My wife's visiting teacher followed up 5 unanswered emails and phone calls with a 6AM text message this morning begging to come visit and bring dinner. I'm pretty sure there was a high-priority edict issued recently about reactivating us.
I have been back to church a time or two in the last year. Both times a bunch of people made a big scene. Why do Mormons have to make such a big damn deal out of it when an inactive members shows up at church? I think they'd have an easier time reactivating people if they would just lay off and stop harassing us.
My wife sometimes contemplates going back but felt awkward at church alone because people were constantly asking where I was (saving lives). Furthermore, there was a time when I did not have a choice and basically had no Sundays off. Now things feel even more awkward. She now says that she doesn't want to go back to church until we move to a new ward.
I also frequently received emails from people asking where we would be going for Christmas and why we weren't making it to church on holidays (none of which were days off for me). The final straw for my wife was being called in by the Bishop (without me while I was working 30-hour shifts as a resident) and the bishop suggesting that we should have been paying 25,000 dollars (no joke) tithing instead of 2500. It was bad enough to be fielding questions from him about when we would be having children (none of his beeswax).
The last email I received from my home teacher was a message basically telling me that I should be more like Elder Doctor Russell Nelson by combining medicine with superhuman church service. I did not respond. I will not comment publicly on this due to the sensitivity of the subject matter on this particular board, but I have very strong opinions on this specific issue. I do not believe these things are as compatible as some people like to pretend.
Based on all the attention we are getting, I realize we must be about the most popular people in our ward, but I am contemplating sending the bishop an email asking him to get people to stop emailing and texting.
I admit that I'm a big baby about this stuff, but I don't want all of these random Mormon people issuing commentary about my life. I guess you could say I'm a libertarian when it comes to Mormonism. I'm a private person and want to keep it that way. I don't like people telling me what to do or messing with my personal business (finances, tithing, whether I go to church or how often, etc).
That's my spiel.
I have been back to church a time or two in the last year. Both times a bunch of people made a big scene. Why do Mormons have to make such a big damn deal out of it when an inactive members shows up at church? I think they'd have an easier time reactivating people if they would just lay off and stop harassing us.
My wife sometimes contemplates going back but felt awkward at church alone because people were constantly asking where I was (saving lives). Furthermore, there was a time when I did not have a choice and basically had no Sundays off. Now things feel even more awkward. She now says that she doesn't want to go back to church until we move to a new ward.
I also frequently received emails from people asking where we would be going for Christmas and why we weren't making it to church on holidays (none of which were days off for me). The final straw for my wife was being called in by the Bishop (without me while I was working 30-hour shifts as a resident) and the bishop suggesting that we should have been paying 25,000 dollars (no joke) tithing instead of 2500. It was bad enough to be fielding questions from him about when we would be having children (none of his beeswax).
The last email I received from my home teacher was a message basically telling me that I should be more like Elder Doctor Russell Nelson by combining medicine with superhuman church service. I did not respond. I will not comment publicly on this due to the sensitivity of the subject matter on this particular board, but I have very strong opinions on this specific issue. I do not believe these things are as compatible as some people like to pretend.
Based on all the attention we are getting, I realize we must be about the most popular people in our ward, but I am contemplating sending the bishop an email asking him to get people to stop emailing and texting.
I admit that I'm a big baby about this stuff, but I don't want all of these random Mormon people issuing commentary about my life. I guess you could say I'm a libertarian when it comes to Mormonism. I'm a private person and want to keep it that way. I don't like people telling me what to do or messing with my personal business (finances, tithing, whether I go to church or how often, etc).
That's my spiel.
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