As I began to question the church, find answers, and distance myself, I wore my garments for as long as possible. I even stopped attending Mormon church and went to my new Christian church wearing garments under my jeans.
I was trying to be cohesive with my friends.
I was trying to please my husband and not rattle him too much.
But really, I was praying about it and God hadn’t yet told me to take them off.
So I kept wearing them, but through the summer it really bothered me that as I went out into society in my knee length shorts, I looked like a Mormon. But inside my heart, I was a Christian! In fact, I was very angry and indignant toward the LDS church.
I told my husband, this isn’t respectful to Mormons. I shouldn’t be wearing the garment. He understood.
But I kept wearing them for a few weeks after that.
I kept wearing them until one day God smacked me across the head and told me very clearly it was time to take them off.
Here’s how my subconscious mind was slowly putting this together, until one day it popped into my thoughts and I just couldn’t do it anymore:
One of the changes to the endowment ceremony last year was a line that “the veil represents Jesus Christ.” Seemingly innocuous, so it didn’t strike me right away. Maybe I had to hear it 50 times.
The veil and the garments look alike. They are both white with Masonic symbols etched into them. So, somewhere in my mind I knew I was wearing the veil.
So, one day my husband went to the temple. Unbeknownst to me, God was telling him to let me take off my garments. Meanwhile at home, I was outside in my yard wearing my exercise shorts and suddenly I had the thought, The veil separates us from God.
I pondered this — the veil doesn’t represent Jesus Christ! What a stupid claim! The veil, by definition, separates us from God! My next thought was clear as day:
I don’t want to wear anything that separates me from God!
And I never put them on again.
Now I’m wondering why the Mormons put that line in the temple, and why there is such a big push to get everyone to wear their garments more (being spoken about multiple times in April 2024 conference, after being a hush hush topic). And why the church is now coming out with sleeveless garment tops to maybe compromise and please some people, in hopes of them wearing it more easily.
Why does the church want people to wear garments?
Well obviously at $8 a set, and members worldwide needed a week’s supply, and regularly buying new styles to try, it’s a money maker.
But I think it’s more than that.
I think they have curses on them.
Do garments protect you? Yeah maybe they “protect” you from thinking and realizing what the Bible teaches. Maybe they “protect” faithful members from actually seeing what’s written in their very own Book of Mormon! (Nah, didn’t work for me. I figured it out anyway)
Maybe it actually puts them in Satan’s power. How else can you explain the brainwashing? I don’t know.
But I cleared those curses months before taking them off, and I definitely could see better after that. I cleared the curses on my husband’s garments and soon after that, he woke up too.
Maybe there is more spiritual warfare to be done than most of us realize.
Anyway.
Here’s a really great blog post about garments, from what appears to be a faithful Mormon. But she took them off. She realized they were not about Jesus, and were not involved with her relationship with Him. ❤️
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