I haven't been writing here for quite some time. I have been engaging in a wrestle with God. That wrestle was started a long time ago, yet I was unaware for most of it. I felt angry. I took that anger out on the most innocent people around me. These last few months, without church... Continue Reading →
Five Years In The Church
Five years ago I made one of the most significant decisions of my life. Last year on the anniversary, I not only wrote about making the resolution to be Baptized as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints but I also made a video about my choice while I was waiting... Continue Reading →
Four Years After Baptism
On March 23, 2013 I was baptized. March 23 of this year came around and I was visiting Columbia, South Carolina. It seemed a fitting day for a temple trip. After all, I was in the area hunting up ghosts of my ancestors. During a middle of the night genealogy session spurred by The... Continue Reading →
A Temple Testimony of His Holy Spirit
I LOVE to see the Temple. The Twin Falls Temple in Idaho was the site of my “wrong turn” at the very start of the softening of my heart. Where I stopped and “felt” the building radiate out into the street. April 20, 2013: I went on my first proxy Baptism trip to the Seattle... Continue Reading →
Please Let Me Hug You! I’m a Convert
Below is my submission to Middle-Aged Mormon Man's International Hug-A-Convert Day Essay Contest. After I submitted this essay, I fell 10 feet backwards down an attic ladder, breaking my back. I am healing rapidly and will be back to blogging very soon! Last year when I commented on a post of Middle-Aged Mormon Man, he... Continue Reading →
Woman of Many Wards
In the past few months, from June to December 2013, I visited countless meetinghouses, three Stake Centers, and two Temples in two states. During that time, I was a member of no less than four different wards in two different Stakes. I attended church every single Sunday from the time I experienced my personal revelation... Continue Reading →
My Best Friend’s Role and Absence in My Conversion
It began sooner than I anticipated: Last week, I invited my best friend to join a new church friend and myself to a mid-older singles event. It was just a little bbq behind a local meetinghouse, but it was where people first assumed I had been baptized by my best friend. They didn't know just... Continue Reading →
Holy High Five, Jesus!
I started to feel like I wasn't saying "thank you" enough to God, and to Christ, for the atonement.Also for the Gift of the Holy Spirit. I just wanted to feel like saying "THANKS!" as much as I felt thankful.So, I decided to begin "high-five-ing" towards Christ.I know it is silly, but it is my... Continue Reading →
Maggie and the Missionaries
OR "Those Tender Kind Souls Who Would Have LIKED Preached His Gospel to Me and Those I Finally Listened To" I have rarely admitted to anyone the long road it has taken me to get to a point where I invited missionaries into a house in which I resided. In fact, I don't believe I... Continue Reading →
Slightely Mormon
This is "SLIGHTE-ly" as in MY journey...not "slightly" as in "kinda" or "just a bit"... Everything I do, I do "SLIGHTE-ly". I have never done anything any other way, but mine. So, when I converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, I of course, did it "my way." When it came time... Continue Reading →