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…
For over 7 years I was had meetings with my bishop/stake president/mission president at least monthly to talk about my masturbation “addiction”. Most of them were kind and did not ask for many details. They always told me I could overcome it if I had faith in Jesus Christ and tried to access his atonement.…