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Irreligiosophy

78: LDS Missionary Experience 2

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Irreligiosophy

Religion & Spirituality

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2010

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

The second part of our interview hits a more personal note. Find out what it was like in the field, how missionaries were treated by the Church they served, the culture shock, and the exit interview experience.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Come to serve him, help him,

0:04.0

and the king of glory, chosen there to witness for his name,

0:10.0

far and wide we tell the father story far and why his love proclaim.

0:20.0

On word, ever onward, ask the glory in his name.

0:29.0

Onward, ever onward, as we glory in his name.

0:37.0

Forward, pressing forward as a trium as a triumphs on we see.

0:47.0

God our strength will be.

0:51.0

Press forward every call to serve on key.

0:57.0

So you guys are in the field and you start as a junior companion and then

1:06.7

something happens and you flip over to be a senior companion. Is that just due to

1:10.3

experience or can you be a really gung-ho guy and be a senior companion within your first two months?

1:15.4

Not within your first two months probably, but within like if you're really gung-ho about it, you could probably get

1:20.8

within like six months of getting

1:22.7

partially based on merit yeah yeah and so you have anybody who can make it the

1:28.3

entire mission without being a senior yes there are people that have to do.

1:34.0

Because like if you never learn the language well,

1:36.0

then they can't really, you can't really be in charge if you don't understand what's going on.

1:41.0

So you could be a junior companion the entire mission? Yeah.

1:45.0

Yeah. Oh yeah, that's awesome.

1:50.0

My trainer was trained me in his first area so he had been there for three

1:56.4

transfers so he basically had four and a half months in the field when he was

2:00.1

training me and he was the worst trainer ever.

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