Boxers or Briefs?

A few weeks ago I received a visit by two Latter Day Saint missionaries. I didn’t have time to listen to their evangelistic efforts at that time so we agreed that they would come by “later”.

Well, before I knew it “later” came and then there they were, Saturday Dec 30th, ready to talk. Well, I put it off that day because I was taking care of the kids, so they showed up Monday Jan 1st but that didn’t work, so we decided that Tuesday the 2nd would be the day.

So that I wouldn’t be completely blindsided by their religion I took about an hour on the web and looked up a site or two that gave a brief primer on the key points that the LDS church preaches. Although (according to the ex-Mormon site I was on) they don’t teach you the following until after they’ve indoctrinated you more thoroughly, they believe some interesting stuff like…God has a wife, Satan is Jesus’ brother, when a man goes to ‘heaven’ he inherits a planet, although Jesus has forgiven us of sin Mormons wear special temple underwear to protect them from sin… and all kinds of other interesting secret stuff. Well, now that I was armed with a bit of knowledge (and more than a few questions) I was ready for my guests…

The Mormon missionaries came at 7:25pm to share their ‘restored’ gospel of Christ… wow, golden plates that no one has seen since the 1830’s, the Jews being the original inhabitants of the Americas, special angelic visits from God & Jesus, John the Baptist, some dude named Moroni, and 3 apostles,… it all sounded so fantastic! So unbelievable!

So I didn’t believe it.

After their lesson on Joseph Smith, they asked me to pray, with intent, to see if God would reveal to me that this ‘new’ revelation is indeed from God. I agreed to do so. After all if it’s not true nothing will happen, and if it is true won’t God want me to come to this knowledge too? They also gave me a chance to ask a few questions although I didn’t get to ask the one question I really want to know.

I won’t be converting any time soon (actually never) but I do give Elder Arian and Elder Caucasian credit. They were some nice young guys who are doing their two year tour of duty far from home in the usually cold but currently very mild Saskatchewan winter. And they weren’t too pushy, but they did ask if they could pray to start and close our meeting (I chose to do the praying… the idea of giving them permission to pray in my home just seemed creepy).Being evangelized by Mormons was an experience that I probably won’t do again (what’s the point?), but it was interesting.

Now I just have to pray and receive the special revelation from God that these words in the Book of Mormon are true…

(a few minutes later…)

Okay I prayed… no warm fuzzies…no booming voice… no angelic visitors to bear witness.

Maybe when they come to hear about God’s non-answer to my prayer I can ask the question I just have to know… boxers or briefs?