The article does credit to LDS people and is well-written.
What I like about it -- again -- is that if reporters let us tell the story of our own lives, then we look good as a church. Rely on outsiders to describe doctrine and you get a hodgepodge.
What is evident in this story, more so than in others about missionaries that I have read recently, is that Mormons are serious people, often successful.
So, What would make a man like this give up his career to go supervise 20-year-olds for three years?
And, if the Book of Mormon is the product of a 19th century charlatan -- as is often alleged -- why do such smart people follow it so directly? Surely, there is something to this book.
I would even suggest that there seems a quiet reverse backlash going on in the press. Mormon people got involved in politics for proposition 8 and have received scorn. But, Mormons are being portrayed as being serious and doing prop 8 out of principle, knowing full well that they might be attacked for doing so. Such standing for principle is refreshing in politics. Powerful stuff, really.
I am proud to be part of a faith that produces such people as this.
Thank you for this post. I am also proud to be a part of a faith that is increasingly less like the world.
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