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585. When a Child (or other loved one) Leaves the Church, from lds.org. Great insights!

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This is a great article from LDS.org, and gives us a lot of peace when facing a loved one leaving the Church. When a Child Leaves  the Church                                          by LDS.org  | Jan. 26, 2016                                 Makes You Think Mormon Life By Robin Zenger Baker The author lives in Massachusetts, USA. Listen   Download   Print   Share We can embrace the principle that our children are blessed with agency, even when they use it to head in directions we don’t agree with. Illustrations by Iker Ayestaran Weeks had passed since my adult daughter had moved to a new city, and each Sunday that she missed church brought me the same concerns. Would she ever return to church? I tried everything I could think of to get her there: encouragement, logic, pleading, acting as her personal alarm clock, prayer, fasting, even calling her bishop. Since we lived 2,000 miles (3,220 km) apart, it was difficult for me to attend with her, but