tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045193932541272619.post2021769448460611038..comments2023-09-03T01:03:27.418-07:00Comments on 548 days of Tucson, Arizona Mission: Elder SwagUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045193932541272619.post-9454581147528485482012-01-29T16:32:33.410-08:002012-01-29T16:32:33.410-08:00i love your blog!i love your blog!Elshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04752761100580070516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045193932541272619.post-2585434732074919172012-01-27T20:57:34.753-08:002012-01-27T20:57:34.753-08:00How come you can't say when you are at the Tem...How come you can't say when you are at the Temple? Is that so your family/friends can't scope out when you are there? I guess that makes sense. Hmmm. <br /><br />I totally get the resistance to re-baptism thing. (Among other things,) that's always been one of the things that has held me back from conversion! I was baptized into the Lutheran church, a confirmed member as a young adult/young teenager, and I don't doubt the authority that was done under. It's hard when you were raised in a church that believes in all paths to God, versus having so much love for a church that only believes in ONE path. That makes it super hard, because it goes against my core beliefs of how God loves us. That he will love you, and take you, and accept you, no matter what name you call him by (Alla, Jehovah, God, Heavenly Father... it's all the same to me!), or what book you study (Just the Old Testament, the Koran, King James version, BOM, whatever!). No matter what church baptizes you, or whether you are baptized at all, I was raised to believe in a loving God that will take you in his arms upon your death and accept you if your heart was good. That we all go to the same place, regardless. That regardless of whether a marriage takes place in the temple, that marriage, and that family will be together for eternity. That that is how relationships between heaven and earth work. <br /><br />All of that said, I LOVE the LDS church, and the teachings, and the temple, RS, the community, and everything else. But adding new beliefs is SUPER hard. I've been (and my BFF who is a member) working on it for the last 15 years and I still have not converted. I wish I could just get over it! But it's really hard!<br /><br />In the meantime, I just love reading about the church, living as close to a temple-worth life as possible but still sticking to this weird mesh of Lutheranism and LDS religious beliefs! I am so weird! ;)Emily Heizer Photographyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483149630816603197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1045193932541272619.post-75222635098850760772012-01-25T18:26:35.408-08:002012-01-25T18:26:35.408-08:00Awesome! I love Hna Aguas already and will def. b...Awesome! I love Hna Aguas already and will def. be following her blog!! If you want to see her companion, Hna Anna Spencer's blog follow this link:<br /><br />http://annamaespencer.blogspot.com/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00028468647885682448noreply@blogger.com