Special Report: I'm a Mormon ️

That truth Amen.

Absolutely beautiful!! This “victory for Satan” nonsense is just one part of the collapse of the mormon church under Rusty Nelson.

Lol. Mormon. Mormon. Mormon. Come on haters. Come get me. Lds Mormons.

I’m a Mormon and for the first 45 years of my life nobody had a problem with the word. Everyone says Mormon. I never thought it was bad - and actually still don’t. It’s what my grandparents said, my parents said, and what everyone in my generation said. It used to mean something positive, so I’m not sure what the big deal is - now people act like it’s a swear word.

Rock on!!!!!! Hell yeah.

AMEN

I enjoyed your reporr. I have been a Mormon for the past 76 years. I Server a mission from 1968 through 1970. I was drafted in the Us Army in 1971. I served as a paratrooper. I had to defend the church on numerous occasions. I received my Master's degree from BYU and went back in the Army as a Mormon Chaplain. I always had to defend th church against other soldiers and chaplains of other denominations. Being a Mormon ment I always strived to be the best member I could be. I served with the SFG in the first desert storm. Ever decision I and my wife made was done through the lenses of the Mormon Church. I feel that asking me not to be a Mormon is disregarding my whole life. I will always say I was a Mormon regardless of what the church leader's now say. You have the right to use the word Mormon anyway you want and it is not offensive to God. Keep up the good work.

Excellent. I grew up with the word Mormon my whole life and I'm 65. Now I am an ex-mo, no mo. Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, Mormon, take that critics!😅

Beautifully said. I was a Mormon for 51 years. It's in my DNA, regardless of the fact that I have officially resigned from the church.

Your hysteria is funny

Well done.

Thank you so much for this. I really needed it.

Beautifully articulated👌

Fishing for some persecution AND chaos created by Nelson.

Trying to shirk the name Mormon is just another circus act in the embarrassment that is church history. And the future clowns that will have control after Nelson dies may very well embrace the term again, pretending that he never did forbid its use. I know the church is a scam and cannot stomach activity anymore, but I still consider myself “Mormon“.

Thank you young lady for your integrity. It’s too bad so many in this church cannot see the truths that have been discovered and recognized as foundational teachings. Today’s leaders are doing nothing more than re-directing these truths with distractions of claimed prophetic utterance.

Nelson has no pragmatic replacement for the descriptor "Mormonism" because no better exists, just an old man in a position of power who can force his preferences on members of the Church. Those beyond his control see the folly -- no one is going to say nine words when one word accurately suffices.

This was beautiful, Megan. Absolutely hope you get to live the life you deserve. The way I see it, members focusing on the name, basically the SEO of the church is the victory for Satan.

Will the name of the Book of Mormon be changed?

❤Sending you all the love and best wishes Megan!! That.Was.Beautiful!!!
You are an inspiration to me and I am so grateful for you. Have a wonderful evening! ❤

Great response. Nelson will be dead soon and “prophets don’t age like cars and baseball cards”. So we wont have to worry about it.

Mormon, our history. Use it

Amen and Amen!

It's amazing to me how fast indoctrinated people can change on a dime and spout whatever contradictory nonsense they are fed.

Nicely put, and 6 lucky kids!
I hope those who mock or belittle you have the day that they deserve.

I grew up singing, “I’m a Mormon, Yes I Am” in primary.

Ethnically and culturally Mormon—me too. I’m happy to hear another exmo say this.

Generally authentic. Keep up the great work. I look forward to your messages.

I was a member for 47 years. I've been out now 8. The issue of the name of the church came from Russel Nelson. "Victory for satan, Jesus is offended" ... etc.
The more fastidious tbm's are stalwart about it being called The Church of etc..etc are intricate over it but fail to see any logic.
If Jesus is offended over the name and revealed it to Mr. Nelson that he [ Jesus ] is offended, it seems a rather sudden event for the Lord to contemporarily become this way given He was supposedly in constant contact with each previous church president from the earlier 2000's, the 90's, 80's,70's, 60's etc
The Lord could've informed any of the previous church presidents of this issue, and for the many decades since the founding of Mormonism there could've been a great reduction of those victories for satan.
I suggest that Russell Nelson is not a true prophet, and that this name of the church issue is a private beef he's been banging on about since he was an apostle in the 90's.

THANK YOU!

That was perfect.❤

Your so strong, im sorry of all you experienced ❤❤❤

Well done! I loved "if the body keeps the score, Mormonism is in my cells, my very DNA"! I completely agree! I also continue to use "Mormon" to describe the first 40+ years of my life. The Mormon Church is where I was born and raised. This current church under Nelson barely resembles the religion of my younger self, the religion wherein I made all of life's huge, no-going-back decisions.

Thanks for sharing this, I have wondered what the different perspectives are on Nelson's weird rule/opinion about this word. As someone else pointed out why would anyone use nine words when they could use one (its actually 11 words if you start with member of)? I think his wanting to move away from the word mormon to member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints is related to every other change they've made to appease public opinion and get everyone off their backs.

I’m a Mormon and Rusty and Wendy can both kiss my ass!

I don't have an issue with you saying, "I'm a Mormon." It is what it is. The other groups that broke away still call us "Brighamites."

That was a beautiful essay. It resonated with me. Have you considered submitting it to the Exponent blog?

PS...your response of "no thank you" made me laugh out loud!

Fantastic everything you said resonates deeply. I also feel represented. Thank you. Also I feel represented because I was also married in the Manti Temple. Thank you for all you do. 🩷

Very well said. Thank you. Only thing is that Hinckley was not prophet until 1995. I believe you said 1990

Say it LOUD!

Amen, sista! I was a convert at the age of 9, and a mormon for 46 years, and left it at age 55. The use of the word mormon is in no way a win for Satan, as surely this possible "win" would've been revealed decades ago by his "prophets"--if God felt this way. I do believe that RMN misspoke for the man upstairs.

Of all the things in the world to concern himself with, the prophet thinks God wants a sect of Christianity to be properly addressed. So self important, absorbed, obsessed... and trivial.

standing ovation 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Amen!❤

Thank you for an eloquent and moving dose or reality and truth. I, too, have lived in the Church all of my life. It is pointless to deny reality.

Hinkley was a great man with good judgment. The name crisis is a non-issue about form over substance and appearance over reality. The prophets who used “Mormon” unashamedly in the past sacrificed much more for the Church than Russell Nelson ever did.

Sweating the small stuff is not a step forward. It is a sign of being ashamed of one’s own history, which, after all, is the really big issue for the modern church, which has to grudgingly admit century long lying, deception and concealment of the known truths of it’s history. I rather suspect that God may not be pleased with organized lying, deception and deceit as a routine operating procedure.

Against that appalling and grim background or organized deception, the name issue is really trivial. It is better to be called a Mormon than to be called a liar. But what we have received concerning the actual history of the Church are mostly lies and half truths.

Now, The Church May still be true notwithstanding the foibles of men, even Brethren, but there is still no excuse for lying and systematic deception. Christ is not the author of lies. Satan is. “Mormon” is a neutral and unimportant name. The Church fails because the Brethren have knowingly chosen, until recently, to be closet liars about the real facts of their history.

When you sew the seeds of deception, you reap the harvest of disbelief. And that is precisely what the Brethren in the 20th century chose to do. The real church of Jesus Christ would not endorse (or require) lying and deceit, because that is a sin and directly from Satan. Christ is nor afraid of the truth.

Nelson might better focus of the real, fundamental, crisis of faith engendered by the disingenuous lying of Brethren in actively concealing the truth for more than a century, over and over again. Oaks, the modern American Pharisee, might come up with some sophistry like “temporary truths” to accompany “temporary commandments” in order to weasel out of the conundrum that the these gentlemen find themselves presently facing.

Amongst possible descriptions of these ostensible apostles, “Mormon” is by far the least offensive and most inspiring.

After one living prophet authorizes expenditure of millions for several years of "I am a Mormon" and all the mormon sheeple quiescently obey, when the next living prophet says it's a victory for satan, all the mormon sheeple quiescently obey.

Conclusion: all the mormon sheeple quiescently obey.

If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior -- as all Mormons claim that they have for baptism -- then you are a saved Christian.

All saved Mormons are Christians (they just happen to believe some incredibly asinine things about Jesus , God, The Bible, etc. based on the satanic leadership of "the church" -- which tends engender a "more correct" spelling of the word -- minus the second "m" ...)

Being a Mormon (culturally) does not mean you are saved.

It is possible to be a "cultural" Mormon and not be saved.

It is possible to be saved and be a "cultural" Mormon.

It is possible to be saved and not be anything Mormon at all (3.8 billion people are ... )

Whatever you do, "mormon" or otherwise, please be sure you are saved.

Place your faith in Jesus as your Savior.

Time is short -- tomorrow is promised to no one.

Including you, dear reader ...

Every Mormon president searches for something to bring about that distinguishes him from the rest of them. Nelson's mark was the needless and costly name change. What egos!