Truth Restored

I was visiting another blog and happened upon a few ads from the Church's new ad campaign. I really liked them. I love how they are so simple and direct. Just the gospel. No one else's opinion or their friend's old roommate's story about how she heard this one time in some fireside that she really went to so she could sit next to Jarom in the hopes that he would pray really hard and ask her out and then propose three weeks later-- and that's why drinking Coke is wrong and you're supposed to go out on a date with everyone who asks you just to be nice. I love the simpleness of the gospel. It's all the other stuff that pisses me off and makes me get angry and bitter. I have a hard time separating the Gospel from The Expectations of the Rest of My World. I have expressed these frustrations from time to time and I always get that It's All Utah's fault. I find it hard to believe that a geographical location has anything to do with ignorance and closemindedness. I think those things are found everywhere. I resent the fact that people tell me that solely by changing my location I will escape The Expectations of the Rest of My World. I believe that there are Expectations everywhere, as long as there are people who believe they Have It Right. I just want to live my life as I see fit. I do have a small problem. I have lived for the last seven years primarily in Utah. I was a kid in the other places. I don't know if it is the same for a young adult in the church elsewhere. Maybe it is just me. That is the most likely answer, as most of the problems in my life are my own fault.