What happens when your faith comes across a reality check in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? An essay by Jeffrey Owen
The Story I started having my "faith crisis", as I later found out it was referred to, about three years ago at the time I'm finishing writing this, which is December 2018. That puts the events about which I’ll be writing in late 2015 up to now. Ironically enough, the onset of my faith crisis coincided with when I was called to be an Elder's Quorum President in my home ward in St. George, Utah. Several things happened all at once and in quick succession to catalyze a foundational questioning of my beliefs, this questioning which would then progress slowly. In October 2015 my wife and I did an In Vitro Fertilization fresh egg harvesting followed by an embryo transfer. This was after multiple failed attempts of Intrauterine Insemination after which we were turned over from our OBGYN to a Reproductive Endocrinologist. Turns out we did end up getting pregnant on our first IVF attempt which at the time I felt was a godsend. In fact, we got pregnant with