💔🌿 A True Blue Journey — From Questions to Living Truth

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💔🌿 A True Blue Journey — From Questions to Living Truth

🌱 My Roots in the Faith

I was born and raised a true blue Mormon. My family runs deep into the Restoration — my great-grandfather was a close friend of Martin Harris, one of the Three Witnesses. Loyalty to Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon has been in my blood since day one.

On my mission, I gained a powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon. That book has never left me. It was true then, and it is true now. If anything, it has been the anchor that has carried me through questions, doubts, and disappointments.

🔍 When Questions Rose Up

I never set out to challenge the Church. But over the years, I noticed cracks — not in the Book of Mormon, but in how the institution practiced things compared to what the scriptures actually teach.

  • Jacob condemns polygamy (Jacob 2:24–27), but Joseph is accused of secretly living it.

  • The Book of Mormon says not to build sanctuaries for gain (2 Nephi 26:29), yet today billions are spent on temples while the poor still beg.

  • King Benjamin said we are all beggars (Mosiah 4:19), yet the Church has hoarded wealth in malls, stocks, and insurance companies.

These questions didn’t come from rebellion. They came from faith. From wanting the Restoration to be true all the way down.

📖 Facing the Stock Answers

I’ve heard the explanations. I know the arguments.

👉 “Jacob 2:30 allows polygamy if the Lord commands it.”
But if you look closely, the verse actually reaffirms the standard of one man, one woman. The so-called “exception clause” doesn’t open the door to whoredoms — it closes it. And the Nemenhah Records echo the same: women are co-creators, equals, and the heart of Zion’s governance. Polygamy was never God’s plan.

👉 “We need temples everywhere to prepare the world for Zion.”
But scripture teaches something deeper: we are the temples. Paul said it. The Book of Mormon hints at it. The Nemenhah say it plain. Zion isn’t marble and glass — Zion is consecrated people, families who live stewardship and love.

So when I hear these answers, I see how they serve the institution. But they don’t satisfy the scriptures, and they don’t satisfy the Spirit.

✨ The Nemenhah Witness

Then came the Nemenhah Records. They didn’t replace the Book of Mormon — they confirmed it. They explained why those who first received the Restoration would stumble, and how a remnant would rise again in the last days.

They warned of robes of authority leading people astray (just like the white-robed man in Lehi’s dream, 1 Nephi 8:5–8). They spoke of stewardship over ownership, of consecration in the home, of sanctuaries in the heart.

And they were filled with chiasmus — the divine pattern of God’s voice. I’ve diagrammed them myself. The Book of Mormon and the Nemenhah Records fold into each other like mirror witnesses. You can’t counterfeit that.

So for me, the Nemenhah didn’t weaken my testimony — they strengthened it. They carried the Book of Mormon’s song forward into harmony.

🔥 The Questions That Still Burn

Out of all this, here are the questions that still burn in me — not as accusations, but as honest invitations to ponder:

  1. If Jacob condemns polygamy, why would Joseph secretly practice it? Wouldn’t that make him a hypocrite to his own translation?

  2. If Jacob 2:30 is read correctly, isn’t it reaffirming one wife and one husband, not opening the door to many wives?

  3. If women were the governing heart in the Nemenhah, why would God command a system that diminished them?

  4. If Paul says we are the temple, and if Christ is found in our hearts, why do we equate Zion with building temples of stone?

  5. If the Church spends billions on buildings but less than 1% on the poor, is that really consecration?

  6. If Christ’s doctrine is simple — faith, repentance, baptism, Holy Ghost (2 Nephi 31; 3 Nephi 11) — why add worthiness interviews, extra ordinances, and endless programs?

  7. If both the Book of Mormon and the Nemenhah warn that the people of the Restoration will fall into pride, isn’t that warning for us, not just for “other churches”?

  8. If Moroni foresaw our day and said, “Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing” (Mormon 8:35), what would he say about our malls, our hedge funds, and our corporate empire?

  9. If Zion begins in the heart and the home, would we still live it if the whole Church system folded tomorrow?

  10. And most of all — whose voice are we truly following: the robes, or the Shepherd?

🕊️ Where I Stand Today

I don’t have all the answers. But I do know this:

I didn’t lose my religion — I found its heart. The Lord has called me to walk deeper into Him, to live consecration, to honor women, to feed the poor, and to hear His voice above all.

So here I stand: loyal not to a system, not to a corporation, but to the living Christ. His promise has never changed:

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” (John 10:27)

💌 A Loving Invitation

I don’t share this to tear down, but to lift up. Many faithful Saints love the Savior with all their hearts. I love them. I love my family. And I love my Savior most of all.

If anything I’ve written stirs a question in you, let it be this: Am I hearing Him? Because that’s the way to Zion.

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📖 Bible Verses to Reflect On

  • “Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.” (Jeremiah 17:5)

  • “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.” (Proverbs 31:28)

  • “For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building… Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (1 Corinthians 3:9, 16)

  • “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:27)

  • “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.” (Matthew 6:19–20)

  • “For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” (1 Corinthians 3:11)

  • “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:3)

  • “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)

  • “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.” (John 10:27)

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