Allyson : How Choosing to Leave the Church Led to My Reconversion

Allyson decided to leave the Church after her mission and her experience caused her to choose to come to back to the Church with her whole heart. She discovered that she was the one who needed to choose a life of faith and that she needed to stop allowing any expectations to dictate how she felt about herself or her relationship with God.

Further Reading in Faith is Not Blind:

“We ventured to Nauvoo because of what we saw in Kirtland. That we once saw so clearly is our witness that we can again see clearly, now with even greater depth, in the very midst of—or perhaps because of—our afflictions.”

(Faith Is Not Blind, Chapter 8, “When Do the Angels Come?” p. 68)