Should I notify the LDS church that I will no longer be Mormon?

[George_C]

The last time I spoke with an LDS missionary, he was a pleasant, young man with a tabbed notebook of questions and answers. He didn’t know quite what to do when I asked him approximately where Kolob might be, and he soon excused himself.

Have you seen the cartoon about Mormon beliefs?

youtube.com/watch?v=n5dscqcNOGM

 

[happymommy]

Hey, Jen, we love you too!

Just in case… you will probably run into some not very nice Catholics in your life. Even here on the forums! Some of us can get pretty grumpy. Even me!

Welcome again, and welcome home. :grouphug:

God bless you,

Ruthie

Hey you! Who you calling grumpy

Just kidding, I’m a happy catholic

 

[reff]

Hello, I am currently a catechumen in the RCIA program and I am, well, let’s just say about 214.33% sure I want to be a Catholic. However I was baptized as a Mormon around the age of 12 (I am 18) and, although I am totally aware that the LDS church and the Roman Catholic Church are completely separate entities, I was curious if it matters whether or not I have my name removed from their records? One reason I ask this is because the members of the church still come by once a month to collect the “fast offering” and my parents pay it even though they haven’t stepped foot in that church for years (Mom is Agnostic/Anti-religious, Dad is likely a lukewarm, Protestant Christian). I just wouldn’t want to deal with them coming to my door every so often when I have my own place, thinking I am still a loyal member. What do ya’ll think? I apologize if this question is too obnoxious

I too am a former Mormon. Here’s how I view it, what matter is it that a phony religion has your records. God knows that your now a member of his Catholic Church, so let them keep it all they want. However, if you really desire to have your name removed from the LDS church records. Visit mormonnomore.com, they give you step by step instructions on how to formally resign from the LDS faith.

I will warn you that it can be very long and frustrating. You will have home teachers and high priests showing up at your door with cookies and asking you to talk to the bishop, but you are no longer a member and you have no need to speak with the bishop.

I will pray for you. Welcome Home

 

[jenlovesyu]

I am also in RCIA. Welcome.

From what I’ve seen and read, I think it would be to your advantage to tell them that you no longer consider yourself Mormon and to not contact you for any reason. However, I’ve heard horror stories about LDS leaders telling lies about “apostate” members such as adultery.

Why do your parents still pay the tithing if they’re not members?

Uhh that’s a good question. I suppose my parents just don’t like dealing with any kind of confrontation so they would rather pay the tithing than tell them otherwise. I am working on my parents though (evangelizing I mean), I hope my family goes to see me get baptized when I do because then they will get to witness just how important the Catholic faith is to me. I will probably be crying my eyes out because God has been way too good to me.

I too am a former Mormon. Here’s how I view it, what matter is it that a phony religion has your records. God knows that your now a member of his Catholic Church, so let them keep it all they want. However, if you really desire to have your name removed from the LDS church records. Visit mormonnomore.com, they give you step by step instructions on how to formally resign from the LDS faith.

I will warn you that it can be very long and frustrating. You will have home teachers and high priests showing up at your door with cookies and asking you to talk to the bishop, but you are no longer a member and you have no need to speak with the bishop.

I will pray for you. Welcome Home

Either way I will be Catholic so that’s all that matters
I pray that God will help me out if and when they do come to my door so I can tell them about the wonderful Church I am joining!
But thank you and welcome home to you too

I just remembered that the bishop at my stake was the orthodontist who removed my wisdom teeth in August. It would be nice to see him again so I can thank him for doing such a great job ha.

 

[William_M]

Cavaille-Coll

I realize you were just ridiculing the 19 or 20 year old missionaries who were there, in good faith, to try to help you, because you did not want their help. But then that is life on the mish, where young men give up two years of their lives, at their own expense ($10,000 maybe more now), to work 14 hours a day, six and a half days a week, to devote themselves 100% to other people, of whom 99% shut the door in their faces or, like you, mock them and their faith.

However, as we do not like to give up on anyone, I felt the impulse to answer your rhetorical question. Just maybe it will be meaningful to you.

As I assume you know, “Kolob” means “the earliest creation” and is the star nearest the throne of God.

I will offer an idea which, while not Church doctrine, is circulating among some rank-and-file Latter-day Saints. (Funny how a brainwashed heretical cult has a diversity of religious opinion among its membership.)

Read carefully Chapter 3 of the Book of Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price. The Church has the scriptures on line at www.lds.org Then, read, in a university-level introductory astronomy text, about the structure and motion of our galaxy. Now, do you have any idea where Kolob, and God, might be located? Please let me know what you think.

While there is no substitute for doing as I suggested in the immediately-preceding paragraph, which includes using you own judgment, you can get one viewpoint from Lynn M. Hilton’s book, “The Kolob Theorem: A Mormon’s View of God’s Starry Universe”.

I love the picture of your beautiful cat.