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Oct. 2007
Thank you for being there when the church had NO answers! I just wish I could get my husband to even LOOK at any of the info, let alone listen to me at all on this subject! I just don’t know how to de-program him after our 25+ yrs in the church. My biggest fear is that the church will demand that he divorce me as an apostate.
Nov. 2007
What is your purpose? To sell books? To start your own religion? If you’re wrong, you’ll have a lot of explaining to do to God.
Dec. 2007
Just a note to thank you for your site. My Granddaughter joined the mormon church last Christmas. Thanks to you and your informative site I was able with Gods leading to show her of her mistake. Long story short she has since come out of their church and received a letter that her name has been removed from the rolls.
Thank you again.
Dec. 2007
I was raised in the Presbyterian Church and was born again at age 16. I had many friends in high school that were Mormon. When I was in college I met a Mormon guy who gave me a Book of Mormon and sent missionaries to my door. I went through the lessons and was baptized a Mormon in 1978. I had a great time at the dances and met a guy who I became engaged to be married.
Two months before the wedding I found out what the Mormon Church really believes. My future husband had gone to Salt Lake to visit his parents over spring break … When he came back to California his parents had bought my temple robes for the wedding and endowment. When I opened the box and saw the green apron I thought the leaves looked like a Van Gogh painting and Van Gogh was crazy (I was an art major). I remember thinking that this looks crazy, but then dismissed the thought. [My boyfriend] and I then went back to church.
My parents come home from the Presbyterian Church and my mom sees the box on the coffee table. She opens it and the Holy Spirit speaks to her heart and says this “church” is not Christian. Later in the evening my mom and I are drying the dishes and she has a funny look on her face. I asked her what was wrong and she says that [my boyfriend] is a good guy and she doesn’t want to interfere.
Well, you can’t let that go, so I continued to ask what was wrong. My mom said that when she looked at those temple clothes all she thought was that the Mormon Church is not Christian. She also said that Christ came for everyone not just the “perfect” people, and your father and I can’t go into the temple to see you get married.
As soon as she said that Christ came for everyone not just the “perfect” people I could feel my heart sink because I knew she was right. It was like a flood of Bible verses came flooding into my head. I then didn’t know what to do if I should marry [my boyfriend]. If I would marry him would I be denying God? If I had children and we went to the Mormon Church would they go to hell? I couldn’t knowingly take my children to a church that was not Christian. I felt like I was being torn in two.
The verse about not loving two masters came alive for me. I spoke to a Christian pastor at my Presbyterian Church and he told me to go into my room and pray and I would know what to do (he said more that this, but this email will get too long). I did and I knew I had to break up with [my boyfriend]. When I told him I had lost my testimony, that Joseph Smith was not a prophet and that he was not going to be a god. That there is only one god and I didn’t want to be a god. [My boyfriend] asked me why I didn’t want to be a god? I was really stunned. As you know, Mormons use the same words that Christians use. When I would hear Father, Son, and Holy Spirit I would think of the Trinity (one God) I didn’t realize that they (Mormons) were thinking one in thought and purpose. Anyway, this is a very short version of what happened to me.
I have been married to a Christian man for 27 years and we have a 17 year old son. I am so thankful that the Lord never lets us go.
Thank you for your ministry. You have helped many people find the truth and peace that only the Jesus of the Bible can give.
Jan. 2008
I am LDS but I’m having a difficult time. I did not research this religion before I joined it. I have felt uneasy for quite some time. As I’ve been researching I’m finding out things that have made me back away.
Feb. 2008
Well as always when people try and disprove the only true Church left on the face of the earth, I suggest that you would think long and hard before soliciting bias against God’s kingdom. All I can say to you at this moment is either stop insulting God or be prepared to face Him at the judgment seat or at the great and dreadful day of the Lord . . .
Feb. 2008
Thank you for taking the time to talk with me today during my lunch hour. I’ve done a tremendous amount of research into my faith these past five months,… Thank you for your kind words and understanding. Sometimes it gets to be a bit lonely with a complete True Blue Mormon family, especially when I live in a neighborhood that is nearly 100% mormon as well.
Originally appeared in:
“Excerpts From Letters and Emails,” Salt Lake City Messenger, no. 110, May 2008, 23.

