The Embarrassment of Ignorance

My latest news is I now have my own door. I also saw Josiah (JT) Walker. This guy was my first dance. The first guy to ever hold my waist and sway back and forth with me when I was 14 years old and a mutual Halloween dance in a barn. Well, times change and this time I see him at the singles branch I attend and I did something really dumb.
I’m just about to leave the singles branch and as I’m doing so I see JT walking into the room with this girl. Now while I was on my mission JT got married to this girl he met in Hawaii. I look at this girl and I think to myself, “Hey, there’s JT. Oh yeah, he got married while I was on my mission. This must be the girl. She looks really familiar but maybe she went to Hawaii while I was gone and this is her, his new wife. Well, he’s walking in with her so it has to be.” I say hi to him exchange some pleasantries and then I start moving toward the doors saying goodbye. Just as I’m leaving I pat his shoulder and say, “I can’t believe you got married.” He got this look of terror on his face and everyone with in hearing distance all of a sudden stop talking and you can hear the commotion, “What, you got married?” Of course all of the people that were in hearing distance were everyone from the Stake Presidency and Branch Presidency. All of these leadership people are those we know very well. So here I am, saying this in front of everyone and I look at JT and say, “Oh, did no one know about it?” He puts his fingers to his lips and says, “No longer, I’m no longer married.”
I was SO embarrassed. I just about died and I told him sorry so many times. I couldn’t believe that I had been so stupid. But again in my defense I had no idea. So he told me what happened and turns out four months after he got married he was divorced. Apparently it was a Singles Ward thing where the wife decided she couldn’t live the gospel standards anymore. It was pretty bad.
So despite all of the things I learned on my mission there is no cure for stupidity in the face of ignorance. Which I’m full of.