I travel extensively for work. Due to my airline status, I am generally upgraded to first class for most flights. 5-10% of the time, I am seated in my regularly assigned seat. Such was the case flying back from Portland to SLC this week.

Who comes and occupies the middle seat right next to me??? A young man, culminating 36 hours of travel home to Twin Falls, Idaho from Manilla.

Before I put my ear buds in and tune out Elder Dipshit and the rest of the world....we converse for a few minutes.

This kid isn't even released yet and he tells me his next goal is to return to Utah State, finish his degree in Biology, get accepted to Medical School and get married.

I asked him if his girlfriend knew of his plans.

"I don't have a girl friend....I just know that is the next step for me in my life, and god will provide me with a wife".

I felt ill on so many levels.

Thankfully, the plane was at 10,000 ft; I put in my ear buds and checked out.

Made me sick.

It's a SIGN!!!

Maybe he will be provided with someone similar to himself and they can be eternally deluded in their blessings.

Provide a wife indeed, like buying one at the store. They're not people or individuals, just phases in your life.
Broken, broken outlook.

Ten cow payment for wife. More if she can coook.

It's that part about getting married with no one in mind that was strange and should have been kept private.

Young girls at slumber parties like to giggle about such ideas, but adult men with strangers need more restraint.

Was on a date (web-dating) with a "gentile" woman once and I said something almost like the boy: "I don't have a girl friend....I just know that is the next step for me in my life, and god will provide me with a wife".

Came home, Went online, checked my inbox to see what she thought about me.

All I got was this.

"What is wrong with you??"



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Provide him with a wife?? Not that easy, buddy. Make sure you have someone dry your tears when you're 40 and still single.

Yup... reminds me of my cousin who has obsessed about marriage since his mission. Every family function he would corner some recently married cousin and go on and on about marriage, and what kind of girl his future wife would be. I overheard him asking how to handle it if his wife puts on an extra 10 lbs... "should I confront her about it? Or just suggest that we start jogging together?" I was just a kid but I still thought he was retarded for obsessing over whether or not his future wife would get fat...... now he is almost 50, never married, and a total fatty.

Sad. I have an uncle like that. Waaaay too picky with the women. Now his boat has sailed...

I've met several missionaries, or recently returned missionaries, who seemed to kind of think God OWED them a wife. Like a woman was PAYMENT for their two years of work!

Not unlike the Bible's view of women, really...

Thank you for not tossing him out of the plane at 10,000 ft. - he still has much of my Father's work to do, dontcha know...

Maybe he'll be exposed to info in his science classes that will rattle the chains loose. Maybe.

He'll probably go to FHE and find a girl who would love to put him through dental school.

Probably the latter...

Is your irl name Mick Jagger?

LOL

Nice Mormon-on-an-airplane-lectures-Jagger reference.

How....insufferable. Yeah, the good lard pays back the mishes with perfect brides. Brides who know their place and who conform to his every whim. Who never gain weight or get stretch marks for pooping out kids.

My goddaughter's friend met up with a guy who was coming home from his mission. They were sitting next to each other on a plane. She is non-mo (as is my god-d).

The ex-mish and the girl exchanged contact info. Apparently he was good looking. After a short time of on-line or phone contact he was pressuring her to date him. She said she was not interested. His response? "But I am a returned missionary!"

Yeah, that and a dollar will get you something on the McD's dollar menu (but don't forget the tax).

Peerhaps the poor guy is a truly blind believer and pity is in order.

I'm having a vision: He will be married soon and will sell used cars.

I faintly remember on my mission that there was a saying going around to the effect: The harder you work the hotter your wife will be.

He sounds like an ambitious RM. I'm sure he'll find someone at USU. Mormon girls love the doctors-to-be! I've disclosed too much on plane rides before, mostly to women.

Yeah, I know a couple of LDS guys who were looking for the perfect Mormon woman and ended up never marrying.

you should have told the missionary that you are Mick Jagger.

a sign from God--a very distinct and earth-moving sign--before they would get married. I had one that I "hung around" with (dating, are you kidding me)--who told me that he was fairly serious about one girl and then he saw that her older sister had gained some weight with a pregnancy and not lost it all, so he dumped her.

He got married in his 40s--BALD as he could be. He met her on line. I even kept the wedding announcement on my refrig so I could laugh at it now and then.

Another guy I "hung out" with--he got married in his 50s to a woman with 6 children. He has never been happy.

I bought that bullshit, too, though. I thought God was going to provide . . . gave up many good opportunities to marry nonmembers. Imagine my surprise when the guy God provided me with was gay.



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