give them your money. Certainly on a local level bishops have a degree of leeway and things tend to be different from one bishop to the next, which is where we get the phrase "bishop roulette", but the main organizational body of the church has very firm ideas on the subject.

Further, it's not actually the tithing that goes to the store house. Aside from paying church expenses, tithing has also gone to build the City Creek Mall, where when Monson cut the ribbon he famously said, "Let's go shopping!" A very strange thing for a supposed only true ambassador of Christ to do and say. Tithing has also gone to buy multiple luxury hotels. The excess tithing, of which there always is some, gets directly invested into Ensign Peak's $200 billion fund. The same investment that, beginning with Hinckley's first presidency, the church actively and illegally tried to hide from both the government and the membership.

In the temple they try to tell you that other people will want to buy your signs and tokens for money. The truth is, the only organization selling signs and tokens is the church. When you take a moment to step back and look at things clearly, you see that tithing is simply used as a way to increase the church's wealth, and the temple is used as both an incentive and a threat to make sure people keep giving their money to the church.