All Is Swell: Trust in Thelma's Way (Smith, Robert Farrell, Trust Williams Trilogy, Bk. 1.)

Thelma's Way, Tennessee, might as well be a foreign mission according to Elder Trust Williams. It's a town known for a bunch of Mormons who got lost on their way out of Nauvoo, famous for some bad ham that got Parley P. Pratt sick enough to stay a while. Take the local branch: Brother Heck takes up living with the chickens and 'tars and feathers' himself with housepaint. There's Paul the apostate, who won a trip to Rome while buying anti-lice medicine at the local Savin' Town. There's Clee Dee, Narlette, Digby, and Feeble. And the ever-alluring Grace, clairvoyant since the day her father dropped her. Nothing at the MTC could prepare Trust, or you, for the hilarity that ensues. Elder Trust Williams was born a member and grew up singing "I Hope The Call Me on a Mission." But nothing at the MTC could prepare him for the mission call to Thelma's Way, a backwater town in Tennessee. And nothing could prepare him (or you) for the hilarity that ensues - or for the fact that he would grow to love this big bunch of misfits, one of them in particular..... Two years never flew by so fast or so fun. Elder Trust Williams was transferred to Thelma's Way, Tennessee. Trust was born a member. He had seen the videos, read the books, and knew the discussions by heart. But nothing at the MTC could prepare Trust for the hilarity that ensues--or for the fact that he would grow to love this big bunch of misfits, one of them in particular