Misplaced dedication

This afternoon I was busy playing around on the Internet listening to sermons and watching, to be honest, Lady GaGa videos.  I put some clothes in the laundry and went back to goofing off.  Perhaps not sinful behavior, but certainly not "redeeming the time."  I took a shower and got dressed to go to a Gospel meeting tonight.  As I left the house to run some errands, I saw them. 
White button downs with black ties and backpacks.  Mormon missionaries. 
They were knocking on the door of a neighboring house that is empty.  I called to them and they walked over.  I explained the house was abandoned and they started their prepared speech.  I explained that I would love to talk with them but I was on my way out.  They asked my name and when I said Will, one of them said, "Will?  Will Norrid?  We know about you."

I studied with some LDS missionaries about a year ago and we had some good discussions, but I didn't know I had a file at headquarters apparently.  I told these new guys that I would enjoy having them in my home and they asked a time to return.  Hopefully good will come of our meeting.

I think about how I had basically wasted (prodigalized) a whole day just wasting time while these two guys were going door-to-door in the mud to share something important to them.  I had been dedicated to wasting time while they were dedicated to teaching something I believe false.  I think both they and I had a case of misplaced dedication: I should have been using my downtime more productively (like studying or reaching out to others) while their dedicated behavior is placed in something beyond what God desires.

It is not enough to merely possess the truth we must act on it and it is not enough to act without the truth.