This is the team of us that wrote and placed your notes.
Next month watch my posts in the first full week of August for announcing taking more requests.
🤞🤞 Hopefully we won't be placing notes next month because he'll be back! 🤞🤞
I heard a rumor that 75% of 18-35 year olds have left the church in the last 3-4 years… thinking through just my friends, this is absolutely accurate…
Do you think it’s true?
Here's my note for the board and the 3 of us who posted all your wonderful, heartfelt Seunghan love.
Riize is 7, and this month we've really shown that we're not going anywhere and won't give up on our boy.
Seunghan sign story:
After taping notes we saw an older couple stop by the sign. we watched them take many pictures in front together & separately with Seunghan. They read, posed with our notes, and posed with Seunghan. Idk who they were, but they obviously LOVE him very much.
Notes are up! Here is a video and some fat away shots of them at the sign.
I'll put more pictures of them in a thread 🧵 so you can find your note among the others.
My partner in note writing/placing crime -
@sssggg1890
If you wanted to leave an English message for Seunghan, I can go back to the sign next week and put up more.
DM me and let me know what you'd like me to write.
Sorry I can't offer any other languages.
I just watched a clip of a Mormon boy with tattoos and long hair, and realized I've got some resentment to work through for an entire youth and young adulthood filled with shame and teachings of what I could and couldn't do with my body, that nobody cares about or teaches anymore
Stopped by Seunghan after the dentist today. Here's a 🧵 with the new sign and where the current sign is with note coverage
I love all the Seunghan stickers!!!!
8.13.24 11:15
New notes are up! Here are some pictures of the notes. I'm planning on coming to whatever sign is up next month - hopefully with welcome back notes - so watch for my post.
🧵 for close up pictures
I will send DMs with your notes later tonight. (I'm on my way to a concert)
Learned today that if you join the military through BYU and you become an officer, you not only are a U.S. military officer but also “inducted in full fellowship into the society of Helaman’s 2000”
Soooo that’s weird.
Before the August sign goes up, we're taking requests for August's Seunghan. That way we can organize them on the sign together and leave plenty of room for others. We'll be taking some this weekend, and next weekend.
If you'd like us to write a note for you, DM me.
85 notes about to go up.
We're going to keep them to the same area so if you sent a note you'll know what are yours is in.
I'll post pictures of all of them on the sign in a little while.
I'll be at this at tomorrow at 9:00 and placing the first round of notes on the Seunghan sign after. I will be bringing extra Seunghan cups from the Han River Seunghan Cafe event. If you'd like to come get a cup, find me at the Seunghan sign.
Hey guys if you're in Seoul tomorrow feel free to come view our Seunghan Airship that will be launched at 9:00 am KST 💝
여러분! 내일 시간 되시면 승한이 애드벌룬 보러 가주세요! 토요일 아침 9시에 띄운다고 합니다
#SEUNGHAN
#RIIZE
This was the first Seunghan sign I went to..
I saw that one note and wanted to leave one too. All I had was a sticky note with all 7 names in Korean I'd used to tell a student earlier that day the names of the members... I wrote a little Riize is 7, and I placed it next to it.
Between me and my 2 besties who also live in Seoul, we've finished all the letters sent so far for Seunghan. There are 75+ notes to take on Saturday. That sign is going to be full with all your love for our Seunghan!
If you're still wanting to send me one we can write more 🧡
If you wanted to leave an English message for Seunghan, I can go back to the sign next week and put up more.
DM me and let me know what you'd like me to write.
Sorry I can't offer any other languages.
One reason I love writing the notes so much, is it's actually hard to be in Korea and see RIIZE everywhere without Seunghan.
They're on busses, food, drinks, signs, always missing 1 person. It's always this mix of emotion that starts with excitement and finishes with sadness.
My whole life my family has praised and talked about my 7th great-grandfather with 5 wives.
Just learned my great-grandmother, who was the 3rd wife, married him at 17. He was 41.
Today I mourn for her.
For the record
The actual thing about exmos is we recognize we all arrived at exmo in very different ways, for very different reasons. But the one thing we all actually share? Compassion for each other.
This makes me sick. My parents buy into every word at conference like God has entered their living room and is personally instructing them in non-debatable ways of living their lives and how they should think…
And they’re being told my “legacy of faith has been broken.”
If Elder Ballard felt good in his decision to share big tithing payers to OUR, then what other higher ups are feeling good about sharing with other organizations or people..?
Im not the exmo who will argue history with you.
I’m not the exmo who will claim to know more.
Although I’ve learned more since leaving, Deep dive research wasn’t what took me out. Nor sinning. Nor being offended.
All of our stories are different.
The relief society is only one of the biggest women’s organizations in the world because every girl automatically becomes a member once she turns 18.
No application.
No request to join.
No process at all.
I’ve got a friend back in UT who is in the THICK of the moving out of the church, but is still stuck in so many things keeping her there. And my heart goes out to her SO MUCH. Stopped doing the big things, but surrounded by members and expectations, and she’s just stuck.
I still “choose the right”
I just choose it for myself, not based on what someone else tells me to choose.
I choose to still love this ring that was so thoughtfully chosen and given to me by my mother. One of my favorite gifts from her. And I keep it for that love.
Going to a baby shower tomorrow with a bunch of Mormons and there will be games and I really think that this is a situation when I think I’d really like to be high… should I daytime pregame it…?
So if Satan tells me I’ll be in his power if I don’t live up to every covenant I make at the temple, and Satan is the father of lies, am I safe to assume that’s a lie and I can go along my merry-covenant-breaking way and no one will get any control over me?
Where the Mormon horror stories at?
Just watched a trailer for “The Nun” and it got me thinking it’s really time for some good, fan fiction, crazy horror story Mormon movie.
If nothing else, the way the church talks about people who’ve left is motivation enough to never go back. I don’t have relationships with people who talk bad about me.
I generally try not to wonder about the specifics of peoples relationships that are outside of my close friendships…
But watching an LDS gay couple get engaged, I can’t help but wonder, how on earth are they going to navigate being a married gay couple and still members??
55 more notes to go up.
All the Korean I've been printing, printed some more of the long English notes, and looottssss of Sinchan.
We're up to 35 countries this month 🫶
I'll give the official list on my post from the sign.
English notes that have been submitted are written and will be placed with Seunghan tomorrow.
If you sent me a Korean note, I will be placing them next weekend.
(See 🧵 for a list of the countries I've received Briize notes from for our Seunghan 🧡🫧🫶)
I used to dye my hair all sorts of unnatural colors… and yes I looked awesome.
But my mom was constantly shocked that I was allowed in the temple with my hair that way.
Ex:
Okay, when I was growing up Mormon the whole amazing great and wonderful thing about being Mormon was so you could die, go to the CK, and make worlds. It was HUGE that I understood the making worlds part…
And that’s not being taught now?? What do CK peeps do for eternity??
Getting Sunday as a second Saturday is the greatest exmo perk. No more finding a local church on vacation. Trying to keep the day “holy” by being fucking bored all day. Another whole day a week to do absolutely whatever I want.
I’m so bothered by things about the church, and the way members feel they have to preach and talk about it, and so many things, and I feel like I can’t escape it, and I’m devastated, and tired, and I want to shut off my brain and start over as a person who never was a member. 😫
Growing up it was always my understanding that if you made it to the Celestial kingdom, you had free rein to visit the other kingdoms…
So my family would still technically be together if I’m not in the Celestial right? They can just visit me in the lower
Also, I’ve been in the RS presidency with a RS President who should be running the damn church. And it pained me every time she had to run a decision by the branch president before she could give an actual “yes.”
Me 5 years ago, just before going to the temple on a Saturday night with 2 guy friends trying to find answers to what to do with my life, trying to get married.
Me now our drinking an alcoholic beverage called “Orgasm” with my Korean bestie, absolutely adoring life how it is.
me 5 years ago (active member of the church, full tithe payer, obeying all of the commandments) vs me now (a fucking heathen 👅)
BUT THE LIGHT IN MY EYES 💀
Do you think Adam & Eve eating the Apple gave them sexual desire, so they actually starting having sex = having kids? Or were they having sex the whole time, just didn’t have the ingredients for children until apple eating?
(Things I legit wondered sitting in the temple)
Happy Birthday to me!!
Thank you everyone who sent me notes this week. Being able to post those for you on my birthday weekend made it SO special for me.
Listening to the Girlscamp podcast episode on garments. And my god I’m glad I don’t wear them anymore…
How long after you stopped wearing did you get rid of them? Took me about a year… I still cut them up, as what I saw just a form of respect for what they were and being done
Really bothers me that a supposed apostle of Christ described me as “spiritually bankrupt because I ripped up in doubt what I once planted in faith”
I’ve never been more “in-tune” or “spiritual” than I am. And honestly I never fathomed this level of joy was possible
Going through jewelry and found this birthday gift from my mom… specifically asked for a black CTR ring.
I think I’ll clean and keep it, and think of a new acronym.
Any ideas?
If you refer to progmos or exmos as “lazy learners” my instincts automatically want to disregard what you are claiming, because you obviously have spent no time genuinely trying to understand where those people are at, or why they don’t feel the same as you about the church.
Sometimes you disagree so fervently with what your father is saying about the church, your hands go numb from holding it in…
I need to vent. Who wants to listen?
Wore makeup for the first time in weeks, and the massive compliments of how pretty I look made me want to break down and cry. It’s hard to heal how I feel about my face when people around me are perpetuating the idea in my head that my worth comes from how I look.
So he didn’t actually say it, but what the Hell is a “telestial body” supposed to imply?!
Cuz if he’s talking the TK Smoothie, he’s seriously throwing a new quotable wrench in the eternal gender theory.
Me to my parents 10 times in my birthday call (with no context)
“Oh yeah I was talking to my friend online about that…”
Them:
“Who are all these online friends?”
Me:
“Oh just this cool community of people I talk to about specific things”
You all. It’s all my exmo peeps
Been following an artist over on IG for years, and had no idea he was a Mormon. Homeboy just posted about learning coffee because he recently left the Mormon church and my mind is blown. I feel like 2 worlds just combined.
I have no problem with Jesus. I think he’s great. If you’re going to model your life after someone, he seems like a great option honestly.
So why am I feeling conflicted about Jesus Christmas music this year?
My first post-religion, don’t believe in God Christmas. It’s weird.
Got a friend leaving the church after a struggle who is currently experiencing the backlash of a terrified parent who only knows the churches "loving" way of chastising them back into "keeping their covenants" because "there is no joy" elsewhere. And my heart HURTS for them.
While walking home from work tonight I realized I feel like I’m a Mormon who just stopped. Even though I’ve left officially, I feel like I’ve just stopped, but it’s still what I am or am “supposed” to be. When does that go away…?
If anyone wants a Seunghan cup, come find me across from SM at Twosome place on the second floor writing some last minute notes that came through over night.
I just wanna know… if evil spirits and demons are smart enough to tempt me, how are they also dumb enough to attempt shaking my hand if they know they’re a spirit so I won’t feel it?
We ALL do.
I was dragged up some stairs by a man in an empty gym when I was around 12 years old. Luckily I wriggled free and ran out of the gym.
And that’s just the first story that comes to mind.
A question I never though to ask all those people who can’t handle exmos who “can leave but can’t leave it alone”
What do they expect exactly?? We were told to give everything, even if it meant our LIVES to the church, but when we leave, just forget all that?
Sitting here at the close of a completely uneventful Valentines Day thinking about how if I didn't understand and love myself so deeply, I'd still be a member of the church and I'd be devastated not understanding why I couldn't find love.
Happy Valentines Day to me 💖