I'm at BYU and I'm dating a guy named Brad. A few weeks ago,
he and I went to a fireside about family history and decided we’d research our
ancestors together a couple times a week so that we wouldn't, you know, make
out so much. So we started going to the Lee Library.
I have a lot of Mormon ancestors, so it was pretty easy to
dig up my stuff. And I already knew who a few of them were, like the guy who
was one of Joseph Smith’s bodyguards and on the Nauvoo police force. But Brad’s
parents were converts to the Church and hadn’t done much family history yet, so
he didn't know anything about his ancestors.
After a few weeks, he traced his dad's line back to Illinois
around the early days of the Church. And that’s when the first weird thing
happened. I remember him turning to me from the computer and telling me his
ancestor’s name and when and where he had lived. The second he finished, this amazing
anger came over me. I felt like jumping up and strangling him right there and
then. I had to actively fight the feeling back, it was so strong.