Posted by:
GregS
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Date: March 07, 2019 09:39AM
The Redneck Elder (his term for himself) in my wife's ward is being transferred today. He and his companion stopped by last night to say goodbye before he left. It was few weeks ago that Elder Redneck took me off to the side after SM to "make sure we were good."
It came up again last night and my wife chose to pursue it because she was afraid that she had said something that gave Elder Redneck the impression that I was angry at him. (Nothing could be further from the truth because Elder Redneck has got to be my favorite of all the missionaries I've met.)
He assured us it was nothing either of us had said, but that he was talking with a missionary from the ward we had just moved from a few months ago. Elder Redneck looked up the teaching records from the old ward to determine whether it was us, and sure enough it was. He discovered that they had a file on me going back to 2013, which was just after my wife and I married.
What prompted him to make sure we were good was that one of the teaching reports noted that I "appeared very angry" and "seemed to be on the verge of throwing the missionaries out." I remember the incident well, and that was a very good summary.
Elder Redneck didn't know what the previous missionary had done to anger me, but he didn't want to repeat that missionary's mistake.
He also told us that the first teaching report on me included the note: "He's a nice man, but he's never going to convert."
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/07/2019 09:40AM by GregS.