Rumors of 19 year old females going on missions

[Walter Sobchak]

Progressive or androgynous?

Yes.

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[Pelado]

Also, none of that masculine/feminine crap. Mandarin is very progressive that way.

Progressive or androgynous?

[Walter Sobchak]

Fun.

Also, none of that masculine/feminine crap. Mandarin is very progressive that way.

[Bo Diddley]

Congrats, BFM

[Pelado]

verb prefixes (e.g. 要, 在, etc), verb suffixes (過, et al), and "end-of-sentence-construction" particles (了, 呢, ...)

Super simple!

Fun.

[Walter Sobchak]

Wtih no conjugation, how do they differentiate between tenses?

verb prefixes (e.g. 要, 在, etc), verb suffixes (過, et al), and "end-of-sentence-construction" particles (了, 呢, ...)

Super simple!

[Pelado]

Congrats. My alma mater. She will love it.

Mandarin upside: no conjugation. Mandarin downside: just about everything else.

Wtih no conjugation, how do they differentiate between tenses?

[Walter Sobchak]

And Clark wins the Nostradamus award: Tawain, Taipei mission. Taipei isn't Hong Kong but it's still Chinese speaking (although Mandarin not Cantonese).

Congrats. My alma mater. She will love it.

Mandarin upside: no conjugation. Mandarin downside: just about everything else.

[falafel]

And Clark wins the Nostradamus award: Tawain, Taipei mission. Taipei isn't Hong Kong but it's still Chinese speaking (although Mandarin not Cantonese).

Awesome, that sounds like it would be a rad mission.

[Clark Addison]

Rumors of 19 year old females going on missions

And Clark wins the Nostradamus award: Tawain, Taipei mission.

Yes. That is exactly what I said.

And congrats. That's great. She will love it there.

[BigFatMeanie]

香港! 香港! 香港!

And Clark wins the Nostradamus award: Tawain, Taipei mission. Taipei isn't Hong Kong but it's still Chinese speaking (although Mandarin not Cantonese).

[Clark Addison]

Soon-to-be 19 year-old daughter got her mission call in the mail today. Opening tonight...

香港! 香港! 香港!

[SCcoug]

A girl in my ward got her call last week to Brussels.

[BigFatMeanie]

Soon-to-be 19 year-old daughter got her mission call in the mail today. Opening tonight...

[Uncle Ted]

To all respondents, I agree 30-35% returnees sounds way too high, and that 10% seems about right, but the 30% number came from our local mission president, although I got that secondhand. Too bad they don't include that number, whatever it is, as part of the April Conference audit report delivered from the pulpit...

Maybe y'all are just really hard on the missionaries that are sent your way.

My nephew served in the San Jose mission and was just recently honorably discharged. I recall him saying he had two or three of his companions that left for home early. He didn't say why. I'll try to return and report.