Can Love Wait?
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Pierce Evans had a normal life not unlike most other high schoolers living in small town America with one exception...he’s a Mormon. So when he falls for Zoe – an older girl that was not of “the faith” – it brings on more than a little bit of family conflict. But that was only the beginning...when Pierce is later called to do his Mormon “duty” and go on his two year missionary assignment, he faces the
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Can Love Wait? - Mike Carselle
Can Love Wait?
Mike Carselle
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Copyright Text © Mike Carselle 2014
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Breakdown
Chapter 2: Zoe’s Empassioned Return
Chapter 3: Feeling the Call
Chapter 4: The Question
Chapter 5: Maggie Marie’s Testimony
Chapter 6: The ‘Spirited’ Debate
Chapter 7: The Assignment
Chapter 8: A Matter of Trust
Chapter 9: Pierce’s Return
Chapter 10: A Simple yet Elegant Celebration
Epilogue
Chapter 1: The Breakdown
The dewdrops glistened on the wild rose hips as the dawn began to rise over the dunes...and after an entire night of silent contemplation, I finally had the insight I had been looking for. I knew what I was going to do next.
It was the single hardest decision I'd had to make up until that point in my life. Everything I'd been taught about God and duty and life told me one thing -- but my heart wanted something different, in the purest way...but I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning.
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April, 1996: Manistique, Michigan: Big Boy Diner
I met her in Journalism class,
I told my parents over a double bacon cheeseburger. I was a sophomore just starting my third quarter of high school. I lived way out of town, on the shores of Lake Michigan in a tiny community called Gulliver, but I went to school in Manistique -- which is still smaller than wherever you're from, I'm sure. But I digress. I was talking to my parents about the girl that had caught my eye.
Her name is Zoe Danfield,
I said through a mouthful of too much burger, and she's a senior.
My mom was instantly on the alert. She's older than you?
I nodded. She's super smart, too -- she happened by my desk while I was sneaking time on my Algebra II homework, and she caught like three mistakes I had made just on the way past.
And she's not a member?
My dad. He was the bishop of the local ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- and a dentist, not that anyone ever cared about that part. When people heard that he was a Mormon leader
, though, that was all they ever asked about. (He's not really even a leader -- the title of 'bishop' really just means 'the middle management has picked you to be the abuse-taker for the next year or few'. It's not like he personally has anything at all to do with what the Church says or does.)
I