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May 2016
Blessings! Just writing to say I just handed an LDS friend your newsletter (Heavenly Mother). He said he would read it! Praying God will open his eyes.

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May 2016
Sandra Tanner is a hateful lady. Freedom of speech or rumors . . . Why the hate towards the Mormons? What a sad why to live. Hurting others. We don’t hate Christians . . .

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May 2016
Your Issue 126 [Is There a Mother God?] is outstanding. Well organized and expertly researched and referenced.

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May 2016
I wanted to say thank you for the free Newsletters and free stuff you sent out to me. I just left the Lds church 6 weeks ago. Thank you for your kindness. Your ministry is a blessing.

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May 2016
Hi again, . . . [in Doctrines of Salvation by Joseph Fielding Smith] CH-12 page 182. 1954 Spanish. It says on the head of the paragraph that there is no salvation if we don’t accept Joseph Smith. It also says that no one can reject his testimony without carrying terrible consequences. My family is all Mormon. I am the only one that the Lord has helped to see the light so far. I was just talking to my sister who is very active in the church. I was showing her a copy of D&C changed that I got from your source. She is still firm in her faith. I told her my faith is in The Lord and nothing else. The bible is the word of God and period. I am so thankful for all the work you do to bring the truth out. My wife is active Mormon too. I don’t have any confrontations with her right now because she is in France. I don’t know how we are going to handle having different believes when she comes back. Well, thanks again for helping many Mormons see behind the curtain. I can’t believe Sandra Tanner wrote to me. God Bless you.

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June 2016
As I referenced a page on the utlm website today, I found myself needing to give thanks to you and Gerald for your work. Until now, you haven’t known me, and I only know you through this work — The Changing World of Mormonism, the utlm website and several youtube videos.

Thanks for your persistence in getting information out of the LDS Church, and publishing what they were unwilling to share with their adherents. I was one of them for 41 years, and have now resigned. It is difficult to remove oneself from such an organization — thank you for helping me see elements of the truth that were hidden, and escape from a life dedicated to an organization that requires so much, but provides only a narrow, misleading interpretation of the truth.

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June 2016
Call to Repentance.

From what I’ve read on the website, I gather y’all were once LDS. Why y’all left, idk. (If its explained on the site, perhaps I should have looked for it, to get a better understanding of y’all. & if its not, perhaps you’ll explain such).

& now, you’ve made it your life’s work to destroy the faith of others. You claim to be providing “truth”, but what you’re actually doing, is playing “wolf in sheep’s clothing”, providng either irrelevant material (irrelevant of salvation, & being a deciple of Christ) or, half-truths meant to mislead/cause doubt.

I feel bad for my lost brothers & sisters. However, I feel more sad for the state of your souls at Judgment Day, when y’all are called upon to take responsibility for the waywardness you’ve caused. & I sincerely hope y’all turn back from this destructive path, & seek to make restitution for the dmgs you’ve caused, b4 the day of Reckoning is here.

PS: I like how y’all show comments from both friend/ foe, but I think it’d be more helpful, if ya showed the sender’s name (unless asked for anonymousity). Esp in case of multiple parts. I also find it amusing, you deceptively state “we have the right to twist your words, by omitting parts of a msg” in the legality statement. [Sent by “saberthedragon” anonymously.]

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August 2016
On July 25th, I was in town for a family member’s funeral and I stopped by Lighthouse Ministry and we chatted for 30 minutes or so. I want to thank you for taking the time to talk with me and for freely sharing your experience and conclusion regarding tough doctrinal issues as well as challenging LDS themes. I very much enjoyed the conversation and hope you and your ministry continue to thrive despite the incredible odds against you in the heart of Utah.

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August 2016
I have been a Christ-follower (I like that term better than “Christian” these days) for over forty years now, since I entered His kingdom as a junior in high school in South Bend, Indiana.

I was a growing Christian (OK, I used it that time) at Purdue University in the ‘70s when I helped lead a friend named Jim to Christ (as far as I could tell, at least), and then he promptly fell under the influence of local LDS missionaries and was baptized into their heresy. He then started to bring missionaries to the dorm, and a couple of other brothers and I made sure we crashed the “party” whenever the “elders” showed up.

Although we didn’t know a lot about LDS at that time, we at least knew Jesus and the Bible enough to break up their presentation and turn things toward Jesus instead. Overall, hopefully, we helped several guys look at true Christianity as opposed to a counterfeit. My first exposure to countering LDS doctrine was the section in Walter Martin’s Kingdom of the Cults, but I didn’t really study much beyond that then. . . .

I haven’t really been involved in ministry to cultists in recent years, but the dedication of the new Indianapolis LDS temple last summer helped get my juices flowing again. I made sure I toured it so I could know what a temple looks like on the inside and have the opportunity to share Christ with someone (a beautiful building, but oh, what a waste of money on a pack of lies!).

I started off by asking (innocently enough 🙂 ) why there was a gold angel with a trumpet on the roof instead of a cross, and that got a conversation started with a guy about my age and his adult son. By the time we were back at the parking lot after the tour, I had at least shared enough scripture that I could summarize it by saying, “So you worship a different God and a different Jesus, and you have a different gospel than the Bible.” Hopefully, I left them with something to think about.

Anyway, that has kind of gotten me to the point where I have been studying online resources to be more effective in sharing the Truth and confronting their lies. So we’ll see if God opens more doors to ministering to LDS folks here in the Indy area. I certainly pray for God’s intervention every time I pass the temple building itself.

All that to say, thank you so much again for your walk with Christ and your ministry!

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August 2016
I need to thank you for your’s and Jerald’s work.

I know you wouldn’t even remember my visit to your store, but it was a life changing day for me and I have been meaning to thank you for your love toward me and my daughter that day.

I am . . . a lifetime member of the LDS church even though I’ve never had a testimony or really believed it. I went because my family and neighbors went and it was expected. I married in the temple and raised my five children as LDS. In 2006 my husband died and left me on my own, so I no longer had to follow him to church or be “bishopric guy’s” dutiful wife, which was a relief. Then several years ago, the last of my kids left home, my parents passed away, I was an empty nester, no longer responsible for being that smiling mormon mom and finally free to totally quit the church. It was like a weight lifted from my soul. One by one, four of my children also left the LDS church and moved on to other churches. I was able to aid each one of them as they transitioned to their new, happier paths.

The big problem was my daughter who was attending BYUI [Idaho]. She was still a believer and still faithful and was guilt riding me over my inactivity and angry over the fact I had not fought harder to keep her siblings in the church. I realized I needed to tell her my entire truth and just accept whatever the consequences would be, even if it ruined our relationship.

I prayed over how to accomplish this and the answer was you. We drove two hours down from Wyoming. . . . Along the way, I was able to tell her my story and my struggles with the church. When we got to SLC I told her I would like to buy her a book on Emma Smith and this certain bookstore had the book I wanted to give her . . . so we made our way to your store. You were there and told me that we were fortunate that you were there that day because you had been traveling and had only come in for a few hours that day because you were getting ready to leave again. I felt like it was indeed, an answer to my prayers.

I told you that I had just that day come out of the “apostate closet” to my daughter who was a BYUI student. You walked over to her and hugged her and expressed to her how difficult that probably was for her. Then you took her for a walk around your store, and showed her some books and testified to her, and ever so gently talked to her about facts and problems with the church. You spoke to her intelligently and without any judgement toward her beliefs. We walked out with several other books she chose on your recommendation beside the Emma Smith book. She took them all back to her dorm and read them all. She started asking questions and finding answers herself.

A year later, I am overjoyed to tell you that my daughter has resigned from the LDS church and actually escaped BYUI without a husband. She is now attending a grad school in Texas and is so happy with her new life. She still speaks fondly of that day in your bookstore where she felt so loved and accepted and taught . . . So thank you. I know these words are not even enough to express gratitude for the gift you and your husband have given the world with your work.

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September 2016
I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and I feel sorry for the Tanners. They have cut themselves off from eternal blessings and have tried in vain to hinder the work of the Lord. Being related to Brigham Young or any other famous person in LDS history does not carry any weight with the Lord. It is individual faith in Jesus Christ and His atonement that is the foundation of our salvation. The Tanners cannot damage the Lord or His Church. Who can contend with the Lord of Host, or violate sacred covenants and not lose it all eventually?

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September 2016
Just learning the truth about a religion me and my family have belonged to for generations. Very upsetting.

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October 2016
I am a young lds, and I have a few questions to ask Sandra.

1. Why did you fall away from the church?
2. Do you not realise that this only strengthens the truth of the gospel?
3. The only thing that you can’t realise is that faith is the step to know that Joseph Smith did see the Lord our God and, his son Jesus Christ?
4. Why do you seek to destroy the church?

You do not have to answer these questions, only ponder them.

Many thanks,
E

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