Saturday's Warrior
"Are you having problems with sin too, like me?" I asked.
He laughed derisively. "Sin? What's sin?"
I was surprised by his question. "It's when you break the commandments, of course."
"Look, I'm probably the wrong person for you to talk to about this whole thing," he said. "The truth is that I've been having a lot of very serious doubts lately, like I'm not really sure anymore that the church is true."
I couldn't believe my ears! "You of all people!" I said. "You've always been the great scriptorian. You know the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine & Covenants better than anyone else I know. How could you be having doubts about the church?"
"Actually, I think that that's exactly the problem," he said. "I feel like I'd be able to believe it more if I knew it less."
Upon hearing that, I felt like I was really alone and had no one left to turn to for support. On the one hand I had Kathy who was Molly Mormon and could never understand what I'd been through, and on the other hand I had Rex, who from the sound of it was practically an apostate! At least I still had my little sister Joy who was a faithful sinner like me. She and I would be probably be together in the Telestial Kingdom while Kathy went with Mom and Dad and possibly Jared to the Celestial Kingdom and Rex went off to outer darkness with the apostates.
At the end of the party I was hesitant to ride home with Rex because he had been drinking. He laughed at my fears and told me that he had only had two beers the entire evening and was certainly not drunk. Still, I suggested that since I had my learner's permit maybe I should be the one to drive. "Whatever," he said, handing me the keys.
On the way home Rex told me that he was planning to edit all of the videos of the production over the weekend and asked me if I would like to watch them with him and his friends on Tuesday night. I told him that I would like to except that I had a date.
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