You think mistakes cant happen in the Mormon church? People need to be aware that leaders are human too...However, since God is in charge, the world is His. The church is His, take faith in you will end up and be where you are suppose to be in the next life whether or not some local leaders judges you righteously... Lets take Helmuth Hubener for example: Church reaction The execution chamber at Plötzensee Prison In 1937, LDS President Heber Grant had visited Germany and urged the members to remain, get along, and not cause trouble. Consequently, some LDS members saw Hübener as a troublemaker who made things difficult for other Mormons in Germany. This recommendation did not change after Kristallnacht, which occurred the year following Grants visit, after which he evacuated all non-German Mormon missionaries. Local LDS branch president Arthur Zander was a fervent member of the Nazi Party, even to the extent of affixing notices to the church door stating Jews not welcome beginning in 1938. Ten days after the arrest of Helmuth Hübener, on 15 February 1942, Zander, acting for the LDS, excommunicated the young man demonstratively, as had been demanded by the Gestapo, without holding a church court or notifying church headquarters in Salt Lake City. Four years later and after the war, Hübener was posthumously reinstated in the LDS Church in 1946 by new mission president Max Zimmer, saying the excommunication was done by mistake. He was also posthumously ordained an elder, was rebaptized on 7 January 1948, and endowed on 8 June 1948 with information on temple sheets stating All the temple work was done for him. The day of his execution, Hübener wrote to a fellow branch member, I know that God lives and He will be the Just Judge in this matter… I look forward to seeing you in a better world! — from a letter written by Hübener, the only one believed to still exist
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 23:00:41 +0000