Mormon never questioned her faith until…

By Sophia Gliwa –

As a little girl, Hayley wanted to believe everything she was taught in the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism) including doing good works to get the privilege of an in-temple wedding and eternity with her families.

“I never questioned anything outside of the church,” Hayley said in 2018. “I wanted the promises … to be true.”

In high school, she began questioning the beliefs of her childhood. First, she met some non-Mormons who were good people. “Maybe the Mormon faith isn’t the only way to live,” was her thought.

Then she met the young man who became her husband. He talked openly about beliefs and made her ask good questions. Meanwhile, her parents, pressuring her to drop the guy, threatened to close off her desired “temple sealing” of a marriage.

Then she started reading the Bible herself. “I started reading the New Testament and that’s really where God started speaking to me was through those words that completely contradicted everything that I thought I knew,” she said.

She got married and started attending a Christian church with her husband.

“That’s when his truth really started speaking to me because growing up LDS, I’d ask him if the church was true,” she said. “But in my mind I already convinced myself that the church was true so when I prayed for that I got a ‘yes.’ I don’t think I would have accepted anything other than a ‘yes.’”

As she attended church, she learned about God’s grace, not granted by works but as a result of God’s forgiveness. She became a born-again Christian.

“I don’t need anyone other than Jesus,” she said. “He’s absolutely all I need. I just
finally found a relationship with him. I know that I have a place in heaven with God because of Jesus. There’s nothing more important. There’s nobody who can take that away from me.”

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