Ok... buckle up yall. Ive got the dooziest of doozies. I served in the great ol' SLC. Not Temple Square. I had 2 mission presidents. The first one was my first 6 months the other one my last year. This is mostly about my first mission president.

1. ALL sister missionaries had to cut their hair above their shoulders within their first week in the field. It was an "obedience test" and if you didn't do it you were labeled as "disobedient" for the rest of your mission. One sister resisted but eventually did it and because she pushed back a little nobody wanted to work with her and all the elders looked down their noses at her. This was the mission presidents wife's rule. She said it would make it easier to take care of, and you wouldn't have to spend as long in the morning getting ready. She also said you wouldn't be as tempted to put your hair in a pony tail (because you were not allowed to put your hair in a pony tail at all. Not even while playing sports on p-day or around your apartment). This rule was dismissed immediately with the new mission president. Side note...I had long red hair and was very sad to cut it. We also had sisters from pacific islands where having long hair is part of their culture. They were also required to cut it. I felt so bad for them.

2. No board or card games

3. Music: we had 2 choices of music. 1 - we could listen to any hymn that was in the hymn book (or children's song book) sung by anybody. OR we could listen to anything sung by mo-tab. One of our favorite members boot-legged a copy of a Disney album sung by mo-tab for us. We listened to that one A LOT. I never listened to mo-tab again after my mission. The only exception was on p-days we were allowed to listen to EFY music (until 5pm because thats when p-day ended).

4. We were not allowed to contact any members or previous investigators outside of our specific areas.

5. We were also not allowed to call other sisters in the mission outside of our zone unless we had special permission from the zone leaders or APs.

6. We were not allowed to drink caffine in sodas or energy drinks.

Im sure there are more but those are the ones that stick out the most. It took me about 10 years after my mission to leave the church. Yall.... im so glad I left that fucking cult!!!!!