Hello and Thank You

I just first have to stay Thank You for creating this website. I was born and raised LDS and have lived in the Idaho, Utah, Wyoming area all my life in mainly LDS communities. I always took for granted that the church was 100% completely true in every sense of the word. However, it always bothered me that many good people that I knew weren’t suppose to make it to the Celestial kingdom just because they weren’t LDS. My best friend growing up is catholic and is, I think, better than a lot of my LDS friends.

I continued on without thinking too much about the church until after I got married. My DH has many issues with the church and has since left and now is a leader of an anti-LDS group. He constantly bothered me about reading all of the information he found about the LDS church. I admit there are some things that I thought were lies or had never heard of about the church. I was shocked and hurt to find out about these things. However, I could not really follow my DH because of how much hate an anger he holds for the church. I understand why he is angry and hurt but my reaction to things like that is to pause and really try to figure out what is really happening before I get angry.

I don’t really feel comfortable talking with my family (especially my parents) about my feelings and concerns and definitely do not want to talk to my DH about it. My stand right now is that prophets are people who sometimes react very badly to certain situations. I listen to what they say and decide for myself what is right. I think that is how Heavenly Father wants us to act. I can’t judge anyone on their actions because I may have done the same thing or something worse in their situation. I love the church as a support and for teaching my children values that will help them in life. I enjoy getting to know people and the church is a way for me to do that.

I just have to add in a thank you here though because this is really the first place I feel like I can discuss my feelings without being judged and I can really hear from people who are in situations very similar to me. I think you all can give me a lot of insight that I have never had before. Thanks.