more of the wide canyons that follow the Colorado River

believed nudism was a wonderful,
Favorable thing well worth removing
For an hour, the burning congarments for---surely more benetinued, never relenting. I felt like an
ficial than the mere amateur pasIf someone had come
Built-in, intimate part of nature. I
time of swimming, which is considalong clothed, I would
ered a perfectly fine time to remove
have believed they were
artificial covering of clothes sepa- violating this sacred area.
garments.
Standing me from God's creations. If
Finally, he pulled out the huge
someone had come along clothed, I
Firearms. He asked me if I could
would have felt they were violating this sacred place.
Envision President Gordon B. Hinckley
I ended up trekking about two miles before turning back. The
doing things nude. (I couldn't, but there were many other
Strong burning finally subsided, giving hunger and thirst a
Matters I couldn't picture him doing, either.) He inquired what I
Opportunity to kick in. I struggled to get back.
thought https://s3.amazonaws.com/b-naturist/nude-in-beach.html would say if I asked him about nudism.

wobbly as I suffered from dehydration, and it took all my enI have no idea what he'd say, but I'm not certain he'd condemn
As I walked, I understood
it. And I told my bishop as much.
that---albeit unintentionally---I'd been fasting from food and
I finally decided to play my trump card. I bore my testidrink when that experience had hit me.
mony of the encounter I had in Moab---how the Nature of the
Lord had witnessed to me that naturism is a positive thing. I
anything after that encounter would have been anticlimactic. I
knew he could not resist my powerful statement of account.
returned home at the same time, eager to share my encounter with my
He could resist it.
family and naturist friends.
deception from Satan and discounted it.
There was no doubt in my mind I Had had a spiritual experiMy bishop determined he needed to escalate the problem to the
ence that testified of the existence of God. But I also felt it was
stake president. I met with the president and my bishop toa divine avowal of my acceptance of naturism, and a
gether, but I said as little as possible. I understood it would be a
calling of forms to share my beliefs with others---to go ahead
The stake president explained that if my inspirawith the plans I'd been considering.
tion was in contradiction to his inspiration and that of my
bishop, I should consider myself on unstable ground.
ND NONE TOO shortly! Just a couple of weeks afterwards, my
By that stage, I 'd studied, meditated, detected, experibishop called me in to his office. He'd found out I did
enced, and prayed for three years about naturism. They'd
things naked.
spent, at url , an hour or two, praying---just praying---
I knew he wouldn't understand any more than I understood
making no effort to study or comprehend nudism. https://s3.amazonaws.com/b-naturist/family-nudism.html couldn't
before I learned about nudism, but I also understood that, because
Comprehend how that place me on shaky ground.
it was so clear and evident to me, I could clarify it.
I figure that was the day I learned that living the life of an
It didn't work. To him, I was indulging in perverted things,
LDS naturist requires living a double life. As a naturist, you reand I wanted fixing.
veal your beliefs on nudity to fellow Latter-day Saints at your
own danger. It is one of those subjects for which logical dialogue
every Young Women's lesson and permeates the BYU honour
seems impossible. The concept of nudism is so foreign to the
code. I explained my perspective that modesty is a relative thing
orthodox Mormon mindset that there's little common ground
changing from circumstance to circumstance, from culture to
I explained that modesty is in the
I expected that disciplinary actions would be brought
heart and in the mind, not in the quantity of cloth we drape
against me, but nothing ever happened. I eventually moved
over our bodies. I explained to him how nudism had helped
away from that ward. My former bishop kindly made sure my
diffuse the intense lust I could feel at the sight of an attractive
next bishop knew I was a naturist, but I moved twice more
female because the body had been divested of its puzzle and
and managed to escape my standing.
titillation.
munity (yes, there's a community) haven't always do as

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well. One buddy stood before a position-level disciplinary council
and made a heroic effort to clarify naturism. When he finished, they declared they could not come up with a viable
Motive to condemn naturism, but they just did not feel right