Meet a Real Mormon!

Sometimes people ask me why I chose a church with so many rules. Now I'll admit at first, it did seem like there were a lot of rules. Of course, I like rules. I think they're a huge timesaver. So let's talk about that first, and then I'll get to how it felt at first.

Back before I joined the church, I worried a lot about what was right or wrong. I'm a rules person. But I didn't always know what the rules were, so I had all these notebooks and I'd make charts and try to analyze things to figure out what God wanted me to do. It's a great deal of work to make all your own rules and to create your own religion, which is pretty much what you're doing when you're trying to make all the rules yourself.

Knowing the rules in advance saves time and stress.

But just at first, the rules seemed a little overwhelming, mostly because they were new and I didn't know yet which ones were right, so I was still busy with my little charts, trying to figure it all out.

Then I learned how to pray to find out if the church was true--all of it. Once I got that answer, and it took a long time, I was freed from making thousands of individual decisions. If God said this one church had all the answers, I could look there and skip the hours of research and analysis. That isn't letting someone else make my decisions for me--unless you're talking about God. It was simply finding out where God had put all the answers and then referring to that source.

Now there were still times when I wasn't so sure. I was always encouraged to then go back to God for confirmation on that particular doctrine. After a time though, when I always got the same answer, I began to trust God more, and didn't need individual confirmation so often.

I trust God. He knows how to give me answers I can recognize as His, and He always gets the answers right.

You get used to the rules and after a bit, it doesn't seem like too many, because you're in the habit of living that way. The way I live is comfortable, and if the church suddenly disappeared, I wouldn't live any differently. It's just right for me, because it's just right to God.