Trigger reasons for apostasy from ‘Zelph on the Shelf’…
“I was a missionary at a time when the internet was off limits. Still, the members of my district would go to the college in our area to email or, I’m not really sure what they were doing. I decided I would look up Joseph Smith so that I wouldn’t be breaking the rules too much. I read the 1832 version of the First Vision. I knew that either this was true or the church was true but it couldn’t be both. Then I read about Lot and his daughters in the Bible and I knew there was no way that was actual history. These items were on my shelf for about 7 years before I finally read ‘An Insider’s View of Mormon Origins.’