Saturday, December 9, 2006

Resignation

It has been some months since I posted off my resignation letter to the great and powerful Oz morg. Yet still no response. I have some theories.... 1. the incompetence of Australia Post (it is famous for it you know) 2. I've sent it to the wrong person but they haven't had the courtesy to pass it on. 3. They think I was just kidding. 4. So few people actually bother to formally resign that no one quite knows what to do with it so it's festering away at the bottom of the "too hard" basket 5. They have far too many important things to be doing with their time than worrying about my silly little request.

My problem is this: We move house soon and I was hoping not to have to give them my new address so I wanted everything finalised before hand. I know mother-the-mormon will gleefully pass on my mobile phone number (as she has done already I think) but she won't dare give them my home phone or address.

I don't see why it has to be such a big deal. I told my last Bishop that I had discontinued my relationship with the church...shouldn't that be enough??? Why must I still endure 6 monthly phone calls from enthusiastic sister missionaries. They usual get the ESL one to ring me so I feel sort of sorry for her and don't heap abuse down the phone to her. Why not get one of the super confident TBM's fresh from the factory to call? Then I could really give her a spray!

Oh well, I guess I'll have to send another letter. But let this be known, whether I am on their records as such or not... "I AM NOT A MORMON". I'm an exmo survivor and I'm never going back!!

Sunday, December 3, 2006

Something to say

I live in Australia, so for me the experience of leaving the church was probably not the horrendous torture that those living in places live Utah or Arizona go through. I found out yesterday that my mother, (who introduced me to the world of brainwashing) no longer goes to church; although she still feels the need to talk about it whenever we see each other and seems to be something of a defender of the morg.
However, in someways the freedom and relative ease with which I left the church sometimes plays on my mind. There seem so few people around who I can share my thoughts with. My partner, pretty much an atheist, really doesn't get my moments of mormon guilt or have any idea why I duck and hide when I see missionaries. He makes fun of the few mormon friends that I run into - if you hate the church you hate the members - and doesn't get that I actually miss some of those people. My entire social life was built around the church, when I left it was my work mates I turned to. He really doesn't understand why the majority of my close friends are people I work with. He also doesn't get the burning anger that sometimes wells ups inside of me when I think about the years (not to mention dollars) I invested in the evil empire.
Anyway, when I can I visit places like exmormonformums.com and that cheers me up. I also enjoy trawling through exmo blogs...so I guess that inspired me to write my own. It won't be an addictive thing like my other blogs...I'll just write when I need. Maybe someone out there will read, maybe they won't. But at least my thoughts are floating in cyber-space not just clogging up my brain.
Bye for now