Made up to the church by serving a mission with his wife for three years in Boston. DAMU: Disaffected Mormon Underground. Darkness: The total lack of any light for three days, where even the sun could not light up the clouds during the day, and no one could light a fire with dry...
While reading stories submitted toDear Mormon Friends, I came across the websiteLetter For My Wife. The ever-curious author studied newly-accessible LDS church resources – which eventually led him out of the church. He pleads for understanding and support from his spouse and children at the ou...
Sometime around 1890 at the age of 27 Jens Peter Pedersen and his wife Inger Marie arrived in America from Denmark with their 4 children. In Denmark they had converted to Mormonism. I think it’s safe to assume that giving up one’s home country, traveling to the opposite end of the ...
The second degree gave the privilege of spiritual wife-hood. -- Mrs. Cobb took this degree, and urged the witness to take it, and spoke of her connection with Young. Judge Wilde decreed a full divorce from the bonds of matrimony. F. A. Fabeus, Esq., counsel for the petitioner, ...
Lawson's child from the fire because the child had "a great work to do for its dead ancestors," and a repentant apostate revealed that in committing adultery he had sinned both against his wife and against God, "inasmuch as I had entered into holy covenants with Him."63 The gospel ...
s young wife suddenly and unexpectedly over two years ago. This hit me so hard, because we were friends who lived on the same street, we were the exact same age, and had the same number of children, many of whose ages overlapped. For weeks, I mourned heavily over this loss because I...
Let the Mormon who has a plurality of women remember that he must conform to the practice elsewhere and call but one of them his wife. This, Mr. President, is the point we have reached. This is the distinction we have drawn70. This is our present policy and practice as applied to ...