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User:Bccomm
==NEWS==
I start school on Aug 26, so I won't be able to do much Wiki for a while...

==I am a...==
#fifteen-year-old high school student.
#[[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Mormon]] (in faith; see below)
#[[Left-wing politics|left-winger]] (not necessarily in conflict with #2)
#South Dakotan.
(contracted; show full)*[[Cultures|World Cultures and Social Science]]
*[[Typesetting|(Computer-based) Typesetting]]


==Religion==
My religious journey has been a bit twisted, but I've found the truth. Essentially and chronologically:

* I 
was actively (but, as a libertarian, respectfully) an anti-Restorationist Christian<sup>[[#Footnotes|1]]</sup>. I was especially offended by [[Mormonism]].
** I also drank coffee by the gallon.
* I found out (discreetly) that a very close friend of mine&mdash;a girl that I really liked&mdash;was LDS. Very, very, LDS.
* I was filled with
*# awe at the situation,
*# more rage than ever before at her church,
*# sorrow forloved to study religion.
** I was a skeptic, an atheist.
** I drank lots of coffee.
* I found out (discreetly) that a very close friend of mine was LDS. Very, very, LDS.
* I looked into it and became an anti-Mormon (as in against the church) apologist.
* Eventually, I began to think of my friend again...about what I was doing to what she herld sake; she's a fourth-gen Mormon.
* Out of the most painful depression imagineablcred.
** She didn't know about any of this at the time.
* On the verge of suicide, I prayed for her salvation.
* Over time, I came to realize thathow ''I'' was seriously wrong, not herwrong.
** Coming out of anti-Mormonism made me all the more faithful in the church.
* I have recieved a testimony which, according to my friends, is like that of a General Authority.
**My Heavenly Father had put me on the path of tribulation and I was able to find Him because of it.
* I am now a pro-Mormon apologist and firm believer in the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]
** I gave up drinking coffee. Worst week of my life.
* Life is good. Or at least a lot more positive than it was before.

Read the whole story [http://www.currentmormon.org/stories/story6.html at this site.]

===Footnotes===
# I now realize this is a contradiction.⏎
Read the whole story (highly recommended!) [http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs4/f/2004/266/6/3/From_A_to_Zion_by_bccomm.html at this site.]