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bcuzbcuz, Does Swedish still feel like a non-native language with you? Do you ever struggle with it or are you totally immersed to the point of not even thinking about it anymore when you read, write, and speak it? - Doc After I finished my mission I kept in touch with people there (most primarily ...

Thanks IHAQ, it looks like the church pressed the "turbo" button and inflated its numbers for the last time. Get as many sheep as you can beneath the razor while there's still a chance. When church numbers start to decrease, will polygamy make its return? Missionary less, missionary posit...

Thanks for typing that up, bcuzbcuz. I appreciate it. I must say, you're a very fast reader! I would imagine that your second wife is Swedish, too? It wasn’t a difficult read because so much of the book reminded me of my experiences. The similarities of the attitudes from the MP on down was chillin...

Dear bcuzbcuz, Have you read the book titled The Book of a Mormon--The Real Life and Strange Times of an LDS Missionary ? It's the recollections of a guy who also served his mission in Sweden. If so, how accurate and/or close to your experience would you say it is? Bumping this thread because it wa...

I was pondering Elder Packer's story of his encounter with an atheist on a plane. Essentially, Elder Packer tells his traveling companion, "I have a special (magical) way of knowing the truth that you cannot deny or disprove, any more than you can explain salt to a person who has never tasted ...

Dear bcuzbcuz, Have you read the book titled The Book of a Mormon--The Real Life and Strange Times of an LDS Missionary ? It's the recollections of a guy who also served his mission in Sweden. If so, how accurate and/or close to your experience would you say it is? Bumping this thread because it wa...

Thanks for the response, bcuzbcuz. You have made me doubt my doubts. Thanks for reading my post. Our mission president was a d*Celestial Kingdom who believed he was assigned by god to turn every missionary into a book salesman. He and all his underlings listened only to stories of success and ignor...

Padding missionary stats is an important way to prepare missionaries for a lifetime of temple recommend interviews. Seriously, there was some padding stats in our mission. (some senior comps were better at it than others) There was also a culture of suspecting other missionaries padded stats. No of...

Even those graphics seem to acknowledge that male/female is the only definition of marriage, regardless of numbers of females or status of either male or female. So are they really varying "standards" of marriage or are they just variations on the male/female traditional marriage theme? W...

Wait. Is Bennett's "strangely white smile" connected to the stranger in
Kreditor's room, who offered a handshake while displaying, "his teeth impossibly straight and white"?