Most of the people I see being baptized these days are relatives or spouses of the already baptized. They tend to stay at a higher rate than those baptized knocking on doors. I hardly ever see anyone being baptized anymore who doesn’t come into the LDS Church as a result of a family relationship such as a marriage. The people on the streets that are cold-called can make a few clicks on the internet and tell the missionaries to get lost.
In my ward, we are the only ones who went from completely active to resigned. However, there are loads of inactives who have never stepped foot in the church building. In fact, when we met with our bishop to briefly discuss our resignation (which he promptly processed), he mentioned that he had also received the resignation letter of someone who was “inactive” and had never attended at our ward.
You are also in my prayers, and let us know how things go.
Thank you, i’ll let you know how tonight’s dinner goes.
Just a side point but Joseph Smith Jr’s father was a school teacher, Smith had as much education as many people in those days. I read somewhere that Abraham Lincoln had only about one year of formal education and look what he wrote.
This is one of the biggest myths of the LDS. You don’t have to deal with anyone you don’t want to. Now that you know the truth you don’t have to justify to any man why you believe. Just smile, thank them for their concern and walk away. You owe them nothing.
Thank you Jesus!!!
Awesome news! Good luck in the future…
Irishman,
Irishman,
Congratulations. Glad to hear that things went so well!
Wonderful! It’s good to plant seeds because they just might grow. I think the fact that you have not rejected God completely and are searching for Christ is helpful. My parents were initially afraid that we were going to reject God and not raise our children to believe in God. A year later, they see that we are taking them to Mass and raising them in the faith and they are more accepting. They have seen that our lives have not become a train wreck but rather we are happier and our family is stronger. I don’t think they will ever be completely happy about it, but they are more accepting. I’m glad things are starting out so well for you. Expect some bumps in the road, but time is a great healer of wounds. It sounds like you have great parents.
Be strong and maintain boundaries. Putting up a crucifix and icons in your home can also encourage them to not overstay their welcome should they come calling.Not sure what this has to do with anything. The fact someone at 14 wrote a book does not mean js did. And no one said js did not write the b of m. I think he did…copying from the Bible and other works available to him
Read the book. It is fairly easy to see that if Joseph Smith had access to this book it could have influenced his own writing of the Book of Mormon. Writing in the Biblical style wasn’t all that unusual in Smith’s day. You will see that many of the phrases in this book and other books of the time period show up in the Book of Mormon as well. The book I am linking next is a book that was commonly used as a text in the New York Public School system in Joseph Smith’s day. It is called The Late Great War between the United States and Great Britain:
Interesting. It reads a lot like the Book of Mormon. Even uses “And it came to pass” a lot.
