ellechim92

Thanks so much everyone for your advice and help. I'm going to go to the bishop this Sunday and I'll update you guys on how things went. I hope everything works out okay and I pray that God blesses you for the loving guidance you have all given me. Once again, thank you. :)

It's mainly hearsay on different sites but Elder Richard G. Scott mentioned it too. Receive the Temple Blessings The last sentence of the second paragraph. That sentence scared me quite a lot. Also it's the sacrament taking that I am worried about as well because as it says in 1 Corinthians 11:29 anyone who takes it unworthily eats and drinks "damnation to himself". I'm really worried

Thanks so much! But if the choice of discipline varies between bishops - then doesn't that mean the chance of excommunication/disfellowshipment from mine still exists? Thanks once again for responding.

Thank you so much! I am honestly so grateful for all the responses on here. For 8 years now I've feared the worst. I will be going to the bishop this Sunday to sort this out once and for all.

Thank you so much - the responses I'm getting here are really encouraging me a lot. The thought of excommunication is so frightening. I really do hope I'll recieve a lesser discipline. This burden has haunted me for about 8 years.

Thanks so much for the response! I really hope that I don't get excommunicated - I'd be heartbroken.

Other church members in some online church text

Thanks so much for your response. Though I have heard/read that merely entering the temple whilst unworthy is a sin worthy of excommunication. Are you sure that I will receive a lesser discipline? Once again thanks so much for responding.

If I get excommunicated or disfellowshipped, will the bishop tell my parents? (I'm 19 btw), I'm a female who committed a private sexual sin (masturbation) a long time ago (when I was 10) but have had some slip-ups after. I have been to the temple since then and also taken sacrament repeatedly (very stupid, I know and I can't emphasize enough how much I truly regret it). I am now brave enough to confess this to the bishop but I do not want him to tell my parents - I want to sort this all out confidentially. The reason I think that he might tell them is because I went to the temple to be sealed to them whilst being "unworthy". So we may need to re-seal or he just may feel that they need to know seeing as technically they were involved due to the sealing. The reason I don't want them to know at the moment is because I have really let them down. I have changed since, and no longer participate in this sin but I know I must repent especially as the temple was involved. Will he still tell them anyway without my consent? Or will the Stake President tell them if it gets that far? Thanks so much for reading. Please help!