In the dream, I was a teenager (somehow) teaching or a part of the class of teenagers. Anyway, I was up front, and they looked to me for direction. They had been discussing the things how I was different than them and they attributed it to my membership in the Church. Then, they said, hey, there are two girls who are not here, but they also dress like Karen and have her same standards. Let's ask them why they are that way.
In short order, those two girls entered the classroom and the other classmates asked them why they dressed differently and had different standards like Karen did. I looked at them, and soon was carried back in memory to my teenage years...and as those girls stammered and hemmed and hawed, I knew what was going through their minds. I knew they wanted to say, 'Yes, we do have those standards, but we chose to live that way. We chose to follow commandments from the 10 commandments'...avoiding saying that they were doing it simply to follow our prophet--simply because they knew many people think we are a cult, blindly following a leader for no reason than that we belong to a church where he leads the church. I knew it, because that is the way many in the world perceive us, as promulgated in the musical, The Book of Mormon.
So, I took the response away from them. I proudly proclaimed, "They are members of the same church I am a member. We are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...and as I proclaimed that aloud, the words of the Primary song came to my mind:
"I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I know who I am. I know God's plan. I follow Him in faith.
I believe in the Savior, Jesus Christ, I'll honor His name.
I'll do what is right. I'll follow His light.
His truth I will proclaim."
I told the questioning teenagers how we believe Christ is the head of our church and Christ has ordained a prophet on Earth to speak to on behalf of Christ to His church. The prophet is a prophet as in Biblical times, who did the same thing. I also explained, that we are told to always pray to feel the Holy Spirit, ratify in our hearts and minds, whatever that prophet tells us on behalf of Jesus Christ.
Furthermore, I went on to say that the commandments we follow are not only for our benefit, but to signify our baptismal covenant to not only become a member of His church, but to represent Him to others through our actions and obedience to the commandments He gives. In doing, so, we covenant to live differently from those in the rest of the world. We have standards of modesty in dress. We have moral standards of chastity before and within the bonds of marriage.
