My husband and I got our official letters from the mormon church today saying that our names have been removed from church records, however neither of our letters said anything about our children. Does anyone know if this automatically means our children have had their names removed too? One of our children has already been baptized, and all of them are under 18. I would have called, but of course I picked up the mail after 5pm on a Friday evening, so now I need to wait for Monday... Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience lately?

I wouldn't count on it. All of my over-18 kids signed a resignation letter along with me, but two of them weren't removed because they were in college and their official church address was their college address. Since their resignation had to go to their "home" stake president (college), and not to their (real home) stake president, they weren't removed.

The church will always find a way through those loopholes. I'd call Greg Dodge if I were you to see what your children's status is. Sorry, don't have the number. Anyone?

Notanymore, we read the book Maybe Yes, Maybe No: A Guide for Young Skeptics, first (that was a great book on questioning things that can be applied to religion). We then talked about questioning things as we read a story a day from In the Beginning, Creation Stories from Around the World (we're still reading this, and my kids love it). I think this helped my kids see that there is more than one perspective on religion, something I had not done a good job of teaching them before. We also read a children's book from the library on world religions throughout history (I don't remember which one we read at the moment, but we went over one religion a day like Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, etc). It's been interesting to talk with them now, and ask for their opinions on religion, my 7 and 9 year olds are most leaning towards Agnostic beliefs, although they find Buddhism interesting too. I really hope things work out well for you and your family.

DH & I read where you wrote about studying world religions as a family. Do you have any books that you used that you would recommend. We are in a very similar situation. We are thinking about resigning from the church. We have been discussing what we will teach our children (ages 9,7,4) after leaving and I just love this idea. I think that it would be a great place to start as a family.

Studying world religions is a great start but nothing is better than being in a setting where the religion is in practice - in action - SO I vote for attending different types of churches. Your kids will find a fit more quickly than you perhaps. Go several times and look at the youth programs - many have wkly youth meetings, many have choirs, camping, mission trips for the kids, etc. All the best as you free yourself from the Mormon fraud.

From what I've read, they apparently sometimes include the kids and other times they don't.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/18/2012 08:41AM by Cheryl.

For your child that was baptised they will need to separately request that their membership be removed.

For the others you don't.

One of my daughters, who was still living at home with me, and over 18 (Sr. in high school), signed my resignation letter and her name was removed.

Perhaps, like so many other things in the church, it depends on who handles the request. For a church that boasts it's the same no matter where you go, there seems to be no set standard for anything.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/18/2012 11:19AM by DebbiePA.

The important part is that she signed your letter. In this way she requested her name to also be removed.

You are right though, it is up to the bishop and stake president to process the removals so there will be inconsistency.

I just thought I'd post an update... it seems that the mormon church did remove my husband, myself, and our two younger unbaptized children, but not our oldest. The person I talked to thinks it was an oversight by the bishop not realizing that he needed to fill out a separate form for her since she has been baptized. They are going to call the bishop and I should get a letter in the mail (hopefully soon) saying that my oldest dd has been removed from membership records as well. It will be so nice when this whole thing is behind us. For now, I'm really enjoying my coffee as I type this.