Kevin Phelps

Yesterday I got the opportunity to drive down to Manti with Chad and his parents to go to the Mormon Miracle Pageant. It was alot of fun, the drive down there took a while but Mitch and Terri kept us entertained with some of their stories. When we got there we still had a few hours before it started so we went and got food at this little stand that they had up. When you walk towards the Temple and to the seats, your engulfed with these people trying to tell you that what you’ve been told you whole life is a lie. Thats OK though because its easy to just shrug them off and not care to much about what they’re saying. Then when we were just walking around you notice the LDS people that get into a little “spiritual deathmatch” trying to prove each other wrong. I don’t know why the protesters bother showing up, all they do is anger people, I can’t imagine them actually converting someone to their religion. One of the parts that stood out to me was a little stunt the FLDS pulled by having 34 or so women walk single-file, around and through the crowds with signs hanging from their neck saying which number wife they were to Joseph Smith, what their story was, and how old they were. Then they lined up in front of the entrance of the pageant so people would notice. The next part that amazes me is the immaturity of both LDS and all the other faiths that were there. We were walking through the crowd and noticed this guy with a yellow shirt on, preaching about the lies the LDS religion teaches. He was very energetic, and very loud. He knew how to draw attention to himself and he did just that. People were circled all around him asking him questions that he would only partly answer, or completely ignore. Then when he would try to prove his point or to get support, instead of asking someone he knew was LDS, he asks his supporters that were mixed into the crowd. Chad and I were making comments about how this guy was embarrassing himself unaware that some older guy was by us evesdropping. This guy turns around and starts questioning us about what this guy is doing wrong and why I would mock him, when somewhere in the scriptures states to not mock. I just shook my head and laughed, because honestly, I just don’t care. Then we looked back into the “religious moshpit” and noticed a LDS guy was walking around with the preacher imitating him, and making a scene that attracted attention from his supporters. The other faith’s quickly jumped in to hinder the LDS man from interrupting the preacher. Isn’t what that what the protesters are doing to our pageant? The LDS guy did make an idiot out of himself but had no intention to harm anyone, but the local Police didn’t think so. In the beginning when he jumped in to start his imitation, the police quickly came over and watched to see if anything would happen. In my opinion, when you have to have Police come to religious events, I think there might be a problem. Both sides acted pretty ridiculous and immature. The other faiths would have nothing to say, nothing to do if we didn’t listen to them. Everyone should’ve just ignored them, and gone on Temple grounds to eat or sit.

The actual Mormon Miracle Pageant was pretty good, I’ve never seen it before. I don’t know if I’d go again because of how both sides acted towards each other, but its always good to experience it I guess. I’m just surprised there wasn’t a fight.

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   J. B. said...
   5:21 am - June 25th, 2008

   Wow never would have considered Kevin as the one to notice this. Just remember that by mocking you are just as good as they are. When someone turns from the truth they are compelled to fight the truth because they know it is right. This is why you see that the police step in because Satan has such a pull on them they will do something for their false cause.

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   Kevin said...
   7:25 am - June 26th, 2008

   Eh I guess we have totally different ways of going about handling things. Why fight things when you know the truth? Why cause problems? Satan wouldn’t have his “pull on them” if we didn’t contribute to the problem. I wasn’t necessarily mocking them, I wasn’t making a big scene and acting immature, I would just state what I thought to myself and Chad. That’s my opinion about it, the world doesn’t care what I think so why share it when I know it will cause problems? I keep to myself.

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   Tayten said...
   12:20 pm - July 30th, 2008

   HAHAHAHAH religious mosh pit!! kev you make me laugh so hard!