if i get excommunicated, and i die being excommunicated, does that mean i can have a baptism, i mean can my name be on the baptisms for the dead? please answer this.
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I am laural class president and a while back a new laural moved into the ward. we immediately became good friends. At girls camp she came to me and another laural (my 2nd counselor) and said she had sex with her non-member boyfriend. She said she feels really bad about it and had some questions. We answered them to the best of our abilities but i wanted to get some enlightenment on the subject. She is considering going to the bishop (wich we have encouraged her to do) but she doesn't want her mom to know. Does the bishop have to tell her mom? And she was wondering if would it be appropriate to go with her when she goes to the bishop, to help support her? She also wondered how to make an appointment with the bishop at a time when she wouldn't have to stay after church or come in, because she is worried about her mom finding out she has to confess something to the bishop. any advice would be much appreciated.
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I have been a member for nearly 11 years. I am 22 years old. I don't know whether it was the family i was raised in or decision I made but I have always felt extreamly akward around member youth. I really need some friends with morals at this time in my life but I don't know how to get them, or even get close to members of my age group. I feel like I'm drifting, someon throw me a liferaft.
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What does a pahtriarcal ( sorry, i am guessing how to spell ), blessing tell u?
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I am a deacon, and i have a masturbation problem. I do NOT feel comfortable with telling to my parents or my bishop. What should i do?
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K, last night I had to stop myself from making a date for a determined suicide attempt. I know I need help. I just don't want to bother anybody with my problems.
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Does true love exist?
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What do you do, if you have a really annoying relative living with you, and their are a lot of fights between this relative and rest of the family. and every time they fight, your really want to jump into the argument full steam in support of your family members. but You know that will only steam up the argument. Advice?
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I masturbate maybe every other week.. I try to repent every week and make a covenant with my heavenly father. but i always break down. What should I do?
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i am a guy i am 15 have masturbated and looked at porn, i also had sex with another guy but i am not gay, i dont even look at other guys that way, i guess i was just bored and didn't think about it, it was about a year ago. will i be excommunicated?
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So, problem with pornography and masterbation. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I have wrestled with this for several years now, before a mission, off and on during a mission, and now after a mission. I've always wanted to completely stop the problem before going to my bishop so that I could say that I HAD a problem, not that I HAVE a problem. I've finally realized that this is ridiculous and that helping people THROUGH problem's is what Bishop's are for. Question is... if I stop today, and do everything my Bishop asks, and finally get rid of this problem, about how long do you think it will be before I can go back to the temple and enjoy the blessings there? I know it's up to a lot of different factors, but does anyone have any experience with this? Or know like how long it's been for other people in a similar circumstance? Thanks! By the way... this website is incredible. Totally amazing!
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I used to meet up with the missionaries and learn about Mormonism but i sort of fell in love with one of the elders... and told him.. but i want to go back to church of Jesus Christ, if i go back there i think all the missionaries will look at me weirdly because of what i had said to this Elder but i was so happy when i was going to church and trying all that stuff but i smoke and drink and i have had sex and I'm only 15 what do i do? also i pray every night and i had a dream last night that i died but i didn't go to heaven i stayed on earth but then it turns out i wasn't dead do you think that was a sign from god saying like i can start over again?
thanks.
Audrey.
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how come, everytime i goe to church, i feel depressed?
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There's a girl that I really like and want to be friends with at school. We have so much in common. We like the same music and we're into art and we both play volleyball. When I talk to her she's always nice enough, but she doesn't ever REALLY talk to me. She's just like hi and then walks away to talk to the popular girls. I invited her to sit with me at lunch and she said no and sat with some other girls instead. I asked her if she wanted to go to the park with me on Pioneer Day and she said she was going with her parents so she couldn't but them when I saw her there she was with girls from school, not her family. What am I doing wrong that she doesn't want to be my friend?
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Long story. I started masterbating when I was about 10 before I knew it was wrong. Needless so say a porn addiction followed and I have been trying to kick this habit for a LONG time. I repented with my bishop when i was about 14 but then I got back into the habit. I quit for about a month and started the repentance process again with my bishop. He suggested that I get ready for a mission and helped me prepare. Everything was cleared up and was prepared to go to the temple. After being endowed I struggled with the temple proceedings a lot. For some reason I have started to waiver in the church and started up my old habits again. Habits are like a drug that helps me cope with my feelings. Makes me distant. Will I be excommunicated if I've been through the temple? What happens now. I don't know if I could go through that kind of repentance. I know i shouldn't go on a mission if I'm in this predicament but I can't face the people I've already told about my mission and tell them I'm unworthy; especially my parents. Oh I'm up a creek. Advise?
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how do you get over the want to do mean things out of pure spite?
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Me and my friends have been fighting lately. And I think I just screwed things up even worse. What should I do?
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A lot of the time I'm really sad. I don't have a lot of friends; there aren't any other girls my age in our branch. My last foster parents (the ones I lived with before I lived here) took me to meet with the missionaries and then I got baptized. But my foster parents now aren't LDS. They let me go to church but even at church I feel really alone a lot of the time. I'm sad that I don't have a family. I talked to our branch president about this and he was nice but that didn't solve my problem forever. I try to be good all the time so I maybe my foster parents will want to keep me, but they told my worker they're too old to adopt me. I really really want parents, really bad. I pray for parents all the time, every day.
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I am at the end of my rope! I have been hooked on porn since age 11 and I am ashamed and sick of myself. I am lonely, I am stressed out, and above all, I want to stop!!!! I've tried so many different ways to stop, but it just keeps coming back! Please help me!
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Well, here it is I don't know if I'll get a response but I am basically venting. So last time i asked for help it was for the trials I have had latest one being DFS being called and my whole world being torn upside down... Well now my family might be moving, my dad is leaving with my brother in early June. I don't know when I will see them again and it's for my dad to get a job, once again he didn't keep the one he had before...
I don't want to leave where I am because it is the longest I have ever lived in one place. BUT I don't want to lose my family, I don't live directly with them right now but I at least live in the same state, 10minutes aways from them, if they move I will be 16 hours away. My brother and mom are my everything? How do I decide between my boyfriend, my best friend, My senior year, my whole life and my family. My mom told me she wouldn't make me leave my senior year but what does she think i will just let them pack up and leave like that? What do you all think I should do?
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is it too late to do the right thing?
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so i have this friend and i just found out from another person that she has been smoking pot for 4 weeks now, and i don't no what to do. I mean she acted completely normal and she just kept saying how glad she is that shes not doing bad things or drinking and stuff like that. but problem is htat she thinks that my friends and i are being way too judgmental and critical and basically over reacting. so were not talking alot right now, she basically is making us seem like the bad guy in this situation and i just dont no whether to talk to her or just give her space wat should i do.... ps. im a freshman in highschool
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I'm a girl. And I have a problem with self gratification and pornography. I hate that I have this problem and really want to be worthy to be in God's presence. It is really hard for me to go confess this to my bishop b/c I know he rarely deals with female cases in this area. The apostles always counsel BOYS in this category of sin. I don't know what to do! I'm terrified to talk to him. I don't think the words will even come out of my mouth. I've already set up the meeting but I'm not sure I can go through with it. Any advice?
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What is the problem? All it is that boys like boys and girls like girls. Why do we have so much judgement? Does any straight person care?
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I want to repent, but i really don't want to talk to my bishop. What do i do?
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Is it bad to say no when you are asked to give a talk in sacrament meeting?
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OK, First of I am 14 and I have a problem with pornography It is not as bad as it used to be, but I am still planing on meeting with the bishop about this. I want this to be between me, my bishop and the lord, or in other words I dont want my parents to find out so I can't get a ride from them to the church without them asking why I am going.
Oh, and I just can't seem to get myself to shedule a meeting with my bishop. Help!!!
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So it seems I just can't change...And I don't want this to sound all winny and poor poor me. But honestly I have been trying for over 3 years to over come some stuff. And I just can't seem to do it. An expamle I play on my school high school team, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE basketball but it brings out the WORST in me and it has since my freshman year. When I get on the court I loss ALL self control. And that is kinda like other sitations there are those situations that i just loss control of my self in. And I don't know I am just getting sick of all the stuff I am doing and can't seem to stop. If you have any advise please helP!
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I am the only mia maid in my ward and i am also the oldest young woman. Recently our stake presidency said that we have to split up for lessons and activities. I used to combine with the beehives but now i have to have all my activities and lessons with just my leaders, and its not very much fun. I know the church is true, i go to every activity and attend church every sunday. I love my church and i am completely active, but i just dont like having every activity and lesson with just me and leaders. I want to continue to go to activities but how do i when it is no fun to see all the beehives all together laughing and having fun and i have to leave by myself with my leaders. does anyone have any suggestions for what i could do? anything will help. thanks!
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how do you stop masterbating?
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is it a bad thing if i really dont like the bible? and is it okay to think that God doesnt love me? i know he doesnt love me though.
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ok, i'm not mormon.
I thought i would get that out there before i started any thing else.
I really need a lot of help because i want to learn about lds, but my parents will not let me.
they say that i can't do it as long as i am in their house.
i want to do it for God, but i'm not sure whether that "trumps" my parents or not.
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If you go to the bishop with a pornography/masturbation problem, do your parents have to find out? My brother had a problem along these lines and I think it damaged his relationship with my parents. I don't want my parents to be disappointed in me.
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what do i do if i have met with my bishop about self gratification and i still do it and feel terrible after and just cant overcome myself
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is it absolutely nessisary to talk to your bishop about serious sins or are you ok if you can handle it yourself
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I'm starting to question the church and feel alone... I don't know what to do.
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has anyone been in a meeting with there bishop about self gratification if so
what happens?
how confiedintial is it
will anyone else be in there with you and the bishop
will there be meeting that will follow
will your parents know
will it go on church records
please help ASAP
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what will happen if i die knowing i SHOULD have talked to my bishop about self gratification but never did and why dose it have to be the bishop dose he have some secret plan or secret power to help me repent or will he just give me advice
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Ok so I am 17 years old and for about a year now i have had feelings for this girl in my ward. And i know its more than just a "crush." I feel like having it be so long since i started liking her that it has got be more than just a silly little crush. The only problem is is that she just turned 15 about a month ago and i don't know what i should do. I don't think i can wait another year without telling her but i don't want to tell her and ruin our friendship! We've been great friends for over a year and i would hate it if something came between us. I want to uphold church standards and that means waiting for her to turn 16 but thats a year away! Any help would be great. Thanks.
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how to overcome crazy thoughts?
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How do you exlain the Holy Ghost to a non-member. The last three years I've been in marching band and last month I felt a prompting that I shouldn't do it this coming year. Now everybody (band wise) knows and their pressuring me to do it anyways. When I was contemplating dropping out of the school play, I felt the prompting that I should stick with it and it worked out, so I know it works. I'm just unsure how to tell every one the basis of my decision.
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When I was in 8th grade I wasn't really good at keeping the standards of the church and I had an experience that brought me really close to the gospel and I was living by the standards up until now. I am now in 10th grade and I started having Word of Wisdom problems to begin with. I have stopped doing all of that, but I have really big problems with sexual sin. I made a horrible decision to break the law of chastity, and I feel really bad about it. I havent done that and I told my boyfriend that I fealt guilty and he understood. He isnt a member but I invited him to church and he went and he is reading the book of mormon with me and is going to get missionary lessons. But basically what I need help with is that I dont know what to do about what I did.. I feel so guilty and I wish I could have just saved it until I was married. I remember that I used to be so good and little by little I was tempted and I just feel so guilty
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Is there any hope for a gay person that doesn't want to change?
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hey i have a problem there is a girl i like at school and i want to take her out she is on the school tennis team and i was wondering if i took her and played tennis if that would be a fun and a appropreat first date?also how would you ask a girl on a date like that? I need help.
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I am going to live a life, and succeed in my goals and dreams. I am gay and other people need to know that this church only makes me suffer because, they want to change me. I don't want to change. maybe i should never of told anyone i'm gay. i know people care about me, but in the end, i'm the one suffering. i don't know how to live with being unaccepted. why? why does life have to be so hard on me? God, if u had empathy and mercy and kind, u would help me!!!
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I am bulemic.. and can't stop
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I find it really easy to forgive others. I could probably forgive someone for stealing my life savings. That ability might change as my life savings grow, but thats beside the point.
The problem is that while I forgive others, I find it hard pressed to find it in my heart to forgive myself. I always find a way to blame my self.
In my freshman year a girl died in an alcohol related single-car accident. I remembered that I had felt a prompting to share the gospel with her. Afterwards to a small degree, I blamed my self. I think I'm over that now. I have bigger fish to fry.
I think.
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ok, i'm going to try and relay this across without being to inappropriate. I love my boyfriend. We are both go to institute, talk about god, read our scriptures etc. He's my best friend and boyfriend. He was the first boy i ever kissed. We've been together nearly 6 months. Cut to the chase, we've been really really physical. i've never had much physical experience, but sometimes i let things happen. I feel like if i don't say no EVERY time, the time i don't say no (i don't say yes) but we end up in the back of a car or on the couch. I feel bad because i like it but i know its wrong. Sometimes i even WANT it. Its gotten so bad that sometimes it ends up us not having shirts on. I'm really scared to talk to the bishop because i feel like its my fault but i feel like i was a bit pressured to do it too. what do we do?
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Hey, I really love my girlfriend but we are getting a little too physical. Sometimes I just wish we were married. What should i do?
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I keep trying to be a better person. But i just can't seem to overcome myself wants. I keep falling back into pornography, and into self gratification. I don't know what to do. I've seen my bishop a few times, i pray about it. but my self control has gone out the window. what can i do?
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