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Sometimes answers would take a while and sometimes I would feel I had the answer but it was Satan using his sly ways to make me think the answer came from God but in reality it was him trying to lure me away.
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May I ask, did these false answers come during prayer? If you are praying to God the Father, and receive a feeling of yes or no, how could that come from Satan?
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Do you believe your questions can be answered by the promptings of the Holy Ghost?
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The major questions, yes. The other smaller details no. Those are the ones I came here to get answered.
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Also, what specifically are some of your concerns. I read the other post about the cross. I must say, I disagree with you, but, something that minor is not something to make a church choice over.
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I have quite a few questions. As I said on the Cross thread, I am currently staying in a hotel and forgot my Bible. Most of these questions, I would like to have it for reference before I ask them. But do not worry, these questions will be coming within the next few days.
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Also, I am kind of curious why are the majority of your friends non LDS.
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Most of them are not LDS, simply because I can be myself around them. They are much less judging and more accepting. Around previous LDS friends, I had to pretend and I just finally could not pretend anymore.
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Are you active in your ward? If so, is there some issue you are facing making it diffcult for you to associate with LDS youth?
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No, I have not been active for about three or four years. Honestly, if anything is making it hard to associate with the LDS youth, it is the LDS youth.
Some background info on this. Back when I was active in my ward(It was the 18th clinton ward), it was an amazing ward. It consisted of happy, accepting, genuine mormons. About six months before I stopped going to church, the 18th ward was dissolved. There was another ward that was struggling with members. So, the logical thing to do is dissolve the healthy and strong ward, right?
A few weeks prior to it happening, our bishop got up and started telling us about it by saying, "Well, get ready! There is going to be a shake up!" So, they divided the ward. 90% or so went to the struggling ward, and the other 10% or so got added to a preexisting ward(I think it was the 6th ward). My family, one or two of our friends, and the bishop of the 18th ward were part of those going to the 6th ward. When we got to the new ward, we found that they already had their groups and stuff organized as they wanted it. Pretty much they did not want us there. The bishop and his wife from the 18th ward even agreed with us on this! So this is when and why I stopped going to church.