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Into believing it was true, into feeling the need to do everything as I am told to. Into trying not to do "bad" things, even though a lot of the things the church guides its followers to do are good principles. Perhaps even my dad was mislead, hes very guilable and vunerable too as he is badly dyslexic. I feel really scared by this. When I planned on returning to church, I had thought about going to a Church of England chapel not going back to the LDS church. I was abused as a teenager and my mum told me I was a sinner and didn't see the terrible things that were actually happening to me. I don't know if the church is correct I don't know what is right. I just want to do whats right and not upset God but at the same time not be guilable and stick my head out to do what I am told is right when it may not actually be right. I want to do what I feel in my heart is right and what God sees as right but I don't know if what the mormons say that is, is true. How do I know if my friends at church or really my friends or just followers of a church that have instructed to fellowship each other? How do I know that the book of Mormon is true? Ive been trying to follow the rules because I want to be a good person, I don't want to be bad. What if it is all in vain? I really dont know. I think maybe it would be better to not be so guilable.

There is a God, that bit is obvious to me. One only has to look at the miracles of nature to realise that there must be. I worry that people in church are only being nice to me as that is what God would have them do (not what they personally would do). I'm worried that if I leave and go my own way, I'll not get blessings and go to Heaven. Theres a very special guy in my life who I have a lot of feelings for. I was about to leave him this time last year for the church but right now I am not so sure. I turn my back on him and I have the church only is it really true? Or will I spend my whole life running after a foolish dream? Do I turn my back on the church and have a husband a soon a family. Only I might not even be happy then. To be honest right now, all I want is to turn my back on both the man in my life and the church. I grew up in the church and it was all I knew. I left as a teenager but came back as an adult a couple of years a go. When I came back I was vunerable, I had recently had a mental health break down. I was very trusting and my life had no meaning and Im afraid I might have been mislead. I feel at a loss of what to do.

Welcome Gibsons!!! Pleased to meet you! This is going to sound totally ignorant but what is RLDS? (is it returned lds?) as in some one whos come back to the fold? If thats the case I'm in the same boat :)

BBC NEWS | England | London | 'No God' slogans for city's buses I was just reading this on the BBC website. It feels very sad but at the same time I like how they have put the word "probably" no God! But as the Methodist church commented, it's still encouraging people to think about God...

lol and bookmeister, i think that might cancel out the majority of the female lds population!!! -runs to her choccy stash- It's a funny topic, one I've been quite confused about. As a little girl I grew up with the no-caffeine rule. We never had coke/dr pepper in the house or when we went out. It was most certainly off limits. However lots of my YSA friends drink coke and say that its not the caffeine that we're agaisnt its the tannin in tea/coffee and some of those drinking the coke are returned missionaires. I still avoid coke, if anything, because at a mechanics college we used to clean the rusty bike parts by putting them in a class of coke and they'd come out shining the next day! And also because the head of coka-cola said some thing (or perhaps its just a rumour) but I think they said, if we can get some one addicted to coke from a young age, we've got a customer for life. And also it's how I've grown up and caffeine is an addictiv substance.. tho I drink it in lucozade and ultimatly eat it.. in choclate ! :)

Hi! I am LDS and personally I don't eat meat every day. Usually 1 to 2 times a week. (Sunday dinner and Friday take away) This is more my personal choice though. It does say that we should eat meat SPARINGLY, and I feel it's a little wasteful to eat animals every day as well as unescary (i am also a big animal lover and that too most probably influences this disesicion of mine). Most LDS friends I know limit their meat intake also. Your second question made me smile. In the quieter villages of china for example (I remember a story some one told me tho I can't remember the exact geographical location) but their diet is very simple. There is no tabacco, drugs or alchohol. They eat a very simple diet, fish, rice, basic vegetables. Without really knowing it they are living the word of wisdom. These people are living into their late 90 and event he 100s! I feel this is proof that when we keep the word of wisdom, we will be very healthy indeed. It's a bit like a promise from our Father in Heaven. :) Keep the word of wisdom and live a long healthy life! :)

Georgia thank you for sharing!! How very true. I can see how very important those things to teach our children are. It's things like this that really make me feel so grateful to our Heavenly Father. For having a latter day prophet to guide us. For the book of mormon. For supportive familys. It just gives me so much peace really. In a world where marriage is no longer sacred. Where sick people hunt out children and exploit them. Where sex has become more of recreational getting to know you as opposed to the act for the sacred creation of children our Father in Heaven designed it to be. I have so much peace right now just thinking about it. How WE as LDS know how Heavenly Father wants it to be. A man and women. Sealed for time and all eternity. Helping each other, balancing each other. Creating children, precious children. Protecting them, nurturing them. Children growing up with divine values. chased, virtuous, pure. :)

I think its very good they get the parents to sign for the lesson and the kids get to take a book home and can discuss with their parents. At least that is giving the parents a part in teaching this most delicate of education topics. Its compulsory so I don't think there are any consent forms. It has left me feeling very worried and unsure for when the time comes I'll be sending my children off to school (hay thats a long way away I havn't even found Mr Right yet lol) But I just feel so sad at the quickly dropping standards of society. I don't mean to sound snobby but.. our children are precious, they are daughters and sons of God. Oh I don't kno I guess they are the "facts of life" but when your 8 do you really need to know? Or shouldnt you just be worried about having the latest barbie? With the loss of innocence so too goes the magic..

Hay Abi! My names Kitty and I live in Leeds in England !!!! I am LDS and you'll never guess what! my religion is great!! tehe will be great to get to kno you more!! welcome!

Here in England a goverment scheme to teach sex education to children from 5 and up has been put into place. It starts with understanding relationships etc. and then later on goes into sex. Before the only sex education as such here in England was what was taught in biology. I can't help feeling disguisted by this. Isn't this the parents job, not the states? Why do children need to know these things? ok I can understand that children are growing up quicker these days and yes they do end up in sexual relationships sooner but I still feel its wrong. I was wondering what others opinions are on this? One thing I don't think they will be teaching is the staying pure and chaste before meeting your life partner... i am thinkng about lds parents sending their children to school in the UK? Anyway I'd be very interested to hear peoples views for or agaisnt it.

I am 20 years old and live a lone so I don't really have many people to bounce ideas about standards off (a part from my chihuahua and cat but they seem so cool with everything even my bad hair on a morning)!. I wonder where we draw the line? Of course we have the scirputres to guide us but we live in a world with so many choices. What is not "good"? I would probably say things that make us feel bad but some times it can be hard to judge what is making us feel bad. As my Sunday School teacher said once, it's not black and white, Satan likes to use all the shades of grey. We all have our prefrences and free agency but I wonder where other saints of the world draw the line? (I havn't done this to point fingers at people and see whos the golden girl or boy on here)! After all that would be me (joke) ! I am just interested to see what personal standards people have! Here are some of mine: I don't buy meat in the supermarket (though strictly speaking I am not a vegetarian as I eat it in restraunts or other peoples houses) I don't watch films 15 and 18 rating I don't buy celebraty magazines No TV or radio on Sundays My family drew the line at watching soaps on TV. We also drew the line at how long each of us could spend at the computer. I know a family who drew the line at buying their boys, plastic swords/guns weapons as children, I thought that was a good one to have. So what are yours?!

Hello! I can't really give any advice as such but I have been in your sons place. I was the 15 year old not wanting to go to church seeing all my friends familys going out. I just couldn't understand why my family wanted to go sit in some stuffy church on a day off (actually it wasn't that stuffy but I was really agaisnt it)!! :) What I would say is set an example. Going on at him to go to church and saying, Why don't you go to church? You won't get blessings! Look at (whoever) why can't you be more like him? Are complete no nos I'd say!! When I heard things like that from my parents it would just make me want to go less and less. We are all here to ultimatly make a choice. We all have our free agency thats one of the biggest reasons we are here so you can't make the choices for him! Unfortunatly I made an awful lot of bad choices that took me away from Heavenly Father and in Febuary last year at age 19 I returned to church. I can really relate to you struggling with church and depression. I suffer with depression also and I have recently started college and church on Sunday is some times a bit too much for me so I am not there. There are other ways to set an example too though. Saying family and personal prayers on an evening as well as scripture study. Prayers at mealtimes. Putting money aside for tithing. Giving the occasional comment on gospel subjects and relating sprititual things to real life. Ultimatly reminding your son who he is, a treasured precious son of our Heavenly Fahter with a divine inhertence. Ultimatly each of us are shapers of our own destinys. Perhaps it wouldn't hurt to tell him that the choices he makes will greatly influence his destiny and that you love him and, like his Father in heaven want him to achieve his ultimate potential (but without the nagging hay) :) I will pray for your son

This is a really good question and one I find myself wondering about some times too. When I've messed up in my life, I pray to Heavenly Father and ask to feel properly sorry for what I've done, to realise that what I've done is not good and to really feel it! Some times it could be like a little kid taking a cookie from the cookie jar. The little kid isn't going to feel bad about taking that cookie unless he/she knows that taken that cookie without asking is wrong. Do you know what you have done is wrong? If you do you feel guilty and that is part of how you should feel when you want to repent as you acknowledge you have sinned. The next part is to feel sorry for what you have done. So you feel bad and your sorry that you've messed up. The next part is that we are sorry for betraying our father in heaven and we are also sorry for betraying the descision we made before we came to Earth in the great war in heaven. The descision we'd follow Jesus Christ by sinning we dig those nails into our savior. The next part of the repentant attitude, I think, is to feel truly sorry for betraying those things. So in a nutshell. Realising what we've done wrong (the feeling guilty). Being sorry for what we've done (to ourselves and any one we've harmed). Then realising how we've betrayed our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. Perhaps not in that order. Anyway thats my idea and it's a good idea to pray to have these feelings if you are thinking, I know it was bad but I just don't feel bad about it kinda thing. Hope that helped! =)

Unfortunatly my browser is a little too slow to play YOUTUBE, but I just wanted to say how much I love President Uchdorf. I was listening to his talk on Saturday Evening (here in the UK) on Hope. He is such a powerful speaking. I really enjoyed his talk! =)

The great joy of the judgement day will be that we will not be judged solely on our actions but more on what was in our hearts at the time of those actions. Serious mental illness can drive people to commit such a terrible sin (though very rare). What about the child soldiers of war who are taught from such a young age to hold a gun and be a hero? (yes until 8 they are not accountable but then what after that). What about the soldiers that defend our homelands? What about manslaughter when some one doesn't intend to kill some one but tragically they do? I think to take anothers life is indeed the worst sin but there are so many things that come under it. Let's just take comfort that the judge is going to be the best ever judge there can be, our own father ! As for stalin and hitler well, they have a lot to answer to I think...