I had friends invite me to Mutual and Young Womens. I went a few times and I
always had fun but always felt a little akward. I had never read the Book of Mormon
I always just said I never believed it but I never gave it a fair shot. I had never even been to
an LDS Sacrament meeting. I shut myself out from anything "Mormon." Almost
every single one of my friends was LDS. A boy I dated named Bryan (who is now my husband)
was one of the only people I dated in high school that never bothered me about
not being "a member" Bryan and I went to his Senior prom together and dated
that summer, he always said if I had questions to ask. The end of the summer we
went our seperate ways and we started talking again in January. I knew Bryan
was preparing for a mission, we hung out quite a bit and I even attended his farewell (this was the first LDS sacrament I had ever been to) a good friend Caslyn came with me. I was so nervous going
into the meeting, she gave me the run down and told me what to expect. Bryan got up and talked,
he did a wonderful job, at the end when he bore his testimony to my surprise I started crying.
I didn't know why I was crying, I later found out it was the holy ghost speaking to me.
He left on his mission and I wrote him the whole mission, he had a girlfriend that was waiting
for him to come home who also wrote him often. Bryan told me alot about the mission. While he was gone I started getting into alcohol and drinking a lot with some friends.
I found an old friend from a church I used to attend via Facebook, we started talking and we exchanged phone numbers. Tabi, is her name, when we used to be friends she was a big partier,
and she was into a lot of bad stuff, I never really hung out with her during those days. I was never into drugs. We got together one day and she told me that she was reading the Book of Mormon, and how it has really turned her life around, I thought it was pretty amazing because she was a lot different than the person I used to know. She started telling me about her experiences with the church, and I was filled with amazed at how much she was telling me was things that I had believed my whole life. We kept chatting and would get together every so often.
When Bryan came home from his mission we got together and just caught up on all the things we had missed during those 2 years. We talked a lot and I told him how I was thinking that I should stop drinking, I didn't know why but I had a feeling that I should. Bryan and many friends supported me in this decision. I was a much happier person and a few health problems that I had went away to my sustainment of alcohol.
I hung out with Tabi and Bryan a lot, and I would always ask them questions about the LDS church and what they believe, I had a whole 3 pages of questions that I had, I was also doing research online about the LDS church, I would search church sites and also anti-mormon sites. To my surprise every single question I had was answered by one of my friends or friends parents. Everything was making so much sense. Bryan asked me to come to church with him, somehow I didn't feel ready for that.
Bryan got me a Book of Mormon and I started reading it. Later that week I sent him a text saying I was ready to attend a Sacrament Meeting with him. .... Part 2
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