329. How to Handle Family Opposition After Becoming Mormon, from milennialmormons.com
This was on LDS Living, Dec. 19, 2014, and came from millennialmormons.com (That is a good site to check out!) I thought some of you may have experienced the same type of opposition when you joined the Church. It would help missionaries to know how to support a new convert who has family opposition. How to Handle Family Opposition After Becoming Mormon BY LAUREN HARRAHILL · DECEMBER 17, 2014 One night when I was 17 years old I knelt beside my bed and sincerely asked Heavenly Father for my own testimony. I prayed, “Heavenly Father, if I’m going to do this I have to feel something.” After I said that I could feel something I never felt before, reassurance. I suddenly knew without a doubt not only that this was the one true church but that I had to start working to be baptized. I began to cry not just because of the answer I had received but because I knew it meant I would lose my dad. I’m from a part member family. Growing up my mom was active in the LDS church but my