Your question has raised some terrific replies. Replying with a question to your question may not be best but - does the Lord not teach us how to pray? i.e the Lord's Prayer? Speaking the words "Our Father, Who Art in Heaven".... Is this not the method of communicating with our Heavenly Host? A healthy prayer life is essential. Shall we all pray to God in a like-minded way regardless of any differences in denominations?
Enjoying the Blessings of God
Styln
Your question has raised some terrific replies. Replying with a question to your question may not be best but - does the Lord not teach us how to pray? i.e the Lord's Prayer? Speaking the words "Our Father, Who Art in Heaven".... Is this not the method of communicating with our Heavenly Host? A healthy prayer life is essential. Shall we all pray to God in a like-minded way regardless of any differences in denominations?
Enjoying the Blessings of God
Styln
I am a convert I grew up in a very religious family (not LDS) and was told that the LDS church was a cult my entire life. I never looked into the mormon church as a kid because of this. I met my (now) husband who was baptized at 8 but that was the extent of his church going when I was 18. His best friend and wife (who became my best friends) are LDS and always led by example but never pushed the church on either of us. I saw them, their family, their lives and how they were still able to be themselves while in the church. I was encouraged by their example. They invited us to go to a temple open house with them. While in the temple I had an undeniable feeling that I needed to come back to the temple again- that I WOULD come back into the temple again to be sealed to my family (at the time my husband was my boyfriend or maybe my fiance I can't recall). I read the Book of Mormon and prayed for guidance. I knew it was where I was supposed to be. I had feelings in the temple and while reading the BofM that I had sought after my whole life. My husband had similar feelings in the temple and had read the Book of Mormon on a whim the week before (he completed it in one day). My husband and I were married, a month later I was baptized, 9 months after that we had a sweet baby boy and a year after my baptism we were sealed with our little baby for time and all eternity. Since then the path has been ANYTHING but easy. We have been tempted and tattered to the bone. We were on the brink of divorce and both made some pretty devastating choices. But we always come back to the gospel. We always know without a doubt that it is the glue that will hold our family together through the eternities. The journey hasn't been easy but it has been worth every moment. I know this church is true. I know that it is really the only thing that has saved my life, my husbands life and our life together.
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