Posted by:
Biff
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Date: July 17, 2012 11:23PM
I just found out that my former ward (waaaaaay east of Utah)is now celebrating "Pioneer Day". It seems as though they are encouraging the general public to attend; they have advertised it in the local paper as a "commemoration of the pioneer trek west". They seem to have "forgotten" to mention that it's the MORMON pioneer trek they're focusing on. The good news is that I really can't imagine anyone in this community to be interested. There seems to be a disproportionate number of evangelicals here and really...who outside of the Morridor gives a fig about Mormons?
This has never been done here before. It makes me wonder if The Mothership has been encouraging wards to mingle with their gentile neighbors in order to show everyone how normal, fun, and totally kool Mormons are!!!1111!!!! The reason I suspect this is because the "Mormon Helping Hands" have been hard at work in our community lately, as well (naturally they were all sporting their bright yellow shirts humbling advertising "MORMON HELPING HANDS").
I will have to drive by the ward building this weekend and see how many have turned out for this gala event. I have a feeling it will be populated primarily by Mormons, all standing around to sniff each other's farts.