Monthly Archives: May 2024
(Page 3)![“I pursued an education, both undergraduate and a law degree. I was married midway through my legal education. I had my first son the year after I passed the bar. I had babies, and my husband and I loved and nurtured them while we were both working. It was busy, sometimes hectic; we were stretched and sometimes tired.” - Camille N. Johnson, Relief Society General President BYU Women's Conference - May 3, 2024 | wasmormon.org](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Camille-Johnson-I-pursued-an-education-had-babies-and-worked-hectic-and-tired.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
![“I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: wives, come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from the factory, the café. No career approaches in importance that of wife, homemaker, mother—cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one’s precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make home a heaven for them. Come home, wives, to your children, born and unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously await.” - Spencer W. Kimball, LDS Church President - As Living Prophet, 1977 | wasmormon.org](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Spencer-W-Kimball-wives-come-home-from-work-come-home-wives-to-your-children-born-and-unborn.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
![“Brothers and sisters, do without if you need to, but don’t do without mother. Mother is more important in the home than money or the things money can buy. Our Father in heaven wants you to be in your home to guide these spirits as no one else can, in spite of material sacrifices that may result.” - Bishop H. Burke Peterson, of the Presiding Bishopric General Conference - April 1974 | wasmormon.org](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Bishop-H-Burke-Peterson-do-without-but-dont-do-without-mother.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
Relief Society President on Working Mothers and Living Prophets
Camille Johnson, Relief Society General President, made waves with a talk at the BYU Women’s Conference where she also talked about career, motherhood and following the living prophet. Her address is featured on the official Church instagram. She was born in 1962, earned her bachelor’s degree in 1985, married in 1987, and her law degree …
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![“Our unique strength is the ability to touch the hearts and minds of our audiences, evoking first feeling, then thought and, finally, action. We call this uniquely powerful brand of creative "HeartSell"® - strategic emotional advertising that stimulates response.” - HeartSell® on Bonneville International Website, 2014 | wasmormon.org](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/heartsell-unique-strength-is-ability-to-touch-hearts-and-minds-of-audience-evoking-feeling-thought-and-action-uniquely-powerful-brand-of-creative-strategic-emotional-advertising-that-stimulates-response.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
![“At Bonneville Communications, our ability to touch the hearts and minds of audiences makes us an essential resource for organizations with vital messages... Our creative professionals have designed messages for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” (Bonneville is a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, a for-profit arm of The Church.) - HeartSell® on Bonneville International Website, 2014 | wasmormon.org](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/heartsell-Bonneville-a-for-profit-subsidy-of-Mormon-church-creative-professionals-designed-messages-for-the-church-with-HeartSell.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
Bonneville’s HeartSell® – Strategic Emotional Advertising With the Holy Ghost
One of the main messages from the church is that IF you feel a warm positive emotion, or feeling THEN you know what is being taught or said is true and from God. As long as the questions you ask align with the questions they want you to ask and your emotional response is what …
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![This is a spotlight on a profile shared at wasmormon.org. These are just the highlights, so please find the full story at https://wasmormon.org/profile/feebeedee/. There are stories of Mormon faith journeys contributed by hundreds of users like you. Come check them out and consider sharing your own story at wasmormon.org!](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/wasmormon-feebeedee-06.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
![2024: My husband has now broken away from Mormonism! I am super happy for him (and us). What did it? Despite many things, even evidence, that I brought forward over the years, it was the Mormon Stories episodes with Dr. Ritner that woke him up! - Fiona's "I was a Mormon" story. Read more at https://wasmormon.org/profile/feebeedee/](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/wasmormon-feebeedee-04.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
![2014: I married a Mormon, realizing relatively soon that there were events, issues and historical accounts that just didn't add up. Including temple ordinances–the first Endowment session had me reeling with absolute doubt! I literally felt the evil. - Fiona's "I was a Mormon" story. Read more at https://wasmormon.org/profile/feebeedee/](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/wasmormon-feebeedee-02.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
![I'm naturally an investigative person who asks questions and needs to make logical connections regarding rational reasoning alongside any form of historical claims. I despise gaslighting and euphemistic language that controls people. I travelled down the appropriate rabbit holes... the rest is history... literally! I was, for a time, a Mormon. - Fiona's "I was a Mormon" story. Read more at https://wasmormon.org/profile/feebeedee/](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/wasmormon-feebeedee-01.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
![“We exchanged expressions of joy, and I walked back to the hillside. I sat down on the pile of dirt we had been moving and beckoned to my sons. As I told them that all worthy male members of the Church could now be ordained to the priesthood, I wept for joy. That is the scene etched in my memory of this unforgettable announcement 40 years ago — sitting on a pile of dirt and weeping as I told my sons of this divine revelation.” - President Dallin H. Oaks, LDS Apostle On The Lifting of the Priesthood Ban at 'Be One' Celebration, June 1, 2018 | wasmormon.org/same-sex/](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Dallin-H-Oaks-on-the-lifting-of-the-priesthood-ban.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
![In Ghana, Joseph William Billy Johnson “heard the news [of the priesthood ban being lifted in June 1978] around midnight at the end of a hard day when he was compelled to tune his radio to BBC before going to bed. ‘I jumped and started crying and rejoicing in the Lord with tears’ - Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual for Institute, Chapter 56: Official Declaration 2 | wasmormon.org](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/mormon-priesthood-ban-lifted-to-rejoicing-and-tears.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
!["Shortly after the vote today in Charlotte, spontaneous celebrations erupted on the conference center floor. Hundreds of people began cheering and singing." - NPR "Applause broke out in parts of the convention hall Wednesday after the vote. A group of observers from LGBTQ+ advocacy groups embraced, some in tears. “Thanks be to God,” said one." - LA Times | https://wasmormon.org/same-sex/](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/same-sex-ban-lifted-cheering-singing-and-tears-of-joy.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
Fiona Was a Mormon, an Ex-Mormon Profile Spotlight
Meet Fiona, an inquisitive and rational thinker who couldn’t help but question the narratives presented to her. Her journey out of Mormonism was driven by a thirst for truth and a refusal to accept the gaslighting that sought to control her. As she delved into the historical and doctrinal aspects of Mormonism, Fiona found herself …
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!["The resurrected Lord has continued his ministry of salvation by appearing, from time to time, to mortal men chosen by God to be his witnesses, and by revealing his will through the Holy Ghost. It is by the power of the Holy Ghost that I bear my witness. I know of Christ’s reality as if I had seen with my eyes and heard with my ears." - Howard W. Hunter, as LDS Apostle Satellite Fireside from the Tabernacle on Temple Square, 30 October 1983 | wasmormon.org](https://i0.wp.com/wasmormon.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Howard-W-Hunter-I-know-as-if-I-had-seen-and-heard.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1)
LDS Church On Same-Sex Marriages
The Mormon church is famously (or infamously) known for not allowing or supporting same-sex relationships or marriages. There is a trail of history showing the church to be opposed to honoring same-sex couples in society. They vehemently opposed Prop 8, and mobilized membership to work on continuing to outlaw same-sex marriages in the state of …
Special Witnesses – Have Mormon Apostles Seen Jesus?
One of the foundational pillars of the church is the First Vision, in which Joseph Smith claims to have seen the Lord (or both God the Father and God the Son, Jesus Christ – depending on which of his accounts you read) while praying in the woods. There is an assumption in the church that …
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