ExMormon

A stake leader recently texted me out of the blue asking if I would be willing to meet with him over zoom to "get to know me". It took me by surprise as it has been a long time since I showed my face in any church. I decided to accept the meeting just to humor him, and within a minute of the zoom meeting he was asking me if I would accept a calling as a stake clerk or secretary type role. I just replied "no", and we sat there in silence for some time.

He definitely did not know what to say, and asked me if he could help me repent in order to be worthy to hold a calling. I told him something along the lines of "no, I'm worthy, I just don't want a calling".

The meeting wrapped up pretty awkwardly and I'm back to my daily business, still with no "calling". What an audacious title, as if smelling dirty diapers for 2 hours is a "calling".

Over 4 years ago, I posted the original of this meme. Here it is as the first in lemmy.

Hi folks! Though I'm not exmormon, I'm trying to get a Utah Community up at running in Lemmy.world. Of course, you don't have to have a connection to Utah to be exmormon, but just in case you do, or you're interested in Utah goings-on, I invite you to visit and subscribe. Thanks!

Utah Community

!utah@lemmy.world

Had a fascinating chat with my high-school senior cousin (who is 20 years younger than me) about her plans after graduation next year. Obviously BYU is not on the table.

For her, it's sooooo different than it was for me.

Mr Millennial here first got upset over doctrinal issues. Went through a whole "the church lied to me" phase. And eventually came around to injustices in LDS doctrine and culture.

But that's not how it works for her and her peers. She feels the church is a tiny club with rules so non-inclusive that almost nobody qualifies. So why would anyone want to join it at all?

Furthermore, her short life has seen a church so focused on anti-LGBT that there was little else positive to glean from Sunday. She actually views the church as an immoral organization.

We (older crowd) fell away from the church. They had us. They lost us.

But for her... the church never even got close to winning her over to begin with.

Anyway, it was a fascinating observation

Mormon Facts: The papyrus Joseph Smith "translated" into the Book of Abraham was afterwards translated by scientists using the Rosetta Stone. It turns out, it has nothing to do with the Book of Abraham.

@exmormon Can I make a post from here? I'm writing this from mastodon.

Its an old meme, circa 2018 from when i found it. Just trying to be more active rather than lurk to get this new location going.

Because of the nature of the fediverse, posts that were made prior to my subscribing here haven't federated to my instance but I wanted to say hi. I'm really happy to see this comminity starting to migrate here. I was /u/jlamothe on #Reddit. #ExMormon #LDS

Bow your head, and say yes.

If you were a mod on the subreddit and would like to resume your role, just dm me a screenshot of your role there and I will get you added ASAP so we can make like the Lamanites and rebuild!