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[song_of_the_sun]

I am sorry you are going through this. You are just trying to follow the spirit's promptings. This is so important and so special that you are feeling this. it is the most sacred thing in the world. I understand your wife's hesitation, but wow, i hope she gives things a chance.

I was inactive for a real long time, and was only a member for a little while back when i was active, so i am basically new. My husband is very angry about me going to the LDS church. I really pray he does not try to undo the hard work i am doing with the children. He is a rude person tho, and does not live in the same house, so he is not here to glare at me while the missionaries come and teach.

I think that if you are truly doing what our heavenly father wants for you, he will provide all you need in order to be on your path. If it is in his will, that will also mean changing the heart of your wife in time.

Sometimes our earthly attachments can feel more compelling than our spiritual ones. I do know what it is like to have the reverse be the truth, as i am following our heavenly father regardless of what any person thinks. What good is it to gain the whole world if you lose your own soul? That verse keeps me going.

Please let us know how thins go. Welcome to this site, it is a rich place to be!

[FairChild]

I was married to a Church of Christ member and found out that CofC are very anti-Mormon. I wish you very good things and just be the best person you can be and hopefully it will all work out well for you. If I forgot to mention it, welcome to the site, there are many wonderful people here. Come to the chatroom sometime and let us enjoy you. FC

[Jenamarie]

Welcome to the site! It sounds like you have a very difficult journey ahead of you.

I don't know if anyone have posted this already, but you can read the Book of Mormon online:

Book of Mormon

:)

[WeimLover]

I was married to a Church of Christ member and found out that CofC are very anti-Mormon. I wish you very good things and just be the best person you can be and hopefully it will all work out well for you. If I forgot to mention it, welcome to the site, there are many wonderful people here. Come to the chatroom sometime and let us enjoy you. FC

You are correct about the Church of Christs feelings towards Mormons, some of them feel that way about Baptists also.

Jenamarie, Thank you for the link. Why didn't I think of that I will start on it now.

Thank you both for the well wishes.

WeimLover

[Maya]

Good morning... you are probably just fallen asleep.... rocaby bayb at the trea topp....

Been there done that.... I joined the Church when my oldest was 4. I think my story is in my profile. What I felt was that it was a very personal thing. I knew what I knew and I could not deny it. I felt it was so totally wrong if I had denyed it. I waited for my husband for some 11 months but then I got babtized and he got mad at me... did not relly talk with me in weeks not even to me. In some things I can be pretty stubborn... but after some 5 years and a baby he moved out and tried thus to press me out of the Church. Tok me 3 years to devorce him during which we met only occastionally. He was not going to devorce me so I had to make the papers. Now I am perfectly happy, only thing is he has manged to talk my... his two girls out of Church. I know he put the blaim on Church... maybe I should have told my girls the truth.. but I never have done so and I doubt I ever will. Church had nothing to do about it, except wakening me to see where we were going.

Good luck to you I hope it will turn ok. We have a very nice young man about 10+ years younger than me... he was a member from birth and married out of Church... he kept coming to church so after some 3-4 years she came along... Now their oldest have been in mision and the next will go this summer... :)

[lydlou]

i was afraid to join the church for the same reason, but i prayed and later, out of the blue my husaband starts a pillosopical conversation (wich is verry strange in its self) ending with the conclusion that "we all must follow our own path" He will not speak with the missionarys, and he works sundays, but i pray for him, and hope to show by my living that i follow the truth.

I was also afraid that my exhusband would be angry to learn i was rasing our son in the mormon faith. I was terrified that he would decided to take him away from me. arter more prayer and lotts of tears i put my trust in God, and called my ex. i was suprised by the conversation. "just dont try to convert me alright, i couldnt live without beer, coffie and dip"

i sugest meeting with the missionarys together, and having disscussions together. let her know this is something you are realy interested in. if she was raised in the same type of "church of christ" i was then she belives that the man is the spirital head of the household, an may even be pleased that you are taking an intresst in religion, even if it is diffent than what she belives.