My story is pretty much exactly what to expect at minimum for a regular bishops interview to receive a temple recommend. I always lied about masturbating because I never wanted anyone to learn of my shame I hid at night. Every time I masturbated I would cry profusely for hours curled up in a ball…
I am a female, and was around 14 when this happened. My home ward had (still has) a HUGE problem with gossiping and I was often the topic of gossip among some of the adult members in my ward. I was called into the bishops office for a temple recommend interview and he asked all…
Ever since I could remember, I’ve been in the Mormon church. Throughout that time, I can honestly say that I never really believed. I couldn’t say why, but some things didn’t seem right, but I would push it away and try not to think about it. I remember right after being baptized the feeling that…
When I was about 13 or 14 years old, I went in for an interview with our very charismatic bishop that everyone in the ward just loved. In particular, everyone said he was “so good with the youth”. My reason for going in was not to confess anything, but either for a birthday interview or…
I had the usual worthiness interviews starting at age twelve. Until I was fifteen, they were always on script. I never had anything to say to the contrary of any of the questions, I was never prodded. I did dislike the youth temple trip interviews being done during church hours being pulled out of class…
I started to be sexually abused around age six by my brother. Then when I was 12, I was gang raped by 5 grown men. After the rape, my grandfather started to rape me as well as my brother. I am a recovered bulimic and in my 60’s. I have been in counseling all my…
When I was age 11-15, I had different experiences with different bishops. I have never had the courage to say anything, and I also have never had a place where I can feel safe to talk about it. These men are part of my family’s community still to this day, and the encounters were so…
When I was 12, I was interviewed by not the bishop but someone else in the bishopric. Alone in a room with the door closed, I was asked if I had ever masturbated by a man 30 years older than me. When I was 12. I didn’t know what that meant, so I said that…
I am woman in my late 20s who has grown up in a very devout and large LDS family in Northern Europe.Even thought there are smaller amount of Mormons in Northern Europe, the church culture has always been the #1 part of my family’s life. From when I was small girl I was taught to…
I was raised from birth in the LDS Church. Having been told I was so lucky to have been born into such a wonderful organization for as long as I could remember, I believed it, and in many ways it kept me from leaving for several decades. Around the age of 12, I had my…