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March 2008
Although I joined the Mormon cult in January 2008 from a faithful Bible-believing church, I have recently started to repent of that mistake and return to Christ and His true Church. I have found the articles of UTLM very helpful from removing my name from the cult’s rolls to what the Bible says about God (and against Mormonism).
March 2008
I have started warning my friends about what I thought was the true Church. I’m praying that the Lord forgives me for those people that got converted to the Mormon church because I persuaded them. It is also my prayer that they see the light and walk away from the darkness.
March 2008
I was a convert to LDS church and I am a returned missionary (served in Salt Lake City area). . . . but just recently I started to study Mormon history in detail. Now my feelings about the Church and its teachings are founded on facts, thanks to you and other people that are revealing things that Church is trying to hide.
March 2008
If this [LDS] is not the true church then it is not upon the earth today. Because it is the only church that makes doctrinal sense. I have read a lot on your website and can only conclude that you need to really examine your innerselves and ask yourself why you spend your time and throw so much effort into this message with a tone of hate.
March 2008
I would like to know how you would survive financially had you not started this crusade against the LDS Church. Also, what makes you an expert? I have read many books exposing you and many other anti-Mormons for the backhanded and deceitful ways you do things.
April 2008
I want you to know how much I appreciate the efforts and work you and Jerald have done over the years. It took me along time to be able to appreciate your work as your names were enough to disqualify anything you put out for many years. Once I was able to get over the immediate disqualification (without even looking/considering) I have found a great amount of information and resources through your efforts. I especially appreciate how factual you attempt to be.
May 2008
My wife, . . . and I were in the store Wed. We talked about our exit [from the LDS Church]. . . . Without your website and all the work you guys have done, we may never have found the truth in Jesus Christ.
May 2008
I want to thank you so much. i ordered a copy of mormonism shadow or reality and got it today. wow im blowed away, everything and so much more than i expected. god bless you and your staff.
June 2008
There are so much information that was incorrect in the FAQ that It was offensive. Your group better go relearn the Mormon’s church history and the Mormon’s believes. It was so bad I couldn’t finish reading question number 7 and I started at number one.
June 2008
I have really enjoyed your website, it has brought a ray of sunshine to me. . . . I have been a Mormon for all my life I served a mission and got married in the temple. I am on the verge of giving it all up. I really do not believe in it anymore.
June 2008
You are a liar. I wonder why you really left the Church or were you excommunicated?
June 2008
Ok, after studying several of your materials, i have come to the conclusion that you are really wasting a lot of time and messing with people’s heads. You claim that you are only publishing your finds. Well, i think “your finds” are really messed up. You sound an awful lot like coriantamur in the book of mormon. Falsely leading people astray. You are false prophets in your own right.
June 2008
I am a 35 yr old, stay-at-home mom who was raised in the LDS Church. . . . Over the past couple of months, in response to the recent events in Texas concerning polygamy, I have been researching some of the history of the Mormon Church.
I have found many contradictions within the “gospel” that have really bothered me. . . . Less than a week ago . . . we get a call from the Bishop wanting to come and have a “visit” with us that evening. . . . We were met with love and understanding, but the Bishop did not make a valid argument in regards to my questions about the Church’s history with polygamy, or why black people had not been able to hold the Priesthood til the 70’s. And why a church leader years ago had said that the black people had black skin because they were descendents of Cain, black skin being the mark of sin.
I also have issues with the church believing that only people married in the temple will be able to reach the highest level of glory in heaven. I have plenty of friends who are not Mormon, and frankly, are better people and better Christians than some members of the Church that I know. . . . I am also a descendent of Brigham Young. Growing up, I was taught to be proud of this fact. But after doing researching on his history and teachings, I am ashamed.
It has been less that a week since my husband’s and my doubts about the Mormon Church have become “public.” This is a very small community, and I’m sure that our decision to “step away from the Church” will spread like wildfire.
July 2008
Wow, what do you have against Mormons? No they are not a perfect people but their church teaches them to be good people. Why don’t use your time to go after some of the really bad organizations around this country. I guess you just don’t like Mormons, or do you pay the same sort of disrespect all faiths not yours?
July 2008
you don’t even realise how far from god you are. the lds church is the only true church and no matter how hard you try, with satan and minions, won’t change that.
July 2008
In 1973 I came to the devasting realization that something wasn’t right with the teachings and the church I’d known all my life. I was devastated, lost and alone. I had been taught not to trust my own mind and that questions/doubts were Satan’s tricks—just have faith and don’t question . . .
I don’t remember how I found you—lucky accident? . . . I’m not sure. In any event, I found myself speaking to Sandra Tanner and . . . now I’m bawling my eyes out and can hardly write this . . . for the first time in my life I felt safe to begin to trust in my reasoning mind. . . .
July 2008
I began the long and difficult process of rebuilding my entire value system from the ground up. . . . Thank you, thank you, thank you for being there and talking to me when I was lost and alone and for your kindness in sharing truth with me.
July 2008
Good try. The courts struck you down and eventually God will too.
July 2008
I was listening to your [radio interview]. You are just an ex-member of the True Church and you are soured on the idea that you couldn’t be in control . . . except under Satan’s control. May God have mercy on your soul.
Aug. 2008
I just got done reading your website, and it almost brought me to tears. You are very brave. My husband and I are leaving the church.
Aug. 2008
I am currently a member of the LDS religion and would like to take my name off their records. . . . I have been watching Shawn’s sermons (Heart of the Matter) and I am really enjoyed listening to the strong points he points out.
Aug. 2008
I just want to pass on my sincere thanks to Sandra Tanner for all the work that she and her late husband Jerald have done in bringing the real truth to light. I had been a member of the mormon church for twenty years. I took my name off the records March this year.
Aug. 2008
Thank you for all you’ve done and still do. . . . I’ve used Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? so much that it fell apart. It has been invaluable in the battle against lies and deceit.
Sept. 2008
Sandra, You are truly a beautiful and precious woman! Thank you for personally helping me come out of the LDS faith when I visited you in your store back in 1996 to purchase “Mormonism Shadow or Reality.” I was a 4th generation Mormon . . . I just put in my “Letter of Resignation” here in Sept. 2008.
Sept. 2008
The temple ceremony is sacred. Do you really feel justified denigrating someone else’s beliefs? Covenants are made before “God, angels, and these witnesses,” as you well know, that they will not be revealed. Do you really feel safe now that you have broken a covenant you made with God? I sure would not want to have to answer to that situation in the after-life. . . . I have a testimony of the restoration of the gospel, of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, and of Joseph Smith. I respect your disagreements with the LDS teachings; please respect our beliefs.
Sept. 2008
It has been years since I met the Tanners in Utah. At the time, I was struggling to find the truth and start a career. . . . I see that some have been busy trying to refute the Tanners, but in so doing they would have to refute about a dozen other researchers who have come to the same conclusions.
Sept. 2008
Sure enjoyed visiting your book store and talking with Bill McKeever. Tried picking up your “lead plates” exhibit and about had a hernia. Boy, Joseph must have been a superhuman to lug those plates around! Anyway, God bless you and your work.
Originally appeared in:
“Excerpts From Letters and Emails,” Salt Lake City Messenger, no. 111, November 2008, 14, 22.