Stories about how you avoided sin as a TBM

[_Rambo]

Stemelbow just shared a funny story on how he avoided sin in the MTC and I thought it would be funny to read other peoples stories on how they avoided sin. Lets try to keep it PG 13 for this forum.

Here are some of my stories of how I avoided sin.

One time I was working on the oil rigs for a four month summer job. I had a pager at the time and the company would page me whenever they needed me to work. Anyways, I get this random page for a number I did not know. I called it up and it was this girl and she asked if my name was Josh. I said no it's not Josh and she called the wrong number. I hang up the phone but 2 minutes later I get another page from the same number. So I decided it would be funny to pretend I am Josh and I called this girl back up. I got caught right away because she had caller ID and she knew it wasn't Josh. Turns out she just wanted to talk to me. After a while of talking she invites me over to her house to hang out. I was up to nothing that night and thought this might make a funny story.

I get to her house and it turns out to be this hot 25 year old blonde girl that just broke up with her boyfriend. She has her other friend there who is pretty cute as well. They were both drinking beers and they offered me one which I of course refused. She gave me some apply juice instead haha. We got into talking about how I don't drink because of my religion. The next question on her mind was how far I would go with a girl in terms of sex. My answer was well that is something you will just have to find out for yourself (really I would've just made out with her and stopped at that). She then said "oh well I could get you into some big trouble then." While we are sitting there talking she just keeps going on about sex and how its no big deal. Her and her friend wanted to go out for a smoke and I was just in a T Shirt. She insisted that I wear her sweater and I kept saying no but she asked me it least three times. Surprisingly she had a sweater that fit me and after I put it on she told me that she sleeps in that sweater naked. Well after the smoke I think it is about time to go and I take the sweater off and hand it to her and tell her I am leaving. She then begs me not to go and she smells the sweater and goes on about how the sweater smells like a man! At this point I am thinking as a TBM wow Satan you are doing an amazing job. I quickly got on my shoes and booked it the freak out of there. I told my co workers the next day what happened and they called me an idiot and said that every guy dreams of that happening to them and I messed it up. haha :)

I'll add more stories later.

[_Rambo]

Does no one else have some fun stories or serious stories on how they avoided sin.

When I was in highschool my highschool friends started going to parties where there was going to be drinking. I of course was raised to avoid the very appearance of evil and I decided the holy ghost would not be with me if I went to those parties. For a while there I spent friday nights by myself watching TV. I eventually started hanging out with more Mormons and became good friends with them. I actually remember a young mens leader telling me he was worried about me because most of my friends were not Mormon.

[_zeezrom]

OMG Rambo! I love it.

I was studying in the city library once when I was 17. This girl I knew as a friend came up from behind and kissed me passionately on the back of my neck. It was the first time a set of lips (besides my mom's) ever came within 6 inches of my person. She wanted to go hang out somewhere alone and I told her no, I really needed to finish my history homework assignment. honestly, I was too shy to do anything with her. Religion never played a role in my chastity constraints with girls.

Another time my friend and I found a Playboy magazine in a barn. We were about 10 years old. We looked at it and found it very interesting. Years later, I sweated bullets about it. I hoped I was 7 when I saw it so that my baptism would take care of the sin. I wanted to do that so badly, I finally started believing I was 7 at the time. Now, after all these years, I can finally repent of it and be honest with the world that yes, I was already baptized. Rambo, I used guilt, fear, and shame to stay away from a couple magazines but for the most part, I was trying to get my grubby hands on any magazine I could find, which didn't end up being much at all. I usually settled for Lands End catalogs.

[_Jonah]

My father was a pharmacist, and growing up all of us kids worked in his store at some point. As a teenager, after school I would work a few hours as a stock/receiving clerk or a delivery boy. Before starting the job, my father pulled me aside and told me if I was ever caught stealing drugs, he would turn me over to the police.

All the kids in my high school were aware of my father's store and that I worked there. Many, many times I was asked about the possibility of getting/selling drugs to my classmates. Back then it seemed that Seconal was the drug of choice. Every day bottles containing hundreds of Seconal capsules passed through my hands. I could have been the richest kid in high school. It was tempting...but I knew my father would have no problem with having me arrested and prosecuting me.

I wish I had a good, juicy, sex story for you, but I was NEVER able to turn down any opportunities.

[_Rambo]

My father was a pharmacist, and growing up all of us kids worked in his store at some point. As a teenager, after school I would work a few hours as a stock/receiving clerk or a delivery boy. Before starting the job, my father pulled me aside and told me if I was ever caught stealing drugs, he would turn me over to the police.

All the kids in my high school were aware of my father's store and that I worked there. Many, many times I was asked about the possibility of getting/selling drugs to my classmates. Back then it seemed that Seconal was the drug of choice. Every day bottles containing hundreds of Seconal capsules passed through my hands. I could have been the richest kid in high school. It was tempting...but I knew my father would have no problem with having me arrested and prosecuting me.

I wish I had a good, juicy, sex story for you, but I was NEVER able to turn down any opportunities.

Lucky! I just shake my head at them and laugh now.

[_Rambo]

OMG Rambo! I love it.

I was studying in the city library once when I was 17. This girl I knew as a friend came up from behind and kissed me passionately on the back of my neck. It was the first time a set of lips (besides my mom's) ever came within 6 inches of my person. She wanted to go hang out somewhere alone and I told her no, I really needed to finish my history homework assignment. honestly, I was too shy to do anything with her. Religion never played a role in my chastity constraints with girls.

Yeah Zee I was always to shy as a kid around girls anyways. I actually didn't kiss a girl until after my mission because I didn't go on to many dates beforehand and we were encouraged not to single off with anyone. Granted when I got home I was itching for a kiss and got one about a week after my release :)

[_Rambo]

Ok here is another missed opportunity to sin :)

A couple of years ago I was at the food court with my Grandpa and my Dad eating away. During this dinner with them my Dad was giving me a hard time about how I wasn't dating any girls lately and that I was past my prime. While the conversation is going on I notice these two girls kept looking in my direction and I am thinking do I know them? After dinner I got up to leave early because I was going to hit up the gym and while I was putting my stuff in the trash I noticed those girls looking at me again. So I went up to them and asked if I knew them and they said no and that they were sorry for staring. I was like ok… well have a good dinner! I then went to the gym not really thinking any thing of it. When I got home from the gym my Dad tells me that those two girls came up to him and my Grandpa after I left and give him a phone number so I could call one of the girls. I asked my Dad if it was the cute one that gave the number and he said yes it was. He also mentioned that the girls thought there was just something about me and they had to meet me and talk to me. Here I am thinking it must be the spirit I show and I am being a good example of the church haha. Anyways, I ended up calling this girl and we talked on the phone a few times. She wanted to meet up and go out for dinner so we did that as well. It turned out that she had a boyfriend that was away a lot but she wanted someone else to keep her "company" or someone else to date. I am not really sure what she wanted but she realized I was a religious nut and I wasn't going to do anything with her and we stopped talking. Oh by the way she kept talking to me about sex as well and how it was no big deal. haha

[_Everybody Wang Chung]

Sometimes in the early morning hours when things are still, my mind wanders down the corridor of old memories and what might have been. Of all these possible pasts and memories I’m most haunted with my memory of Laura, the love of my life.

I loved Laura. Truly loved her. It helped that our families were good friends. It also helped that she was beautiful, loved to laugh was smart and free spirited. She was also my best friend.

We grew up together and spent much of our childhood building tree houses, collecting snakes, frogs and having mud fights. A couple of years prior to my mission, while still in high school, we grew romantic feelings for each other. It felt natural and didn’t surprise any of our friends and family who seemed to acknowledge that this was the natural course of our lifelong friendship to follow.

After graduation, we both went to BYU and after a year I was called on a mission. She wrote faithfully to me the entire time and as the end of my mission approached, I started making mental plans for our future.

I arrived home in May and and she had previously enrolled in a study abroad in Europe for the summer, so we only had a couple of weeks together before she left. We spent a lot of time together and rekindled our relationship. I could not see myself spending my life with any other person and she felt the same way.

When the time came for her to leave on her study abroad, I drove her to the airport and we discussed our plans when she came back in a couple of months. While we were parked in the airport parking garage, she pulled close and said she wanted to give me something to remember me while she was gone (insert imagination here ). I was very shocked and remember telling her that even though I loved her, I loved God more.

The walk to the terminal was awkward, as I still was in shock at what had just occurred. I couldn’t fathom what had just happened. My Laura wasn’t capable of such sin. Maybe she wasn’t a good person. Maybe I was wrong about her this whole time. Maybe she was possessed temporarily with a bad spirit.

Mentally and emotionally, I couldn’t get over what she had just tried to do to me. I stopped answering her letters and taking her calls while she was studying abroad. While she was gone I started dating people that were spiritually worthy of my high morals.

When I went back to BYU I completely blew her off because I felt I deserved better. Eventually I married someone else, Laura went on a mission and is now happily married with three lovely children. She is happy, active and as beautiful as ever.

Why was I such a complete self-righteous dick? I can’t help wonder occasionally what could have been if I wasn’t such a pompous, judgmental ass. Yes, my friends, the mission can really screw with your perspective and what is really important in life.

[_Rambo]

Everybody Wang Chung this was a very touching story thankyou for sharing it.

Why was I such a complete self-righteous dick? I can’t help wonder occasionally what could have been if I wasn’t such a pompous, judgmental ass. Yes, my friends, the mission can really screw with your perspective and what is really important in life.

haha this was me in a nut shell for a long time. I didn't even realize I was a self-righteous dick either.

I remember dating this one Mormon girl and I was complaining to her about how I have met so many girls that are Mormon that have slept with someone before they were married. The next thing I know I didn't have another date with this girl and I found out later that she was a Mormon girl that slept around as well.

Another time (5 years ago) I was just about to start dating this cute blonde Mormon girl. We talked everynight for a week on the phone for a couple of hours. We went on a couple of dates and all was going well. Then she takes me on a walk just behind her house and I do my same rant about how I'm sick of unworthy Mormon girls. After that date I never really heard much of her from then. A couple of months ago I met up with this girls exmo brother. I talked to him about what happened and he said that she always takes guys to the back of her house on a walk to give them head! So it all started to make sense to me after that. I went on a rant about how so many Mormon girls are immoral and here she was wanting to be immoral at the time. Funny world we live in.

[_Joseph]

David O. McKay told the missionaries in our mission that 'once you speed, the Holy Ghost leaves the car'. So, no speeding by many of us in our mission. The occasion was the memorial service for a missionary who was killed in a car wreck. Yep, he was exceeding the speed limit.

He was killed and his companion severely injured.

But for a while after the talk we had a whole bunch of Elders and Sisters who were not speeding in the mission romney rockets.