Reacting to the most CRINGE Mormon Moments 

the summer that marriage equality passed, I just remember my cousin and me talking about how bad it was to be gay. we’ve both come out as lesbians now.

The tags part reminded me of how nervous we were when we had toe nail polish on for baptisms. Everyone would curl their toes or try to hide them while we were waiting for our turn.

We have all done cringey things in our past, it’s good to laugh about them now!

I told my non Mormon roommate that they couldn’t “do it” in the house because it was a holy place 😔✋

A scout ranch I used to work at had an incident where someone spray painted, "Mormons suck" in the bathroom and I cried because I felt sO oPpReSsEd. 3 years later I probably would've helped them write it tbh

My most Mormon cringe moment is when I once wrote an entire college paper on why the Book is Mormon is an excellent example of existential literature.

Confessing sexual sins to the bishop, who was my friends dad and he swore it was confidential...but his daughter stopped being my friend the next day. :)) I have so many more stories but thankfully I got out at 19 and have been able to forget most of them.

I tried flirting with my crush (who was an evangelical Christian) by preaching to him about eternal marriage 🥴

I'm not Mormon but my x in laws called cps on their oldest son because he let his teenage kids drink coffee

I screwed up the best relationship I had ever had because she was Christian and we were both trying to convert each other.

I cried testifying to my best friend who was a normal Christian that Joseph Smith was a prophet and I felt like I was friends with him in the past life and felt a huge connection to him. We were just strolling to the library to get some manga at like 14, I have no idea how it got to that. I fucking hate Joseph Smith now 😂

Yep. The missionaries got my parents a few weeks after my mom's 3rd miscarriage. They were super grieving, and they were both baptized by the end of the year.

One time I was wearing my ctr ring while hanging out with some people from work. My ring was like a chunky metal one that I wore on my thumb and you could hardly see the “ctr” because I was a ~cool Mormon~ anyways we were playing some board game so I took my ring off because it was getting in the way and someone who didn’t know me made a joke about my masonry ring. Everyone that knew I was Mormon went quiet 😂 lmaooo

Ew cringe... I forced my non believing boyfriend to go see the singles ward bishop (who I didn't know) with me to confess our "sexual sins." The bishop was like 50 and we were 18 year olds 😵🤮

the concept of polygamy was brought up at one point in an english class because of a book we were reading, which led a kid to joke about the character being mormon. I was so paralyzed by embarrassment, (especially since I was living in NJ at the time and didn't know that anyone even knew what a mormon was) and confronted him after class like "oh well we haven't even practiced polygamy in like 200 years!" ...acknowledging that polygamy is wack as hell but somehow thinking it was okay because it isn't currently happening??

I presented the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a public speaking class in college. I could have chosen any topic.

So, I was at a trampoline place with my grandkids in Utah and there was some teen boys there with their dad. One of the boys had a sweatshirt on that said “Virginity Rocks”. I wonder if there will be a time in the future he will will cringe over that. I cringed for him, even as a 66 year old granny.

Me. I pulled the morning sacrament session's soppy unused broken bread out of the garbage and used it for the afternoon session's sacrament...cuz the dude assigned to bring the bread forgot to bring the bread and we were in a time crunch. Since the bread was already broken, we mimed/pretended to break it again on the stand...giggling the entire time. Still my most glorious moment !!!

I was a counselor at an FSY and I was assigned to check everyone was modestly dressed for the formal dance. I wanted to wear this flowy dress I really liked but was above the knee, so in order to set an example, I wore this plain, straight, black skirt underneath to cover my knees. It looked horrible, but gave me the authority to keep "immodest" people from entering and to tell them to go change. I hate that moment so much now.

this drudged up a memory of me and my younger sister in elementary school - we were on the school bus with everyone grades k-12, and decided to make up and loudly sing a song with such lyrics as "it's great! to be! an lds mormon! i said its great!..." ahhhhh

In HS, I invited a friend to church. It was fast and testimony meeting which I had never thought was weird until that day. Then in YW, we had a lesson on how to invite your friends to church. It wasn't culty at all! Glad my kids will never have to feel that kind of pressure.

yeah this one hurt to remember - my sister explained to me what being trans is, and i self-righteously asked if i could call them "it"

In like 1998, 4th grade-ish, I would go on AOL chats and tell people the church was true and even remember typing out some thorough emails bearing my testimony...

I invited my nevermo friend to seminary for biscuits... But biscuits only came after an hour long culty lesson -.-"

Very close second. Ex Mormons rule. On my mission, I gave a member I hadn't met a blessing of comfort, talking about how her kids would grow strong in the gospel, and she would have the spirit with her to guide her in raising them. Yeah. After the blessing she asked what I meant because she had no kids and was sterile.

6th grade...science class we had a makeshift planetarium. As the lights were dimmed, I raised my hand and asked Mr. M, "Where's kolob in the night time sky?" Living in rural northern NY not many lds...(crickets for 3 minutes) kolob...how could I have asked that at age 11🤪🤪

When I was a senior in high school (in a non-LDS area) my friend and I both dressed up as 1950s housewives for Halloween, without so much as one iota of irony!

I once bore my testimony in an essay I had to write about evolution to my biology teacher.

One of the girls in our class invited a non-member friend to church one week and she came in a pair of shorts. Another girl and I whispered with complete disapproval and indignation about how she "didn't even have the decency to wear a dress." It makes me crinkle up to think about it now 35 years later.

In theater class, we had a show and tell. I uhhhh- I presented the book of mormon... Nobody said anything about it afterwards, but I got to give it to someone. I gave one to the teacher too. Oh! I also gave my English teacher a The Family: A Proclamation to the World just to see what he thought about it. Both of these were in my freshman year. I had a saviour complex back then...

Oh my God I forgot about CTR rings!!! What a throw back 😂🤣😂

I know I was a super cringey mormon; esp growing up. However, my mind is (thankfully) very adept at dissociating traumatic memories. Thus when I try to contemplate specific incidents of personal, mormon-related-cringe, my mind just draws a blank. lol Yet i still shudder, because i know the cringe was very strong.

In high school I told my friends that I was homophobic because the church was and didn’t quite understand what would be wrong with that statement. Now I’m bi so that thankfully changed.

This one made me laugh so hard! Love it!! So happy to see the exmo community growing, and so many people telling their story. I have so many cringe-iest moments to share with you! Maybe that will be the next video on my channel ;) Keep up the good work, from a fellow exmo youtuber. ♥

I'd love a video from Sam about the experience being mormon with a non-mormon British family who aren't familiar with LDS

I don't know if this is cringe or just sad. But I remember talking with my dad about gay people and he said "God doesn't make mistakes, he wouldn't make anyone gay. It's a choice." Meanwhile, closeted me is sitting there wondering how I "chose" to be gay.

LOL mine made it in! I'm the EFY kid that got a chunk of my hair cut out because my mom had driven me 4 hours to Cedar City and had already left. It was a temp/hairspray color but they didn't let me wash it, they just cut it. I did so many cringey things but that one still haunts me. Who the fuck does that to a 15 year old girl? I also have really large breasts and while on trek, they made us do this thing where when we put on our shirts, we had to bend from the waist and hang all the way to the floor. We would be inspected for 'modesty' from our leaders who were standing. Even with a shirt that goes above my collar, i will have cleavage. I was constantly sent back to change and shamed for being immodest. I remember REPENTING because I was constantly immodest and a temptation to men and I would spend every night during the week of trek crying because I was 'tempting' the boys. Being exhausted, overworked, and sick wasn't enough for me, I also had to make myself feel guilty for being a 'slut' constantly. There was nothing I could do to change it because it was my natural body and the form of modesty check was insane. I thought that it was fair that I was getting in trouble. A few times I was 'punished' by having to be the person to prepare dinner and do all the dishes for my ward alone and on the testimony night, i included that the punishment helped me grow stronger spiritually and that I knew God would have been proud of me. I ended up literally binding my chest with ace bandages the entirety of trek while i also had walking pneumonia. It is unsafe to bind and exercise but on top of that i wasn't safely binding and was already sick. I ended up in the medic tent 3 times to get IV fluids and when we got home I spent a week in the hospital because it turned to full on pneumonia. But you know, it was the will of God and I did what he wanted me to do. I still can't believe that i was constantly shamed for having large breasts when I couldn't do anything about them. Even outside of trek, I never showed any cleavage but if i bent over, you could see it and i constantly was shaming myself on being a temptation to the men. It would be brought up in front of EVERYONE at mutual every week that I was being immodest and they'd give me like 'shame' clothing of oversized shirts and basketball shorts but I'd still have my boobs visible, I couldn't control that. I would cry all the time because I hated my body so much that it made me have horrible body image issues. I'm 24 now and going for a reduction for medical reasons but I still think that a part of me is still stuck on constantly being shamed for something I couldn't control. Other girls were praised on their modesty constantly when they had little to no chest and I desperately wanted to be them so bad that I would pray that God would come and GIVE ME BREAST CANCER so that I could have my boobs removed surgically. The church made me twist my thoughts into thinking that breast cancer would make me a better woman so i wouldn't tempt the boys and be immodest vs just being the woman I was born as and excepting that I have large boobs and men need to control themselves. I think that might be more sad than cringe but in my mind, it's so fucking cringey.

Bless you both, you are hilarious And informative. I also want to share that for people who have survived the suicide of someone they love, it is really painful when people say "I want to kill myself" as a joke. I really believe that you are good hearted and intended no unkindness, it's become something people say really flippantly, but it hurts, it really really hurts and I wish folks would consider dropping these types of expressions. For people who have lost a loved one to suicide, or have attempted suicide, hearing someone say "I wanted to kill myself" in a joking manner is extra hard to hear. I hope that I have said this in a way that does not feel like an attack, because this channel is really valuable and I wish you both the best.

I can read about like 5 words into my mission journal before I have an existential crisis level cringe. So don’t feel bad about it you’re in company.

Had a crush on a guy (I'm from the rural south, obviously not mormon) and gave him a Book of Mormon with my testimony in it as I told him I liked him and that I really couldn't date for another month or so. Oy.

One time a sub asked the class what is the one thing they would take with them from your home in a zombie apocalypse and I said my book of mormon 😬 I'm so embarrassed 😳

About a year before I left the church I remember getting into an argument with an exmo in a youtube comment section and I was so toxic it was insane. I attacked him hard and used every mormon passive-aggressive trick in the book. I look back on that now and cringe so hard I cant handle it.

Also, I would really love a full video on the ways that Samantha, as a convert tried to downplay and minimize her strength and intelligence as a woman! This is something that I have been trying to identify and stop doing myself.

Former Southern Baptist Fundamentalist here, my church made the middle school youth groups go door to door to every business we could find and ask the store managers what ethnicity they were. Apparently it was supposed to help a new church plant? Anyways, they suggested that instead of straight up asking, we should “coax the information out of them naturally.” Which ALWAYS ended in some horribly awkward and probably very offensive conversation. I remember being pushed into a nail salon by my youth leader and I said “wow it looks so Asian-y in here.” Expecting the nail techs to tell me what Asian country they came from, instead they all looked horrified and then I died inside and promptly walked out

I went through SEVENTEEN meetings with the missionaries (took me like 7 months) and almost got baptized (we even picked a date but I canceled a week before) just to go through the temple, somehow get more insider info and be able to leak shit or rank up and help to get ppl out (lol). In the end, I was too lazy and too busy to do that. Also, couldn't manage to "confess" to being bisexual + there was no fucking way I was going to pay tithing. And realized that was not worth it and it was highly unlikely that I'd get access to any juicy info since I'm a woman... I was on break during that time and got too bored, that's how that adventure started.

I think my cringiest bit as a TBM was when I first came out as trans and tried desperately to reconcile my religion with my gender identity. That wouldn't be too bad if I didn't also spend those years preaching my bigoted little heart out against people with "same-sex attraction". The joke is on me now, I guess, because I realized I was gay halfway through high school and had a faith crisis.

Anyone remember in young men's quorum meetings how we would stand up and recite in unison the "Duties of the Aaronic Priesthood" or something? Well, when I was in middle school, I got in an argument with a classmate about the specific verbiage of one of the duties, and I said "Well, I'm the deacon's quorum president, so I would know." Funnily enough, I turned out to be wrong about whatever we were arguing about and he was also the deacon's quorum president of his ward, and far more gracious and humble than I was.

"Served" in Mozambique, my companion and I (on multiple occasions) required male investigators to throw away their condoms after teaching the law of chastity so they wouldn't be tempted to have sex. On a related note Mozambique has the 8th highest HIV rate in the world.

I love how glennon doyles untamed is on top of the book staple in the back, such a great read!

Going to EFY and being soooo swept up in the weird energy and vibes of all these random Mormon kids and giving a testimony for like the first time and only time, definitely cried in front of a room of teenage strangers. To this day I feel like it was some strange blur.

I once saw my grandpa try to buy a car from a guy by writing him a check. When the man refused and asked for cash, my grandpa pulled his temple recommend out of his wallet and said this proves he’s honest and the check will clear. Shocker, the guy didn’t accept the temple recommend as a check guarantee card. 🙄🥴

I remember watching Telltale on RU-vid cause I was like “wow Jehovahs Witnesses are so weird wait that’s kinda like what I believe” I then posted a comment saying that Mormons are pretty similar to Jehovahs Witnesses but if you take a look at them one is a destructive cult and the other is the true restored gospel. I said that Mormonism was like Jehovahs witnesses but without the bad parts. I later deleted the comment because it was cringe but that cringe RU-vid comment was the start of me deconversion so it turned out pretty nicely

Loved this. Part 2 please.

“Cringey Mormon stories that my followers sent to me.” 🎶 Sorry, couldn’t resist, lol.

I have always find cringy when people cry when they are giving a talk, I feel embarrassed even it's not me. One of my cringy experiences I had was when I came home from my mission. Our next door neighbor was italian and she was always so nice to us and friends with my mom so before I came back home I picked up a book of Mormon in italian and I gave it to her and I think she rejecter it, she didn't take it because she smokes and drinks. She did it kindly but still I felt so embarrassed.

loved this video, love you guys!!

Your videos are so cheerful and always make my day brighter. Thank you for what you do 💓

No matter how hard you try to get us to leave at the end, we stay watching til the bitter end. Loved this one! We’ve all been there lol. I have too many cringe moments to count.

l have one! I passed out in EFY so they had to call ambulance. When I was l was in the ambulanse completely out of it and unable to speak at all (I hit my head when I fell) I desperately tried to say "God loves you" to the emergency staff quy even though I couldn't get a voice out of my mouth. I don't know it he could read my lips but if he did he must've though I had been in a cult indoctrination camp ... wait, that's exactly where I was. To be fair my brain was kinda oozy woozy so it wasn't that bad.

I enjoy this very much. Can’t wait to see more!! My face was 😬🥴 the whole time.

Yay! Got to wake up to this, Love y’all!

Looking back now, I cringe at how much was pushed to bring in my friends who had no interest. All that shame and guilt in order to alienate my friends.

Can we just appreciate the astronomical number of house plants please

I'm old, ex-mo, a member of the Alphabet Mafia and in high school I sang all the songs from Saturday's Warrior between classes in a sad attempt to get my classmates to convert...I left the Church only a year or so later when i graduated and left home for Uni and began to explore the world.

I wrote a paper in high school condemning divorce mostly using quotes from a Dallin H. Oaks talk.

Thankfully I knew something was whack about Mormonism around the age of 12-13 so I don't really have any cringey self righteous stories, but the amount of boldface lies and pretending I had to endure in the church until I was 18 and allowed to choose for myself was pretty damn cringe. Lying through my teeth for every temple recommend interview was probably the worst. It used to trip me out how "no unclean thing can enter the house of the Lord" yet there I was in granny panties and a jumpsuit being dunked underwater incessantly like a baffoon every month.

So I would do baptisms once a week between school periods, and I would feel sooooo much guilt and shame if I forgot to take off a necklace or had nail polish on in the baptismal font. I was told that everything had to be white, and I had seen some of my friends be turned away because they wore nail polish. Of course, it always depended on the people helping out at the font and what they had culturally been taught. I also didn't know that they reused temple names, so I thought I was the one and done for each person I was proxy for. Lovely to be 12 -14 and thinking that it was my fault that someone didn't get the blessings of being baptized, and consequentially being denied all heaven for all eternity because I forgot to take off my gold young women's medallion.

I don’t know how cringe this really is, but on my mission I tried drinking for the first time on P day, and then the next day taught one of our investigators about the word of wisdom, I felt horrible.

I think I was 6 or 7 and I was on the elementary school grounds before school had started. There were some magnificent god rays surrounded by heavy cloud cover and the majority of the class, myself included, thought it was a sign that the 2nd coming was about to happen. And then the bell rang and we had to go to class anyway. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to feel cringe on behalf of my ancestors, but my grandmother, when asked to retell her mormon ancestry in a talk at church, included an anecdote where her grandfather (I think) basically kidnapped an indigenous baby and left it in a crib in his wife's room and watched as the baby's mother showed up to the house unable to communicate in English with his wife about the missing kid. And he laughed about it as he set it up as a joke. And my grandmother retold it. And I feel so many levels of cringe between mormon and pioneer ancestry. As far as I can tell, since the story goes no further, the baby got back to his mom and the wife was less than thrilled with her husband.

Group activity: who do you most look up to? A Mormon student of mine: Mitt Romney and Donald Tr*mp Me: uh..... okay, great, next person!

I’m an ex Jehovahs Witness and we had plenty cringy moments that were on par or worse.....when you look at these 2 cults it’s like 2 brothers had a fight and went off and created their own religion. So many similarities it’s frightening!! Love you two

Not an ex mormon, but ex creationist... Vividly remember telling my science teacher how stupid evolution was, because we share so much DNA with bananas, so maybe we're descendent from them, and that shared DNA did not prove we came from monkeys. He just nodded and (hopefully) pretended to agree.

10:03 the gorgeous synchronization of words and organ

Love the background music!

So my more “jack Mormon” friends convinced me to go to Starbucks just for some hot chocolate because it’s sooo good! I quickly developed a habit of getting Starbucks hot chocolate until I found myself craving hot chocolate when I smelled coffee and I was so afraid I would give into “temptation” and drink coffee if I kept drinking their hot chocolate plus omg it has mocha drizzle on it!! I quickly stopped drinking hot chocolate at Starbucks... so silly haha the only reason to stop a Starbucks habit is because of the $$ it cost not the sinful smell!

Not an ex mormon, but ex christian here. When the google doodle of the day was about some anciant human predecessor that was frozen in ice, I went on the linked video about it on RU-vid and commented about how this all was false and argued under people's comments. I remember someone saying that I'd learn once I get evolution in school and yes, yes I did. Learning about it was what really made me question things. I still remember leaving a comment under that video which said: "god loves you" though...

Could y'all make a video of your cats talking and being silly gooses? I hear them in the back of some of your videos and they are hilarious to listen to🤗

“Since the accident.....” I saluted this with a nice deep chortle laugh.

Cold to serve you Knickerbocker glory Frozen wonders never two the same Every flavour unique and tells a story A tasty treat for every day!

Okay pause, did you know you can use the word 'buffalo' as a noun, adjective, and verb. For example, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo." is a full and complete sentence. But in layman's terms, "Spicy flavored bison from Buffalo, NY bully their fellow bison."

This channel is Paul and Morgan but cool. Change my mind

On my mission in Uganda in 2001, I was training a brand new missionary who, I swear, had never before been outside his über Mormon Idaho town. Back then the Internet was extremely spotty, and we had arranged to email our families at a local evangelical pentacostal pastor's home on P-day. On one such occasion, the pastor had a prayer meeting at his home in the adjacent room. The prayers started out quiet and gradually crescendoed to a very loud volume as each person in the room was praying, speaking in tongues, and praising or whatever. Suddenly, everyone in the room would go silent and begin again at a whisper and ultimately crescendo again to a very loud volume. This cycle of pianissimo to fortissimo repeated several times. Meanwhile, I looked over at my greenie, thinking he was writing his weekly email to his family, and saw him with both hands clamped tightly to desk as he was hyperventilating! I'm from the South, I've seen this kind of thing before and wasn't fazed in the least, but greenie was about to make a huge scene, so I told him to step outside and chill and breathe and not to make a scene. He stepped outside, and I was relieved. So I started writing an email to my parents. I'll be damned if not two minutes later he walks back into the house, stands at the front of the room where the prayer meeting was taking place, raised his right arm to the square, and proclaimed, "In the name of Jesus Christ and by the authority of the Holy Melchizedek Priesthood, command the devil and all his demons to depart!" Then he immediately walked back outside. I sat there with my jaw on the floor, dumbfounded!! Luckily, the people were praying so loudly, not a soul noticed him, he was just another loud voice that was drowned out by the rest of the room!! In fact, the prayer meeting continued without the slightest hint he even entered the room, with several more cycles of whispers to deafening praying. I finished my email (I think I recall writing to my parents, "You will not believe what my companion just did...") and then joined him outside and proceeded home. I didn't mention the episode to him for a week, thinking this poor kid's faith must be all kind of shaken. Finally, I said to him, "Elder W., last week at the pastor's house, you came in and 'cast out the devil', but nothing changed and the prayer meeting continued as if you never entered the room. Why do you think that is?" He replied, "I immediately felt better and no longer felt that evil presence. It did bother me at first that nothing changed in the room, but I realized it was more for me than for them." Having rationalized and justified this in his mind, all I could say was, "Ok. I'm glad you sorted through that and are at peace with it." And that is the cringiest Mormon moment of my life. Oh, I've done and said more than my share of cringy Mormon things, but nothing will ever beat this clean-cut, straight-laced Peter Priesthood casting out devils at a pentacostal pastor's home during a prayer meeting!

I used to tell my ex-husband every night before we went to bed, Remember to say your prayers. 🤦 🤣

I, several times, got into arguments on Facebook with people about how "just because the LDS church/people believe that homosexuality is a sin, it doesn't mean we don't love them" 🤦

I've yet to start this video and this is already big vibes.

Gave a Book of Mormon to a girl in my summer school class after hearing about her abusive childhood because I thought it would bring joy to her life (I was 13)

I had a BLOG that I would share everywhere with my cringey testimony about waiting for my boyfriend who was serving a mission every month, I broke up with him and left the church lmfao . I also went to college parties and sat on the couch and told drunk friends about the church, I thought it justified being there SO CRINGEY.

I found one of those fancy CTR rings with like blue sparkles behind the letters in some mud one time at my school. I kept it but felt guilty for "stealing" it, especially since it was a CTR ring of all things. I ended up wearing it for years until I realized it was all bullshit and switched it out for another ring that I found somewhere lol

Cringe moment spoken by a bishop in church. Mother & her son spoke in church. The Bishop said since the boy's father is not a member the boy had to be the spiritual leader in the home. (Mormonism does not have a monopoly on spirituality and the bish undermined both the mother and father's spirituality as well as their marriage. It also put undue burden on the boy.)

When I was like 4 or 5, I was playing and made a fake sacrament just for fun. My parents didn't yell at me but they told me I couldn't do it because it was sacred and should only be done by priesthood holders, but I can almost guarantee that if I'd been a boy, they would've been proud and impressed

When I was in high school we were assigned to give a presentation on any American historical figure, and I gave mine on Joseph Smith. My poor teacher and classmates.

I have so many cringe moments but the worst ones were in regards to how I behaved in college and then dropping out. I could be making bank right now. But as we know, being a Mormon woman we are highly discouraged from being too smart and getting an education.

I converted my friend and told her if she prayed and believed enough her 7 year old brother would be healed from leukaemia. He died and she’s still a Christian.

Great video

This one is bringing up memories. Weird anti masturbation metaphors. Someone said they prayed before sex because it was such a holy act.

Im pretty sure i lost at least two friends in middle school by spouting church stuff at people who were obviously mentally ill/struggling.

Cheers-ing and not taking a sip is bad luck, Tanner!

I love you guys! :D

You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf, now get ready for Zelph...on a...on a Shelf dammit.

I was raised fundamentalist evangelical, not mormon, but my cringiest moment was probably when I was 15, trying to convince my depressed online friend that she shouldn't commit suicide because 'god loves you'. luckily better friends than me got her help but. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa