Multi-Level Mormon Missionary #04 - The MTC Week 2

This week's Multi-Level Mormon Missionary covers the second week in the MTC sees Elder PD make a decision with a gentle (not so gentle) nudge from Sister PD.
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[@wldarling]

Can’t wait to check out website

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Don’t forget to send me your scores and I’ll add you to the leader boards! 👍🏻

[@DeRothschild]

I thoroughly enjoyed my experience at the MTC. I enjoyed the comradeship. I was fully brainwashed into believing that’s where I needed to be from an early age. However, after teaching it for a year and a half I realized it was BS. Because of my mission I was able to become a philosophical atheist and start from scratch.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Awesome. There were some up times, mainly those brief moments when you get to hang out with the other elders as you heard on the tapes.

[@amazinmaven]

"Quiet Dignity" 😲 I remember "building relationships of trust!" I always felt a little twinge at that, but I justified it to myself by saying it wasn't manipulation because we really do care about people and it's what you would do for people you care about anyway. ESPECIALLY to teach them the most important thing they could ever learn for their salvation.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Yep, it’s right up there with lying for the lord or taking a more extreme approach, killing one man so that a nation doesn’t perish in unbelief. Quite Dignity is code for ‘shut the f&!k up and remember who you are’.

[@gabelifferth5411]

I went into the Provo mtc in January 2002 where I was literally taught in so many words that if I don’t have a testimony to lie and say I do.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Same here. What is the famous saying ‘a testimony is found in the bearing of it’ fake it until you make it.

[@gabelifferth5411]

That’s the one.

[@lelly6815]

Didn't boyd famously say to bear your testimony even if you don't believe it and then soon you'll believe it. We were given that talk in our missionary packs..

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

@@lelly6815 yep. Fake it until you make it

[@gabelifferth5411]

Yep, it’s a mind trick. They stress obedience above all else and then tell you to lie. Then you start to believe the lie.

[@bigbrotherdiaryofanaddict]

Always trust your gut feeling. At 18 I knew I was expected to serve a Misson. All my church friends served missions and all sent me a letter of encouragement to serve also. Looking back I see it was similar to the crabs in a bucket situation. If they're going on a mission then I am too .... well.... guess what. I didn't go on a mission. It gave me anxiety just thinking about it. Thankyou gut. All the guilt was for nothing. My dignity is restored. Sorry to hear you guys got suckered into it. But hey ho. We all make mistakes and learn from them... I'm just relieved the truth is coming out about this evil church. And that's what it is. Absolute filth of an organisation. Robbing good people's souls

[@charlesmendeley9823]

Congratulations, you spared ţwo years of your life.

[@jubronaljoan]

Dude every missionary I know called it the manipulation pattern😁😎😄😃

[@johnnynez9533]

Your statement is not worth 2 cents . Who cent you?

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Glad I wasn’t alone.

[@townsendv58]

Thank you for sharing . LDS missions are very cruel.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Thanks. Stockholm syndrome kicks in soon.

[@othersheep5491]

So, you can’t pick up little kids! Damn, the beer I’m drinkin’ isn’t even that cold.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Yeah, she was the snow queen when it came to the rules.

[@lelly6815]

I was in the MTC in Preston in 2003 and this is triggering tbh as I realise how brain washed we were on the daily.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Yeah it’s so intense that resistance is futile.

[@gordonzio]

I loved the all you can eat buffets but the whole experience was overwhelming and all about learning my language. memorizing 24 pages of lessons wasn't my forte.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Yeah I was shocked by the fact that there we had missionaries who didn’t speak English. They were just expected to learn through the gift of tongs.

[@gordonzio]

@@PriesthoodDispatches probably guilty of that. I just didn't have good study habits at all. nothing spiritual at all. just learning pages and pages of japanese sounds. sucked to be me but I actually became a translator. everything is happening for us. still way glad to be out though. lol

[@Marco-xu1ss]

Sorry I missed the premiere, I was, erm, occupied...

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Lucky you!

[@DancingQueenie]

I saw missionaries as happy, energetic guys - they were all guys in my experience and always happy to help with a move or paint a bathroom. I had no idea. My brother went to Japan and didn’t want to talk about it. At all. My mother happened to come across some letters from former companions (letters buried in the back of his closet) and was SHOCKED. She didn’t want to talk about it either.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Yeah it can be really difficult. I suffered with nightmares for years after.

[@johnnynez9533]

Huh. Not true Don't believe you.

[@DancingQueenie]

@@johnnynez9533 Who cares.

[@johnnynez9533]

@@DancingQueenie apparently you do, you actually responded.

[@johnnynez9533]

@@DancingQueenie you are right my apology

[@yorgasor]

Wow, I went in Jan '95 and we didn't have to clean bathrooms or wash dishes. I'm guessing they made this change along with canning all the janitors in church buildings.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

Must have been some serious budget cuts between them and 03. They worked us hard.

[@Themanyfacesofego]

Ron: I misread ' canning' as caning ( what headmasters used to do to pupils when I went to school.)

[@johnnynez9533]

What the heck. What did you expect. A vacation. Yeah some missionaries treat it like a vacation.

[@PriesthoodDispatches]

I think it was more a case of not wanting to be there in the first place.