Posted by:
baura
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Date: January 01, 2014 04:22PM
They are LEGALLY free to demand their passport at any moment.
Whether the MP or the Brethren back home will give them grief
over it is a different story.
If the MP does not give them back their passport they could to
the local authorities and file a complaint.
They have the legal right to take up and leave without telling
anyone anything. I know of one missionary who decided to leave,
didn't tell anyone in authority, had non-missionary friends help
him obtain a plane ticket home and just vanished from the
Mission home with no word to anyone.
Once in Canada a missionary was doing just that. He made the
error of telling his companion. Word got out and one of the
Missionaries, Elder William Shunn, did what he thought was
necessary to stop a blunder with "eternal consequences" . . .
he called in a bomb threat on the escaping elder's flight.
Shunn later left the Church, and wrote up his experiences titling them "Terror on flight 789"
http://www.shunn.net/terror/Mormonism makes a lot of "church policy" things look like the LAW. That's to scare you into obedience.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2014 04:30PM by baura.