Mormons Seeing Satan, Demons, & More - SPOOKY MORMONISM
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2023
- Demons, Devils, and Cain... oh my! Can't wait to read those comments, be a dear and leave a LOT of them please!!!!
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I literally saw/sensed demons on my mission and told people and they believed me and never got me professional help and it turns out I was actually experiencing a mental break due to the stress.
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I've heard it explained that atheists don't get possessed because since we don't believe in God our souls are already damned and so Satan doesn't need to bother. Sounds a bit too convenient to me. I left the church 26 years ago so I haven't heard stories like this in a while. I had forgotten how ridiculous they are.
Mormonism doesn't pass the laugh test, its a religion that is shrinking in the US and most countries. The faster it goes away the better.
❤ thanks for the great story...
Yet one more reason to be atheist. Don't have to worry about those pesky possessions that were so common when I was active. 😂
I was taught the same nonsense. I think much of the messaging was designed to make cognitive dissonance be a positive experience to build faith if you cut put it in the context of [persecution complex] being persecuted for your righteousness sake- no different from Jesus and the Apostles in the Bible.
What is open counsel...is that like service or mass??
That second story, sounded like a guy who was making up a bunch of excuses why he didn’t go to the temple.
“Oh I totally wanted to go to the temple but my cow got out mysteriously and I had to search for them, what a shame”
When I was 16, a guy with frosted tips and pierced ears came to church and flirted with me for like a minute or two. The YW leaders were convinced he was the devil. Because apparently the devil went to a random LDS ward to flirt with a 16yo ace girl for two minutes...?
Satan will try to stop you from going to the temple. Maybe he's not so bad after all.
He's trying to keep you from wasting your time and money lol
But the Prince of Darkness is a gentleman. Modo, he's called, and Mahu...
Imagine a demon that cautions against an institution that enforces self servitude, practices non-consensual touching, and commands self-sacrifice before revealing secrets. Who's really the bad guy?
My mom told me about a time when she was a teenager at girls camp where apparently 3 girls used a ouija board and were possessed by demons, and the bishop had to drive up in the middle of the night so he and the other priesthood leaders there, one of which was my grandpa, could do an exorcism. The girls always said they were fine and nothing had happened, and my grandpa thinks they just can't remember because of the demons. I'm just imagining these girls messing around with a ouija board and then having to sit through a bunch of dudes doing an exorcism for no reason 🤣
Sooo you see, bishop, what had happened was...I was planning to be at temple night, buuuut you see, Satan made my horse sick, so yeah, that's why I was at the saloon instead 😅
I hated any time I had to lock the doors and make sure all the lights were off in the church building. There is nothing scarier that the inside of a Mormon church at night.
I can think of one place that might be scarier. My first job was as a school janitor, I worked the afternoon shift which sometimes went into the night and I think there's nothing creepier than being alone in a school at night. And then when I had to go around turning off the lights. THAT WAS FREAKY. Then when I went away to college I became a student equipment manager for the football team and we took turns on nights when we might have to work late. Which didn't happen a lot but more than a few times. It was an older building in a very windy area and that was ALSO FREAKY! Especially since the school newspaper had published a story about the rumor that the place was haunted.
I had that job. Temples are nice but churches are way too institutional with their cinder block walls, won-doors, acoustic ceiling tile and complete lack of decor. For a "house of God" it's awfully Stanley Kubrick.
An abandoned hospital or hospital floor that is not in use is creepier.
@@michaellines2063 its the local franchise look the church wants.
I always thought the scariest place was when I was surfing in dark murky water. Don't know if there's a great white down there.
Thanks for sharing Lex. I remember people telling these kind of stories all the time while I grew up in the church. I even have one of my own. My "Demon Encounter" happened while I was on my mission. Here's the entry from my journal, with names changed for privacy:
"We went to an apartment building which we had visited previously. We walked up the stairs to one of the doors we figured was one of our former investigators. When we knocked, a growling voice from down the hall said "enter." Sister F and I looked at each other in confusion. The woman behind the door we knocked on wasn't who we were looking for, but as we turned to leave a door down the hall opened and a man came stumbling out and demanded to know who we were. I explained that we were looking for a woman we had previously taught. Sister F invited him to hear more about the Gospel. A low growl came from his throat and his face took on a feature that I can not explain. In a voice that was not his own he said "What would you say if you looked at the devil straight in the face?" All instincts screamed at me to run away, but something held me there. I could feel the Holy Ghost working through me. I don't know what I said, but I remember the distinct feeling of peace coming over me. I felt like Abinadi, who could not be destroyed by the priests of King Noah. But when I had delivered the words which the Lord wished me to, Sister F and I quickly retreated. It wasn't until we were in the car did I realize what had actually taken place. Fear wracked my soul, for I know that I was looking at a devil when that man spoke. this man clearly had an unclean spirit within him. I started crying , the realization of our danger hit me so hard. But the Lord protected us and led us with his holy arm. I am grateful he was watching over us."
What I didn't write in my journal was the next day Sister F declared we were going to go back to that mans apartment with the Elders and we were all going to perform an exorcism on him. I told her she was out of her mind and there was no way in hell I was going back to that mans house. I really was terrified to go back. I had a lot of dangerous experiences happen to me on my mission.
Looking back on it, the man was probably drunk off of his ass and decided to scare a couple of naïve girls wondering around on a cold, dark winter night.
I'm laughing and cringing so hard while I re-read this. One, my grammar is bad; two, I sound like someone who has been reading the Book of Mormon way too much. 🤣
Lol, thanks for sharing!
I love these mission stories! There are so many to discuss!
They were" dressed shabily" because they didn't pay their tithing and couldn't receive the blessings of the temple (sarcasm alert)
Anyone else now wanting a movie in the style of Monty Python all about the life of Cain and his experience with running into all these different Mormons?!
And it shall be called "Citizen Cain"!
Woah! I got chills with those stories! ...then I realized I had just gone outside without my jacket on. 🙃 😅
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I got chills too. At how cringe they were.
Oof, some of these tales bring back memories. My dad is superstitious in the medieval sense. I heard so often about people being possessed by demons, and not to discuss supernatural things like ghosts. I remember being a child, around 6 years old, and i told my parents i didnt like going to church for the first time. I got a lecture from my father and a story of a kid around my age who didnt go to church with his family, and because he stayed home a robber(possessed by a demon) broke into the house and killed the kid. It was a very "Thats why you always leave a note!" upbringing...
That is so terrible that your father told you that story. You must have been terrified.
Satan is hands down the most fun to watch character in the god awful temple movie
Keep your hands out of there PuppetHouse. Don't let Satan have his way with you again!
in the Reddit exmo community, everybody says that hands down Michael Ballam was the best Satan.
@dreibel it help that Micheal Ballam was in the Arts (music and theater)
@@cartercordingley6062 he was favorite Satan
Do you think Cain travels via airplane between temple dedications or swims like he did during the flood?
Oh man, I also had extreme sleep paralysis for years and would pray for God to save me all night. It was a very heavy item on my shelf, especially when members would recount miracles of praying and finding their keys in testimony meeting
Edit: omg I also spent a lot of my teens thinking that I was prone to possession from demons, but it turns out it was an unfortunate combination of DID and severe prolonged insomnia scrambling my brains. Once I left home (and the church) and got help with my sleep issues/therapy, these issues improved significantly, where getting countless blessings did worse than nothing.
Credited by people who claim to be religious that Satan's looks like the most handsome gorgeous angel gods ever made
Wait, if Cain is still alive and will never die, how is he showing up to EVERY temple dedication spiritually? Is he able to astral project? Is he a mutant like Apocalypse? So many questions!!
Right? Like how are we going to be gods again? My husband and I married in the temple so we will be gods of our world. My son married in the temple too, so he and his wife are gods of another world. How is this families are together forever? I had my name and LD$s# removed years ago.
My patriarchal blessing happened when I was an adult as I was a convert at age 26. The patriarch had to be 90 years old if he was a day. His hands kept sliding down the sides of my head and he'd have to repeatedly reposition them. It said I would be an inspiration through music and I used to joke about a tissue and comb since I didn't play an instrument. It said I would entertain the 3 Nephites in my home due to my worthiness. I would joke that the day they showed up my house would be a mess. It also said my sons and daughters would be examples of righteousness, yet i was infertile and never conceived. Now that my husband and i are out due to the "revelation" instructing the church to shun and shame the 8 year old children of same gender families , I know it's a bunch of bs.
Indeed it is BS. My patriarchal blessing was the same scenario but I had three family members there getting theirs too. We all fasted, prayed, went to the temple the day prior etc.. I thought my reading was very peculiar. Later we all got transcripts in the mail. Only mine said "VOID" lmao ! Apparently he forgot many things (ritual repeated statements) ie: I am the linage of.... idk anyone who had to do theirs over again but I took it as a sign and never went back to the fortune teller- lol
When I was 9 and the bishop's daughter was 8, I convinced her that our church was haunted by dark spirits and that they'd get her if she ever walked in the church alone without her BOM. This girl clutched her scripture bag so tightly for *years* after that and believed it so strongly I started to believe my own story. I think she's still TBM but if you're reading this- sorry Eliza!
Once, a long time ago, a sister missionary in the ward I used to belong to, had a really bad pain in her shoulder. She couldn't get rid of it. She was from SLC and serving in England, so, she phoned her dad, yes to SLC from England..who said it sounded like a possession! So, over the phone, he exorcised the demon. And she felt better after that....
My dad and his family to this day believe there was a ghost named George that lived in their attic and would stomp around until they told him to go to sleep
Move
Cain: "Love that the Mormons are building so many Temples now, I need my overtime"
I thought the same thing.
I feel like when your Grandparents left the Ouiji board party, the evil spirits said "game on!" like kids do when a car passes them when playing street hockey.
I misheard the first story as happening during the 1990s and was very confused why the Mormon guy was more worried about how to hold that many people in the temple than the fact they had horse and buggies.
I do have a three nephites story... It didn't happen to me, but my younger sister. My family has a bunch of German shorthaired pointers, and they got out one day and a roaming the neighborhood and we didn't know. The only one home at the time was my younger sister. She discovered they were gone and started calling us and calling around and looking around the neighborhood and she couldn't find them. And then she heard a knock at the door, a 'mysterious man She didn't recognize (Not one in the neighborhood and not one from the ward) had the dogs and said are these yours? And the dogs ran inside. Oh my gosh I've been looking for them everywhere Yes thank you so much!!!!
My step mom gets home and is told the story, and her first response was 'OH THAT MUST HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE THREE NEPHITES, YOU WERE SO LUCKY!!!! WOOOOOOW"
🤣🤣🤣 This coming from a woman who is a batshit crazy malignant narcissist. Gross, I tasted bile.
Silly Satan! Cults and good movies need a bad guy more than any other doctrine to give purpose and unify the group. You see this with Mormonism, most Christian denominations, political parties, and Marvel Comics. After sharing CES letter highlights with a friend, she said, "well, you might be right, but I KNOW Satan lives, and no one can convince me otherwise." Yikes.
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So when I was 13 I wanted to join the mormom church. My dad said you can't be baptized or join until you are 18, but you can go to church service on Sundays. My mormon 'sponsor's you will, told me that it was Satan talking through my dad and we needed a priesthood holder to banish him. Needless to say, my dad did NOT take this information very well 😂 He did still let me go to church service on Sunday, but I quickly lost interest, and I'm sure that was Satan too 🙄🤪🤣
The story of the couple dedicating their hotel room on their honeymoon. She just used the “gift of feeling vibing” as a way to get out of sex.
I'll bet she had that feeling often.
Well that doesn't bode well for the marriage.
@@jeffk464 Has she never heard of the "I've got a headache" excuse? This one seems a bit drastic.
I'm so glad your grandparents were so respectful as to leave the ouija board gathering so that it would work again and the party could continue! ...Nice to hear of overly religious people un-pooping a party for once ;-)
My old Branch President told a Sunday School class about the time his grandfather saw Satan outside the Cardston Temple. He felt a premonition of evil and asked the Lord to open his eyes - and there was Mr. Beezybub! Interestingly, he described the devil as being one of the most handsome men he had ever seen, the only thing wrong was the evil look in his eyes. Grandpa quickly held his arm to the square and told Satan to depart - the devil got a scared look on his face, moaned and disappeared, leaving the smell of sulphur in his wake.
BTW, the Cain/Bigfoot story appeared in The Miracle Of Forgiveness.
Oh, and that’s a rock in’ Plusheen shirt you’re wearing there!
😂😂 I use to believe satan attacked me bec of rock music. It was all in my head. I was a kid and had been taught satan attacks Christians who listen to KISS. 😂😂 Knights In Satans service😂😂
I knew about Michael Jackson, but had no idea Kiss could harm you.
7:38 I had my first and only episode of sleep paralysis when I was 13. I thought it was a demon. My parents were only cultural Catholics, but they sent me to Catholic school where I became indoctrinated and believed it was true. When I had recovered from the sleep paralysis episode, I dashed upstairs to my parents room and told them what had happened. They didn’t know what sleep paralysis was, but they were smart enough to convince me that it wasn’t a demon - It was just my brain reacting to the painkillers. (I had just gotten my wisdom teeth out and had been given opiates for the first time.) It took me a while to believe them, but I can’t imagine what it would have done to my psyche if they had confirmed that it was, in fact, a demon. My terror would have been traumatizing.
The gift of feeling vibes lmao best part of this video 😅
i swear with every story i feel like im going insane lmao
Great video! You brought back memories of my young men’s leader telling us similar stories of people wrestling with Satan all night long, and 3 nephite appearances. I’m so happy I dont have to believe in that stuff anymore.
Sounds like the best way to avoid Satan is to avoid religion!
What a great topic! The superstition that seems to come along with high demand religion, particularly Mormonism, always seems to get blamed on Satan when things go wrong... because the church "is never wrong." I had one of those self induced feeling the powers of darkness while on my mission. My mission president, a BYU-I professor of psychology, didn't seem to think much of it really making some loose quote about "opposition in all things." Looking back at it now I just wanted one of those epic conversion stories we always hear about from leaders. It wasn't long after I left my mission early, and began the years long process of leaving the church once I realized it wasn't what it claimed.
I was raised Roman Catholic and when I was 4 I saw Jesus, when I was 7 ,I realized there was no god , thus ending my desire to be a priest when I grew up.
There was a guy who got engaged to a friend of mine. They were pretty unsuited to one another and ended up breaking it off. He then later got engaged to another girl I knew. That girl said that Satan had been trying to keep them apart. Well, they got married and later they divorced. She is now remarried. Hmmm
That Logan Temple President Thanos’ed Satan. Impressive.
This was fun, thanks for another great episode!
Can't wait for the exorcism episode. Lol, I have to admit, my companion and I "exorcised" a demon when I was a missionary. One of the most bizarre experiences I've ever had. I remember feeling simultaneously weirded out, creeped out, and utterly ridiculous all at the same time. Someone will have to double check my memory on this, but I seem to recall that there was a section in the old white pocketbook on how to do it. I think it was your typical blessing, but you have to cast out the demon in the name of the father, the son, and the holy ghost or something like that.
We did it cause a member came and told us that their sibling was possessed. It was extremely anticlimactic. We finished and absolutely nothing happened at all, so we shook hands and left. My companion and I then spent the rest of the evening creeping each other out with scary Mormon stories. We talked to the branch president later that evening. He told us that it was like the tenth time they had asked missionaries and other priesthood members to do it. He was actively trying to get them to go seek therapy. We laughed and felt even more silly.
Listening to these ideas after I’ve left sounds hilarious. 😂 I can’t believe I believed a lot of these things.
That Satan story at the temple was great! Ha ha ha!!! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my gosh! I remember thinking this way too! When the Internet would cut out during general conference I would legit blame satan for interrupting the signal. 😂
Yeah I remember being severely depressed in my teen years, so much so I would ask for blessings to help me cope and I was usually just told that I wasn’t depressed, it was just satan tempting me and that I was ‘better than that’. Coming from depressed suicidal teen, that really hurts. Also, I have seen quite a few people have a psychotic episode in my life…..which is suspiciously similar to a lot of ‘possession’ stories
I picture Satan looking like Darth Maul. 😁😂
Satan's demons seem a bit lazy, he's having to do all the work himself in these stories 😂
Sleeping on your back can induce sleep paralysis. I've had some weird dreams in that state. I did have weird dreams anyways at various times that were just regular nightmares.
I remember dreaming that my Bishop and a few other ward members met me in a deep forest. They were suffering from failed resurrection and looked like rotting walking corpses. I think I was suspecting at the time that Mormonism was a bit half-assed, and that they probably would get a half-ass ressurection.
12:41 🤣🤣🤣
I'm actually related to Abraham Smoot, one of the people in the mormon church who helped start and spread the idea that Cain is Sasquatch. (My dad's favorite joke is that we're the branch of the family that didn't fall off the wagon train in Utah. 😂) If you (and possibly the hubby) are ever up for it, some dramatic readings of historic testimonials would be hilarious.
I appreciate the mommy bedtime style voice just adds to the fictional story 😂
bravo.. I'm loving the spooky mormonism... yay! thanks
If you hear hoofbeats outside, it might be zebras but, chances are, it's horses.
Great video as always and your Pusheen shirt was super cute.
I'm here for the shirt 🐈 🍂 🍁 🍄
So guy meets Satan and instead of reacting like "Holy fuck! It's Satan! Duck & Cover!" he's more like "OK, so whassup?"
Stuck with covid, thanks for the always anticipated content to keep me going☺️🤧😷 Love the spooky vibes 👻
Lex, you said, "Can you imagine having sleep paralysis and thinking the devil attacked you?"
I mimmediately thought, "Can you imagine having sleep paralysis and thinking you were visited by an angel who gave you some gold plates?"
Back in the late 1970s I flew to Washington, DC to attend the wedding of one of the missionaries that taught me, the DC temple was only a few years old. His family had driven from TN and we were all going to ride in his grandpa's car but it wouldn't start the morning of the wedding. We took a taxi, he got married, took a taxi back the the hotel and when Grandpa tried the car started right up. His cute little grandma said, "that old satan tinkled in the carburetor this morning. "
Love this
Love the pusheen sweater 😍
One of my ward leaders told us about an experience he had on his mission. Wish I could recall the details. Similar to the one you shared about them being locked in for a ritual
When I was a TBM, I absolutely would have believed everything you shared in this video 😅😂-- now that I am free of the cult, I can't believe I ever thought any of it was true. The indoctrination, mind control techniques, and strict structures of a closed construct system ruled every decision I ever made up til about 2020. Covid saved my life, and my 5 kids' lives.
Not sure how Cain could still walk the Earth.
Didn't everyone but Noah's family die in the Flood Story?
Maybe Cain is also a hairy merman? 🤭
Cognitive dissonance.
Oh hey! I betcha that Mariner Merrill guy (the one with the satanic horsemen at the Logan Temple) is my relative! My uncle is David Mariner Merrill. (Irrelevant, but fun.) My good friend at BYU casually mentioned that they had a demonic possession at (another coincidence!) Merrill Hall. The guys came over from one of the men's halls and got it taken care of. It didn't occur to any of us that there was anything weird about it! 😲
5:17 Those sons were DEFINITELY sabotaging lolz!
If the devil hangs around Mormons so much it must be where he has the best harvest.
I wasn't raised Mormon, but I was raised what I call Christian Fundie Lite. One of the reasons it took me SO long to get around to deconstructing, is because when I was a toddler I had a night terror where I saw the faces of demons hovering over my crib. They looked kind of like Kabuki theater masks.
This made me fervently believe in the supernatural, demons, and the devil, because I had SEEN the evidence. It wasn't until my late 20s that I had my next night terror (I've had many since), and it began to dawn on me that I might have just been my brain messing with me. It took another decade for me to fully deconstruct, but that was the first inkling.
I'm now an atheist/philosophical naturalist, and therefore have no belief in the supernatural whatsoever.
If I was Satan, I'd be angry about those stories of people not getting to the temple, because it would make me sound so weak! Hail Satan, the mighty lord of super-annoying minor inconveniences!
A friend of mine told me about his first sleep paralysis bout. At the time, he thought Freddy Kruger was after him. He had watched one of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
My mom said the same story about the ouija board that your mom said😂
Yup, I've heard it too. 😂
Yes it is possible to swallow your tongue. Because I've seen an epileptic have a seizure and the tongue fell back into the throat. Technically that is swallowing the tongue.
Scary!
I am pretty sure some Mormons took some really strong drugs and to cover themselves they said some really weird stuff lol well I admitted to being drunk lol
Loving this series!
I grew up in Logan, and because of this story, and I remember people talked about not saying out loud or writing it in a calendar to go to the temple be just go. I heard where people would say that if they did not do this, something would happen to prevent them from going
Haven’t watched much of the video yet, but I wanted to say I love your sweater so much!! And your hair looks amaaaaazing too! ❤️ sending love to you Lex
✨The gift of vibes ✨
I'm only ten minutes in and I'm cringing so hard at these stories! 😂😂😂
My parents AND grandparents would do that too! They'd constantly blame any inconvenience in preparations for going to church or the temple as being Satan actively working to disrupt them/us. It was stressful to hear as a kid! And, then on those 'Satan's working hard' days, they would spend the whole church meeting or temple visit trying to "discern" what good/spiritual thing Satan was aiming to interrupt, therefore they would do extra (be extra nice, make extra comments in sunday school, pray extra hard, be extra close to the spirit) and by doing extra someone somewhere would compliment, or praise, or remark in a way that reinforced the belief that THIS was the thing Satan didn't want. They made their own self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy. T n T
29 years in the church before I left, 15 years out. Never heard about Cain roaming the earth. 3 Nephites for sure. Every time a stranger helps a Mormon in need, it MUST be one of the Nephites! For sure. No other explanation than one of the three Nephites driving an old truck with jumper cables when your car battery needs a jump. Weird tho the three Nephites never intervene in child abuse and abduction. Just there to help in car emergencies because AAA is NOT an option.
It's the NNN
I once had three men approach me, Nephites! No it was the three stooges, Larry, Moe and Curly!
Thanks for the many good laughs!
Thanks for all the work you did in preparing this program. I would be very interested in hearing more stories about pioneers.
If only M Russell Ballard had been able to cast Tim Ballard's philandering Demon out, along with Janet Russons familiar Nephi impersonation spirit! 😂😅 Talk about missed opportunities!
Your reaction to these stories is hilarious.
I never saw any spirits, demons, ghosts, or anything. Guess I don't have enough faith in the supernatural
All of my FHE nights were awful and my parents would blame it on Satan saying that he’s trying to destroy the gospel in our house, but really we were just dysfunctional lol. They also said that Satan was in the room laughing when I told them I didn’t believe anymore. Quite a time
Yeah, why does God allow this Satan-character to have so much power anyway?
I remember the first story you told, my older sister told me that when we were kids. A number of varieties of that story going around the mormon community as well. Somehow it seems that mormon spooky stories, are a lot of stuff about how the church is in the way of the underworld somehow.
Love them…😂👺🤣keep them coming. I so much need to laugh at what I feared growing up.
HE THANOS SNAPPED SATAN AND HIS FOLLOWERS!!! 😂😂😂
Not the "gift of vibes" 😂
I saw a ghost when I was a kid, the same one two nights in a row & then she never came back. She wasn’t scary or mean, but I also wouldn’t say she wanted to be friends, she was just there, looking at me. The fist night she stayed for a while the second she was gone after a few seconds.
omg somehow this triggered a memory… did anyone else’s family read the tennis shoes among the nephites book series?!?!? or is it just me??
I used to deliberately put myself into a state of sleep paralysis while trying to perform astral projection. That never worked but I was able to process my childhood trauma while in that state.
There are some missionary rumor stories I heard on my mission that supposedly a lot of Mormons have heard and passed on, hopefully someone can fill in details I don’t remember:
-a missionary in one of the Asian missions who looked into some sketchy practices (with the intent to know them to help him convert) and during one night was suddenly pinned to the ceiling. (The moral of the story was that some things are best left alone)
- a missionary in a South American mission who fell off a path, separated from companion, and broke his leg. Then a strange man came out of the jungle and said he could heal him. Then proceeded to heal his broken leg but did so with voodoo ish chanting. Then disappeared back into the jungle. (discussions following this story were that even satan has some level of power on this world that he can use to entice new followers)
Of course these were among other rumor stories about district meeting orgies, horrible homophobia-driven secretly gay companion stories, and the secret apostate groups within missions who sewed beads into their garments depending on their rank.
@exmolex if you want some detailed “apostate” missionary stories, including the group I started on my mission, let me know
I'm not even 3 minutes into the video but I just had to comment on the first story. To a member of the church this experience might sound so cool and faith promoting, but to me, an exmormon athiest who does believe that there is some sort of afterlife or spiritual realm as I've just seen too much stuff to suggest otherwise, this sounds so corny. Like you mention in the video, 'Who are you? What can I do for you?' 'I am Satan'.
Wow, powerful stuff right there... 😂
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that milk cows would wander off before they we milked. From what I've been told, they experience quite a bit of discomfort if they're not milked regularly.
They could tell it was Satan because he had one of those "My Name is..." stickers on his shirt
Pffff 😂
I think it's funny your child dream-version of Satan looked like Genie-Jafar.
I had a dream of a demon that took animal form, and it quite coincidentally looked a lot like my grandmother's poodle, Jenny. Meanest dog I ever knew.
Interesting coincidence 🤔
They must have some really tall dude on deck to play Cain at the temple openings. Like Santa for malls.