Mission Mormonary

It was a week after my 17th birthday & my mother unwittingly gave me a gift that was to have a profound effect on the rest of my life.

I am guessing that it was a cold and miserable early evening because that is the standard weather in October in the North East of England. Two young men knocked on the door & introduced themselves as representatives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They had a message to share so my mother invited them in. I don’t know what they said as I wasn’t home at the time but just as they were leaving, I arrived. They introduced themselves as Elder Steve Paige & Elder Keith Nolan.

A couple of years later, I was told via a man claiming to be a Patriarch that these two gentlemen had been guided to our door by no e other than the creator of the universe.

I was eager to sign up as who could resist the promise of becoming a God & having hundreds of wives & perhaps millions of babies?

As someone who could attract not even one specimen of the opposite sex, being given a multitude of everlasting life partners seemed to be a price worth paying; which turned out to be 10% of my gross salary..

So I signed on the dotted line & was shipped out to Canada to see if I could persuade others to join me in the one & only True Church.