Somehow, December just got away from me! We had a family trip to Walt Disney World, and then we had Christmas. We are gearing up for “Christmas 2.0,” for which we leave home for a week in a condo (off-season at a summer resort, ’cause it’s a lot cheaper!) with my extended family. I’m excited to see them, but I’m really nervous — I am planning to tell my anti-Mormon grandparents about my conversion this week. I’m not expecting it to go well, which is just a fact of life. It didn’t go well when I told my mother, either, and life has progressed okay since then.
I am debating about whether to share this news at the beginning of the week (to let her see that I’m still “me”, and the same as she’s always known me for the rest of the time), or at the end (so that if there’s a big to-do, we are escaping soon anyway). Should I plan a time for this discussion, or just wait until a time when it comes up semi-naturally, like when the kids are talking about their Primary class? I am riddled with confusion over this, so I will do exactly what I did before I told my mother — pray for my Heavenly Father to guide me, his spirit to be with me, and ask for my husband to give me his priesthood blessing that I will know what to say and how to say it. I will pray that my Father in heaven will open my grandmother’s heart to know that this is the right decision for me, and that I mean no disrespect to her or to my extended family by pursuing it. And for anyone who is reading this….. I could use your prayers, too.
