"imagine all the people, sharing all the world"
-John Lennon “God made us all the same, all over the world. It doesn’t matter our skin color or how we look, because it is our spirits that make us unique and who we are.” Almost exactly three months ago, my bishop in the Mitcham Ward said these words to my fellow students and I. We had just arrived, late, to our first Sunday in our new London ward, and had been greeted by friendly faces: members of Asian, Hispanic, and predominantly African descent. Our bishop, an older Ghanaian man, gave us this welcome to his ward that ended up being a welcome to my entire experience on this program. I’ve come to see my bishop as a very wise man for reasons other than just his ideas on the inherent sameness of people all over the world, but it was these remarks which have stuck with me the past three months. Our focus, since March in the prep class, has been on cosmopolitanism. ...
