I Finally Submitted My Resignation To The Mormon Church

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Hey everyone! I’ve been a Catholic for 3 years and a Mormon for less than a year. I was baptized as a Mormon on July 1st 2007 and was confirmed the following Sunday.

Well, I finally submitted my resignation letter after deciding that I truly want to faithfully follow the Catholic Church in every way.

I feel so free now! It is wonderful to have mailed that resignation letter. I can’t wait to (politely) tell my Mormon friend that I have resigned! :extrahappy:

When I was first baptized, I had just had 3 weeks of home classes. They pressured me to get baptized as soon as I first went to their church which was my first contact with the Mormon church. I couldn’t believe this! I let them set up a date for me because they told me that I could change it if I wanted to. However, I was excited to be going to the Mormon church because the people were all so friendly and welcoming. I realize now that they acted this way simply so that they could get me to be baptized and confirmed in thehir false and fraudulent church.

I have read somewhere that the Mormon church actually set a date on Jesus’ second coming at one time but obviously this “prophecy” failed. I do believe He will come back some day but as the Bible says, no man knows the day or the hour that He will return. This is one of the last things I read before deciding to submit my resignation letter.

Another thing that turned me off to Mormonism was the fact that they were racists for quite some time and African-American Mormon males were not allowed to become priests until the 1970s. Not only this but they called African-Americans the descendants of Cain! The Catholic Church has never done this and as a matter of fact, we have had African Catholics since very close to the beginning of the Church.

There was also the “Great Apostasy”. I believed it at first but then I realized that Christianity has existed for the past approximately 2000 years so it couldn’t be true. The Catholic Church has remained on this earth ever since Jesus established it after his death and resurrection.

Another thing I disagree with is the fact that the Book of Mormon says that honeybees and steel existed in ancient America. Not to mention the fact that the Book of Mormon mentions cities that never existed. And what is more ridiculously incredible than the idea that Israelites sailed across the ocean to the Americas???

The other day, I met with the missionaries as I was having doubts about Catholicism and was considering going back to the Mormon church but I decided to go back to the Catholic Church the morning of the missionary visit. The missionaries actually laughed under their breath at me when I tried my best to defend Catholicism. Needless to say, I was quite frankly disgusted.

So about an hour ago, I finally mailed my resignation to the Salt Lake City headquarters. Please support me as I go through the resignation process and pray that I do not get any calls or visits from the Mormons anymore. 👍
 
Congratulations, Holly. Welcome back, we are glad you are here. I will certainly include you in my prayers.
 
Holly,

I thank Christ our Savior for rescueing you from the Mormons! The simple fact that it was started by a known con-man (Joseph Smith) and the manner of it’s founding (gold plates only Smith could decipher) showed me that it cannot be trusted in any way. Learning more about Mormon beliefs throughout my life brought out so many more unbelievable tenets to their faith (that God lives on a planet near the star Kolob and has many wives :eek: ). There are lots of good web resources detailing Mormon beliefs but this one gives a pretty concise yet brief description: christian-faith.com/forjesus/mormon-religion.

Now that you’re back in the true Church, don’t waste another thought on any other church or belief system. Start reading about the lives of the saints, Mother Mary and the rich tradition of the Church. I spent some time as a young man going to different churches, searching for what I thought was the truth. Thankfully, the Holy Spirit led me right back to the Catholic Church which I was baptised and confirmed in as a child. I am so in love with the Church, Christ’s bride, that I will never forsake her! I pray you will grow to love the Church with all your heart too!

JMJ,

trob
 
God bless you, Holly. You are HOME now; within Our Lord’s true flock. I’m so happy for you. 🙂
 
Bravo, Holly -

And get, thee, to a priest - IM-MEDIATELY and discuss this whole situation. Find out what the rules are about having left the Church, even if ever so temporarily - and after he okays everything - say an Act of Contrition and get thee to the Sacraments.

I know, I know - I sound Puritanical with all the "get thee"s - but it sounded good. PLEASE run - don’t walk. But I’m curious about the “Great Apostasy” - which I’d heard about even in Catholic circles. I’m also amazed at how quickly (it sounds) they let you into the Mormon Church…no instruction? hmmm.
Welcome Home
 
God bless you Holly, you have done the right thing. Please
continue to learn more about the Catholic faith.
 
Hey everyone! I’ve been a Catholic for 3 years and a Mormon for less than a year. I was baptized as a Mormon on July 1st 2007 and was confirmed the following Sunday.

Well, I finally submitted my resignation letter after deciding that I truly want to faithfully follow the Catholic Church in every way.

I feel so free now! It is wonderful to have mailed that resignation letter. I can’t wait to (politely) tell my Mormon friend that I have resigned! :extrahappy:

When I was first baptized, I had just had 3 weeks of home classes. They pressured me to get baptized as soon as I first went to their church which was my first contact with the Mormon church. I couldn’t believe this! I let them set up a date for me because they told me that I could change it if I wanted to. However, I was excited to be going to the Mormon church because the people were all so friendly and welcoming. I realize now that they acted this way simply so that they could get me to be baptized and confirmed in thehir false and fraudulent church.

I have read somewhere that the Mormon church actually set a date on Jesus’ second coming at one time but obviously this “prophecy” failed. I do believe He will come back some day but as the Bible says, no man knows the day or the hour that He will return. This is one of the last things I read before deciding to submit my resignation letter.

Another thing that turned me off to Mormonism was the fact that they were racists for quite some time and African-American Mormon males were not allowed to become priests until the 1970s. Not only this but they called African-Americans the descendants of Cain! The Catholic Church has never done this and as a matter of fact, we have had African Catholics since very close to the beginning of the Church.

There was also the “Great Apostasy”. I believed it at first but then I realized that Christianity has existed for the past approximately 2000 years so it couldn’t be true. The Catholic Church has remained on this earth ever since Jesus established it after his death and resurrection.

Another thing I disagree with is the fact that the Book of Mormon says that honeybees and steel existed in ancient America. Not to mention the fact that the Book of Mormon mentions cities that never existed. And what is more ridiculously incredible than the idea that Israelites sailed across the ocean to the Americas???

The other day, I met with the missionaries as I was having doubts about Catholicism and was considering going back to the Mormon church but I decided to go back to the Catholic Church the morning of the missionary visit. The missionaries actually laughed under their breath at me when I tried my best to defend Catholicism. Needless to say, I was quite frankly disgusted.

So about an hour ago, I finally mailed my resignation to the Salt Lake City headquarters. Please support me as I go through the resignation process and pray that I do not get any calls or visits from the Mormons anymore. 👍
These are heroic times we live in…and you my friend are definitely one of those heroes.

Congratulations and welcome!

May the Lord bless and protect you physically and above all spiritually from the wickedness and snares of the devil.

It’s a tough road ahead but I’m sure you are up for the battle. I’m so happy for you that, even though I don’t know you, my eyes are tearing up.🙂

Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum.
 
I’m sorry you feel this way. It seems like you are the kind of person that shifts back and forth between two competing ideas trying to come to a resting spot. It’s hard, isn’t it–to not be certain? I do have to tell you that I consider myself a rational person and I have come across all the “honey bees” arguments and “steel” arguments, etc., that you did and more. I still believe the Book of Mormon is true! Can you guess why? Why don’t you take a look at 2 Nephi 32:3-4 and remember how felt when you were baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Don’t feel threatened. Don’t think that just because there are others on a forum that would agree with you or give you a thumb’s up–don’t think that means it was the right decision. I know you’ve struggled with this decision and you haven’t taken it lightly. I also have hope that you won’t take the rest of your life lightly, either. Read the two verses I listed and then read verse 5. I promise you, as a fellow child of God, that you will find comfort in those words and that they will ring true to you. I promise you that God loves you now, and yesterday, and forever. He loves you! He doesn’t expect you to be perfect, or to be right all the time. All he wants is your best effort. Please, I invite you to remember the truths you felt, the things you heard, the experiences you had that no one on any forum can possibly know. I know you had them. Remember! When in your life did you feel the happiest? The most clean? The closest to God? What would you do to feel that way now?

Please come back. It’s never too late. You will find such happiness here. Please come back!

I hope you find great joy in life, even though I don’t know you I know you are someone special because God thinks so and He’s always right. 😉

Take a peek at farms.byu.edu and fairlds.org if the “steel” stuff still bothers you. It’s quite easy to understand.
 
I’m sorry you feel this way. It seems like you are the kind of person that shifts back and forth between two competing ideas trying to come to a resting spot. It’s hard, isn’t it–to not be certain? … Why don’t you take a look at 2 Nephi 32:3-4 and remember how felt when you were baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Don’t feel threatened. Don’t think that just because there are others on a forum that would agree with you or give you a thumb’s up–don’t think that means it was the right decision. I know you’ve struggled with this decision and you haven’t taken it lightly. I also have hope that you won’t take the rest of your life lightly, either. Read the two verses I listed and then read verse 5. I promise you, as a fellow child of God, that you will find comfort in those words and that they will ring true to you. I promise you that God loves you now, and yesterday, and forever. He loves you! He doesn’t expect you to be perfect, or to be right all the time. All he wants is your best effort. Please, I invite you to remember the truths you felt, the things you heard, the experiences you had that no one on any forum can possibly know. I know you had them. Remember! When in your life did you feel the happiest? The most clean? The closest to God? What would you do to feel that way now?

Please come back. It’s never too late. You will find such happiness here. Please come back!

I hope you find great joy in life, even though I don’t know you I know you are someone special because God thinks so and He’s always right. 😉

Take a peek at farms.byu.edu and fairlds.org if the “steel” stuff still bothers you. It’s quite easy to understand.
Teancum, please be careful: proselytizing Catholics or encouraging them to leave the faith is specifically banned here.

(see forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=270175 )

I understand that you are sincere and are doing what you think is best for her, but Holly has indicated that she is now Catholic and no longer Mormon. Catholic Answers prohibits directly encouraging her to leave the faith.

No offense intended, I’m hoping to keep you out of trouble.
 
Teancum, please be careful: proselytizing Catholics or encouraging them to leave the faith is specifically banned here.

(see forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=270175 )

I understand that you are sincere and are doing what you think is best for her, but Holly has indicated that she is now Catholic and no longer Mormon. Catholic Answers prohibits directly encouraging her to leave the faith.

No offense intended, I’m hoping to keep you out of trouble.
No offense taken. I may have been a little unclear in my post when I said “here”. Here’s my response for the community at large:

This thread is specifically concerning her letter of resignation sent to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The thread itself requires one to either encourage her in her new decision or ask her to consider an alternative view or else be shut out from discussion. I think the spirit of the rule was not broken because my comment was entirely appropriate given the thread topic at hand. I am not here to proselyte people but to add a balance in favor of my beliefs to the comments that are given. If I am e-burned at the stake for this or cast out of the community that would be sad for this community but I would be willing to take the punishment if that’s the case.

I do not pretend I can convince anyone to leave the Catholic Church or to join my church. All I would ask is that they reasonably question their position regarding both churches. Holly can remain a Catholic and have done everything I invited her to do, including coming back to reading the Book of Mormon critically but honestly. If I had invited her to be baptized that would be different. She cannot keep that commitment and remain a Catholic (plus she would be joining a different church). Inviting her back to the point in her life when she was the happiest is not an implicit or explicit invitation to renounce her Catholic faith or to be baptized into the LDS Church again (unless that happened to be when she was happiest) so she would be the best judge as to whether my invitation to come back to that time means being baptized again.

Of course, I would hope that is the case, but it very well could be that she thinks something different entirely. 👍
 
I’m sorry you feel this way. It seems like you are the kind of person that shifts back and forth between two competing ideas trying to come to a resting spot. It’s hard, isn’t it–to not be certain? I do have to tell you that I consider myself a rational person and I have come across all the “honey bees” arguments and “steel” arguments, etc., that you did and more. I still believe the Book of Mormon is true! Can you guess why? Why don’t you take a look at 2 Nephi 32:3-4 and remember how felt when you were baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Don’t feel threatened. Don’t think that just because there are others on a forum that would agree with you or give you a thumb’s up–don’t think that means it was the right decision. I know you’ve struggled with this decision and you haven’t taken it lightly. I also have hope that you won’t take the rest of your life lightly, either. Read the two verses I listed and then read verse 5. I promise you, as a fellow child of God, that you will find comfort in those words and that they will ring true to you. I promise you that God loves you now, and yesterday, and forever. He loves you! He doesn’t expect you to be perfect, or to be right all the time. All he wants is your best effort. Please, I invite you to remember the truths you felt, the things you heard, the experiences you had that no one on any forum can possibly know. I know you had them. Remember! When in your life did you feel the happiest? The most clean? The closest to God? What would you do to feel that way now?

Please come back. It’s never too late. You will find such happiness here. Please come back!

I hope you find great joy in life, even though I don’t know you I know you are someone special because God thinks so and He’s always right. 😉

Take a peek at farms.byu.edu and fairlds.org if the “steel” stuff still bothers you. It’s quite easy to understand.
No Holly! stay away.

you have made the right decision by returning to the One, True church that Christ intended to exist after His ascension into heaven and of which He left Peter as its first Pope…263 popes later to Pope Benedict XVI.

And the gates of hell nor the mormons will ever prevail against her.

Sancte Michael Archangele defendenos in proelio. Contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli, esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, suplices deprecamur, tuque princeps militae caelestis, satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo…divina virtute in infernum detrude, amen.
 
No Holly! stay away.

you have made the right decision by returning to the One, True church that Christ intended to exist after His ascension into heaven and of which He left Peter as its first Pope…263 popes later to Pope Benedict XVI.

And the gates of hell nor the mormons will ever prevail against her.

Sancte Michael Archangele defendenos in proelio. Contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli, esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, suplices deprecamur, tuque princeps militae caelestis, satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo…divina virtute in infernum detrude, amen.
Thank you for this advice and encouragement. 🙂 It is encouraging because I now know for a fact that the Mormon church is a non-Christian cult. 👍 I am sure that Mormons are sincere in their beliefs but that doesn’t make them right. 👍
 
Thank you for this advice and encouragement. 🙂 It is encouraging because I now know for a fact that the Mormon church is a non-Christian cult. 👍 I am sure that Mormons are sincere in their beliefs but that doesn’t make them right. 👍
Amen and amen.🙂
 
Holly, welcome home. Keep us posted on replies, if any, you get from them.
 
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