Staying Worthy Once Engaged - Part 2 of 2

Dear Bro Jo,

Thank you for your quick answer. My problem is that I constantly feel over-guilty. On my mission, I regularly talked with my mission president telling him how worried I was about my worthiness. Every time he said I had to exercise more faith in the atonement and be more forgiving with myself.

I'm anxious because I was afraid it would jeopardize our Temple worthiness and we would have to delay our wedding. I gonna be out of town until the wedding so I won't get to talk to the bishop.

I think I'm just gonna relax and trust my fiancé, her mother and what you said.

Thank you for your help

- Stressed




Dear Stressed,

No problem.

Look, if you've got a worthiness issue you haven't confessed, get it done.  Simply being out of town is not enough of a reason not to.  Trips can be delayed.  Bishops can be spoken to before we leave.  Or if we're going to be gone a few weeks we can have our records transferred and talk to the new Bishop.

If leaving town is the best way to keep yourself Temple Worthy and your hands off your fiance, then I'm in total agreement with that!  (Plus writing to each other, especially REGULAR LETTERS, can be as romantic as heck.)

All of that said, one should certainly pay attention when those closest are giving similar counsel.

Happy wedding!

- Bro Jo