Smallfootsteps

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  1. Wouldn't it make more sense to save money instead? I live in a small place and we have no spare room to store food.
  2. Thanks. What's the deal with food storage? (Another thing I've never heard of)
  3. Just about all of it has shocked me and especially the fact that I had no clue about it. I had no idea such a practice even existed. I'm grateful for knowing about it now but completely confused as to why I wasn't told sooner, and why I had to find out here online instead of at the ward. To be honest now I feel more left out by them than ever before.
  4. Maybe if the church actually told new people about this sort of thing they wouldn't have to go wandering around online in the first place :/
  5. I know you don't baptize dead bodies
  6. Oh my gosh I just looked it up!!!!! I'm shocked! why didn't anybody tell me about this before I got baptized? What else is there that the church doesn't tell new people
  7. Sorry, I'm confused. Do you mean church members who aren't yet baptized and pass away get baptized in the temple? Even after their passing?
  8. I didn't know about this. Thank you for telling me. And I'm wondering why no-one offered to do my baptism at the temple? Mine was just in the local ward chapel. It would have been great to have had it in the temple then at least I would get to see the inside of it. Do I have to know the people getting baptized in the temple or can anyone attend? Cannot believe I've been a member for so many months and no-one at my ward is telling me these things!!
  9. Thank you very much for the links! Everything you said made perfect sense. For example I was just reading about the relief society's 175th anniversary and 3 things stuck in my mind as being contrary to my experience. It said they do the visiting teaching and I didn't even know what that was until a few days ago when I found out on this forum. I've never had a woman teacher or a man teacher come to see me. It said they meet up once a month for social activities but I've never heard of or been invited to one And it said they meet for an hour on Sundays to teach and help others but mine is just like the Sunday school class only without men. I feel like I'm in a cliquey sorority only no-one else wants me there.
  10. The missionaries I did the lessons with are gone now. I don't know the new ones. I may try talking to the bishop but I feel awkward about it so I'll think about it some more. Just about Saturdays - I work 3 jobs and sometimes have to work Saturdays too. Because of church I now have to fit everything into that one day because I don't have time during the week (cleaning my place, grocery shopping, work, spending time with my daughter and family). It's exhausting and I never knew before I was baptized that I had to keep Sundays clear. I wish I had time on Sundays still. It feels like my weekends have been cut in half. I know for you and others it all feels normal but to me it's a huge adjustment and I'm not enjoying it.
  11. It's hard to explain. Firstly I feel like I've lost half my weekend, and it's a lot of pressure to try and get everything done on Saturdays. It's tiring and it's stressful. Then it feels like I'm always the odd one out. That all the other people there know each other and know everything about the doctrine. I still don't know a lot and I wish I didn't always feel so lost with it all. When I go to church it feels like stepping into an alternate universe. At times I miss my old church which just felt so normal and familiar to me. Finally I still have no clue about what happens in the temple and I think that's something that new converts should be told about instead of keeping secrets from them for a year (at least) of membership. It just doesn't make sense to me and when I look it up online it's concerning to me. People at church say to me "don't look up the church online" but if I didn't how am I supposed to know anything. Also, I'm a tad resentful that I was pressured into getting baptized. I wish now that I'd made that decision at my own pace, and wasnt pushed by friends and elders. The whole process feels like a stressful blur to me now and here I am a few months later trying to stop the feelings of confusion. I just want to go to a church and feel at home. I don't feel at home lately in the LDS church, as much as I want to. I'm sorry if I'm not making much sense here
  12. Do you mind telling me why you haven't gone to church in months? I'm just wondering if your experience has been similar to mine.
  13. I liked going initially, there were a lot of friendly people and I felt that some of what they said was true. But I also felt a lot of pressure to join. I wanted to wait longer but they kept saying it had to done soon or I might change my mind. Sometimes I wish I'd waited longer.
  14. Thank you!! I will ask about the home and visitor teachers and thank you very much for explaining so well what the testimony is - I finally get it!