Reader Voices: Choosing a return from darkness
This story is not your "usual" story, for this is one about a man who chose the wrong path to follow — and his return.
I have always been a member of the LDS Church. However, even having a slight testimony of the gospel, I let go of the "iron rod" and jumped head-first into what Book of Mormon prophet Nephi called "an awful gulf which separated the wicked from the tree of life and also the Saints from God" (1 Nephi 15:28). My downfall began with choosing to ignore the Word of Wisdom caution against the partaking of "wine or strong drink" (D&C 89:5).
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