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Anything else you want to say about the church before we talk about politics?

The church, I think, a good segue into the politics would be the church could do a better job

preparing missionaries for missions and foreign countries.

From what I saw, they have very little, actually, no cultural background when they show up.

They're really young.

They're piecing their own identity in that moment.

They also come in to MTC creating this idealized version of their identity.

They're preparing to be some other human or whatever being.

They get no information on what they're getting into, just like language, which is great,

not enough.

They, I saw so many of them being broken in front of my eyes and that break and that's

horrific.

Broken how?

Even as the same faith crisis, exactly that, the loneliness of realizing where you are,

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