Bonjour or hello everybody !

[POLLY]

First of all I must tell you that I am french so please be kind because my english is a little rough ! I'm 38 years old and I left church for 18 years now. If I decided to come here and talk with you it's because for 18 years and espacially forthe next few months I realize that I miss something since I left. And I know for sure now that what I miss is the Gospel of God. I lived so many hard times during this times, and I always managed to make things right, but I know that I could have done better, much better. I took a wrong path that lead me nowhere although I knew where was the truth, but once I turned my back to my past it was too late for coming back. I was raised in a mormon family, with all the love and principles of the church and I learned everything even teached and prepared for my mission. As I think about all this I realize that this part of my life was the best, the one that bring me the most of joy and happiness. I knew at that time my goals and my mission on earth, I had a path. But I lost all of this when I left the church thinking that it was not for me (at that time) and that something else was waiting for me outside. But guess what, I found nothing but an empty path, with no goals, no limits, no future, and some kind of a desert. I felt so lost but so many years had past since I had left the church that until today, I didn't realize that all I had to do was to come back to the Lord and found back my faith. But it's hard, because I had this feeling inside of me, so strong, and I don't know where to start. I want to come back but I'm a little afraid and confuse. I am not afraid of what I am going to found because I remember everything but I'm afraid of me. Will I be strong enough to make the first step and to hold on ? I don't know. That's why I came here, to have help from you, and support, if you are willing to accept me and give some help to a former member.

I struggled a lot with myself until I found that I always had the clue inside of me through all the things my parents teached me, and through all the spiritual experiences I had. I can't deny it anymore I belong to this and I want to do all I can to find back the good path.

That's all I can tell for the moment, I'm waiting for you to get in touch with, I would really like to share with you all this and maybe this will help me to recover the right path.

Thank you for being there.

[pam]

Welcome to the site Polly. Good luck on your journey to coming back to the Church.

[Palerider]

Welcome to the site.....:)

[dazed-and-confused]

bon.....bon.....good to see you back on the path of enlightenment.

welcome to this site. i'm sure that you will meet many interesting people here.

[Maya]

Bonjour! Do feel welcome. I am so happy you feel that you want back in to the Church. I can imagine it may be difficult the first time, but you will see that people will be very kind and happy to see you back! Go have a look on Sunday!

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[jadams_4040]

First of all I must tell you that I am french so please be kind because my english is a little rough ! I'm 38 years old and I left church for 18 years now. If I decided to come here and talk with you it's because for 18 years and espacially forthe next few months I realize that I miss something since I left. And I know for sure now that what I miss is the Gospel of God. I lived so many hard times during this times, and I always managed to make things right, but I know that I could have done better, much better. I took a wrong path that lead me nowhere although I knew where was the truth, but once I turned my back to my past it was too late for coming back. I was raised in a mormon family, with all the love and principles of the church and I learned everything even teached and prepared for my mission. As I think about all this I realize that this part of my life was the best, the one that bring me the most of joy and happiness. I knew at that time my goals and my mission on earth, I had a path. But I lost all of this when I left the church thinking that it was not for me (at that time) and that something else was waiting for me outside. But guess what, I found nothing but an empty path, with no goals, no limits, no future, and some kind of a desert. I felt so lost but so many years had past since I had left the church that until today, I didn't realize that all I had to do was to come back to the Lord and found back my faith. But it's hard, because I had this feeling inside of me, so strong, and I don't know where to start. I want to come back but I'm a little afraid and confuse. I am not afraid of what I am going to found because I remember everything but I'm afraid of me. Will I be strong enough to make the first step and to hold on ? I don't know. That's why I came here, to have help from you, and support, if you are willing to accept me and give some help to a former member.

I struggled a lot with myself until I found that I always had the clue inside of me through all the things my parents teached me, and through all the spiritual experiences I had. I can't deny it anymore I belong to this and I want to do all I can to find back the good path.

That's all I can tell for the moment, I'm waiting for you to get in touch with, I would really like to share with you all this and maybe this will help me to recover the right path.

Thank you for being there.

Having the true desire is all that heavenly father asks of us; when we knock, he will open.:)

[sleepless3977]

welcome to the site POLLY.

[POLLY]

Thank you to all of you for your warm welcoming, that gives me desire to hold on and to continue to that journey !

[LizK]

There are many people who have strayed off the path Polly but the great thing is that but every detour will always bring you back to the route you want to go if you want it bad enough and, as a fellow traveller, I sense that you do. Just seek His footprints and pretty soon you'll realise that Christ is walking with you.

[Moksha]

Well bonjour Polly.

I said bonjour Polly

it's nice to have you

back where you belong.

You're looking swell Polly

I can tell Polly

you're still growing

your still going strong.

[talisyn]

Welcome, Polly. Do you have a Book of Mormon?

[WillowTheWhisp]

Hello Polly. Welcome to the site and welcome back to Church. Whereabouts in France do you live? We have some friends in France (Limoges Ward) and one day we hope to be able to move there too.

[POLLY]

Thank you again for your welcoming, it's warmfull.

Talisyn, I don't have any of the scriptures but fortunately on the LDS french website all the scriptures are on line, so I can read them. And I do ! And as I read, I remember, the words (they are so familiar !), the stories, the feelings, it's amazing. I think that in a few weeks I'll ask my father to give me a Book of Mormon, he is an active member of the Church here in France.

And Willow, I live in the north west of france near the ocean, in a town called Guerande. Limoges is not very far from my town (few hundred km), but it's a very charming town.

Thank you again to all of you, and have a shiny day !

[rosemarie]

Welcome Polly. Ive just returned back to church after a long time and i really do feel at peace again and love the teachings of the church..

[POLLY]

Hello Rosemarie, I'm really happy to see that I'm noy the only one who tempt to come back and to that is very comforting. Hope we could talk and share some experiences together. If you want, tell me more about your history.

Have nice and shiny day !

[rren]

Polly is my mom's name and her grandparents were from Nice, France. Welcome. I hope you can find the strength to come back to the church. I think you will find great peace and joy if you do.