Finding the Way: Separating Mormon Myth from Gospel Reality

Maybe you have been going through the motions at Church, attending your meetings, performing your callings, but you feel like you’re missing out on something. Maybe you just read the viral “CES Letter” on the internet. Maybe you have researched the actual history of the Church and you can no longer reconcile what you learned growing up with what you now know. Maybe you left the Church years ago or maybe you’re still in it physically but no longer emotionally or spiritually. Maybe you are, like I was for a long time, clinging to parts of Mormonism and disregarding or questioning many other parts, while still looking for something that is missing. Maybe you feel a hole in your soul that the Church is not satisfying. There is a thirst, but no drink offered by the Church has satisfied it. Now you don’t know what to do and you feel stuck. There are times in your life where you were certain that you felt God’s presence. You’ve been clinging on to those moments, but now you are at a crossroad.

Do you throw it all away? Do you move on to something completely different? That is what this book is for. The purpose of this book is to help direct the reader in the right way — to The Way. In my experience, most “ex-Mormons” end up largely atheists, agnostic, or in limbo regarding their faith; once they leave the Mormon Church, they feel jilted and confused. They left Mormonism because they were told all of these fantastic narratives their entire lives and now they’ve lost a lot of trust in any organized religion. For many, they wonder if any of the stories they were told are true or whether anyone can even know truth.

I felt as though God called me to write this book to help separate fact from fiction. I do not think you can reconcile much of what you were taught; however, not everything you’ve learned is fiction. I believe in Jesus Christ. I truly do. Not because someone “lit my candle” or because I bore my testimony enough times to convince myself. I have faith because the evidence is sound. I have faith because I’ve researched convincing evidences, evidences that I believe prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Jesus Christ lived, died, and rose from the dead. However, separating the fact from the fiction from much of what I grew up with was difficult. I wrote this book to share my journey, to correct a lot of the misunderstandings that are common growing up in the LDS Church, to help separate the fact from fiction, and to hopefully clear the path that leads to Christ. Truly, he is the way, the truth, and the life.