LanPingPug

My Mum is very supportive of it all. My boyfriend is a little unsure but he can see this makes me happy.

Well, I went to church and loved it. It was really great to be around people who believed like I do. And...I got my baptism date! Its the 9th of August and I'm already having a white dress made for me to wear in the font.

Well, today I went to the chapel for the first time and really enjoyed it! I've also got a baptism date, the 9th of August. Soooooo excited, just had to tell someone!

Well, I'm having my fourth lesson on Saturday and then they're taking me to a barbecue at a church not far from here where loads of people from the ward will be. And on sunday I'm off to church! Exciting or what?!

Well, it's finally happened, I'm in touch with the meetinghouse I want to join! Today, the missionaries came to the door and because my Mum and Step-dad had gone away on holiday this morning I was able to let them in for a chat! They're coming round again on Monday with a friend to show me a DVD and they've left me with a leaflet to read. I can't tell you how exciting it is to finally know that I'm on my way to being a member. Even my Pug dog is happy and he loved sniffing in the Elder's bags!:cloud9:

What is a borrowed faith? Maybe I'm being thick, but I've never heard of that term. What does it mean please?

If members look down on me, that is their problem. I won't force anyone into anything they don't want or aren't ready for. If my boyfriend doesn't want to join, we'll cope with that when it happens.

I don't expect him to join the LDS Church, just as he doesn't expect me to join the Anglican church. I wouldn't force my own beliefs onto him or onto anybody.

Thank you all for your advice and prayers, I really do appreciate them. However, I should tell you (Iggy, listen to this) that I have no intention of splitting up with my boyfriend. It's very easy for people to say that we should part company but they don't know how close we are and how he has helped me in the 2 years I have known him. I have, in the past, tried to find the church that God wanted me to be in. This search led me to many different denominations, including some that are not mainstream. I think my boyfriend is just a little worried that I seem to make a habit of investigating groups that are, in some people's view, cults. I know that the LDS Church is not a cult by any means, but it is a faith that is not so widespread here in the UK and as such, many people don't know anything about it. I didn't know much about it, even though there is a chapel in the next village. (When I told my mother, she thought that it was the LDS Church that banned blood transfusions, whereas we all know it is the Jehovah's Witnesses!) I hope that, in time, as my boyfriend sees that the LDS Church is making me happy and bringing me closer to God, he will accept that it is my choice as to which church I belong to, and that he will respect that.

I just spoke with my boyfriend on messenger and he told me to NEVER mention the LDS or my faith ever again. He quoted an anti-mormon website and hung up the phone when I tried to call him. I can't believe he has changed his mind so quickly! I can't stop crying. Help please...

I am hoping that as I start to attend my local LDS chapel, he will come with me occasionally as he said he would. I find the Anglican theology too liberal. They now even have homosexual priests!

We've been together for nearly 2 years now and are very serious. Next year he is hoping to get his own place and I would go to see him during the week. He lives about 2 hours away from me and I travel on the train as I don't drive. We are very close and enjoy going out together as well as staying in and watching DVDs/playing video games. We have never attended a church together as we are from denominations that are quite different. I was a Pentecostal and he is an Anglican (Church of England.)

Neither my boyfriend or I have been to church for quite a while. He is an Anglican (Church of England) and I would have called myself Pentecostal. Even though we both know better, we haven't been living a chaste life. Now I have been reading The Book of Mormon and am hoping to join the LDS Church, I know that I need to live a chaste life. How can I explain this to my boyfriend? Also I know I will have to give up alcohol. This won't be such a challenge as I rarely drink anyway, but I don't know what my boyfriend will think about that either. Will he think that all the fun is going out of our relationship? Could anyone provide me with scriptures that support my decisions? And has anyone here had any experience of situations similar to this one?

Well, I did it...I told my Mum I was investigating the LDS church. She was a bit confused about the teachings but I told her about how loving the teaching on mental health was and I said I would show her some church websites with more about the teachings. She goes away tomorrow with my step-dad until monday, but my friend is staying over until monday and my boyfriend will stay saturday night too so I think we'll have fun. We're going to a Chinese buffet on saturday night then on sunday we're going to Birmingham and I'll show my friend the Bull Ring shopping centre. Luckily, there's 3 bedrooms in the house, or else one of us would have ended up on the sofa. My boyfriend stays in the spare room when he stays here but my friend will be in there on saturday night. I get to sleep in the BIG bed in Mum's room and Neil will have to cope with my creaky little bed. Oh well...

Well, I just got over a HUGE hurdle. I mentioned to my boyfriend Neil that I'd been looking into local churches but hadn't found one I felt drawn to. Then I said that I thought I might try an LDS chapel and he just asked me how I'd get there. He didn't comment on what sort of church it was or anything, so I'm assuming he doesn't know what LDS stands for, but at least I've broken the ice about it. So if he turns round to me in a week's time and says "You're going to a Mormon church?!?!" I can say, in all truth, "You didn't have a problem with it when I told you about it the first time!" LOL God Bless Lucy xx