I grew up with a Mormon friend and went to a lot of her social events. I always felt like I was missing something when I went back home. They were such a wonderful and loving group.<<<
Yes, they are.
I had never met one, until I moved to Arizona.
It has been a blessing for me, both the ones that I knew in Wellton and those that I have known here.
When I think of Catherine in Wellton, it makes me smile, her standard greeting over the years was “how are you? I called to see if I should send the Missionaries to you?”
A family joke, as I had said no to the Missionaries, wasn’t interested....and one morning on the way to work, Bill saw an elderly couple standing on the side of the road.
He stopped and asked if they needed help, and they said “No, we had never seen an orange on a tree before and had to stop and see them, we are new in the area”.
Bill said “Well you go on out and talk to my wife, she can tell you all about what will grow here.”
And when I opened the door, there they were, the new Missionaries, sent to the west from the midwest.
A lovely wonderful couple.