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POSTED BY: williamsillyman
DATE: 15.01.2011
SUBJECT: The only one in the Church
LOCATION: Houston, United States
I am the first generation of my family who is a member of the Church. I joined the church in December of 1977 in Alton, Il. I grew up in a family with a Methodist mom and Pentecostal dad, so I had a fairly religious upbringing. Although growin up, I had the "habit" of questioning everything. I would read the Bible and I would question why it said one thing, yet I was being told something completely different. I just felt inside, if the Bible said this, it souldn't mean something else. I have been yelled at, intimidated by ministers and other "religious" people for what I felt inside. When I was introduced to the Church by the missionairies in Phoenix, AZ, my wife and I took the first discussion and shortly afterwards moved back to Missouri. My wife and I separated for about 6 months before getting back together. I'm getting ahead of myself. When I continued the discussions with these young men, I hit them with every question I could think of. Every question I had been ridiculed by, and seriously thinking I would get the same kind of response from these young men. I was surprised when I wasn't. They showed me the passages in the Bible then followed it up with the Book of Mormon. Everything made perfect sense. I was baptized in 2 weeks and I've never been sorry. I still have questions and I still ask, not only my teachers, but the branch presidency, bishops, stake presidents, and I get answers, and I get them in a loving way. I have never been made to feel "stupid". Since I joined the church, I have lost both of my parents and have since done their work in the temple of the Lord. My wife and I are sealed together and our children to us. Likewise I am sealed to my parents, and working on the generations going back.
I love being a member of this Church and being a Latter-day Saint. I am thankful every day. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

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