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  • #16
    This poll should identify the respondents in each category so I can know who the slackers are. I'm big on that.

    So far, based on posts, here is the slacker list:

    Cardiac
    Surfah
    Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

    For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

    Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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    • #17
      don't you have to don the nametag a first time for it to be considered "again"?
      Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est.

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      • #18
        My sister and her husband are in Cambodia on a genealogy mission. What started as a fun thing to do when you turn 60, has turned into a test of endurance they never anticipated. They can't wait to come home, and put the nightmare behind them.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by clackamascoug View Post
          My sister and her husband are in Cambodia on a genealogy mission. What started as a fun thing to do when you turn 60, has turned into a test of endurance they never anticipated. They can't wait to come home, and put the nightmare behind them.
          They are learning that there is no holiday in Cambodia.

          it's tough, kid, but it's life
          Fitter. Happier. More Productive.

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          • #20
            Is rather pay to live abroad and be able to do whatever I want instead of having to check up on missionary apartments or teach business classes. Chances are MJ will want to serve one so I'll tag along but I'll be the dead weight companion that just wants to eat out and see tourist sites.
            "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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            • #21
              Like most here, it would depend on what it is.

              Temple? I have a hard time going once a year, so going every day seems completely boring to me.
              Genealogy? No Thanks.
              Proselyting? Not just no, but hell, no.

              But doing the right thing in the right place, I would consider it.

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              • #22
                Clark has a good attitude.

                I intend to live abroad at my own expense for several months a year but not on somebody else's time table.
                "Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."

                Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.

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                • #23
                  Quick question: how many of you have spouses that want to serve a senior mission, that never served a "regular" mission?

                  I say this because my wife, a figurative and literal Saint, has talked a bit about serving. I wonder if the desire to go would be tempered by the reality of what drudgery a mission really was. And don't get me wrong, I loved my mission.

                  FTR, my wife broke up with more than one boyfriend who wanted to get serious, by telling them she was planning on a mission. So it could be that she's just trying to ditch me.
                  "Sure, I fought. I had to fight all my life just to survive. They were all against me. Tried every dirty trick to cut me down, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

                  - Ty Cobb

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                  • #24
                    I wouldn't do a leadership/proselyting mission, but I'd do some of the missions mentioned above. One of my favorite couples in the world (served in their ward on my mission) went to two of the best missions I can think of. First, they served in India supporting a mobile health clinic that provided basic healthcare in the slums. They loved and hated this mission (loved because they were helping to make a real difference in people's lives every day; hated because there were usually lines of untreated people at least a 1/2 mile long at the end of their day).

                    Their second mission was to Frankfurt at the Institute. Apparently, all the young kids go to school, then go out drinking/dancing every night, so this is an outlet for the Mormon kids. They had activities every night. Sounds like fun.
                    Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.

                    "Cog dis is a bitch." -James Patterson

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Moliere View Post
                      Is rather pay to live abroad and be able to do whatever I want instead of having to check up on missionary apartments or teach business classes. Chances are MJ will want to serve one so I'll tag along but I'll be the dead weight companion that just wants to eat out and see tourist sites.
                      you say that until the Mrs. makes sure that you are doing the accounting for a mission in the Ivory Coast.
                      "Be a philosopher. A man can compromise to gain a point. It has become apparent that a man can, within limits, follow his inclinations within the arms of the Church if he does so discreetly." - The Walking Drum

                      "And here’s what life comes down to—not how many years you live, but how many of those years are filled with bullshit that doesn’t amount to anything to satisfy the requirements of some dickhead you’ll never get the pleasure of punching in the face." – Adam Carolla

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                      • #26
                        If people are planning on serving, they should clarify if they are interested in a prostylitizing mission.

                        I think my wife would get through about half a morning of tracting before we find something else to do.
                        "Sure, I fought. I had to fight all my life just to survive. They were all against me. Tried every dirty trick to cut me down, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."

                        - Ty Cobb

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by CardiacCoug View Post
                          Since I still have nightmares about being back on my mission I can't imagine ever willingly signing up for another one.
                          I have these nightmares fairly regularly and have heard of others who do as well. I am in to interpreting dreams but the commonality of this dreams fro returned missionaries makes me wonder why we have these dreams.

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                          • #28
                            My wife and I both served missions. Neither one of us wants to serve another one.
                            "Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism" - Joseph Smith Jr.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by San Juan Sun View Post
                              If people are planning on serving, they should clarify if they are interested in a prostylitizing mission.

                              I think my wife would get through about half a morning of tracting before we find something else to do.
                              My parents have done 1 proselyting mission as a couple. No tracting involved. Mostly they worked with the local unit to teach less active members or to work with the missionaries to teach discussions. They are now on their second mission, working in the office of the mission in which they live. They stay at their own home.
                              "You interns are like swallows. You shit all over my patients for six weeks and then fly off."

                              "Don't be sorry, it's not your fault. It's my fault for overestimating your competence."

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Moliere View Post
                                Is rather pay to live abroad and be able to do whatever I want instead of having to check up on missionary apartments or teach business classes. Chances are MJ will want to serve one so I'll tag along but I'll be the dead weight companion that just wants to eat out and see tourist sites.
                                Wow. So cool.
                                "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                                "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
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