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October 2016
Dear Sandra,
My “shelf broke” about a year ago and my wife has finally agreed to hear my concerns about the LDS church. This has been a very difficult time for our family as my wife is a direct descendant of Heber C Kimball and has a lot of her personal identity wrapped up in the church. She is VERY worried about “anti-mormon” literature. But has finally agreed to listen to my concern . . .

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October 2016
I just wanted you to know that when God saved me from Mormonism in 1992, the Utah Light House Ministry helped me. . . . Thank you so much for all you do! May God bless you and your important ministry! In His precious name.

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October 2016
I, myself, left the church after graduating BYU-I[daho] just about a year ago. I have absolutely no doubt of its falsehood but I find myself wanting to help others open their eyes. It is difficult, as I can only imagine you know better than I, but I feel like truth and reason will eventually manifest through all of the cognitive dissonance. I feel like the average LDS member is simply oblivious, naive, and ignorant of the church’s history. I have experienced this by asking questions such as “Why was Joseph incarcerated in Carthage?” The following answers are always amusing and seldom even close to accurate. Thank you so much for all you have done to help people, such as myself.

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October 2016
I had an easy time leaving the church, I said to myself, “I will never let my children go thru the guilt that I have felt.”

My entire [family] is totally LDS, I mean 200% . . . I admire your work, I know you receive much hatred, I believe that you touch many lives that you will never even know of.

I send you blessings and Praise to Him who saved us.

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November 2016
LDS lady in Utah:
I am almost done reading this book, “Starting at the Finish Line.” Sooooo, perfect!!! Soooo good!!! Thank you for your recommendation to read it! 😊

I feel like God is revealing himself to me a bit at a time . . . probably all I can handle at once . . . already my mind is blown!! Wow!!! He really did ALL!!! My heart is overflowing with gratitude! Thank you, thank you, thank you again—for the role you played in bringing me to real truth!!! Hallelujah!! Praise God!!! ❤️ I am free in Jesus!! I am free from the tyranny and bondage of man made “shoulds”!!!!

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December 2016
Thank you to Sandra and all those at utlm. I am not LDS however my long time fiancé of 6 years was raised LDS and quit attending. . . . Being around his family of whom I greatly care about, I was very confused of things they spoke of so several months ago I began researching the history of modern day mormons and the history. I told my fiancé one day I’ll know more than you and last week I stunned him (he is well versed in literature and books). Big thank you to Sandra for her and Jerald’s teachings. Now I must learn to watch my tongue around them because they will be greatly offended and label me anti mormon. Listening to recordings and other materials I have also learned of more biblical teachings. . . . again thank you.

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December 2016
Sandra this is T___ J____ (I am a Ukrainian who came by to buy a book on polygamy last Friday). It was so nice to visit with you! I feel so lucky that I found your ministry. It will help me in my transition out of Mormonism. Thank you.

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January 2017
I discovered this website in my research of how to help my Mormon friends see the Light of Jesus. All I can really say is thank you. Thank you for making this website. Thank you for providing everyone with this knowledge.

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February 2017
I am disturbed. The leaders are intelligent men. Most are leaders in their field. One was Vice President of Bank of America. One was a pilot for Lufthansa and a pilot instructor. They have to know what they are doing. I am a high school graduate but I uncovered so much on my little iPad. How can they continue to lie to millions? Don’t they fear God?

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February 2017
Ms. Tanner, I grew up in the Netherlands in a strict LDS family. We sometimes heard about you, being portrayed as the evil anti-LDS machine. Well, I just wanted to thank you for all your work. It has helped me greatly! With admiration and respect.

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February 2017
I appreciate all the work you have done exposing the errors of Mormonism, and envy the time and resources you have to do so living in Salt Lake City. I actually grew up in Salt Lake City and spent the first 20 years of my life in the Mormon faith. I am now 44, so it has been a long while since I studied my own way out of it. . . . [I] never removed my name from the records. My reason has always been that since they have my info and are able to track me down, it is a good opportunity to tell them I am no longer a part of it. Most are curious which is why I try to use it as a stepping stone. Some have called me all kinds of names, which I’m sure you have heard as well. However, I am at a point where I am considering removing my name. . . . If I were to write a letter, I have no idea who the Bishop may be or even where my records are at this point. . . . I appreciate any insight you can offer pertaining to this. Thanks again for your effort and material you make available.

[For help resigning from the LDS Church, go to: How to Remove Your Name from the LDS Records]

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February 2017
Hello Sandra, You helped me when I wrote to you about 1991. I want to express my gratitude for a changed, very happy and content life.

Back then I was studying for an MBA in Canada. As I studied Organizational Behaviour I immediately identified how the church controls and manipulates its members. The page with a descriptive list of such organizations jumped out at me.

I was a Temple Recommend holder, married to an active LDS High Priest with four active children. For years I had concerns with the temple ordinances and temple garments. Whenever I mentioned my concerns at Bishop interviews I was told to attend the Temple more regularly, fast and pray.

As I studied this university course I became more uneasy about the church especially since I already had doubts about church history during the four years I taught the Gospel Doctrine class. I explained my concerns to a Religion professor and asked if he knew how I could find objective, well researched information regarding LDS history that wasn’t just hateful anti-Mormon literature. He recommended I contact you, which I did. You wrote a supportive letter and over the following months I read a few of your books.

Fortunately when I told my husband I couldn’t sit through another church meeting he said he had already come to the same conclusion but for different reasons. Much to my surprise three of our children were happy to leave the church. We sent an exit letter and totally cut our ties with the church. It wasn’t easy dealing with our LDS family and friends. Like you we received hate letters. After moving to Australia I attended a Stake conference with family. I could hardly sit and listen as young people were being taught how to behave in a guilt promoting talk. It’s the only time I’ve attended the LDS church since I left except for a wedding and funeral.

In those pre Internet days you and Gerald were a blessed resource for people like me. I still enjoy listening to you on You Tube. I’m happy that so much of the truth is now on-line, people are writing books, there are blogs, podcasts, ex-Mormon groups and lots of people are leaving the church. I wish my extensive Mormon family would leave.

I’m so grateful to you. If I hadn’t left the church it’s possible my children would have gone on missions and/or married in the church. When I left I felt an urgency as I didn’t want the church carried into another generation. My fourth child officially left the church when he dated (later married) the daughter of an Anglican Church minister. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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February 2017
I owe to you and your late husband Jerald Tanner much of what I’ve learned about the “untruth” of the LDS church. Your book “The Changing World of Mormonism” was INDEED a terrific eye-opener to me. I shed tears, I suffered a great deal! But I am thankful to both of you for the freedom my immediate family and I enjoy nowadays. It’s been seven years I’ve officially renounced my membership in the church. It’s been indeed the VERY BEST decision I’ve ever taken in my life, after 30 long years! Thank you for your book!

[The Changing World of Mormonism, is posted on our web site]

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March 2017
Great talking with you the other day. I’ve downloaded M.T. Lamb’s book [The Golden Bible] and am going through that—very interesting.

I did some math and I thought I’d share it with you.

If the plates were tumbaga as some have claimed, and realizing that the ratios for tumbaga varied widely, at a ratio of 77% copper and 23% gold, they’d still weigh as much as your 100% lead plates that you have. Further, the lifting of your plates while certainly difficult, is made somewhat easier by the wood base under which one can place their hands and get a good grip. By themselves, the plates would be much harder to manage—finger strength becomes an issue in holding them.

Anyway, just thought I’d share that math with you. 🙂 Thanks again for your time the other day.

[On the weight of the Book of Mormon plates, see the Salt Lake City Messenger, no. 105]

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March 2017
In my self-righteous zeal, and fear instilled in me by the church to not seek out “anti-Mormon” materials, all my life, I use to avoid your site like the plague, believing it was anti Mormon of the worst degree. How wrong I was! I find myself watching Youtube videos of interviews with you, as well as visiting your site often.

I can’t imagine the courage it has taken for you and your husband to have stepped up to the plate to make materials available to Mormons who are seeking truth. It makes me mad that I have been lied to by my church, all my life, in some degree or other. Where was the honesty, the integrity, the holding to God’s word?

It makes me mad that I brought up my nine children to believe in the Book of Mormon, sent two on foreign missions, and served in many capacities in the church and often nearly killing myself off in fulfilling callings.

Service opportunities and such, in the church, made me who I am today, and it wasn’t all trial and tribulation. But I see that even such good things we do, do not buy our way into heaven. So many years of constantly wondering if this or that “good” thing I did would get God’s notice and earn me points. How vain I have been.

I’m grateful for the thorough documentation you and other historians have done on Mormonism. There is no doubt in my mind that I have been, as it says in the South Pacific movie, “carefully taught”—another gospel Paul warned against doing if an angel should come and deliver other than what Christ taught and gave us. It is obvious that an angel did come that delivered another gospel, with another way to heaven by our own efforts of our own fleshly works instead of softened hearts with Christ’s law of love written on them.

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