Black Sheep

No, this isn't a review of the Chris Farley movie (B+ if you're asking).

It's about how different I am from the rest of my family. And it's yet another post with a bunch of points.

This all started with my new responsibility at my job. During the summer, I'm cold-calling businesses and setting up appointments for my boss to visit and attempt to sell employment/recruitment advertising. So, what in the world does this have to do with my family? To the list, Batman (A+++++++ for The Dark Knight, if you really want to know)!

• I am not a salesman. This may not be something that deals with my immediate family, but on my mother's side, there is a long history of being good salesmen. From my grandfather to my relatives who created R.C. Willey and the Willey Automotive Group in Utah, the Tunnell and Willey families have been born to sell. Oops...


• I am (about to be) a college grad. In fact, I may be graduating this spring! I will be the first in my direct-line ancestry on either side to be a college grad, and there are several on my mother's side that didn't graduate high school.


• I have not left The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for any period of my life and have been in the church since age 8. Now, this has the caveat that there are many of my relatives, including my maternal grandfather's family, who never were LDS, and with how my brothers are, I'll likely have company on this one, but it has been a pattern in the past for my ancestors, and an improvement from my parents' generation.


• I am a gospel scholar. My parents have strong testimonies, but they leave the obscure facts and random references from the scriptures to me.

I'm sure I'll come back and add several more points as I go along, but it strikes me how, in this instance, it is pretty good to be the black sheep.