Some Schmo wrote:sock puppet wrote:I agree, Schmoe and Scottie.
But inherent in liz's answer to #1 was a key to this one. She said her grandmother told liz that she was going off to do missionary work. That is a component that does tie the interpretation fairly closely to Mormonism.
Assuming, of course, that her grandma was referring to LDS missionary work as opposed to some other kind of missionary work (I have a coworker who recently went to China to do missionary work for his Christian church - he's not LDS, but it was a mission to him). Both you and liz assume it's LDS because that's the paradigm you're working from, which also strengthens Scottie's point. Who knows? Maybe grandma, being suddenly privy to the afterlife, was intentionally vague on that point knowing liz still needed faith and couldn't give her *all* the answers.
My grandmother was LDS. However, I didn't necessarily get the impression that the missionary work she was referring to was missionary work involving what we identify as the LDS religion of today...or even the LDS religion of yesterday. I interpret it more as a type of work where she is spreading the pure gospel of Christ. And, in my opinion, this is something that no one in this life has a true picture of.