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Lynn Blair Testimony

I never was much of a church-going person. However I was a Christian. I read my Bible everyday and knew I needed to live by it. The Bible was by far my favorite book, and really the only one I would read and not be forced to. Things started to change when I graduated high school and entered into college. I started meeting new friends with so many different faiths. I started attending their churches to see what it was like. One friend really had a pull on me...as I considered her my "best friend." She was a Mormon. But we didn't much talk about her religion, as I was just a friend and sharing with her my musical talents. We both have Scottish descent and a strong interest in the bagpipes. I had been playing for several years and we first met like I meet most of my students. But she was special. She had a quality in her that I really admired, and I didn't know what it was. Come to find out the quality was her religious sense. She was a very devout follower of her religion, and she believed it (and still does) strongly. I saw how great a person this made her, and I began to inquire about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I could see the excitement in her eyes as she began to realize I was interested. We talked more and more and the more we talked the more interested I became, as this seemed like a great church and one I would most likely enjoy. She later contacted the Mormon missionaries and had them visit with me, and I was baptized and converted. A few months passed and I was still active. I really wasn't seeing my friend that much because of a new job she had started was eating up her schedule. She wasn't taking lessons from me as regularly either. I began to feel like I had been ditched. In light of this, I was planning on leaving on a mission soon. So one day I decided to research the doctrine completely so I could be the best missionary possible. As I researched, I found so many things wrong, and I went back and read the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants. I began to realize the contradictions to the Bible. I knew right then Mormonism wasn't true, and I felt like an idiot that I had let a friend introduce me to a false religion. I've since had my member records removed from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. My "friend" also says she no longer wishes to associate with me because of my apostacy and disobedience. But all at the same time I've been blessed with so many new things after my departure. I grew in my faith and learned how to stand stronger in my Christian convictions through this. I've gained several friends, and have joined a Christian Church where I am now truly "feeling the spirit." These are just some of the ways leaving Mormonism has been a blessing to me.

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