Page 10, Thursday, June 22, 1972, WHITBY FREE PRESS Lite Can Door To Be Funny Door! When You Take Gary Adams and Steve Layton have probably experienced more door-slam- ming in Whitby than anyone else - and they're not even travelling salesmen! The intrepid duo who have been 'wo r k i n g9' the Whi tby area for some threemonths, are nothing more innocent than a couple of Mormon Missionaries. Knocking the doors of a relatively apathetic and sometimes hostile public is certainly not the most appealing way to spend a 10-hour working day, es- pe c i a 1l1ly wh en one doesn't have to. Mormon missionary work, carried out by thousands of young men across the worid, i s done on a strictly volunteer basis. t's easy to imagine the type of per- son who would choose to take on this type of job as the introverted sort who p a s s e s u p the more robust things in life. Both Eider Adams and Eider Lay- t on a r e 1 iv i ng evidence against thi s theory. Elider Layton is a tousle-haired 21-year-old from Edmonton whose lively bl ue eyes are touched w ith a keen sense of humour. The husky build he partly acquired as cor- line backer in jun- ior football anc outgoing personality defy the long-bearded church elder pro- totype whom one imagines forever look- i n g on t h e more ser ious side of I ife. Elder Layton worked in the Yellowknife G i a n t Mines to save the money to pay for his two-year mission. Eider Adam's good looks have been tempered with compassion - something the 21-year-old Oregon missionary has learned a good deal about now that his mission nears an end. Elder Adams worked iñ a plywood mil to acquire the money to finance his mission and had his I ong tresses shorn before leaving his place a s drummer with "The Roses of Shadow", a rock group back home, be- fore leaving on mission. One can find strong food for thought in pondering the attraction that drew these two young men, who lived in the freedom of citizen life, thousands of miles away from home and family to preach themessageofthemormon. They I i v e a frugal life, abstaining from ail d a t e s f o r the two-year term of their m i s s i on and arise six days a week to sp e nd a te n- hourday 'tracting', or approaching people within the commun- i t y about t he Mormon Rel ig ion. Most t spans in one community last about threemonths, and they no sooner make fr iends in one place before they're pul led out to transfer to another. M u ch o f the door-samming can be attributed t o the fact that two or three other rel igions h a ve already been ar- ound, one of which subscribes to hard- Q selI tactics. "A lot of the time we don't even get to say who we are or what we want, " says Eider Adams. But no mat- t e r w h a t t h e treatment at the door, Moirmon missionaries, in accordance to what they're taught, must always be christian and say "Thank you for your time. yo .r Meeting the public on a door-to-door basis is bound to include some rather un o r t h odox people and situations and both missionaries have met their share. One of the most eccentric according to Gary Adams at left and Steve Layton at right. Both young men worked to save money required to finance their 2-year, voluntary mission. Elder Adam's book is a local man who has written to Prime Minister Trudeau P r e s i d e n t Nixon and others because "the Judo Zionists are taking over the world. " "Peopledonit have time to talk much these days, " says Elder Steve Lay ton. "Someti mes you'll meet people who a r e n' t interested in what you have to s a y , but are too polite to say so, and in this case we must subtly let them off the hook. 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It wasn't long before the newcomers were roiling up their sleeves to pitch in, and as Elder Lay- ton puts it, 'It was only the christian thing to do. " S t r i c tly speaking there is no such t h i n g a s a "Mormon" and there i s in reality no Mormon Church. Mormon is merely a nickname for a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of L a t t er-day Saints. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah numbers over four million with more than 4, 000 con- gregations throughout the world. The Mormon loves freedom as he l o v e s 1 i f e . He believes that there is n o p r inciple more basic to the Gospel than the God-given free agency of every man. He believes a war in heaven was fought for freedom and that the right of choice is essential to the soul 's salvat- i o n . S o m e weil -known Mormons are recording stars the Osmond Brothers, ,the C ar-penters, the King Family and golf pro, Billy Casper. 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