--Miracle

--Awesome

--Special


All followed by at least three exclamation marks.

Actual paragrah from my missionary daughter's letter:

"We met this really special man at the bus station. It was a miracle the way we found him. He wants to hear our message. Isn't that awesome?!!!"


All of her letters are peppered with these words. And I have

read other missionaries' letters and blogs that are laden with

these hyperbolic messages. Is this something they are taught

in the MTC?


Any others I might have missed?



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Missonaries' most under-used words...

--Masturbation

--Pornography

--Polygamy

-- clueless

Brother

sister

spirit

golden

investigator

.... most time investigators don't know they are called that nor do they know they are being investigated

Amazing!

Amazing!!

Amazing!!!

"I know"

"How can we help?" (over used, because even if it is used just the once it is disingenuous)

On my mission the kids were all saying, "GOOD NIGHT!" which annoyed me to no end. Also, "Fetch" was a word that would make my skin crawl..

verily

and it came to pass...

We used 'fetch' as an f-word substitute, though we tried not to do it in front of TBMs or investigators.

P day
trunky
flip/flippin
Priesthood
revelation
Elder

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OLD.... I forget what it used to be called before TSCC waived its 'Feel Good' Magic Wand & changed the name;


was it 'Diversion Day'? I think so.

regardless, if we had a 'Golden' 'gator who couldn't make appointments on another day...We'd BE THERE!



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Trunky is the word I was thinking of...and these:

Sick
Hot
Tired
Starving

Super fun!! or Super funny!!

Disappointing

I recently read a missionary blog which contained the word "damn" in many of his posts and once in the actual title. As in, "It's so damn cold here" and similar statements. This was available for public viewing.

Plaid n Paisley Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Super fun!! or Super funny!!
>
> Disappointing
>
> I recently read a missionary blog which contained
> the word "damn" in many of his posts and once in
> the actual title. As in, "It's so damn cold here"
> and similar statements. This was available for
> public viewing.

Was he from Australia or NZ? "Damn" is apparently not considered profanity there. My dad said a really nice girl from NZ dropped her notebook in his class and loudly said, "Damn!" She wasn't embarrassed at all that it had slipped out. Someone whispered to her that in the U.S. it's a swear word, after which she turned all shades of red.

That's a possibility. Unfortunately, I don't recall what country he was in and I couldn't find the blog on my browsing history. Clearly, his family didn't find it odd and he referred to things which would indicate they were TBM. Your explanation would make sense.

Cool!

Cool-Miracle!

Love-these-people-soooo-much!

They'd make such good members!

For such boring lives, I think the exclamation point is quite overused on missionary blogs.

Enlightening
Literary
Thought Provoking
Subversive
Intellect
Sectarian
Meditative

How about the phrase:
"sweet spirit"

I'd
Like
To
Bear
You
My
Testimony
That
I
Know
The
"Book Of Mormon" / Restoration / Church / etc.
Is
True

There. Those are wayyyyy overused. ;)



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Pray about it.

If I have a question, I could write it on a piece of paper then bury it under the elm tree at midnight. If that doesn't work I will try Google.

You are an awesome special miracle!!!

Fake emotion + lack of education = this.

"Is there anything we can do for you".

Most insincere words EVER.

One time, I answered "Paint my House". Just to see how they would respond.

RMM

Tender mercies

"Just pray to Heavenly Father to know the truth of the Book of Mormon."

My response:

"I just spoke with Heavenly Father last night: he says he's never heard of Joseph Smith."

It really bugs me when missionaries send a person off to pray for answers to difficult questions. I thought "ask the missionaries" had achieved catchphrase status in tscc after a few conferences ago.

So here is an interesting experiment. Go to a random missionary's blog and do a word count for "miracle," "awesome," and "special."

Here are two directories of missionary blogs...

http://preparetoserve.com/missionary-blog-index/

http://ldsmissionblogs.com/

I clicked on the first directory, the first link (Adriatic North Mission), the first missionary (Elder Joshua Lyman).

Miracle - 3
Awesome - 3
Special - 4

Tenth link (Argentina Buenos Aires West), tenth missionary (Elder Kraymer Todd Eppich)

Miracle - 7
Awesome - 1
Special - 0