>Church so we had a fairly large Mormon student population. I >remember a lot of the Mormon girls all had rings or bracelets >with the initials CTR so I finally asked them what that meant >and was about, they said it was a Mormon thing and it meant >Choose The Right. Maybe that was a local (San Diego/southern >California) Mormon thing and not national. > >Why did you convert to LDS? Were/was your family religious and >if so what religion and denomination were they?
My grandmother is baptist and when I informed of my decision she told me I joined a cult and hung up the phone on me.
I prayed one night for change, got off work the next day, and was visited by two missionaries. I took it as a sign and joined the church.
> >Assuming you’re black, what is it like being black and a LDS >member? If I recall, LDS had/have a very rough and rocky >relationship with African Americans and they weren’t >accepted until the 70s or so. Is that true?
It can be absolutely terrible a strong 47% of the time. Average insulted church member grew up in the most privileged of privileged environments and really think they can say anything to you, hold up Christ, claim ignorance, and have nothing happen. I never looked into church history before joining because it's skewed. People can go out of their way to court conflict under the guise of "seeking dialogue" and "telling the truth".
The environment and culture depends on demographics of the city/town where the ward is located in and how entrenched the church is within the community.
> >How do Mormons feel about non white LDS members? It seems like >Mormans like and do well with the Polynesians but I don’t >see very many African/Latin/Asian Americans riding them bikes >or knocking on my door.
Church members are nice to everyone but are scared of encountering weird people that meet all the stereotypes force fed through conservative media. Mormon churches apparently exist in places with black people but I see your perspective as far as where you possibly live.
> >Did you go on your mission? If so, where?
No, because I had 160 hours a week of commitments on top of uni and legal entanglements/situations.