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An update to the update. Thanks again everyone. The GPS feedback was very helpful as was so many of your posts. I have found the whole repentance process frustrating and very isolating. Perhaps that is what it is supposed to be. It's hard to confess. It is even harder to be the one to follow up when I've been vulnerable and weak. I've been a lot better in my courtship situation which has been good but am afraid I am still vulnerable and the boat could tip (so to speak). I just don't know how to approach repentance anymore. I scheduled an appointment with the Bishop through the ward clerk but cancelled it. It feels too awkward. Thanks though for all your feedback.

Go to the Bishop. Confess and ask that he follow up with you...both. Being left on your own when you are already weak makes it easy to get in more trouble than you already are. Ask him to follow up frequently with you.

Thanks everyone. I have to admit that it feels very awkward for me to call and schedule an appointment because I don't think my repentance is complete. I fell into transgression again in the last few months. I am also new to the ward which makes this awkward (less than a year) and I've never done anything before that requires going to the Bishop until I went to the Bishop before. Although I know the principle of repentance I don't know exactly what role the Bishop has in it and don't know if I should just wait to go to Bishop until I feel I've fully completed repenting or if he calls me in. I was under the impression that he'd follow up but as that hasn't happened I just figured I'd wait. I know Bishops are busy people. It just gets so discouraging and sometimes I wonder if I should just embark on the same level of morality as the rest of the world since I've already gone down that path. Part of me knows I need help. The other part of me is just too discouraged to ask for it. For the time being I keep going to church.

After meeting with my Bishop, he informed me that as part of repenting I shouldn't take the sacrament and participate in church callings for several months. Several months have passed. I haven't met with Bishop since. Do I meet with him again?