The problem here is that the right feels that only they have the truth. The problem here is that racism starts and is promoted mostly by the right. The right believes in propaganda to try and blind people or mislead them. Almost like some in the Church. Saints were socialists. The United Order was socialism and in the early Church, the members only bought from other members, did not do business
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I did the mission thing because my friends from Church were all going. A ton of us submitted our papers at the same time. My parents were not supportive and I also wanted to get away from home. I got called to a place so far and different that I thanked God because I wanted to get as far away as I could. My first MP never spoke the local language, his APs were all Americans and he only liked y
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That's a great story. Something similar happened in my mission. One of my MTC group who went to the same mission, well he fell in love with one of the Bishop's daughters and as I was an A.P. and a good friend he wanted to tell me and ask me my advice, I said don't tell the MP, finish up your mission, go home then come back and marry her. Well he didn't want to. They started dating and somebody to
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WOW that's so true. I kept asking myself how come I was the most successful in the mission or how I could become A.P. and move up in the ranks if I knew what I was feeling in my heart. (Of course on the mission didn't act on any of it, although there were some major hotties in my mission.) I sat in "trials" where we had to tell gay missionaries (both male and female) that they had t
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As this is not an exit story I guess I have to post it in here. I lost most of my Mormon friends when I left the church (ok when I stopped going years ago) but was able to keep one who I have been friends with for a very long time. I have seen his children grow up, he didn't go the same mission I did, but he got home just after I did and he knows more about me than anybody else in the Church.
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My family converted to the Church when I was young and I did the church thing, became a teacher, priest and elder, did the BYU thing, served a mission and I was the most successful missionary in that mission to that date with over 100 people brought into the church. In fact, our sacrament meetings were always over 100%. Before I left for my mission I knew I was gay and even had experiences wi
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