i admire mormons

i've always admired the mormon people.

various reasons, of course.
1. their great looking guys (clean shaven) with their white t's and ties and how they would walk down the sidewalk carrying their bible
2. (it's funny how i put that as number one).. i knew a couple mormon guys in hs.. and i'm not gonna lie-- they were really good-looking ;)
3. in chinese, mo-moon... "to touch the door"... it suited them because they'd go around door-to-door to build relationships with people and share the good news
4. how they'd send their young men on missions for months or years at a time
5. their sense of family

yet, in a shadow side, i secretly thought they were inferior because of their beliefs about certain things.

i took a look at some of their beliefs this weekend... sure, some of them are different... not exactly out of the bible... and some of their practices may seem unorthodox.


in retrospect, does it all really even matter? why are we so hell-bent on getting people to think certain ways?

yet, why are some of us so put off by the free expression of appearances (even in the "christian circle")??
why don't we go door-to-door spreading the good news? why don't we even talk to our neighbor about Jesus?
why are we so unwilling to go on long-term missions trips?
where has our sense of family gone?



michael was mormon... most of his life...


i can't help but miss him and wish he could share his faith with me.