[palmer]

Was she happy about being put to work, or not? It’s an interesting society they have there, but I’d like to know what she thinks about it.

[AnTiw1]

She was happy being put to work. But, I should add, my Mom is very worried about being in good standing in all respects from showing perfect obedience to the leadership to fulfilling the temple rituals in every detail, because she says her time is short. Last week I got the happiest call I've had from her in a while, she said she'd gotten all her temple work done...which meant she'd gone back as far as she could genealogically, turned all the dead people into mormons, made all the dead newly mormon males priests in the mormon cult, made the women spirit wives to mormons, so they can at leas go to heaven to wave goodbye to her as she joins my father's other spirit wives enroute to Kobol to be promoted to a god and god wives and leave to create their own planet and populate it with millions of spirit children who will also become mormons and earn their godhood by doing blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...

Point is, she was so happy, but still acting like maybe she forgot some little thing that will make the whole divine god graduation on Kobol come tumbling down, and she has no rest. She was abusive when she was younger, and many times she's told me she's sure she can't even earn the lower level of heaven (Telestial...Heaven's "slums" in mormon belief) because she was so hateful. Well, she wasn't a commercial for a Hallmark card, but she didn't raise us in a closet either. She has no assurance of what lies beyond and grasps at anything that she thinks might give her "points" in the afterlife...trying to tell her anything about the unearned love of God promotes an instant "raising of her shields", as it were...I am the ostracized unwashed unclean, and we can have wonderful conversations t pass the time of day, but if I tell her something serious, like "the bridge is out ahead", she would check with a churchmember to see if it is true. It always makes me think this must be how North Koreans live...trained since birth that their starvation is noble and every outsider is a threat...anyway, rattling on.

I should also add that she is probably the most physically fit 82yo you are likely to meet...she uses the Chuck Norris machine and she hangs upside down on the inverter thing...when she's not dragging blocks for pyramids...