Sunday, April 27, 2025

Current & former Institute goers & former Missionaries: If you noticed a fellow attendee playing songs from the Broadway production of the Book of Mormon, as background music, while receiving a scriptural lesson from a pair of Missionaries, how would you react?

 

Current & former Institute goers & former Missionaries: If you noticed a fellow attendee playing songs from the Broadway production of the Book of Mormon, as background music, while receiving a scriptural lesson from a pair of Missionaries, how would you react?

One time, I played the song "Two By Two" (SFW) on my old laptop at an LDS institute when a 2-on-1 lesson that I was receiving was just starting.

A Sister Missionary asked me "What are you playing?"

I told her "Background music for our lesson."

She asked "Does that song have anything to do with The Church?"

I told her "It sings about Missionaries, so yes, it very much has something to do with our church.

She asked, "Wait a second, isn't this from the Book of Mormon on Broadway?"

I told her, "Why, yes it is! You made such a good guess! How did you know?"

She then ordered, "It doesn't matter how I know, but you're gonna have to turn that off because their production is very offensive!"

So I gladly did, because I was glad she knew where the song came from, and we had our scriptural lesson without any background music.

I was such an immature college student back then, so I had a pretty flippant attitude towards the church at the time.

So if you knew me back then, and you were in that Sister Missionary's place trying to give me a lesson about the Church, and I played that same song as "background music," how would you have reacted differently to this?

 

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[–]kaizoku_akahigeFormer Mormon 3 points  

Did she ask you to turn it off, like a light bulb? 😁

[–]treetablebenchgrassI worship the Mighty Hawk 2 points  

Good for you on maturing and changing. I really mean that.

If I were a missionary, I probably would have responded something like she did, at the very least asking you to turn it off. If I were me now, I'd have responded the way you would now, "Come on, dude... If you're going to do that, just don't show up."

Unrelated note: when I heard Joseph Smith American Moses for the first time, I laughed so hard I cried.

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