Lot’s of people who are just as sincere and convinced as you are, have asked God earnestly and still believe something quite different than you do. I’m glad that you’re genuinely happy and at peace with God but that doesn’t mean you’ve got all the details right. It means you feel good about where you are for now as in, at this point in your life. You’re not done learning and growing and the details of belief you embrace so enthusiastically now may seem different to you down the road. Have a good journey.
Haven’t found any virgins as of yet, but I have found people being cursed so their skin turns black. And then uncursed and turned white again, for their good acts. So… yeah.
Not long after 9-11, a friend forwarded me an email joke in which one of the hijackers shows up in the afterlife. He’s beaten up by an enraged George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and George C. Marshall for what he did to their beloved country. He complains through broken teeth, “I thought it was virgins, not Virginians!”
Oh yeah, MULs (Mormon Urban Legends) about the Three Nephites are legion.
For some reason, LDS culture loves those kind of apocryphal stories. When I was in the Missionary Training Center, there was one circulating around, probably old even at the time, about how Wilford Woodruff (4th Mormon prophet) met Cain (son of Adam, cursed) on the road one day…and Cain looked like Bigfoot.
Heh heh … just so nobody’s confused, that Bountiful is a modern city in Utah, named after the Land Bountiful in the Book of Mormon, a territory supposed to be somewhere in the Americas which was in turn named after a location near Jerusalem. I think there’s a polygamist-colony Bountiful up in Canada, too.