I was so upset today when Sister Benson called and told me the news. I guess that she heard from Sis. Jensen, that Deseret Book has pulled the Twilight series from all their stores. Now, I'm always suspicious of Sis. Jensen, so I checked it out for myself. Of course, I used http://www.onlymormon.com to search for Twilight and Deseret Book, and didn't find anything, so that made me feel better, but then I also heard from Sis. Beck that it was banned, so I looked at Mormon Times, and they had a story about how it has been pulled from the shelves at Deseret Book. (And I trust Sister Beck. She is a cousin to Sister Ann M. Dibb, who, of course, is the daughter of the prophet, so I'm certain she can be trusted.)
I'm really torn up about this. On the one hand, I LOOOVVE Edward Cullen. I really think that I'm a lot like Bella too, so I kind of feel like this book was written for me. But I'm really bothered that Deseret Book would ban it, because I know that they wouldn't do that without a really good reason. They said that it was because it wasn't selling very well, or it had bad reviews or something that I didn't really understand. I guess there are some things that we aren't meant to know in this life. I guess this is just a test of my faith, to see if I will do the right thing when I am presented with temptations.
So as hard as it will be, tomorrow I'll get all my Twilight books together and take them down to the Wonder Hostess Thrift store (I thought about taking them to the Deseret Industries, but since most of the shoppers there are our own faithful brothers and sisters, I was worried that I would contribute to them reading something that must be bad). I think that's the best solution. That way, they won't be in my house any more, and the Wonder Hostess Thrift store can sell them to non-members, make a few dollars off them that they can give to the homeless shelter. OMGosh - I just realized how very provident that is - We will take them to the Wonder Hostess Thrift store and it must be the right and true place for them to go because Stephenie's other book is called "The Host" - WOW! I just got chills! Now that I think about it, I should probably take the DVD to the Wonder Hostess Thrift store too. Better safe than sorry. And now that I've thought about it a little more, I think I should write a note to all my precious Relief Society sisters to warn them. I think I may even offer to collect all the books from the sisters so we can save on gas taking them to the Wonder Hostess Thrift store. This will also make sure that no sisters accidently donate their books to the Deseret Industries where they could fall into the hands of one of our dear young women. (We certainly don't want them thinking unvirtuous thougts.) It'll be interesting to see if Sis. Jensen gives hers away too because I think she loves Edward more than I do. A little TOO much, if you know what I mean.
So as hard as it will be, tomorrow I'll get all my Twilight books together and take them down to the Wonder Hostess Thrift store (I thought about taking them to the Deseret Industries, but since most of the shoppers there are our own faithful brothers and sisters, I was worried that I would contribute to them reading something that must be bad). I think that's the best solution. That way, they won't be in my house any more, and the Wonder Hostess Thrift store can sell them to non-members, make a few dollars off them that they can give to the homeless shelter. OMGosh - I just realized how very provident that is - We will take them to the Wonder Hostess Thrift store and it must be the right and true place for them to go because Stephenie's other book is called "The Host" - WOW! I just got chills! Now that I think about it, I should probably take the DVD to the Wonder Hostess Thrift store too. Better safe than sorry. And now that I've thought about it a little more, I think I should write a note to all my precious Relief Society sisters to warn them. I think I may even offer to collect all the books from the sisters so we can save on gas taking them to the Wonder Hostess Thrift store. This will also make sure that no sisters accidently donate their books to the Deseret Industries where they could fall into the hands of one of our dear young women. (We certainly don't want them thinking unvirtuous thougts.) It'll be interesting to see if Sis. Jensen gives hers away too because I think she loves Edward more than I do. A little TOO much, if you know what I mean.
I'm really too upset about this whole Twilight thing to write about it any more, but I mentioned http://ww.onlymormon.com and I wanted to say a little bit more about that. They say on their sight "This search engine removes all the Mormon tabloid websites (sites that exist to sensationalize and misrepresent LDS beliefs) and lets users easily access the information they want. All included sites are hand picked and reviewed." I think this is another wonderful example of what Elder Ballard wants us to do to use New Media to spread the gospel. I really feel the spirit when I use this search engine. I know that sounds kinda corny, but it's true. Anyway, I encourage everyone to use http://www.onlymormon.com/, because it's a real help when you are preparing a lesson, and you don't have to worry about accidentally landing on some liberal mormon or anti-mormon website like http://feministmormonhousewives.org/ or http://newordermormon.com. Those things are just like pornography websites. They pop up when you don't want them and you can't do anything about them. Until now. Arm yourself with a gospel based search engine and bring yourself closer to the church.
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