CA Girl wrote: "...It never ceases to amaze me how Mormons offer their kids up for slaughter so readily." Its not much different than when, in the Old Testiment stories, some parents offered up their children for sacrifice to the idol-god Bale and through them into the furnace. Those kids may have been better off as they only suffered for a few moments instead of 2 years.
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Rosemary, thanks for your kind words. Your kind words are more than what I received when the Stake President released me when I returned home from my mission. All he did was sign the release. No thank you, and no congratulations for working so hard and suffering so much. All he asked me was if I wanted to speak in different wards to encourage the young men to serve missions. I almost blurted
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I 2nd that resounding "YES". My mission experience with the visiting GAs and the MP convinced me that the Mormon Church is the only church on earth that persecutes its own missionaries. I dont recall reading in the scriptures about Christ dressing down his disciples when he appeared to them after his resurection. He said 'peace be unto you' and then had them come to him see for th
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I 2nd this request for 'dthenonreligious' to post the story of being inactive on his mission. So On Sundays you just hung out at your flat?
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Reading the many posts on resigning, I began wondering if anybody resigned their membership as a missionary. I can picture an Elder throwing his nametag and a letter of resignation on the MP desk, then walking out and catching a flight home. The opening scenes of the old 'Prisoner' TV show come to mind. Does anyone know of someone doing that? Or do Elders just sneak away and find their own way
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I am a little over 6' 2" tall and at the time I was going home I was about 200 pounds. The office elder AP spouting off to me was about 5' 4" and probably about 130 pounds. He was a rude & arrogant Idaho boy that was in need of a serious attitude adjustment. The MP was about 5' 9". If you picture in your mind the actor Peter Falk playing the character "Columbo" in
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anon7, you have inquired to recieve further light and knowledge of what happened to me after arriving in Virgina and going home. Blessed art thou for thy curiosity. Enjoy. ************************ THE VIRGINIA ROANOKE MISSION (Hell on Earth) The Virginia Roanoke mission was nothing more than a tracting mission with few, if any people there, wanting to know about Joe Smith and his silly chu
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'rander70', I am doing well. To answer your question about what happened since? Look for a post from me dated April 12. I posted about the day I came home.
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the last day of my mission and how happy I was to be coming home. Today however, marks the 35th anniversary of the day I left for my mission. I remember how sad and depressed I was on this day back in 1977. I am sure many RMs remember the despair of their departure day to go and serve a mission. What say you my fellow RMs? Did you find that you were lied
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I am happy you like my story. It was only the condensed end of my story. The complete mission story can be found at www.postmormon.org in their 'Personal Accounts of Leaving' section with Flash as the author. I tried to post it here also in the Biography section but could not because there is a post length restriction. So if you want the unabridged edition, that is where it is. If someone can tel
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Honestone, my family started to see about half way into my mission how horrible it was for me. My mother did kick herself very hard in not telling me that she would rather have me come home early than have me endure that mess for another year. It was during my divorce that she could sense that I no longer had any desire for Mormonism. She did have hope that I would get with another TBM woman
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To answer your questions, Archaeologymatters, here is what transpired after I came home. Sorry for its length. ******************* I did report to the Stake President and High Council where I was officially “released”…yeah, right. I was asked if I would like to speak in the other wards to encourage the young men to serve missions. I had to refrain myself so hard from saying “F**K, N
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Tomorrow, April 13th, will be the 33 year anniversary of the day I came home from my mission. Every year I celebrate April 13 as a personal holiday. A day that brought me so much happiness and joy, I still cannot find the perfect words to describe the feelings of joy and happiness I felt knowing my mission prison sentence was done. I invite all of you to celebrate with me the day of my releas
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I know that smell. Its the smell of the mix of: 1. A house with 6 to 10 people living in it rebreathing stale air. 2. A house that never has had its windows open for 10 years. 3. A house with furniture that has been barfed on. 4. A house that has never had its central air filters changed. 5. A house that has had animal 'accidents' all over the carpets. 6. A house that has
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My mission did not benifit me at all. I did not come back a “saturated sponge” dripping with the spirit, instead I came home feeling like an old dried out chamois. Spiritually, I was wounded fatally. For those two years I stagnated. I did not grow financially because I was not paid. I did not grow socially because I was not allowed social interactions and I did not grow academically becau
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A little over a year after I came home from my mission, I found myself in a marriage to a TBM “white but not delightsome” woman. At the time it seemed the right thing to do, but a few years and two children down the road, the woman changed for the worse and I could see that I had made yet another very-very bad decision to marry so young because of the pressures from the Mormon Church. Bit
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I served in the Virginia Roanoke Mission from 1977 to 1979. At a Zone Conference four moths before I was to go home, I had the usual interview with the MP as every missionary did. But as the usual “blame the Elder” one sided interview commenced, the MP became unusually hateful and vindictive toward me because this time he stood up from behind the desk and proceeded to yell into my face saying
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Every week my 2 friends and I were always asked to bring cookies or donuts with drinks to the weekly firesides as no one else would pony up any goodies. As teenagers, the price of all these treats took a toll on our meager budgets so we decided to put an end to these relentless requests to supply refreshments once and for all. In preparation for that night’s fireside, we bought a box of medi
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One night when I was 14 (in the early 70’s), the MIA was having a dance. I and 2 other friends decided to have some fun by turning off the main power switch to the church building. We drew straws to see who would be the “Son of Perdition” to plunge the entire MIA into outer darkness. The straws were pulled and it fell upon me to perform this transgression. The main power switch was locat
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Those who escape North Korea probably feel the same sense of relief that missionaries feel when their missions are finished and go home. No feeling compares to being released from such repressive environments.
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Four months before my mission ended, at a Zone Conference, I had the usual interview with the mission president as every missionary did. But as the usual "blame the Elder" one sided interview commenced, the MP became unusually hateful and vindictive toward me because this time he stood up from behind the desk and proceeded to yell into my face saying point blank that "I was a failu
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I always loved that show and yes it reminds me of my time in mormonism. For me, it reminded me of my mission more than anything. And those little promo spots from that show where you see McGoohan's face grow larger and then suddenly you see and hear the bars clang in front of his face; I always pictured my face as I fantasized on escaping the mission drudgery. I did escape the village (
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Daddy needs to also know that clearing the browser history is only a partial solution. There are several index.dat files scattered around the hard drive and several of them just keep collecting indefinitly all the websites and their cookies that you visit. Clearing the browser history does NOT clear the index.dat files. You need software that cleans them out. :)
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All we ever got in my mission was the constant harassment of the mission leaders with their false sense of urgency for higher baptism numbers, more tracting hours, and more teaching appointments. The Zone conferences provided no relief from the everyday mission drudgery as they turned out to be nothing more than day-long reaming sessions by our "numbers-pushing" clown of a mission p
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When I was a missionary in Virginia in the late 70’s, there was an investigator we were teaching that was married with a young daughter but her husband wanted no part of Mormonism. I could see that our presence and are constant visits were really irritating the husband and was causing a lot of marital unrest in this once happy marriage. I voiced my concern that maybe we should not pursue thi
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Reading all the recent posts about being in the MTC and how bad it was, my mind brought me back to the time when I was on my mission in Virginia in the late 70’s. I remember how the endless drudgery of knocking on doors all day and every day just drove me into the ground. I just wanted to leave to end the depression. Lying in bed, I would imagine ways I could leave like sneaking away from my
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In accordance, to gain greater truth and light about the Mormon Church, by my determination to search the internet, I retired to the woods near my home to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties with Mormonism, I had never as yet made the attempt to use Goo
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After ending an 8 year “Celestial marriage” from hell to a “white but not delightsome” TBM female, I was introduced to a Malaysian girl who worked at my company in Penang through a mutual friend. Because my electronics company has worldwide offices and manufacturing plants, we had access to unmetered company telephones and to the inter-company email & chat room type capability of the
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I feel that I was born with doubts too. I went along with it all because I had to as I could not have said at 10 or 11 or 12 I dont believe it. I was dependant on my TBM parents. My mission started me on the road out as that is the time the loving & friendly church I grew up with was replaced with a mean & nasty adult church. It was the experience of my mission that demonstrated to
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...and shall be delivered unto the buffetings of Satan unto the day of redemption, saith the Lord God. The buffetings of Satan; I hope his buffets have a good salad bar. :)
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