Posted by:
Stray Mutt
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Date: May 27, 2011 01:52PM
A comment on another thread about a mission president's random method of deciding transfers got me thinking about transfers in my mission.
The calls always came late at night (after we were in from tracting, of course), And it was always a case of, "Be there in the morning." Sometimes, "Be there tonight."
That was no big problem for elders being moved to a different part of a city, or to a neighboring town, but our mission covered a huge area, and a lot of transfers involved getting your butt from your remote village to a remote village hundreds of miles away -- overnight. At your own expense. And since it was almost always near the end of the month, we would be broke. We'd have to find money, somehow, late at night. We also had to settle up whatever rent deposits there were to deal with (this was back in the day when we paid everything directly ourselves) and still have money to put into deposit at the new place. And alert the folks back home where to send the next check so we wouldn't be penniless in the new area.
The MP did these late-night, no-warning transfers because he feared missionaries would try to hook up with whatever sweetie/stud muffin he'd been flirting with. And it was to demonstrate his awesome authority and power.
He once decided he needed to really shake things up, so one week he transferred half the missionaries. Everyone got new companions. Then, the next week, he transferred everyone who hadn't been transferred the week before.
It was total chaos, but it came directly from the Lord, right?