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Hello. I’m a life-long member of the LDS Church; born and raised.
In my teens I started to see my testimony crumble and I started looking into other religions and what they had to offer. My parents were not very supportive of this, and for the sake of having a happy household, I mainly suppressed it all. I ended up going to BYU-Idaho where I met my wonderful husband and got married at the age of 19 in the temple.
We lived in Idaho for a few years, and that’s when we both started seeing that we couldn’t live within the “Bubble”. The culture of the Church was too much for us in Rexburg, and we stopped going to Church, neither of us have been regularly in a year. Most people who have commented on this believe that we don’t believe in the doctrine anymore. This couldn’t be farther from the truth, we believe fully in the doctrine, but the culture is what is false to us.
I’m currently getting ready to go back to school and major in the liberal arts with an emphasis on comparative religion. I love learning about religion and I find truths in almost all religions on this earth. I also am very liberal in my politics (I’m lovingly called by my husband “the commie”), I’m very active in all sorts of causes, and I am in no way a Molly Mormon. My activities, opinions, ideas, and likes and dislikes have set me apart from many Church members. We are unable to have any children at the current time (more on this later), and so being in Church is very hard for me, especially when all they seem to talk about sometimes in RS is children and being a good wife.
For me, at times, it is hard wanting to stay LDS because I feel so distant from the culture.
Anywho.
That’s me in a nutshell.
Any questions?
Hi Becky! I hope you’ll feel welcome around here. We like all flavors! Hi, Becky. Flavors. I like that metaphor. We are all a different flavor of child of God and a different flavor of Latter-day Saint. Rather than despairing of ever finding another person in our flavor, we can rejoice in common ingredients and learn from the different ones.
Like you, I sometimes wonder whether I am a communist. And I suppose I am as much one of those as I am a capitalist or a Republican or a Democrat. Party affiliation just seems limiting. I see much that is good in all their approaches, as well as some “compromises” to the great moral ideals.
More than anything else, it is empowering and encouraging to go to church on Sunday knowing that there are others who are willing to take the church on their own terms of holiness and live their lives according to something much, much greater than church even as they live in awe of the power and goodness that is in the church.
KM
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