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Well we moved into our new home. We live in a small subdivision with three duplexes surrounding a park in the back yard. It’s wonderful for the kids to go right out back and play with the neighbors, which is easy to view from the big windows in the home. A very nice lady came up to us and introduced herself. Our kids immediately started playing with them at the park. The only thing… She was wearing a BYU shirt. Yes it’s true, I moved to another state, CA, only to find out that our neighbors, you know the ones connected to our duplex, are TBM mormons. 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 My wife and her sat down and talked while I unloaded the truck. I asked my wife if the question of LDS every came up and she said yes. She said to me that it’s hard to avoid it once they ask where are you and hubby from… I’m from Utah. Once Utah is in the conversation so is Mormon. My wife told me not to worry because she told the neighbors we were usually inactive. She said, I might as well be honest about are current feelings. Then my wife verified with me that I didn’t want to go to church on Sunday. Oh and one more funny thing, our daughter is in a new day care, and guess what? One of the managers is LDS.
To clarify, I know this is staylds.com, but I wanted a little break… lol
That’s funny. A little twist of irony in your fate. That is so interesting! I just moved a few weeks ago and my new neighborhood does not have many LDS, but of course my next door neighbors are!! They are the sweetest couple too. I have been honest with my feelings about the Church. It was really interesting she had said she thought that most members would agree with my views??? This is the most confusing thing. I am so curious though, how has it been for you guys? Have you guys gotten a break? Have your views changed any? I am from Northern California and I have often thought if I could get back there maybe I would not feel so much pressure. I live in Georgia. Our ward is really very nice. It is full of very real people with messy, normal lives. In fact, a majority of our ward consists of part-member families. There’s just not a lot of that air of elitism… and I don’t really see much room for tolerating that kind of nonsense. I’m having lunch with a brother in the ward today that is a good friend. We’ve had great conversations about a lot of things. I asked him last time we got together for lunch about how he processes the ideals of the Mormon family and the plan of salvation in relationship to his 3 older adult children being inactive and not at all interested in Church. He’s about 10 years older than me. He had a good, healthy perspective on it. So I guess I am saying it depends a lot of times who you get a chance to talk to about deep things (specifically), and where you live (more generally). That has been my experience. I also had good experiences like that when I was active duty in the Army and attended military service wards. Those were some of my favorite times in the Church. People were very down to earth. One of my all-time favorite wards was a tiny branch in Korea that had all of a dozen members on a good day. The branch president was a good buddy of mine. We would hold a shortened sacrament meeting and then combine Sunday School, Relief Society and Priesthood all into one class after that, alternating between a brother and a sister teaching the class.
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