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Well maybe by the time I am worthy and ready to go to the Temple it will be done. I have been back in the church for almost 7 months. I have a lot of learning to do still.

when will they start building the Star Valley Temple?

When is the Star Valley temple going to be started?

Ya nothing like trying to scare me off lol.....I think I can handle that. I am a people person and have always liked to talk. Just don't know that I am knowledgeable enough to do it.

UPDATE......SO while I should have talked to the Bishop MONTHS ago I didn't. I just didn't have the self confidence. Well today I was given a note during sacrament that the Bishop would like to talk to me after church. After church I went into his office and he asked me if I would ever consider talking in church. I told him I didn't know if I knew enough to be able to do that. He said he would provide me with a topic and give me articles to help me. I said ok....Then I said Bishop I have some things I want to talk to you about. He said should we pray and I said yes please. We prayed and then I explained to him why I left the church at 16 and that when I had kids I wanted them to know about God and Jesus and started going to church with my mother in law. I told him how I was baptized into the Lutheran Church. I then shared with him the letter I wrote to the Lutheran Pastor back in May ( that I have carried in my church bag since may just waiting for the oportunity) I know I should have done it long before know but was scared and didn't have the strength to do what I know I should have. Last night I couldn't sleep and woke up at least 6/7 times. I had a don't go to church feeling but I got up and said Devil I am going to church go away. SOOOO glad I was strong enough to shake off the don't go to church feeling. The Bishop was very understanding and said that I did everything I should have and that he would have asked me to do. I asked him about me taking the sacrament and he told me to continue to. He asked that I continue to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it every day and that I attend the Gospil Principle Sunday School class to help me fill in the holes. I feel so much better after talking to him. Thank you to everyone for your support it means so much.

I have the gospel library on my phone. I'll have to look if its on mine. Thanks

After being gone from the church for 26 years and recently returning I am reading the Book of Mormon and was wondering if there is a good study guide for it. I googled it and WOW there are a lot. Any recommendations?

I call mine Sunday Spuds because thats what the lady that gave me her recipe called them

I say that is an excelent topic. I left the church at 16 and stayed gone for about 26 years. I say faith had a lot to do with me coming back. It is something I questioned for a while but don't any more. You need to have faith that God will direct your footsteps just as he did Alma. In the City of Amulek where there hearts were so hard and as he was leaving God told him to go back and when he did there was one man that invited him in for dinner. One must have faith that the lord will help them accompish the things which are pleasing unto him. Good luck

Sunday was better and it is the kids say 3-5 that are the loudest. There was one little girl probably about 2 that ran all the way around the center pews several times. That did not bother me because she was quiet. Like I said it's the screaming kids. Not the babbies cooing. I just wish the mothers/fathers would take them out or find some way for them to be quiet. Shouldn't they also be learning this in primary?

I don't want to offend anyone but I also would like to enjoy sacrament meeting. I don't mind a little noise but when children are screaming and loud its just rude. I just thought it might be a nice jesture

When my children were younger if they didn't sit quiet I would take them out swat them on the butt and go back in. They learned to sit quiet. My ward is very small and I find it hard to listen to the speakers because of screaming children. They do have quietrooms in the bathrooms with speakers so one could listen to sacrament meeting in there. I just feel discouraged and like I don't want to go anymore just to listen to noisy children.

I wonder if this would be ok to do. The kids are so noisy in sarament meeting I was thinking about making little bags for each of them with some crayons, pape,r fish crackers and maybe a few other things. Would mothers take offense to this gesture?

Kartvines I was worried about how I would be accepted too but the ward members have been so nice to me. I love the way I feel when I am there. so at peace and like I have come home. Trust in the lord and PRAY. Prayer has helped me TONS

Well I gave the Pastor my letter today. I had to go to the Lutheran Church because they were having a reception for my daughter and I hated every minute of it. BUT I gave him the letter he now knows where I stand. Now I am going to talk with the Bishop tomorrow and set up a meeting. I feel really good inside after giving that letter.

I am going to give the letter I wrote to the Pastor that way there will not be any question on either side where I stand. I plan on setting up a meeting with the Bishop soon.

I also will give a copy of this to the Bishop when I talk with him....I am trying to get my ducks in a row. I have been finding great comfort in reading the Book Of Mormon. And also great support from all of you THANKS

Does this sound Ok to Give to the Pastor? Pastor I wanted to let you know after much thought and prayer and guidance from the Lord I have chosen to return to the LDS church in which I was brought up in. I have come to this conclusion on my own after many many years of my heart and head playing tug of war and feel that my rightful place is at the LDS faith. I do appreciate all the fellowship that the members have given me over the years and that I was made to feel welcome while I was at the Lutheran Church, But it is just not where I feel happy and at peace. My LDS faith has always been a part of who I am and will continue to be. So please take my name off of your records as a Member of Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

mrmarklin, Thats what scares me. Just when I found my way back I am scared they will excommunicate me. I am worried sick and it scares to me talk to the Bishop. Thanks for your comments.

I never had my named removed from the church membership. I never told anyone that I was baptised Lutheran except my husbands family knew and knows but no one else. It was something I guess I was ashamed to tell my family. So I might have been excommunicated had I told anyone. If I do have to get rebaptised I'm sure my brother would be honored to do it. Thank you all so much for all of the advice it really helps me. I guess my next step is talking with the Bishop. That is gonna be a hard call to make please say a prayer for me. Thanks.

Thank You Julianna. I had been praying for the lord to direct me in which way I should go and that is when I recieved the call to be a family history consultant. The Lord knows that I need to be hit with a brick to get the clues that he sends me so I took this as his way of telling me that coming back to the church is what I needed to do. I just worry that my baptism in the Lutheran churched wiped my baptisim with the LDS church away???? I have been reading the Book Of Mormon daily and have felt such a comforted feeling. I know this is the right choice but still I worry. Would I need to be baptised again to really be a member?

I left at 16 so no temple endowment.

Thank you I need a lot of prayers and hugs. My mother died 2 years ago and I am sure she is up there having a hand in all of this. She was really into genealogy and I got that calling. I really appreciate all of the support it has been a rough 26 years. Thank you Classylady.

Thank you so much estradling75. I have been torn up inside with worry. My mother in law is starting to say things and my husband asked Why I was going to "that church" and when I told him its because It is the church I was raised in and where I belong he was then fine with it. But my mother in law now has the pastor of the lutheran church calling and now I don't feel the tug a war like I did before but I am irratated that he is calling me after so many years. Thanks for letting me vent and answering my questions. I feel much better about talking with the Bishop.

I didn't get excummunicated because I din't tell anyone that I baptised Lutheran. Not even my family. I was baptised at 8. Will they excummunicate me for this? They still have my records