Growing Up Mormon....

I had a realisation on Sunday that Growing up in the Church is such an AMAZING blessing but a curse as well....

So many people that I talked to that grew up in the Church, experience a moment in their lives where they question their Faith, and they question it because, they do not experience those AH  HA! moments OR a BIG and OBVIOUS answer to that one important prayer, that as members we all have to do.  You know the one.... The "IS the Church REALLY true" prayer.

Now due to the lack of answer.... they sit there thinking..... Well no answer = not true

WRONG!!!!!

You might think that I am preaching on my soap box... and yes I am......

BUT I have a really good reason why I am... I was that one, kneeling there getting no answer....

So naturally went less active...

To cut a LONG story Short... I came back when I was pregnant with my little boy and sat in a RS Lesson, where they were teaching about prayer... and in the lesson the teacher said, "Heveanly Father is not going to give you an answer to a question you already know"...... *FacePalm*

But as well as that.....as members that have grown up in the Church we also get a little bit too caught up in the routine, of going to church, saying prayers, paying tithing... and it becomes just that.. ROUTINE... we don't think of the why... we don't study our scriptures, we just read them (believe me there is a difference), and because of that the Holy Ghost gets REALLY soft, to a point where we can't hear Him, and then we start doing stuff we are not suppose to. Then we say we don't believe in the Gospel because we are justifying the fact that we ain't doing what is right.....

But since I have been back at Church I have realised the true reasons for why we have the Commandments, why we have Prophets today to help us.

If you have a less active family/friend .... you can't change them.... they have to change themselves just like I did... But love them... pray for them and invite them to Church and activities.... There is always Hope because there is always Repentance.