reintroduction

[LDSpunkrocker]

hi, i was on here briefly a few years ago but now that i am active in the church again (finally) i just wanted to reintroduce myself. bear with me, im horrible with punctuation and expressing my thoughts.

My name is Sam and i was born into a great LDS family, i was baptized at 8 years old but quickly discovered the desire to do my own will was stronger than my faith. i quit in my heart around 12 years old and stopped going to church once i was 18, my path led me to alcohol, smoking and drugs and becoming a skinhead in high school which i had a hard time distancing myself from the older i got. i became involved with many things that are contrary to what god wanted of me and i have been paying the price for those. well here i am 20+ years later and i am about a month active in a great ward here in mesa and i have given up my nicotine addiction as well as the marijuana habit i had. i have a long way to go and many obstacles to overcome but i can say i have come a long way from where i was. i am so grateful for the atonement and i am forever grateful to my heavenly father for sending his son to pay for my sins and to rescue me from the hell that has been my life for decades. im back and im back to stay even though its hard to change my lifestyle i can do it with the lords help as he has already shown me.

[Guest]

Re-welcome! :) Congratulations on your progress in conquering addictions. I understand that can be a tough row to hoe. Sounds like you're doing great.

[LDSpunkrocker]

thanks, yes its been tough, alot of steps forward and then slipping up, starting back over. i guess thats just life though, i let it keep me from going to church for too long, seems like the more i go the more strength i have against these things. anyway, even though i rarely signed in for the last few years lds.net has been one of my most frequented websites..sorry for lurking haha:lol:

[LDSpunkrocker]

wish i could change my profile photo, this one doesn't really reflect me anymore and i never did like that dog:D

[Guest]

One of the mods could remove it for you, but the new profile pic function hasn't worked for a long time so you'd be left with the generic one. :)

[Windseeker]

It sounds like you've had an interesting journey.

I used to be into punk when I was younger. I was into Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, The Exploited, Angry Samoans etc. My best friend (LDS and now active and married in the temple) was in a band that used to open for Suicidal Tendencies. I had allot of anger when I was younger.

There was a point in my life where I realized that the most rebelious thing you can ever do is live the gospel. I saw how nothing is more hardcore then when you rebel against yourself and your natural man and learn to be submissive and obedient to the will of our Heavenly Father.

Now I'm struggling with my own kids..hehe. My daughter wants to use her amazing talents to be a tatoo artist and its taken everything I can to prevent her from getting tats and piercings..ugh My son made it thru his teenage years intact and got accepted to BYUi. He used to be the clean singer for a post-hardcore band here in South Florida. That post-hardcore is interesting stuff and I actually like it allot.

Well welcome brother

[LDSpunkrocker]

wish i could say i was young haha, gonna be 40 in a couple years, i still listen to some punk but ive removed alot of music from my collection recently, i played in a local band that opened for alot of well known punk bands...yeah i have definitely had an interesting journey to say the least and its not over yet, but im closer now than i ever was. :)

i look around now and i see kids with mohawks and spiky hair, things that were rebelious when i was younger is the norm today... so now im rebelling against Babylon so to speak. im blessed to have a love for all kinds of music so that has made getting rid of some of the bands i listened to easier but its still hard, ive been listening to punk since i was 12 years old so im giving up a part of me...small sacrifice in the grand scheme of things for all the lord has done for me

[Windseeker]

Talk about a journey, you might appreciate this.

Check it out

New York Doll

[LDSpunkrocker]

Talk about a journey, you might appreciate this.

Check it out

New York Doll

thats actually the film i saw a few years ago that helped rekindle my faith, i love that one.:)