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Oct. 2011
I have been googling and watching you on U tube and taking pages and pages of notes. You should know that you among other brave souls have been instrumental in my transition out of mormonism. A convert of 2 yrs, I ALWAYS had reservations but shelved them. . . . Talk about buyer’s remorse! . . . Know that you helped me keep my sanity and also my faith in GOD after the devastation and mostly disappointment at having been taken down the wrong road. Still I feel these past 2 years were not wasted and feel a new found sense of purpose in being able to share THE GOOD NEWS.
Oct. 2011
I was a mormon for 42 years, served a mission, married in the temple, and was active and held multiple callings, it wasn’t until 6 or 7 years ago when I started questioning things in the history that got me investigating the facts. Your books I would find in the Library’s in southeast Idaho and Northern Utah and i would read and re-read them check the references to see if they had any validity and sure enough you guys were not lying. To make a long story short I left the church in 2008 and found the Lord in 2009 and am now a Christian!
Oct. 2011
I was raised a Mormon and left the LDS church many years ago . . . I have not taken my name off of the LDS church membership but with the help of your web site I will attempt to do so soon.
Oct. 2011
My nephew (19) has just been baptized into the Mormon church. I came across your interview with John Ankerberg on You Tube. Wow! You are amazing! . . . Again, thank you for your courage, thoroughness, and kindness in your approach. 🙂
Oct. 2011
I support the cause for truth you are in. For a church that purports the truth and expects honesty from it’s members, you would think you could expect honesty and the truth from it. Not so easy!! I have been a member for almost 50 yrs. It is only in the last few yrs. that I have found out much of the real history.
Nov. 2011
Several years ago, as an active Bishop, your website was one of the key sources of truth, which led us to research more deeply our own beliefs.
. . . Thank you so much for your faithful witness.
Nov. 2011
I just wanted to thank dear Mrs. Sandra Tanner again for visiting with me and my husband this weekend. . . . My husband and I have had such a long journey out of Mormonism. We were both oldest children of old Mormon families. Sandra has helped us to discard the heresies of Mormonism.
Dec. 2011
It is interesting that you people condemn the LDS Church and call them a false cult. . . . I am going to vacate the evangelical sphere of Christianity and become LDS. . . . I have forgiven all those . . . who have caused me hurt and prayer that they too will receive a testimony of the validity of the [LDS] gospel.
Dec. 2011
Thank you for helping me come out of Mormonism at age 55 in 2005. I am so much happier and now I have the grace that Joseph Smith took out of the supposedly “restored” gospel.
Dec. 2011
We discovered you when our daughter started dating a Mormon . . . [They] have broken up their relationship because she would not convert. She actually made it through missionary lesson 3 and stopped. [She] said that Bible verses kept coming to her mind and felt they were from God.
Dec. 2011
I admire you intensely and respect the work you’ve done. I left the church 3 weeks ago and am joyful beyond words. It took way too long to admit what I had known all along, but now that I have that courage my life is better in every way.
Dec. 2011
I have spent six years investigating the LDS Church comparing their material with yours and other ministries and have found that many of the facts presented by evangelicals are filled with erroneous lies and mis-quotes concerning LDS doctrines and what their apostles really meant.
Jan. 2012
Listened to your interview w/Doris Hanson [“Polygamy: What Love is This?” TV show] last night and really enjoyed it, especially your calm, cool and collected answers to the callers. You’re awesome! I want to meet you in person my next trek to SLC as I’ve “righteously” avoided you my whole life as a lifelong [LDS] church member! lol
Jan. 2012
Sandra, someone posted on Craig’s list that he wanted to talk to a believing inactive mormon as himself. I wrote and told him that i was an ex mormon and he started preaching to me. I told him to check out UTLM.ORG. He said that he did not believe anything those Tanners said. I gave up on him; but about 6 months later he wrote to me and said that he got curious about UTLM and started reading. Now he has left the mormon church for Biblical christianity. All praise be to God who works through us for his divine purposes.
Jan. 2012
Thank you for this website I’m a Christian . . . . I have a friend who is a Mormon, after listening to some things she talked about and doing my own research to include finding some youtubes by Sandra Tanner, I was blown away. . . . this process has me looking deeper into my faith and reconnecting with Jesus Christ my Lord Savior. I am praying and reading my Bible with such thirst I pray it will never end. Thanks again for all your research I pray that my friend will find the love of Jesus Christ.
Jan. 2012
Awesome website information thanks. I’ve been meeting with Mormon Missionaries over the last 4 weeks (3 times a week) and I’m due to get baptized soon in the Mormon Church. I have had serious doubts about the teaching from the Missionaries as I have felt like something isn’t right. So I’ve been googling ‘ex mormon’ websites and came across yours. The articles are really helpful thanks. I was raised in a Christian home and the [LDS] Missionaries said that the Book of Mormon and their faith does not contradict the bible. However, through reading your material, I have found that there are huge contradictions. I would never have known about all this strange teaching, if there wasn’t great website information like yours available. I feel like the Mormons deceived me and were dishonest in their dealings with me by failing to disclose the contradictions of their faith with the Bible. But I am grateful that I have learned now before I encountered huge disappointment and hurt. Thanks.
Jan. 2012
Hi, I’m a convert to the LDS church and I know there are many things written and said about Mormons that are taken out of context, distorted, and just plain untrue. I read all this stuff over 30 years ago when I was first investigating the Church! . . . Well I read all this anti-Mormon stuff, that I found in Christian bookstores, of all places! I just knew it wasn’t right. I finally found some correct information on the Church, studied, pondered and prayed for a year, went to church to see what it was like, then asked the missionaries over and I asked them more questions. I knew I couldn’t be a member of any other church. It has the fulness of the gospel and will bring you closer to Jesus Christ and the Bible than any other church!
Jan. 2012
I had a friend who was a Mormon for many years, who visited you at your bookstore while she was searching for the truth. She was impressed with your kindness, if not at the time with the truth that you stood for. I was witnessing with another Christian friend, to her, for the last 11 or so years. She got saved recently, and is now attending a Christian church. . . . Thank you for your part in being a Christian witness to her during her search for the truth.
Jan. 2012
[LDS man]
It is always interesting to read the material that you and your minions dig up on these topics to try to discredit the LDS church and I admire your zeal and commitment to your faith. . . . As LDS, we love Christ as much as you do and we walk in His ways and have his image engraven upon our countenances. . . . On the matter of slavery and bond people, that is a matter well documented right in the Holy Bible and supported by it. . . . The LDS church is not the church of the devil so save your breath.
Jan. 2012
I was a mormon for 27 years, sealed in the church. . . . I am now divorced. I asked my husband what if I didn’t go to church anymore, he said we would have to part ways. . . . My sister told me about you and I watch you on YouTube. I understood everything you where talking about, I tell people how I felt about living that life and they don’t get it. Thank you for caring and making me feel okay and that I’m not crazy.
Jan 2012
Thanks so much for your years of work exposing Mormonism. You played a big part in my exit 9 years ago. All the best to you!!
Jan. 2012
Oh come on—no matter what I say, you will disagree with it and you know it. You twist and distort things and try to make Mormons look all wrong, etc. And it’s because you aren’t in the church and you don’t have a testimony. . . . I’ve been on enough anti-Mormon and ex-Mormon videos and message boards to know how this works. Just remember, you don’t have a testimony so you are purposely twisting and distorting things. It doesn’t not mean the church isn’t true!
Feb. 2012
I just read your article on [Joseph Smith’s] White Horse Prophecy. Your slant on the story is that it would be a bad thing for an LDS leader to save our US Constitution. I don’t know what you think today (2012), but it seems pretty clear to me that most, if not all of the statements that you cite from previous LDS leaders are coming true.
Feb. 2012
Praises to the Lord for [the John Ankerberg TV] shows with Brigham Young’s granddaughter & former BYU professors! I’ve prayed for 12 years that the Lord would work on my son’s heart & he’d see the conflicts between the Bible and the Morman church. As a result of watching your shows my son has left the Morman church after being conflicted about their teachings for over 2 years.
Feb. 2012
I tried to be a Mormon for about 9 months when I was much younger. It just didn’t work out (for obvious reasons!) and I contacted you folks for info on getting my name out of their rolls. I was able to achieve my goal with y’alls help, thank you so much!
March 2012
I absolutely love your newsletters. They are wonderfully reaffirming to an exmo like me. There are no words to describe my gratitude to you for your efforts at exposing the truth about the whole mormon mess.
Originally appeared in:
“Excerpts from Letters and Emails,” Salt Lake City Messenger, no. 118, April 2012, 21-23.