Tag Archives: Joseph Smith
I said goodbye to my Mom, boyfriend and best friend and never looked back. I had just entered the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah where the over 60,000 missionaries all over the world train before serving. My life changed the minute I walked in the building and handed over my luggag ...
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The one thing I hear consistently from new and old converts to the Mormon faith is that prior to joining the church, some of their most pressing theological questions were not fully answered and that they were left wanting. This absence led them to seek out something more -something that would ...
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When my Mom was almost 5 months pregnant with me she suffered a heart attack that the doctors had mistakenly diagnosed as a new type of influenza. She was left untreated and at one point her legs were so filled with fluid, it would seep from her legs as she coughed up blood from her lungs. Amaz ...
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Mark Twain, on his visit to Salt Lake City: “There was fascination in surreptitiously staring at every creature we took to be a Mormon. This was fairyland to us, to all intents and purposes — a land of enchantment, and goblins, and awful mystery. We felt a curiosity to ask every child how ma ...
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Although most people ask the question, "What do Mormon's believe?", often what they really want to know is "Why?" Aside from receiving a personal confirmation of the doctrine, I realized that these questions work together harmoniously to solidify the answers in my heart. In other words, the r ...
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