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The original was posted on /r/exmormon by /u/RandomAssBean on 2025-08-03 02:12:35+00:00.
I got back from girls camp a couple days ago, I had some fun! I made some friends within my ward, and overall really enjoyed my ward time more than the stake time, I will make a whole separate post about the stake situation, as it was actually horrible.
But, on the last day of our stay, we did the faith walk activity. Basically, it was a walk containing small messages about Jesus Christ and the Gospel in general. Before we began, we were told to write a personal struggle or weakness we were dealing with. Me and some of my friends, put a little too much trust and put down some personal things.
Mine wasn't super personal, as I've shared on here, it's about how unsupported I feel sometimes being an exmormon.. That's what I wrote. In context of the activity, it was a bold move of mine because I'm literally surrounded by Mormons, but I assumed nobody would read it or show it... But, there is always a but.. During one of the sections of the walk, they put up what everyone wrote. I've never been more scared in my life ๐ญ
MY PARENTS WERE THERE. I didn't really care if anyone else saw it, but my parents??? That's a different story. I was scared they would call me out on it or ask me about it, especially if they recognize my handwriting, as an agnostic.. I legit started heavily praying and crying. Some of the leaders came up to me and hugged me, I guess they assumed I was heavily feeling the spirit ๐
No girl. I was feeling my spirit LEAVE my body. I also felt super bad for my other friends who had done the same and had wrote down super personal things. I felt it was unfair, as the camp leaders said it was gonna be anonymous and didn't tell us it would be shown to others during the walk.
Name or no name, I felt a bit violated.. as I also saw some dude taking pictures of what people wrote.. That made me feel super uncomfortable. These are personal things that others wrote. I told my friends about it and they agreed that it was weird and a bit insensitive to take pictures of what people wrote.
But Yea, Idk, what do you guys think?