Posted by:
exminion
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Date: May 21, 2019 03:54AM
Yesterday, a young man in a waiting room started talking to us about his mission, in New York City. My friend commented that she knew of several missionaries in inner-city missions, in NYC, Chicago, and Detroit, and she asked if it was true that the COJCOLDS sends only large, strong missionaries into the inner cities, and never female missionaries. The young man laughed (he was big and strong), and he said that NYC wasn't that "scary," and they knew the neighborhoods to avoid, especially at night. Then he hesitated, and frowned, and said, "Except...we lived in a really, really bad neighborhood...."
My large nephew was a missionary in Chicago, and there was a shooting in the apartment building where they lived! There had been shootings there before! Even after that, the idiots kept living there! Nephew got an abscessed tooth, and the mission president made him wait for 4 months of agony until he went home, to see a dentist. For the last two months, they kept him working in the mission home, rather than send him to a dentist, or send him home early. It was agony for him! My large nephew looked like a pale skeleton--lost 60 pounds, had a fever, and was very sick, until the antibiotics got rid of the infection. The tooth had to be pulled, anyway--a procedure not all that expensive. BTW, he converted no one.