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Sorry to hear your leaving the church. 21 years is a long time, having your name removed from records seems a bit drastic. I have six kids, 3 in chruch and 3 not! I treat them all the same, one of my daughters is wiccen, and excomunicated, I still share my testimony with her, and invite her to chruch and family home evening and things. I still hold conversations with the children that dont go any more just as I do the ones that do go. I guess my point is your family should still treat you the same, infact they should be trying to help you change your mind and help lead you back into the fold. Maybe they need a little time, as you do, to sort out how they and you feel. I pray that you will change your mind, search your heart and seek to forgive your family for how they are making you feel at this time. Put your trust in The Lord, 21 years of gospel living will be well embedded in you now. Im sure that even if you do leave there will be aspects of the past years that will be with you for eternity.

What a fantastic testimony! Its almost 8am here in the UK, its the time of day I sit and think of uplifting things to take me threw the day. Dougles your testimony touched my heart. My heart is over flowing with joy for you at this time. I hope and pray your good example will be seen by your family. Thank you for sharing this with us all. You and your family will be in my prayers.

It never hurts to chat with your bishop, or your home or visiting teachers. For me, taking sacrement after been out of the church for some years was a big thing. I spent lots of time on my knees and in scriptures and lots of time thinking before I felt comfortable in myself to take it again. One big aspect off it was learning to fogive myself! Which I did find hard. I hope that helped :)

I was bourght up in pontefract, its a lovely town, Iv been a member of the lds church in pontefract since I was eight.

Luckly I was called just in time to see the last primary president do a fantisic presentaion. Im refuring to the one at christmas, I know not all units do them, but we have loooadds of kids and it would be a shame not to.

Hello Im a newly apointed primary pressident, and was just wondering if there are any rescourse out there that helps with the childrens nativity? Its been tradition in the past in my unit to write it yourself, with the aproveal of the bishop. Im ok with doing this but wondered how other primary pressedancies went about it or if their is any help out there. I cant seem to find what Im looking for on lds.org. Thanks, any help will be welcome, or if we could share ideas with each other that would be great too

22 miles, 30mins by train thanks for the welcomes

Hello everyone I love the forum, theres soo much to read and so many people that are down to earth and genuin. Im from West Yorkshire in the UK, I belong to the Pontefract ward which is in the York, England stake. Iv belonged to this unit since me and my family joined the church back in 1975. We have watched our uinit grow from a small branch meeting in members houses to a now thriving ward with our own building, that took us years to get. I am married to Andy, whos a non member. We have six children between us, three to my previous marrage, he has two to his and we have one child together, we see all the six children as ours and we are mum and dad to them. All six live with us, no thats wrong our oldest daughter Debi recently had a baby and moved in wth her boyfriend. All the children have been baptised, (my ex is a member, and Im still sealed to him, the oldest 3 kids are too) but debi lost her membership a few years ago after a good frew wrong choices in her life. Only the younger three are active in the church but I pray every day for the others to come back to the fold. I lost my membership to the chuch 12 years ago but got rebaptised in 2001 (I think it was). It took me a lot of soul serching and praying to finaly forgive myself for the things Iv done wrong. But Im back with vengance now as I have now shed my rebelious trats, its took 40 years but they have finaly gone, I now know the joy of submitting to the Lords will. I know the church is true, I know that Jesus Christ is the Son of a loving Heavenly Father. I know that President Hinkely is a man called of God who receives revelation from The Lord. My live is complete now I have come back to the fold and I know that living its principles will only bring happyness to my life. And when things get hard I know I can gain strength through reading the scriptures and prayer.

What a lovely story. Yours is one very similar to my own. I found my way back home too, its funny because now I seem to have lost all my rebelious traits, thank goodness. I hope your way back will bring you as much joy as it did me. Remember to always trust in The Lord, listen to the Holy Ghost and your life will be soo much better. It may not be easy at times but its worth it. I hope you keep posting and sharing your experiences as you make your way to your rebatism. I was first baptised at eight year old, I joined the chuch with my mum and 2 of my siblins, my dad didnt get baptised till about a year later, so when i was rebaptised I had the oportunity to step into the font with him, it was such a special day one I will never forget, also if I had waited to re join he wouldnt have been able to do it as he now has trouble standing up!

I am still sealed to my first husband, we got devorced over 12 years ago and remarried a none member, my oldest three children are sealed to me and my ex, Im still sealed to my ex. I live in hope that one day my husband will join the church. Im not sure what happens then, whether or not I will be allowed to get sealed to my husband. I don't know what will happen to his 2 children to his previous marrage, they have both lived with us since the break up, and since then their mum died of cancer. We have one child of our own. I do think about who should be sealed to who and so on but I also have faith that The Lord will sort all this out in the eterneties. All we can do is strive to recieve the blessings in their fullness having faith that things are in the hands of a loving Heavenly Father and his Son.