This is important.
When I wonder why I would ever want to go to an evening of a giggling gaggle of girls calling everything cute and putting polka-dots and bows all over magnets, or why ultimate frisbee was invented, or why I have to keep listening to uneducated and rude comments about democratic political leaders, or why someone would suggest that I should be marrying Captain Moroni (and I can see in their eyes they are actually envisioning that painting of the overly-muscled, fur-clad, no-nonsense man and that they've missed those other qualities, you know, the non-combatant ones), and the worst of all, when I have times that I wonder if maybe it's not just a difference in taste maybe I'm just wrong and I'm not being a "good Mormon"--
--when all of these things happen I go back to what I know. What I do believe in. I run all the equations and ask myself all my questions and make sure I know what I'm doing. I have to re-make sure I still belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
And then I get a little bit stronger and know I've got to do as my cousin says here and speak up.
If I don't move in the next year I may have another year of existential crisis. For all that I've gained from that year and for all that I love that girl who weathered it, I don't want to experience it all over again. Luckily, now I have all of you.
Amen.
29 July 2010
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don't ever move!!! EVER!!!! at least until I move.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to punch that Captain Moroni comment guy. He's got a long way to go if he wants to aspire to be as good as Captain Moroni. ;)
ReplyDeleteI love you and I think you are the bestest kind of Mormon, ever.
Also, please move up to SLC.
Good thing you're not a mormon, you are a Latter-Day Saint and true disciple of Christ. And an awesome friend.
ReplyDeletei like this post. i like you.
ReplyDeleteAhh I have this exact thought process/ crisis on a daily-if not more regular-basis.
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