I don’t really try to introduce people to the church anymore unless they are attracted to it and I think it would really add something to their lives. One thing I am adamantly against is the church’s stance on refusing to acknowledge any historical facts that shed a dim light on the church. Boyd K. Packer warned the BYU people and FARMS people about those things. I suppose it is okay to ignore these facts until they are brought up, but when they are shining like a bulbous pimple on the butt of the church, and the missionaries and church representatives are all saying to just ignore it, I say that enough is enough. We live in an imperfect world and it has always been imperfect. We do NOT revere prophets as being more than men. They have all claimed to be sinners and weak. That is right. So in the history of the church, where things like the Mormon Meadows Massacre and Joseph Smith being Murdered vs. Martyred are concerned, the faithful shall say, “Isn’t it amazing that with all the mistakes men have made, that God has been able to reach out and establish an organization to help clarify his gospel through all that. Have any of us never sinned? Have any of us never made a mistake or a poor judgement call? Prophets are the same way. This church is even today an example of how much God can get done with stupid and weak servants trying hard to do what they think is right. So an alternate approach to the fear of having those who are recent converts to the church be turned away after learning about Joseph Smith being sealed to other men’s wives and a 14 year old girl, let’s give Joseph the benefit of the doubt, seeing as we don’t know his mind for sure, and say he may have not wanted to implement Polygamy when God told him to in the first place and it took some learning to figure out who he was really supposed to be commanding to practice the principle and that learning came with a lot of mistakes. He was only a man, and contrary to popular belief, I don’t think he walked and talked with God on a daily basis having clear explanations about how to do what he was told. Just like Thomas Monson today. I think they both make mistakes and blunder. But God is faithful and he hasn’t let stupid people dissolve this organization yet.
