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Posted by: Agnes Broomhead ( )
Date: March 15, 2017 05:09PM
Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

Is this addendum specific to the fact he's to serve in a place that's outlawed cults like the JWs, and it's to get around that NGO label?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUwgv3VfbSc

Plus, he can't even pronounce the name of the city correctly; how in the world will he be an effective "preacher of the gospel" there???

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Posted by: [|] ( )
Date: March 15, 2017 05:54PM
Re: Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

IIRC, Russia has decided not to allow "missionaries", so TSCC now classifies them as "volunteers" instead.

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Posted by: Gentle Gentile ( )
Date: March 15, 2017 06:01PM
Re: Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

Yeah, that'll fool the Russians. /s

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Posted by: Stray Mutt ( )
Date: March 15, 2017 06:08PM
Re: Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

At a more fundamental level, LDS missionaries should realize they really are volunteers and that the church doesn't own them. They are doing the church a favor, not the other way around.

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Posted by: Josephina ( )
Date: March 15, 2017 10:38PM
Re: Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

You are right. TSCC needs to start showing respect to their young men and be grateful that they are willing to serve. They are not draftees!

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Posted by: aaron ( )
Date: March 15, 2017 11:10PM
Re: Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

I agree 100%. I look back on the way we were ordered around, threatened and berated on my mission and it makes me ill. Completely abusive in every way.

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Posted by: Hervey Willets ( )
Date: March 15, 2017 10:21PM
Re: Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

Ekaterinburg--That's where the Czar and his family were murdered. How Sweet.

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Posted by: Strength in the Loins ( )
Date: March 15, 2017 11:19PM
Re: Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

Again, the cult being forced, reluctantly, to tell the truth.

I wish I had understood that concept when I was 19. I was serving the church. Not the other way around. I owed them absolutely nothing. I was a volunteer.

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Posted by: moremany ( )
Date: March 16, 2017 12:25AM
Re: Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

Voluntears

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Posted by: Programmed ( )
Date: March 16, 2017 12:40AM
Re: Mission call letters now state, "you will be referred to as a volunteer"

On my mission a 70 told an amazing young man that he was "Nothing." He berated the whole mission for not being obedient enough. We worked our asses off.

Our mission was probably chosen to be berated because the mission was the least-baptizing mission in Brazil.

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Posted by: SonOfLaban ( )
Date: March 16, 2017 12:44AM
more revelations will come

Soon the curch will release the newly-translated plates found at Cumorah.

https://worldnewsdailyreport.com/archaeologists-discover-golden-plates-believed-to-be-linked-to-joseph-smith-jr/

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