NO, THE BEST PEOPLE AREN'T ALWAYS IN THE USA

Some Sundays, I get more than a little irritated by some church-goers "airs."

Especially with the "we are obviously better than they are."

By the virtue of being born in the United States - of being white - of being born into the LDS church.

Like we are the top dogs, in every possible way.

I've been looking at it a little bit differently.

If we come down to earth to gain a physical body and learn and accept the gospel, yeah, this makes it easier, perhaps, being born in America.

But we also do temple work for those who don't get the opportunity to learn about Jesus Christ in this life.

So people who DON'T learn about it, get their temple work done, and ACCEPT it, aren't denied any blessing.

So perhaps....

Just perhaps....

Those of us who get dumped (in the mortality sense) into a comfortable, clean, civilized area like the U.S. of A..... maybe it's because we couldn't HANDLE a more difficult environment.

And perhaps, just perhaps, people who are born in deepest darkest Africa or being the Great Wall in China, are the MORE valiant - the MORE righteous - the MORE spiritual ones.


And CAN handle a darker world.

How about the people who lived through the Dark Ages? 

Most of them had no resources - no scriptures - very little direction, and in a lot of Europe, very little hope.

Maybe they JUST needed to come down to get a physical body.

Hmmm.

Maybe you comfortable Americans SHOULDN'T be so proud of being you.