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March 2012
I was a former mormon, I was around 2 years, my wife was mormon her entire life, I took out my family from the mormon church, your documentation was very useful, my wife found a book regarding the changes of the temple ceremony . . . she was very surprise about all the changes made on the endowment ceremony . . .

We are now in processing in take out our names from the church, we are so graceful for your efforts and your dedication to your ministery, I have my wife’s family still on the church, we are praying for them in order to take them out and show them the real gospel but it is so hard because they have all their brains full of bad doctrine, they do not even read the bible, we are constantly encourage them in read the bible. . . . they are so mad at me because they think that I was the reason in take my wife out of the church, in part it is true, they think that my wife had not a testimony about the church, but she has it and a big one, there was a lot of thing that doesn’t match on the church, because all the time I encouraged to my wife in read the bible. . . . I always felt that something wrong was on the book of mormon. . . we now are assisting to a christian church, we are so happy . . . I fall in love of my lord Jesus christ.

Thank you Sandra for your work and efforts, you are my hero. . . .

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March 2012
Really trying to totally leave is so difficult. . . . I’m challenged at this point with not becoming super angry and feeling betrayed by the church.

Thank you for your work, it has been liberating for me and I feel a sense of happiness I hadn’t before really truly knowing that the church was hiding so much factual history.

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April 2012
I left Utah 4 years ago and now live in California. I am currently experiencing the “What just happened to me over the past 36 years” moment and have left the lds church. . . . Thank you for providing research links.

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April 2012
I hope you’re watching the General Conference of the Church you hate so much. . . .

I WITNESS TO YOU IN THE HOLY AND SACRED NAME OF JESUS CHRIST THAT THESE MEN ARE EXACTLY WHAT THEIR TITLES STATE.

I REBUKE YOU IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AND WITNESS TO YOU THAT IF YOU DO NOT REPENT YOU WILL LITERALLY HAVE HELL TO PAY FOR YOUR BEARING FALSE WITNESS AGAINST, BY ANY MEASURE, GOOD AND HONORABLE MEN.

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April 2012
I just wanted to write you and thank you for all you do . . . You may not remember me, but a year ago today April 1, 2011 that my husband and I came into Lighthouse Ministry looking for the DVD “Unveiling Grace”, some one thought you may have a copy.

While there I ask several questions because I had been on path of trying to come out of Mormonism. I walked around with just a part of me still Mormon, However with your help and your loving council, I left your ministry full of literature and a conviction of Joseph Smith not being a prophet of God, and that with that foundation no longer true to me, then the whole LDS religion was also false.

It was that day I turned to my husband and declared myself no longer Mormon. Today I am a Christian, a follower of Christ, I was baptized the end of January of this year. Had I not stepped into your Ministry a year ago today, I would not be who I am in Christ today. I am utmost thankful for all you do, you are such an instrument to bring truth to those who are searching as I was. Again thank you!!

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April 2012
I can’t thank you enough for your inspiration and the way you have paved for many Christians who are transitioning out of Mormonism. It has been a painful road. I watched one of your fireside presentations yesterday and it gave me a lot of hope and affirmation. . . . I discovered that the Mormon church isn’t what it claims to be this past December. I have stopped going to Church a month ago. I have been happier over the past few weeks . . . I still have tremendous faith in Christ and God.

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April 2012
Many years ago you and your husband spoke to my husband who had been a life long Mormon. He had many questions about the religion and you spent several hours discussing it with him and even gave him some tapes to watch. He was a changed person and was born again and has been a Christian for almost 25 years now. Thank-you!

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April 2012
I saw u speak in West Monroe, Louisiana at First West! I was born and raised a Christian but my girlfriend is Mormon! She has had questions so I took her to watch you speak! I believe it helped her a lot but she is going through a really tough time in life!

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April 2012
If you insist on continuing what you’ve been doing just remember—everything you do and say against Joseph Smith is a fulfilment of Moroni’s prophesy!

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April 2012
I’m an ex-mo from the UK. Baptized in 1977 but formally resigned last year after learning about the deceptions. Love the profound simplicity of biblical Christianity. Thank you for all you’ve done to help others—you and your husband’s website helped me and my husband.

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April 2012
If you are looking for outdated information, refuted claims, and an era of Mormonism that died 100 years ago, then UTLM is for you.

If you’re looking for current, factual information on Mormons and what they believe, I would suggest:
http://www.mormon.org/ or http://www.lds.org/

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April 2012
I am Brazilian, I live in São Paulo, and thanks to you, I left Mormonism. Your searches are wonderful and opened my eyes. I was baptized [LDS] three years ago, and last month I would go for the mission. I read your stuff and gave up because I found all that the Mormon Church hides. Thank you!

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April 2012
You likely have no idea what your work has meant to so many people like me. I’m married to an ex-Mormon, . . .

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April 2012
You may not remember me. I worked at the Double Tree in Tulsa. You gave me a lot of pamphlets from your ministry when you were in Tulsa, well before the Olympics in Salt Lake City. . . . You were a blessing to me and I just wanted to say thank you.

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April 2012
I am heartbroken to see my nieces doing Temple work, and one recently married at the San Diego Temple. . . . I was never baptized LDS but was once an attender. Your ministry saved me from going any further. I decided to research the truth of Mormonism, which was not easy then.
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I am glad to see that the internet is producing scholars that more closely resemble the quality of your husband’s research, but he was a benchmark that is unlikely to be surpassed. From my angle, it seems like UTLM is more influential than ever. The internet has been a blessing in this regard.
We hold you, and your staff, in our thoughts and prayers.

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April 2012
I have been a christian for about 15 years now, but never really knew how to talk to mormons about true grace in Jesus. After watching Heart of the Matter and learning about utlm.org and looking through your resources, I felt comfortable about being able to talk with mormons. I live in South Korea and I had not seen one the whole time I had been here, then one day I saw a couple on the subway—on their mission. I was able to invite them over and make them food and share the grace of Jesus with them. My wife, who is also a christian, shared her testimony for the first time with someone who was not a christian.

It was SUCH a blessing to share about God’s work in our lives with them and God used you to help us feel comfortable about sharing. Your great work in this area really allows us and so many people to dialogue with mormons in a deep and thoughtful way.

Thank you for your work as God works in you to will and to do. Praise God!

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May 2012
I am a 35 year old LDS woman who was born and raised in the LDS church. I am also a great great great granddaughter of Brigham Young through his second wife, mary ann Angel. . . .

Several months ago my younger sister confided in me that she didn’t want to go to church anymore. She told me of some issues she had with the church that she’d been researching for years. I had no idea she felt this way and i was really shocked. Her main issues were polygamy, and blacks and the priesthood. She also pointed out that she didn’t know why she needed to give signs and tokens to see God again because he should already know her. This was a very powerful point to me. I have struggled with health problems since I was 10. It has been a great trial in my life. and yet, God has always been there with me—even in my darkest times when I wasn’t sure how I’d live to see another year.

I got my endowments out in 2009 and went again to the temple several times after that. Although i felt peace in the Celestial room—i felt uncomfortable in certain parts of the endowment session. more specifically—the prayer circle and when you raise your arms up and down and say “oh God, hear the words of my mouth”. I didn’t know why this made me uneasy, but it [did]. I got the same feeling each time I went to the temple and through the endowment session. I haven’t been very many times due to health problems that make it hard to travel.

When my younger sister mentioned her issues with the church, I spent several weeks trying to reconcile my own testimony. Then the weekend of Easter my sister and I got together with another friend who was also leaving the church. My sister and my friend talked about their reasons with each other. I just listened. After a few hours I felt comfortable sharing with them about my uncomfortable feelings in the endowment session. I told them that I didn’t know why I had these feelings, I couldn’t explain it.

That night and for 4 nights afterwards, I prayed to know why I felt uncomfortable during the endowment session. The 4th day I got sick with a high fever and the flu. I was home from work and school. It was this morning that i remembered someone telling me that there were similarities between masons and lds temples. I also remember people at church mentioning that Joseph Smith was a Freemason. I knew nothing of Masons or Freemasons. So, I began researching about them on the internet. I didn’t want to be “biased”, so i tried to find out about freemasons first. Then I went to the FAIR website and found an article on the similarities between freemasons and temples. What I read really intrigued me and I couldn’t type fast enough to do more research into what the Master Masons ritual was (as the FAIR article mentioned Smith became one in 1842.) I found a script of the master mason ritual online and scanned over it. I was shocked when I read it. In my mind I could see similarities. I am sure you can guess what I found next. The similar handshakes, clothing, the masonic symbols were on my garments. I felt disgusted and went to the bedroom and took my garments off. It was a pretty bold move, I know—but I told God that I was not a Freemason!

I was still very sick with the flu for the next 5 days, but my research continued. I told my sister what I found and how upset it made me. Shouldn’t our temples be unique and not have similarities to an organization (the freemason)?

This is where my journey began. The weeks that followed I began to have more spiritual experiences regularly. Driving up to KU campus, I felt the Spirit and it testified to me that God created this world and that He loves all His children. these may be small to some people, but according to some LDS people . . . when you start to “stray” . . . doesn’t the Holy Ghost leave you? well that wasn’t and hasn’t happened to me.

I don’t know if that “remembrance” I had that one morning—was an answer to my prayer—but I am so thankful that I have begun to unravel the mystery behind my “uncomfortable feelings”. I also am disturbed by Joseph Smith’s multiple First Vision accounts. I even shared it with my Mom who joined the church before I was born, and she is still very much a strong LDS member. She said she could understand why those would make me upset—but it doesn’t bother her. This is astonishing to me. I even had her go to LDS.org and look at Joseph’s journal from 1832 and read his First Vision account. She agreed that it was Smith’s handwriting. And yet—she isn’t touched by it. maybe some day she will start to understand. I told my Mom that if I had seen God and Jesus, that I wouldn’t forget the details, or change the details to “fit the audience”. People who experience dramatic events in their life don’t forget the key details of those events. Therefore the excuses given by lds scholars are fallible.

So, this leads to me where I am now. I want to resign from the church. My sister has told me to take it slow because it’s like “ripping off a big bandaid”. She will also be resigning. Our family doesn’t know yet. They will take it very hard. But i must do what I feel is right. What has emerged from this is that I feel a whole world has opened to me, I am less judgmental of people I see and meet and most importantly, my prayers and relationship with God and with Christ are becoming stronger than I hoped for. This has always been my goal. I have Christian friends who seem to be close to Christ and I was jealous of that. Now, I can also have that and it is truly glorious! I really wish i lived closer to you guys, so I could meet and talk with you in person.

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May 2012
You have been a big support for me leaving the lds faith. Its been a journey for the last 6 months, and each day gets better than the next. Not to say that the beginning was not super hard and sad and lonely. But thank you for standing up for truth.

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May 2012
Thank you for staying strong and exposing the big fraud that the Mormon church is. I was a member for 45 years . . . Now I know truth. I left in 2008 with my husband, and all our family (at least 20) are out of the cult.

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May 2012
I just wanted to say THANKS for your ministry. I will keep it short (Even though I could write pages and pages and pages.)

Anyways, I’m a former LDS member, married in the temple, with a
. . . name that dates back to the start of it all. Neil A Maxwell was good friends with my Grandpa etc. etc. etc. . . . I’m now born again with a relationship with the One true God. Free from the chains of a false religion. As you can imagine, at one time I was told by my “leaders” that your website was nothing more than “Anti-Mormon” literature. So I must confess, I thought you were not on God’s side 🙂 Oh, how the tables have turned! I thank God for giving you the courage to do what you do! Your website helped me more than you will ever know. I sincerely thank you. Me, my wife, my Mom, my brother, his wife, and more, have all left the LDS church and into an eternal relationship with Jesus. God bless!

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June 2012
I would LOVE to personally thank you for your books and dedication. It was due solely to your and Jerald’s books that brought me out of Mormonism after 19 yrs and a Mission served. I would have never left the church IF not for the both of you, OR help bring out 30 members within my first yr out, all due to material from your books. Keep up the good work . . .

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July 2012
I was so thankful that I found you on the Internet. . . . I first want to thank you for giving me the truth and leading me to the God of the Bible! I grew up in Mormonism so you saved me from eternal hell!
Thank you for allowing Jesus to used you in a powerful way!

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July 2012
I am disgusted with the cruel sense that you have to bash other people’s religion and beliefs down because I don’t remember Christ ever show that kind of hatred towards others by bashing other people’s religion and beliefs.

Jesus Christ taught to love one another not hatred. So how can you say that you are showing this Christ-like love that Jesus taught by doing this. . . . You may not agree with LDS faith, and you may feel you know the only truth. Jesus Christ taught to love one another, should that not go both ways? I am certain that members of your family as well as others who are members of the LDS faith haven’t posted anything against what your beliefs are, how dare you do it to ours and then call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ. Maybe you need to take a step back and think about that. . . .

I think you are taking it way too far, and the things you say about the LDS faith does nothing but hurt the people as well as yourself. People like yourself that goes around and bashes other peoples religion shows that they have NO love for the Savior, themselves or others when they do this sort of thing.

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August 2012
Thank you so much for your informative website!! I only came to my full knowledge of the LDS church a week ago. Having been a member for 47 years of my life, I have been so indoctrinated!! But not completely. From my own awful experiences with the leadership I became suspicious of doctrines and teachings about two years ago. From that time on, I have had a tendency to speak out in RS [Relief Society] and GD [Gospel Doctrine] classes in disgust of lessons taught there. Now, I am not ashamed to let all my LDS friends know that I have resigned, quit, forsaken, etc, the mormon church. In one week I have learned more about the truth [than] in the 47 years of cover up and lies taught me in the church. . . .
Thank you so much for these resources!

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August 2012
First off I have lived in Utah my whole life and married the love of my life two years ago, however she was Mormon, she has since converted to Catholicism and we both attend church weekly. I stumbled across your site because we try to find ways to have counter arguments when her family engages in conversation with us and sends missionaries to our house. At church last week our deacon had the book “Mormonism Shadow or Reality” I have since ordered that book on Amazon which directed me to your site. I really appreciate what you are doing, . . .

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August 2012
I started reading UTLM materials back in the 80’s as a bible college student (Mormonism—Shadow or Reality — the BIG book). In 2002 as an Army Chaplain my chaplain assistant was Mormon. We were in Iraq for a year and after almost 25 years of study I was well prepared to discuss Mormon issues with him over a year’s time.

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September 2012
First, I have to apologize and ask for your forgiveness for my disrespectful attitude toward you and your message [in the past].

Second, I want to thank you for your work and your concern for the members of the mormon church. Until last January I had been a member of the church for 45 years. I knew it all and was proud of it.

Through your efforts and those of others the Lord was showing me all along that His love doesn’t come through men nor their organization. My wife was the strength behind our leaving and it has taken me this long to build up the courage to admit that I was wrong that the church is wrong and that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not something to be ashamed of. I thank God for his grace and thank you for your efforts. May God bless you.

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September 2012
After I became a Christian in 2007 we emailed back and forth because God made you my first authority on Mormonism and the intro to cults. I want to thank you for being there to answer my questions and your wonderful resources.

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September 2012
I received my latest shipment from Utah Lighthouse Ministries yesterday and decided to start with the [LDS Doctrines of the Gospel] Student Manual, because it is very current and shows what young Mormon students are being taught. . . .

Never in my lifetime, in the years I have been a Christians, or before so far as I know, have I seen so much deception and so much of a need for Christians to have discernment. My wife ____ and I have known for quite a few years that Mormonism does not teach the same things as orthodox Christianity, but what I am seeing in the Student Manual demonstrates why so many Christians do not realize that Mormonism is not the same as Christianity, or else they think the differences are so negligible as not to matter.

Any religion that teaches the existence of plural gods, that men are in essence the same as God to the extent they can achieve exaltation to godhood, that Lucifer is the brother of Jesus, that our spirits existed prior to our earthly existence—cannot be the same as orthodox Christianity.

In reading the [Doctrines of the Gospel] Student Manual I have to pay very close attention and pray for discernment because there will be a long passage about repentance, about the nature of Jesus Christ that sounds like it could have been written by a born-again Christian, but, not too farther on there will be a mention of our ultimate purpose in life, for people to prepare themselves to become gods. It is important for me to see this in LDS-approved material in case I am questioned about what I write in the future. There is a chapter on “premortal existence” which I recognized immediately as outside of Christian thought, at least as expressed in the Bible.

It has been very disillusioning to me to see some of the most respected ministers in this country condoning Mormonism, but I have to remember The Bible warned us that there would be those who “if possible would deceive the very elect,” and my wife and I see that happening with people we know closely and love, relatives and friends. We need to be diplomatic but as I say, discerning as well.

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September 2012
I wanted to say I received my order today . . . I want to give you a REALLY BIG THANK YOU, for the extra material, especially the DVD — “Joseph Smith/Jesus/Search for the TRUTH”, and the handout on terminology of the LDS church. This will greatly improve my effectiveness in teaching Mormons about the True Jesus.

I have been watching Ms. Sandra Tanner on the John Ankerberg DVD series on Mormons and have learned a great deal. Your written material, especially the terminology handout will help me learn and retain the info to help lead Mormons out of the deception they are in.

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September 2012
Thanks to the You Tube videos, I have stopped going to Mormon meetings of any kind & am letting my Temple Recommend expire with no plans of renewing it. I have shared what I am reading online with my spouse who now sees where he has been lied to in past church teaching. He has been “less active” for some time now with no plans of becoming active again. We will be looking for a new church in _____Utah.

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September 2012
You start by hating the dead. And getting others to hate them. Then hate the living for having the nerve to worship God, according to the dictates of their hearts. ‘They enter not nor do they suffer others to enter’ . . . sound familiar.

Hating God’s prophets has always been in vogue, but you act as though it is something you alone have the moral superiority to do right. Squinting at gnats they swallowed a camel. You ridicule the idea of perfection, then in the same breath condemn those who were not. Bla bla bla I’m sure you have heard it all before and will smile and ignore it this time as well. All I can do is pray for you. It isn’t too late to break off your employ with the prince of pride. Come to Christ.

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September 2012
I just wanted to thank you for this site. I am a convert to the church. i joined when i was 18 and now I’m 24. i came into the church feeling like a new person and now i am leaving feeling broken. What i do know is that my god is a loving god. Mormon god, seems to be someone a tab bid raciest, sexiest, and closed minded. I didn’t want to spend 1 more minute in sacrament meeting or with SOME of my lds friends who thought that was [ok]. I am a strong, out spoken, democratic, African American woman who was raised by two white lesbian moms. There was no place for me in that church. i thank you for giving people like me hope and the information that we need to go on with our lives.

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September 2012
Your site has really good material. i’m a practicing mormon at present but i like your site, id love more info and want to donate.

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