01-11-2010, 04:12 PM | #1 |
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Nice one.
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01-12-2010, 08:29 PM | #2 |
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Do missionaries really get that bored?
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01-12-2010, 08:34 PM | #3 |
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Missionaries usually don't get bored, but imagine this.
You are late teens to early thirties, not allowed to date, cooped up with another guy not of your selection, and asked to do something which is fulfilling, yet often tedious, demanding and not infrequently disappointing. You're not allowed entertainment per se, so from time to time, they let their hair hang out by doing stupid silly stuff such as light a tie on fire or engage in other juvenile shenanigans.
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01-12-2010, 08:38 PM | #4 | |
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The adult in me will try to sympathize a little but would discourage something like that. Thanks for the analogy.
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01-12-2010, 11:32 PM | #5 |
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Many elders burn their ugliest, most hated tie on their one-year anniversary.
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01-12-2010, 11:34 PM | #6 |
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Yup. My son just sent his last four months of photos home from his mission and it included shots of a cerremonial burnign of one of the ugliest ties I have ever seen. And it was done in what I considered a stupid and unsafe manner. He's 20.
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(He was one of my former Scouts, an Eagle to boot. I never should have given him that Fireman's Chit.)
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01-13-2010, 02:26 PM | #8 | |
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Our mission had a slightly different tradition: burn a tie at 6 months, a shirt at 12, and an entire suit at 18. I didn't participate, but I had a companion who dutifully burned a suit on the appointed day.
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01-13-2010, 02:38 PM | #9 |
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It was slightly different in our mission as well. It was tie at 6 months, shirt at 12 months, and the embassy at 18 months.
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