Masturbation on Mission
 

It's been interesting to read all the different views.

I think it was pretty clear that this is a sin.

Sometimes I really think I should just quit and start attending the local Baptist church. It drives me nuts everytime Mormons talk about sin. Sin is something humans do. A lot of it. At least half you guys just sinned by calling me a jerk under your breath while you read this post.

The guilt will destroy him before the sin does.

You sinned by judging what we were thinking. And by getting driven nuts.

There was a guy in my mission who was notorious for spending a LOT of time in the bathroom.

I went on a split with him once, and I was ready to go, and he went into the bathroom, and I swear he was in there for an hour.

I didn't say anything because I had been told that if you ever asked him to hurry next time or in anyway mentioned that he was taking too long in the bathroom, he would explode. My companion had been comps with him. Said when he mentioned it, this elder didn't speak to him for 3 days.

Anyway, he came out to an area of the mission for his last two months as ZL's companion (in a place where he couldn't speak the language--talk about babysitting).

After he had gone, and we were cleaning out the apt. we found a jar of vaseline with his name on it. The entire zone was rolling on the floor laughing.

He was the butt of many jokes.

But I know that. And I'm OK with sinning.

Don't you strive not to sin?

There was a guy on my mission who carried around a big porno magazine stash in his suitcase, and would bring his suitcase into the bathroom frequently.

When i was in the mission office, I recommended to the mission president that this missionary be promoted to district leader (not knowing about this missionary's problem). My suggestion was met with an emphatic: "No. Never."

Of course I do.

my take on this: Tomorrow I have a billion options of how to spend my day, breaking it down to the minute by minute level. Only one of those would be perfect and sinless. Every other option includes sin and requires repentance to become one with God. You do your best and you repent a lot.

PS Mike didn't mean to hijack your thread, though a reversal in the trend of every CG religion post ending up with masturbation might be a refreshing change.

I'd like a third option. Yes it's a sin, but not serious enough to confess to priesthood leader and no more serious as many other sins missionaries might commit that they might not even acknowledge as sin, such as pride, laziness, arrogance, unforgiving, etc.