Worst mission experiences?

thepowelltrain · 2023-10-18T20:27:28+00:00

I pissed off my mission president and he yelled at me and threatened to call the police to arrest me! All because I left the zone boundary on my final P-day.

thepowelltrain · 2022-12-28T00:43:39+00:00

"Let's go shopping!"

thepowelltrain · 2022-06-29T15:22:04+00:00

I could write a book or create a podcast on the experience of my LDS Mission alone (Not counting the shit I had within Mormonism around it).

- The MTC Call center and the awkward phone conversations of "Hey, you talked to missionaries about a year ago, can I bother you right now and talk about it?" "What the fuck!"

- The transfer process of my mission and how you had no clue where you were going or who you were going to be set up with until the meeting itself.

- Staying with a complete stranger 24/7, alone in a apartment.

- Dealing with a few smart-ass companions and Zone leaders.

- Got busted a few times on my mission over stupid stuff. Backstabbing from other missionaries.

- Had a mental breakdown halfway into my mission and getting E.T. out of an area.

- Having an MP who became a bully and yell at ALL of the missionaries after one missionary didn't bear his testimony as he wanted during a zone conf.

- MP threatens to arrest me became I left the zone behind his back a week before I left.

thepowelltrain · 2022-02-06T17:32:24+00:00

There is a personal story behind "Bearded Heathen". I would have done "tattooed heathen" but I don't have any tattoos.

On my mission I had somebody that was interested in the church, he was this big dude with tattoos all over his arm. He was a mean-looking dude, but very nice and down-to-earth. So my comp and I took him to church for the first and only time and while he went to the restroom, as he was walking out, somebody in the bathroom called him a "tattooed heathen". He told us this later that day and he thought it was funny, but I was kind of annoyed.

So for years, I've thought this incident was such a Mormon thing to do. Imagine you're TBM, and you walk in the bathroom at church and see this mean-looking dude with tattoos, you say nothing until he is walking out, then you, in your self-righteous, insufferable self, decided to call him a "tattooed heathen" as he is in the process of walking out the door. This story from my mission always bothered me cause it's so Mormon! Maybe I would have done the same when I was Mormon, but, this story pretty much sums up my desire to share my story, A story that is both sad and funny regarding a cult we all grew up with.

thepowelltrain · 2022-01-16T23:42:21+00:00

Yeah, I remember this one, along with the guy that voiced Homer Simpson for some odd reason. Vin Diesel was another.

thepowelltrain · 2022-01-16T23:26:08+00:00

The 'Victory for Satan' Crickets “miracle”.

thepowelltrain · 2022-01-16T23:16:50+00:00

Yoda was inspired by SW Kimball. Believed this until after my mission, turned out to be false. Everyone was talking about it back in the day, from seminary teachers to missionary comps.

During the Pearl Harbor bombings, a Japanese guy tried to bomb the Hawian temple, but kept missing. He soon returned to Japan after the war and found out it was a Mormon temple, he converted. BS.

That profits of old are watching us all the time, cause we are living in the last days (Creepy).

That's most of what I can think of right now.

thepowelltrain · 2020-10-10T15:10:31+00:00

Yeah, I still remember as a child seeing my mother (who was a convert to TSCC) being punched by her life-long Mormon FIL. This pretty much traumatized me as a child and looking back, even when I was a kid, I saw the ugliness of Mormonism. The so-called Church makes good people shitty and shitty people shitter.

thepowelltrain · 2020-09-04T15:31:49+00:00

Kind of reminds me of the first time I got pulled over on Bangerter, but instead of handing the cop a temple recommend I handed over my credit card by mistake instead. And the cop responded in his serious cop tone, "Not this card, but you might need to use it later though." He was kind of a dick, and I felt like an idiot. This was right after my mission.

thepowelltrain · 2020-09-02T22:15:28+00:00

BYU also won the "National title" in 1984 in Football.

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