A former LDS, my heart both aches, but also resonates with hers! What a mess is the fruit of Joseph Smith the wolf! But what a glorious blessing is the fruit of Jesus Christ our Lord in us! Thank you for the beautiful testimony, beautiful lady!
You are my hero, I am not a Mormon or ever been involved with the flds. My heart is singing Glory to God! Through Christ alone we are saved , I'm a nondenominational Christian, if I wasn't an incomplete quadriplegic I would be jumping for joy for your testimony, we all have a story about how we came to. Christ. ?. They are all long hard roads, but the Lord never promised it would be easy but he does say that he will be with us through the storm. God bless you my sister in Christ, I pray that more flds members find out that all they need is Christ alone!
I love her so much 💖 I stood up cheering through happy tears when she said her son asked her...mama who's Joseph Smith...and said, I grabbed him up and twirled him around shouting hallelujah, I have a child who doesn't know who Joseph Smith is!!!! 💕✝️ She is a great mother 💯
I’m so sorry Mary. It sounds so emotionally abusive. I cannot imagine having to coexist with that many personalities fighting for control. It sounds like a passive aggressive nightmare.
precious woman, so sorry she went through the disgrace of polygamy. :( God would never give a command that demeans women so terribly. Praise God that He is a God of restoration. He will use this to bring others to the light of what a true God ordained marriage is, a union between one man, one woman and God, a triple cord that cannot be broken.
La Vonne Earl -Correct deduction. Jesus was the first feminist. Women were an active part of His ministry. He associated w/prostitutes, the Samaritan women at the well, the woman almost stoned due to being caught in adultery (what about the man?). God is LOVE. Not a God of torture. We humans do it quite well all on our own.
Wow, my first husband was like that. Stifling who I was, telling me I laughed too much. He wasn’t FLDS, and didn’t even go to church. It finally gets to the point where the pain to stay in a loveless marriage is more painful than the fear of being without a husband. Thank God I am free!
FYI: good knows what is in your heart, your reasons, your motives. There is not middle man. There is not priest who can stop anyone for going to heaven.
Polygamy is pure Mormonism. It is cruel and evil. Joe and Brigham have a lot to answer for this bondage inflicted for so many years on these poor people. God bless you Mary. Im so glad you have the real Jesus now
It's such a joy listening to your freedom. I would love to know you and be your friend...the spirit just shines out of you. What a wonderful example of womanhood. Thanks for sharing your Truth! Xx
So happy for her. Now if she could just break free of this notion that she needs to do anything to please an imaginary god. She feels a crazy indebtedness to a fairytale. She seems so strong and kind if only she would realize that SHE deserves all the credit, no one else.
Mary's story, emotions, experiences, sorrow at having to leave her siblings, pressure for early marriage, etc are not exclusive to FLDS & polygamy. Try coming from an Italian immigrant family.
I love Mary's testimony, but she's incorrect when she says a man will spend eternity in hell because the church won't condone adultery (polygamy). The man can have eternal life by giving his life to Christ and be forgiven and restored. He can be brought into the truth that his marriage covenant is with his wife, any marriage after that is adultery. He can ask for forgiveness and continue to support the other woman, but his oneness and fidelity belongs to his wife.
I wish she could understand that, that man will not go to hell because he can't enter a church. If he accepts Jesus.... church doesn't dictate hell, the lord does.
She didn't leave behind any of her 5 biological children. She had to leave behind her step children/ children of her husbands other wives; because she had no legal rights to them.
Karen Oaknoble they finished cleaning up and didn’t have time to put it back in the closet 😂 I was loving this interview so much I’d don’t even notice it 😂😂😂
She needs to go tell that man that that person told him wrong and he can still go to church and take both wives with him because Jesus said come as you are and God will do the rest. GO TELL THAT MAN HONEY PLEASE. TAKE THEM ALL. TO CHURCH WITH YOU NOBODY THERE WILL KNOW HES GOT TWO WIFES. Nobody needs to tell anyone. It’s between him and God. Go give your friend a ride to church ANY CHURCH except the old wrong on he’d been in
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
I'm glad she is a Christian, but she is very misguided still. one of Jesus' greatest messages, is that the love is conditional salvation is predicated upon repentence and obedience to jesus 's commands.
Salvation (being justified before God) is predicated on repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Obedience comes as a result. Our works are evidence of our salvation. James 2:26 The Pharisee was counting on his works and righteousness. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Is that your prayer? "Lord, have mercy upon me a sinner."
Wtf is wrong with you do you think the little girl she was had a choice really? You can't be that stupid. It's like choosing to be slapped or punched both suck you don't want either but you have to choose one.
