I got a terrible case of poison Ivy!! My body does not like the poison ivy at all. I have been trying to get rid of it all this past week. I hope i never get it again because its not fun. SHE CAME IN ON A HORSE!! On Saturday we went to a investigators wedding. It was a very interesting and weird. The bride came in on a horse. It was a hillbilly wedding. We left before it got crazy. The bags that they gave out to the guests were hangover fixes(weird). The wedding was at a recent converts house ( related to the investigators). The bishop and a few members were there. earlier in the week we had fried pies. Never had a fried pie before, it was good. Not to much more happened last week other then alot of service for people. Sorry for very short letter, i am apparently having to right on my ipad."
Gotta remember a few things: missionaries are still merely energetic, flighty, naive kids. His time to write correspondences with family is limited. The editor in me will take a deep breath and overlook his spelling & punctuation errors as usual on the internet these days.
Do missionaries have iPads?? How can they be kept in a bubble and be regulated like prisoners if they have iPads?
I have heard that the iPads that missionaries use have extremely powerful filter software on them. In fact, it may be set up so that it blocks everything on the whole internet except for a short list of approved church sites and an e-mail program.
(But I have also heard tales of missionaries hacking their iPads so that they can be used for anything they wish.)
I was literally just about to start a thread on my nephew, who's on his mission stateside as well. I just got the weekly email, forwarded by my brother-in-law. Apparently, there was a conference or something and they all met with area authorities:
"One of the things I learned is to have a vision and then set goals to reach the vision. It was really cool."
This is typical of his weekly letters--generic crap that EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS is presented as brand-new revelation from Gawd. He goes on this week to call missions "the Lord's university."
NB: This nephew has been out for nearly a year, and not a single mention of a baptism....
Edit: What really bothers me about these "revelations" is that, in his still-growing mind, belief in the church as the source of all wisdom is constantly reinforced, and this is no accident on the part of the church and its leadership.
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These kids will never ever learn. You NEVER leave a wedding before it gets "crazy."
The horse sounds very romantic to me. Not nearly as romantic as wrapping yourself in yards of yesterdays laundry with a cool green apron and getting sealed as a participant in an eternal spirit baby mill though--from which there is no escape.
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Not to mention the hat men wear. Looking like you are wearing a hair management cap in a factory or hospital. Add a white shirt, pants, and a toga with the added embellishments apron and sash and you've got one romantic outfit that only could be made better with the addition of a mount. Then you would literally be a Knight of Moroni on a white (of course) horse.
Even if the wedding featured homemade corn liquor and a guest bag full of condoms, it would have been many times more meaningful and much more fun than a Mormon temple wedding. Hillbilly wedding, indeed.
How about me? Poison ivy does not bother me and mosquitoes do not sting me. Even though I have renounced Mormonism and curse Joseph Smith, God hath blessed me more mightily than he, the simple missionary.