I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

by Chelsea Devantez

I wore knee length conservative skirts and got invited to all the hottest scrapbooking parties, ice cream socials, and the graveyard baptisms—which is where the youth group would visit graveyards and baptize themselves over the headstones of Catholics, Jews, and atheists, believing this freed up their tormented souls in purgatory so that they could become Mormon in the afterlife and float on up to Mormon heaven.