Friends

Franken · #1 (**permalink**) 06-19-2004, 01:37 PM

Hm, just recently at the end of the year I'd been making some new friends one of which invited me and my best friend to an activity with there youth group. The thing is, is that she isn't LDS, and the youth group is all different kinds of christian denominations. Whenever I ask my parents if I can go do stuff with em it seems like there always hesitating and that they really don't want me to go. I don't understand why my parents don't want any of my friends to be non-mormon. All of them are really good people, I just don't understand. Can anyone help me here?

deepthinker · #2 (**permalink**) 06-22-2004, 02:48 AM

i highly doubt that your parents don't want you to have non-member friends, how else would we have converts? i think it's more that the rest of the christian world does not see mormon's as christians because they do not know about it. and some people, even without konwing the person, will not talk to someone because they are mormon. i think it's more for your safety that they are wary of sending you out into a group that may feel the need to completely tear apart your religion. and also, there is a lot of anti stuff circulating around most of the christian world.

Luzia · #3 (**permalink**) 06-22-2004, 09:38 AM

I think it`s hard for your parents because the world can be a dangerous place and being dragged there can be so easily. :S You can still trying to talk to your parents, but, then again, I think that they wil always know what is best for you, even though right now that doesn`t seem to be the picture.

deepthinker · #4 (**permalink**) 06-22-2004, 01:54 PM

i would have to disagree that parents always know what is best for their children. no, i know that with that comment i just sound like a silly teenager, but here me out.
kids most of the time don't always know what is right for them, and most of the time, parents don't either. but the parent can generally make a BETTER decision then the child, because they have seen more and experienced more. but sometimes, the parent is way off too. parents don't know their kids as well as they think they do, but kids don't know themselves either. so it's mostly a crap-shoot. lol.
(i'm not sre that that made any sense to anyone but me)

twisted_pretzel · #5 (**permalink**) 06-23-2004, 01:37 AM

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Originally posted by deepthinker@Jun 22 2004, 01:48 AM
i think it's more that the rest of the christian world does not see mormon's as christians because they do not know about it.* and some people, even without konwing the person, will not talk to someone because they are mormon.

That is really true.. It stinks!