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October 2010
I just wanted to take a moment and thank you for your wonderful website! It was a great source of information for me as I transitioned out of Mormonism. You are doing such a great service to people and I really admire your work!! I came to Christ in April of this year and resigned from the Mormon church in August. I am now free of Mormonism and enjoying my walk with the Lord! . . .
October 2010
I REALLY appreciate your heart. My whole family watched your fireside chat and the TV show and were impressed by the sincerity and strength you speak with.
November 2010
I would appreciate it if you would remove your information on the LDS church, as it is completely incorrect. You have claimed things on here that I have never heard in my entire life. I have been completely active in the LDS church my entire life, we do not believe the things you are claiming. I would not want an investigator be turned away by blasphemy.
November 2010
I came to the Lord about 25 years ago after being raised as a 5th generation Mormon. Someone at my church sensed my confusion and suggested I call you for help. I still recall the conversation we had and still appreciate your tender approach to a most confused young man.
November 2010
Hi. I am in the process of leaving the Mormon church and just sort of want to know the best thing to do with my temple garments. Can I just throw them away? I keep thinking I need to burn them or cut them up.
[We told her it doesn’t matter, just get rid of them.]
November 2010
More than 25 years ago my wife and I were happy members of the RLDS sect of Mormonism. [My wife] started reading the N.I.V. Bible. . . . What this bible was saying did not match with the things we were taught. She began asking Me questions . . . and reading this Bible my wife came to the point of believing Joseph Smith was a false teacher!
Yet, I, while seeing the same things as she, was not yet completely convinced. Then one evening we were invited to supper at the home of. . . . friends who were not RLDS. We eventually got to talking about what was happening to us. As [my friend] was RLDS in his childhood I considered him a sympathetic ear. After explaining how we were seeing problems and my reluctance to completely let go of “The Church” [he] went into another room, came back and handed me some papers.”Have you ever heard of Jerald and Sandra Tanner?” He asked. Of course he already knew I had not! It was one of your newsletters that he had given me! It was exactly what I needed to see what a farce we believed all our lives! The story of my conversion goes on from here. It has been quite a journey!
But to make a long story short, the most wonderful truth I came to see is what a wretched man I am, and what a wonderful Savior is Jesus My Lord. So, thank you again for your hard work. I know the Lord is using this ministry!
November 2010
I don’t know if I ever passed this story on to you, but about 6 or 7 years ago, maybe longer, I was doing some research and I called the library in Salt Lake to get a copy of Brigham Young’s statement in the Deseret newspaper from the 1870’s when he equated going to heaven with only one wife to the parable of the talents. In my research, I found that practically all of their writings were on the internet or copied to cd’s. I asked the librarian about it and she said that I should talk to the person in charge of the library. I called him with the inquiry and, obviously thinking that I was a Mormon, he said, “It’s funny that you should ask. Everyone on the library board agreed that the Deseret newspaper should be digitized, but when we took it to the President of the Church, he nixed the idea and said, ‘Because our children are so computer literate, If we digitized the Deseret News and they accessed it, they would leave the church in droves.’”
November 2010
I had sent for information from you just last week and today received a packet in the mail! I found tons of stuff about the Mormon church that I’m sure can help me, as I have officially sent in my resignation letter! I expect the “love bombs” to start any day now, as LDS HQ acknowledged that they received my letter a week ago! Anyway, I just want to say THANK YOU for everything!
December 2010
Mrs. Tanner—Or should I say sister Tanner. Because even though I personally consider myself an ex-Mormon, like you, I still believe we may be brothers and sisters if we accept Christ as our savior and redeemer . . . I am Brazilian, . . . I got to know the LDS Church in ‘77, even though I just was baptized three years later. I stayed in it until March of the current year [2010], when I had the blessing (in disguise!) of reading your wonderful and so well-written and documented “Changing World of Mormonism.” After that I stopped attending church and start getting deeper and deeper in my personal research.
December 2010
Thank you in advance for taking a moment to read this. I have requested in writing to have my name removed from LDS records. I am still having visiting and home teachers from the church come to my door. . . . God bless you and the work you do. Your website has brought me back to the Jesus I knew before my conversion to Mormonism.
December 2010
I am 33 years old. My father’s side of my family are all devoted LDS members. . . . As an adult, because of my occupation, I never had Sundays off, now I have Sunday mornings off. So I want to take my children to church, at least a place where we can all learn about the Bible. Wanting to make a good decision, I started to question Mormonism, something never felt totally right for me. That is how I arrived at your website. I feel deceived, why didn’t my father question any of this? Although I realize that research is so much easier now that we have the internet, so I don’t fault him . . .
December 2010
It saddens me to think that your ignorance has led you to promote this site against God, Which will cause the visitation of cursing to come upon you from our heavenly father which is his divine prerogative. matt, 13:24-30 also Paul warning to the Galatians Gal, 1:8-12.
Now Let me correct just a couple of your points relating to the churches doctrine. . . . There are many gods. but all we need to worry about are three, that being god the father elohim , god the son Jesus or Jehovah of the old testament, and god the holy ghost. oh and Satan is our brother . . .
We were all intelligence’s existing forever but in some point of this forever god spiritually begot us therefore creating us as his spirit children. you sound like nehor in alma 1:2-15
you are an anti Christ so be careful.
December 2010
I just want you to know how much your website and testimonies of why you left the LDS church on You tube has helped me leave the LDS church and find the real Jesus in the bible.
December 2010
I am a Mormon that is converting to Christianity. I appreciate your web-site and all you do to get across the truth. You are a great person, and I hope to encourage you to hang in there.
January 2011
My parents joined the LDS church in my senior year of high school. I began the missionary discussions the spring of that year.
Having been raised in the Baptist church, I was uncomfortable with much of what I was hearing from the missionaries, but it wasn’t until I attended Ricks College in Rexburg that I had a chance to really invest myself in investigating the church. The more I prayed about what was the true church, the more I knew the LDS was not true. On one particular trip down to BYU in the winter of 1973, a friend from my church in Littleton, Colorado suggested I go by and meet you and Gerald and pick up one of your books.
You were both very gracious to me and spent a fair amount of time working with me and corresponding with me to answer many of my questions. But I remember a statement that Gerald made to me one day during one of our conversations: “It is not about the church, or the family, or even you. It is about Jesus Christ. Don’t get distracted by talk about what a good church or the true church is. Christ is the truth!”
January 2011
I am a branch president, I have been a bishop, seminary teacher . . . I have been struggling with my testimony for 4.5 years, but have continued to come and do my part because I figured if this church is not true, then no church is. . . . The problem that I have is I love Mormon Doctrine, degrees of glory, no hell, eternal families, a loving God and the ability to become God. . . . BUT, I do not believe the Book of Mormon, and I believe that once one learns about Joseph Smith, it is pretty clear he was a fraud. I am struggling . . . it is clear that Mormonism is founded on lies and good cover up jobs. . . . I have watched a few of your videos Sandra, I enjoyed them and appreciate your good sense of humor and non-aggressive approach. I was always taught that antis were bitter. So thank you for not making that true.
January 2011
I just wanted to say thank-you !! Your website and the contained documentation and your u tube presentations have done my lovely partner and I a great service. Mormonism has screwed us both over on so many levels. I met her on my mission to Manchester England back in 1990. Finally after all this time we are starting a new life together. From an ordinary guy thank you !!
January 2011
I’ve read all of the statements on your websites and they seem to be faulty. And a little prejudiced if I do say so myself. I am currently a member of the LDS church and I think . . . you have so many untrue statements . . . Please fix these idiotic mistakes.
Bye bye smarty pants.
January 2011
Thank you for your hard work on dispelling the Mormon Myths. After 16 years of the LDS Church and 7 years of agnosticism, I finally came to know the True Lord. Your research and work is helping me battle the ever changing Mormon myth in the US Military and helping me advise my father, who is attempting to return to the Church after a 13 year hiatus. Keep it up!
January 2011
The information provided on your website was invaluable to me when I was grappling with the truth as a lifelong faithful LDS member who had inadvertently stumbled onto information that ultimately set me on a quest to learn the “real” truth about Mormonism. I praise God for Ministries like yours that not only helped me learn the truth about Mormonism but that also helped me to navigate to the true and living Christ in the process.
January 2011
I recently read a book on facts of the Mormon church and it led me to your website as a resource. I dated a member of the LDS church for three years—and ended up joining the church even though I never really felt called to join—but more so because I loved him . . . I ended up breaking up with this member because I felt like the church just wasn’t something that I could follow and live in a lie. Before joining the church I was an active member of my Presbyterian church and have rejoined it because I felt it actually pointed me towards salvation. I am very thankful for getting out of the LDS church and back on track—and feel like my faith has since increased and taken on a stronger note.
January 2011
I left the church 11 months ago. I wish I had known the truth much earlier. My letter of the law behavior hurt so many people. I pray that the church will finally admit the truth. The sad part is that I felt deep in my heart that there was something really wrong with the teaching for a very long time.
January 2011
I resigned this year thanks in no small part to you and your husband’s excellent research and your willingness to share it. I was talking with a friend of mine who grew up in Salt lake and said no high school kid would dare go near your bookstore in Salt Lake. He said he would have been better off being caught buying porn than in your book store. There you have it your new slogan “Utah lighthouse ministries—better than porn.”
January 2011
Thank you so very much for providing all of the resources you provide. I have always had a strong Christian Faith and when I moved to Idaho I thought “how bad could the Mormons be?”, not knowing much about their faith. It was not until I married a Mormon with a very, very Mormon family, that I realized the need to research them and their beliefs, thus coming upon MRM and Utah Lighthouse Ministries. With God’s help I have been able to show my husband the truth behind the Mormon faith and am bringing him closer to the Jesus and God of the Bible. Thank you for all you do!
February 2011
I am LDS, just a member, not a leader, and what makes it interesting is I have had special experiences similar to those which Joseph Smith had. I have received revelation for myself, and have a sure knowledge . . . There are many out there like me that have had similar experiences, they know also. They have been visited by the power of the Holy Ghost and instructed and have obtained knowledge first hand for themselves too.
February 2011
I was a strong believer—doer in Mormonism for 43 years, when I asked the Sugarhouse Bishop to excommunicate me (Nov 2004), he and his counselors had to pray 3 different times, which I would go into another room. The first 2 times, they said, “We feel that our Heavenly Father doesn’t want you to be ex’d”. Due to my insistence, after the 3rd prayer, they ok’d it!!! PRAISE GOD!!!
March 2011
Sandra, thirty-four years ago when I was questioning the validity of the church I had been raised in, you, Jerald, and the lighthouse ministry gently guided me to the information that helped me to be a witness of God’s salvation to many other people who were also searching. God bless you!
March 2011
Great job on the Capstone talk Sandra
Not too many years ago I would of stayed away from your talks being an active Mormon etc. Now it is the opposite.
March 2011
I have watched a few videos from Lighthouse Ministries and I just want to say Thank You so much for shedding the light on Mormonism. I have just left Mormonism and it is people like you have helped me and my family so very much on our journey. Thank you Thank you Thank you. You have no idea what you are doing for people like myself.
March 2011
My 2 daughters just left a Mormon polygamist compound [in Missouri]. They have really seen the light and loathe everything they have been through as they were highly abused.
March 2011
Periodically, I visit your website to see what else you have dug up. Happily I am not impressed either by your materials nor by your “scholarship.” Having said that I would like you to know that I forgive you for your behavior and ignorance.
March 2011
MY views are you’re an angry old hag who decided to start a church to bash on the most wonderful people I know.
March 2011
I am a life-long LDS member, served a mission, married in the temple, served in various high callings and finally ready to stop living this lie. . . . I am grateful for the information and material you have worked to publish as well as another exMormon website I have read recently. I also know that nothing is more convincing of the truth than actual documentation of the secrets and controlling nature of the LDS church hierarchy.
March 2011
. . . I have a sure knowledge that the LDS church is in very deed the Lord’s church. This is not a blind belief, this is first-hand experience like those of old, like the ones you read about in the scriptures. You have never had such experiences, hence your stance. I bid you to repent, humble yourself, and quit adding to the world’s confusion.
April 2011
God bless you and your work . . . When I studied my way out, it was your work that helped keep me from becoming atheist and redirected my focus and trust on Jesus Christ. Thank you for showing me how to shovel straight through the garbage and look to HIM on the other side of it all . . . 🙂
I will be forever grateful . . . much love and Godspeed to your ministry.
April 2011
I bet you guys are having a great time trying to figure out what to criticize next. Must be a sad life to be so confused <sigh>
April 2011
I have been doing a lot of research on the LDS faith lately, and I happened to come across your website. I was surprised at how you claim to simply be presenting information, when there is a very obvious negative connotation to most everything you say. You guys would probably be a lot more credible if you didn’t sound like you were so prejudiced. . . . I don’t think any of it is valid.
April 2011
Thanks for your Ministry! I left the church at age 19 as a freshman at BYU. I am only 23, following Jesus, and still have so much to learn. God bless!
April 2011
To Jerald and Sandra Tanner:
I can’t wait to see you two at the Judgement Bar of Jesus Christ, and you will feel the utter “nakeness” of being stripped of your priesthood blessings, being excommunicated from the true church!! You, Ed Decker, and the rest of the Apostates who are kicking against the pricks. I AM WARD MISSIONARY, and have the authority to call you to repentance. I pray you do, because the Lord will not be mocked by those who violate their Temple Covenants.
Originally appeared in:
“Excerpts from Letters and Emails,” Salt Lake City Messenger, no. 116, May 2011, 17-19.