Friday, July 24, 2009

underwhelming moments in my LDS past

Feeling nothing when I got baptized (age 8)

Feeling nothing when I got sealed to parents, married or endowed. (other than shock and bewilderment and the urge to laugh) (8, 21, 25)

Finding out we didn't still have the gold plates (age 9)

Wondering how our church could be the only true one when most of the world had never even heard of it? (age 10)

never once in my life having the urge to bare testimony...even to my own children! (still at 37)

Shock when finding out that the JS story was in the first discussion! (age 21)

Realizing that the same practices were taught for proselyting in the MTC that I learned in a job once selling overpriced vacuums (21)

More to come as I think of them....this was just off the top of my head in 10 minutes or less!



anyone else as underwhelmed as I am?

Does anyone else feel like they are trapped in the LDS church? Like you can't leave and you can't stay? You're not anti-mormon...just underwhelmed with the whole idea? Please contact me if so!