Mothers Who Know

Conversion Part Two

As the year went on, I met a new family downstairs from me in the condominium complex  where we lived. This was summer. They were always inviting me to Church, and women's meetings and things. Finally, I attended both (really just so they would stop asking me) in the late fall/early winter. The homemaking meeting was nice, all the women were friendly, and I actually enjoyed myself. The church meeting was very nice. They had all the young women in the church bearing their testimony about their membership in the church. They bore testimony of prayer, and being chaste, and clean, and having a relationship with the Lord. This blew me away, as that is what I wanted for my son when he got older - was to have that kind of relationship with his church.

Before I go any farther, they had told me when I first met them that they were LDS. I had no idea what that meant. Then they tried a few other things, I still had no clue. Finally, they mentioned the church used to have a commercial about a kid singing about a broken window. It finally clicked. I had always liked those commercials.

So anyway, I went to church. I loved it. I went to class. They gave me a book called Gospel Principles and in it was a lesson about everything they believed. I read it in about a week. Now you would think, that would prompt me to ask more. It didn't. It never even dawned on me to take it any further than that. I even use to tease them all the time. Anything they believed in, I would pick the opposite side - just to see if I could get them riled up. It used to bother me, that I couldnt. They would patiently explain what they believed, and then end the conversation with their testimony - they would not argue doctrinal things.

During this time, it was now the next spring, I had continued to attend the congregrational church here and there. Finally in late June, my husband and I decided we would find a church together, as I just wasnt comfortable with the one I was attending. So the next Sunday, we were going to go the Catholic Church down the street and try that one out, and then we would find one to go to the next week after that.

Saturday night came and I was at the neighbors house and we were in our usual banter about religion and politics. I had been raised in a house that was very distrustful of organized anything - religion, politics, business, etc. I dont know if that is how they really feel, but that is how it came across to me. So I never really learned what they do agree, just a bunch of things they didnt like about those subjects. WIthout any formal training in politics, I had picked up the whole fable - democrats good caring nice guys - republicans, bad, selfish, etc. They challenged that. I dont like being wrong - so I set out to arm myself with the knowledge to argue against them and educate these people. The more I researched the more I found that I started to disagree with myself. I WAS WRONG! The things I stood for were actually held in favor by conservatives - who at that point were represented by Republicans. Why do I mention all of this political stuff? Because on that Saturday night, it was about to play an important role.

As we were bantering back and forth, I said to him "You may have gotten me on one thing, but you will never get me on the other one." He responded with. "I haven't steered you wrong yet, have I?". I laughed and responded with the question that would change my life forever, from that point on. "Okay smart alec. I have a question for you. How is it, that you can have so much faith, when you have so little, and are always struggling. How do you have faith - how do you get faith??" They responded with a few thoughts, and then sent me home to read some scriptures. I went home, and I cant remember whether I started reading that night or not, but the next morning, as I arose to get ready to go to the Catholic Church, my husband told me he had a migraine, and couldn't join me that day. I decided that I would go to the neighbors church then, and get it out of the way with, and we would go to the Catholic church the next week.