That time, I was a primary teacher. The Relief Society leader who was the president of the Zimmerman Ward, I told her that I am pregnant and I want to abort this child because I don’t have any job to do. I have nothing.
She told me that I should not abort the child because it is God’s gift. I listened to her. But later on, she called my mother. And she told my mother, “This daughter of yours doesn’t think. Her work is going with men and getting pregnant. She has two children. Now she’s pregnant. Where will she take that child? She’s not working. She’s unemployed.”
When my mother told me those things, I dropped out of church. And I went to another church. I stayed and stayed in that church.
I didn’t change the ward, I changed the church because I was tired, if a woman who has daughters can talk to me like that.
Instead of encouraging me, because she was a Relief Society leader, she was just accusing me.
After being inactive at church and going to other churches, I remember the current president of the Relief Society came to my place. I was not there. I was at a job. I came. She told me, “Virginia, we need you. No matter what people said, come back to church. The church is not for anyone. The church is the Church of Jesus Christ. So come back to church.”
I told her, “Yes, I have the testimony of the gospel. But I’m not coming to church. Give me some minutes to think if I will come.” I stayed and stayed at home. I was going to another church. But I had a dream. And in the dream I heard a voice, “Why have you forsaken me? Go back to my church. There is a lot of work for you to do.” I came back to church, and I stayed.