When I was a young teenager - I refused to use profanity and I would get after my friends who did.

They made fun of me and got angry. These were Saints.

I eventually gave in to peer-pressure at some point in High-School so I could fit in with the 'cool' Saints my age.

The change in my language affected everything and I eventually went down a path where I was drinking and smoking and getting into lots of fights and being destructive.

I cleaned up out of High School and went on my Mission.

On my mission I vowed to follow all of the rules and not give in to peer pressure because of my earlier experience and because one of my siblings had been sent home from the mission for disobedience.

I was frequently called a "Pharisee" by other disobedient Elders.

I was looked down upon by the disobedient Elders who saw me as a "try-hard" or as somehow disingenuous about my committment to the Lord and my service.

I wasn't then and I am not perfect now - but I know how to get back up, and try again - how to try and to repent.

When I came home from my mission, my family was constantly fighting with each other and openly inviting the spirit of contention into the house - I spoke up to invite them to stop and to repent.

My dad in anger called me a "wannabe Jesus" as an insult.

My siblings picked that insult up and copied my dad in ridicule.

I knew I was doing the right thing. I just didn't want my family to fight over meaningless things and to focus on truth.

Maybe I could have said things more eloquently - but I knew, like before - I was being ridiculed for doing what was right. Ridiculed for sharing the Gospel and ways in which I had personally learned to enjoy the companionship of the Spirit.

All they heard was "wannabe Jesus"

But isn't that the point of Baptism and the Temple? To take upon ourselves the name of Christ? To act how he would act? To say what he would say? To stand up and persecuted - even by your family? Even by our friends? Even by other Saints?

I am not perfect. I am a sinner.

Fast forward to now.

Same story, different venue. https://twitter.com/UDontGnomieYet/status/1357848651763044352?s=19

Yes - I take the tone-policing to heart because it strikes a personal sharp wound.

But this is wrong. We should all be "wannabe prophets" and "wannabe Jesus".

The spirit of Prophecy is the testimony of Jesus Christ. Eternal Life is know Him and be like Him.

Not once have I claimed revelation for the Church or contradicted the counsel of the Living Prophets in my posts - except in my failure to best express myself without the appearance of "being too bold" or overbearing.

I regularly admit to being plagued with this trial.

If you DON'T consider yourself a watchman on the tower - to warn those around you of the coming Judgment upon the Earth, YOU will be held accountable for keeping silent at that judgement.

Call me "wannabe prophet" all you want. I will continue to emulate those holy men.

Pretty tired of the lifelong friendly-fire when I am correct in substance but often clumsy and uncouth in delivery.

Do not wound your friends by scorning their good examples. It can be devastating.

Ftr: I tried to have open conversation with Gnomie in private before the above

My intention is not to overbear or to claim Prophecy for the Church but to point to how we can understand what is happening in the world around us with the scripture and words of the Prophets we have been given.

I am just this real and sharp in person. This is not a mask.

Right now is a moment in time that is too important.

We must prepare the World for the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ.

There is nothing more important om the Earth right now than Gathering Israel. Do you believe that?

I do. That's why I constantly put myself out there.Despite pain