[Always Thinking]

I’m not quite clear on who is making you feel responsible for being ‘hit with the bat’. Do you think God finds you responsible or are other people finding you responsible?

On another note, I also dislike the ‘the prophet is always right’ thought. I’ve heard people say ‘the prophet is a person too, see, he likes to go to baseball games just like us, etc.’ But I never hear ‘it is possible for the prophet to tell us something that is not from God.’ My husband and I have recently come to terms with this. After all, several prophets in the bible did horrible things. Just being a prophet doesn’t make you infallable. I think it is definitely way less common now for prophets to go completely crazy because none of them have murdered or ordered people to rape or anything horrid like that. But I am comfortable in knowing that prophets sometimes make mistakes and that’s why personal prayer about things the prophet said are so important. Then you can figure out for yourself if what he said is God’s word or just the prophet’s words.

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[Always Thinking]

That’s a good idea! One of my biggest things I believe in is prayer. I will definitely pray about it all when I get the chance. I’ll have to find a time where it’s quiet in the house though which is hard with a toddler but I will try to as soon as it’s possible. It’s hard not having people to talk to too. I can talk to my husband of course, but my family has no clue that my testimony is crumbling so idk how to tell them without them worrying about my soul, you know? But I will definitely try and take it slow. I am glad I found this forum because it seems like a good balance of positivity and negativity of the church, which is hard to find elsewhere

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[Always Thinking]

So sorry to hear about your sons and you having awful missions. I really think it’s hush hush about how bad missions can be. But it’s gotta be more common than it’s talked about because they’re so isolated and stuck to the same person for so long. No alone time, no escape. Working all day. It’s kind of setting them up for mental health problems or even abuse if they get a bad companion or multiple, which happened to my husband

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[Always Thinking]

Mainly it’s the culture of the church (the pressure for men to go on missions, not being seen as worthy to date if you didn’t, people assuming that someone did something wrong if they leave early, the corner cutting on missions to get baptisms just for numbers). Mainly mission stuff at the moment. My husband was verbally and emotionally abused on his mission and we’ve been discussing a lot lately how missions aren’t well organized and people aren’t usually prepared for what can really happen on missions in the worst cases. The rules are waaaay too strict. It makes me mad that they aren’t allowed to call family in emergencies or even just to ask for advice. I see no way that could be harmful to the mission to call family when you need advice. I also hate how awful people can become figures of authority. *exhale* ok, I think that covers my main irritations at the moment. But the more my husband and I talked about these last night the more I started thinking about how there were a lot of little things that I don’t really like about the church

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