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Ik ben een moedertaalspreker, maar ik was toch even in de war.

Ik dacht altijd dat 'maar wel goed' betekende dat iets goed was. Ik kreeg een beoordeling terug en daar bij een onderdeel werd deze uitdrukking gebruikt. De zin luidt: Dit is in het verslag opgenomen als conclusie. Maar wel goed dat je in je conclusie nog een keer aantoont dat de fotocollectie zo belangrijk is voor draagvlak bij het grote publiek en dat je in het beroepsproduct de rollen vastgelegd hebt die het fotomateriaal binnen de missie van de organisatie vervult.

Toen dacht ik dat een compliment was, maar dat bleek niet zo te zijn. Er stond namelijk dat dit onderdeel onvoldoende was.

Ik heb dit opgezocht, maar ik kon er niets over vinden. Chatgpt liet mij weten dat 'maar wel goed' positief is, maar ik neem wat een AI-bot altijd met een korreltje zout.

Dus wat betekent 'maar wel goed' eigenlijk? Of heeft de beoordelaar het verkeerd gebruikt?

Edit: de zin toegevoegd.

A TBM guy from me ward just called me his 'best friend' when he greeted me in the chapel.

And as a PIMO, I was confused and see those Church friendship as very superfical. And I have already have a bestfriend and that relation is very different. I am not so close to him and have know him from started when I started going to the Church. Most importantly I don't see outside the Church. When I was inactive for a month he didn't reach out. I certainly didn't told him I don't believe anymore.

I do find him sympathetic, I am think I as closest to him as I can be with people in the ward. Even though I felt like something felt off about him as a investigator. I even asked him to baptize me when I still believed. He also was me buddy during my own endowment (as a PIMO).

But don't see him as a friend, because I don't think he will respect my decision to leave and understand it. I don't think I will hear from him when I have left.

I was raised secular, but I have been attracted to Christianity since I can remember. From when I was little I loved to visit church buildings (outside of services). My mother claims that one of my first words was 'church'. But over time I became an atheist, who loved to bash Christianity without knowing much about it. Four years ago I started fantasizing about becoming a Christian and to spread to Gospel, still without believing it. I shrug this off as a silly fantasy.

A while later I became interested in Mormonism after watching Under the Banner of Heaven. I found this an interesting religion, because I was an atheist I immersed myself into stories of former Mormons. I coincidentally found a Mormon chapel in a country where they are very rare.

After two years of shallow research on this sect, I got a religious experience. I heard a kind of voice telling me that the Mormon Church and the Bible including the Book of Mormon is true. At the same time I got instantly cured from my depression. As someone who didn't know anything about such experiences and Christian theology, I was convinced that this was the work of God. And I was sure from that point that the Mormon Church was true.

I contacted Mormon missionaries who of course were very impressed by my experience. During my first LDS servive I felt the same experience, but now even stronger. I considered that another sign that God was leading me to his Church, like stumbling into a chapel and discovering Mormonism in the first place. I started reading the Book of Mormon (BoM) and I thought because of the emotional elevation that I felt, that this book was true and really another testament of the Bible. Even after a not so critical reading of the Bible itself, I saw no contradictions with Mormonism and my experience.

The missionaries kept pressuring me to get baptized, and after the second time I gave in. It felt right and I thought I had studied Mormonism enough especially when I started with 'antimormon' sources. I believed that my testimony was strong enough to commit myself. After three months as an investigator I was baptized.

Two weeks after my baptism, I already lost my testimony. I felt a strong urge to investigate the claim, that the BoM was a product of 19th century plagerism. I read this when I use frequent exmormon circles. I compared the BoM with the books were it was supposed been copied from. I was shocked because it saw it with my own eyes. After that I could not believe this cult anymore. Especially when I learned the real history of it. Reading Christian theology did the rest. I discovered that not every miracle is from God (2 Thess. 2:8-9 and 1 John 4:1).

Since then I am an active but not believing member. How much I dive in the atrocious history of this cult, I receive more confirmation than this not a church with divine inspiration.